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What made you interested in long range shooting?
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<blockquote data-quote="COBrad" data-source="post: 2405398" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p>It started as a little boy shooting sparrows with my BB gun. First memorable shot was a foot or so hold over and a sparrow tumbled down dead. My buddy was amazed and I was fired up! Moving down the road 30 years I had a 7mag that was a half minute rifle. I kept it sighted in 6" high and used it for prairie dogs. Got one at 460 something paces one day and started trying to figure ranges more accurately. Another 10 years down the road I was reading a few bench rest magazines and read about those old military range finders this group of guys were using to kill groundhogs out to 1K yards. I bought one. The next year the first laser rangefinders came on the market and I couldn't give it away. Another 10 years and I was shooting a beautiful Cooper Custom Classic that was a solid half minute rifle and using a pretty darn good Leica rangefinder. My furthest kill with that rifle was a marmot at 749 yards. I tried but just couldn't quite get any longer range marmots with that rifle… so I took a deep breath and sold it to order a custom, tight neck, 14 lb 7 mag throated for the Berger 180 grain HVLD. First time out hunting marmots my goal was to break that 800 yard mark. Shot two at 750, then the next two were a little over 1100 yards. Wow!!! </p><p>Next goal was 3/4 mile- 1320 yards. I got a few shots at young of the year marmots at that range before they went down into the rocks. I hustled out to look and found one at 1332 yards from my shooting position. My furthest kill so far is another marmot at 1402 yards with a few near misses at a mile. One elk at 1098, another this year at 1176, a couple prairie dogs at 1131 and 1127. Have a 6.5 PRC barrel ready for one of my long range rifles and going to try another marmot at a mile this year. This has been costly, but well worth every cent and every minute. My next will be a 300 Norma Improved shooting the 245 grain Berger EOL bullets… but that's down the road another year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="COBrad, post: 2405398, member: 1940"] It started as a little boy shooting sparrows with my BB gun. First memorable shot was a foot or so hold over and a sparrow tumbled down dead. My buddy was amazed and I was fired up! Moving down the road 30 years I had a 7mag that was a half minute rifle. I kept it sighted in 6” high and used it for prairie dogs. Got one at 460 something paces one day and started trying to figure ranges more accurately. Another 10 years down the road I was reading a few bench rest magazines and read about those old military range finders this group of guys were using to kill groundhogs out to 1K yards. I bought one. The next year the first laser rangefinders came on the market and I couldn’t give it away. Another 10 years and I was shooting a beautiful Cooper Custom Classic that was a solid half minute rifle and using a pretty darn good Leica rangefinder. My furthest kill with that rifle was a marmot at 749 yards. I tried but just couldn’t quite get any longer range marmots with that rifle… so I took a deep breath and sold it to order a custom, tight neck, 14 lb 7 mag throated for the Berger 180 grain HVLD. First time out hunting marmots my goal was to break that 800 yard mark. Shot two at 750, then the next two were a little over 1100 yards. Wow!!! Next goal was 3/4 mile- 1320 yards. I got a few shots at young of the year marmots at that range before they went down into the rocks. I hustled out to look and found one at 1332 yards from my shooting position. My furthest kill so far is another marmot at 1402 yards with a few near misses at a mile. One elk at 1098, another this year at 1176, a couple prairie dogs at 1131 and 1127. Have a 6.5 PRC barrel ready for one of my long range rifles and going to try another marmot at a mile this year. This has been costly, but well worth every cent and every minute. My next will be a 300 Norma Improved shooting the 245 grain Berger EOL bullets… but that’s down the road another year. [/QUOTE]
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