long range rimfires (with style)

[rem sendero]

I started shooting my browning buckmark again the other day, I love that little gun, it's great for shooting at steel at 100+

 

[Mark75H]

Re: long range rimfires (with style) necro rebirth

A 22lr will never shoot like a high powered rifle so please don't expect 1/2 MOA groups at 100 yards.

My brother shot a .571" group at 100 yards in a match last summer with his 52D. Not exactly 1/2 MOA, but closer than most of us will ever come

 

[CarolinaChuck]

It is like shooting a rainbow. I might think skeptics may believe that the round would become too unstable at long ranges, but they hang in there surprisingly well for the most part. We at times would hang balloons in the Chaparral at yardages from 100 yards out to about 200 at the end of the shooting day, and then let the young ones have a go at them with the .22's. Always a big hoot and everyone loved the challenge.

Keeping kids' attention for the cleaning up at the end of a day of shooting was always a bit of a pain, but somehow this activity just would wind them up to a point that, for the most part, kept them busy as beavers. Seemed harder to keep the adults focused.

Growing up, and then living in the "Wild Wild West" was a beautiful thing back when... I can't even imagine trying that today; so sad.

On to the next Caper,
CarolinaChuck

 

[Barlow]

I just had my old Ruger 77-22 barrel chopped off and chambered with a match reamer, can't wait for good weather to see if it made a big difference. Barlow

 

[sscoyote]

Hear, hear! Mom hit a 600-yd. coffee can last year with Win Dyna-Points in <20 shots using a MR Picuda pistol/Horus Predator 8-26X maximized with Burris Pos-Align rings shimmed. Had 130 MOA in the optic reticle and turret (very close to ballistic program calcs) and we could actually spot the impact trace at 8X on the big berm we were shooting into most of the time.







I shoot to 300-yds. frequently with 2X pistol scopes on my Ruger Mk III. Usually need 50ish MOA with 50-yd. zero. Love running the ballistics and twisting the little FA turret to ~50 MOA, and doping the wind interpolating via the 15 or 20 MOA plex post tips of the reticle. There is a lot of shale rock here on the berms and it's a great reactive target. Amazing how often 1st shot connections occur--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whC3fwmOk5c

 

[cmillard]

unreal!!!

 

[Hoier]

That's cool Steve! I used to shoot 600yd benchrest on that range

 

[sscoyote]

Why don't you anymore sir?

 

[Hoier]

That range is closed for now. It's a big pissing match between abunch of people. And when I say closed I mean just the 600yd range the rest is open. I don't think there is any chance of it getting back going till August which would be to late to run any matches.

 

[sscoyote]

I thought that squabble was all over. Haven't been there in awhile.

 

[Travelor]

Our Club holds one match a month that entails shooting 1/5th scale silhouettes with 22RF from the bench.

Chickens @ 100 yards
Pigs @ 125 yards
Turkeys @ 150 yards
Rams @ 175 yards

Then ever so often we shoot eggs at 275 yards.

Great fun!!

 

[1S2K]

It's hard to beat an Anschutz 1700 series with the heft barrel for being steady when shooting longer ranges. With or without rests, it is very stable and has a great trigger. IMHO

 

[Hammer47]

I shoot lots of long range 22 and the time of flight of that bullet from rifle report to impact seems to me to be no more than 200 yds IF THAT. That bullet is getting there WAY too quickly.