The greatest potential should be bench rest...but I used a bench once in the last 40 + yrs a few weeks ago... it felt different csuse I don't shoot that way and I didn't shoot better but I should have. My best, natural feel, because I usually shoot this way, is prone with a front rest, and rear bag on the mat, or sometimes a bipod like with the 50BMG...which I once fired 5 military 620 gr APIT bullets .510 dia into .6" at 100 yds. With 207 grs RL-25 instead of 240 gr 50BMG which is usually the most accurate. You can shoot eggs at 1000 yds prone, pop cans are fairly easy. Ain't no benches out here...no buzzers, no range boss, no rules, no lines, no waiting to post targets. Shoot as far as ya care to, head for the high desert, or in the mountains drive several miles to check your 1000 yd or more target, cause its several thousand feet straight down, across a canyon or two, up the mountain side, there's your target, spray it white so you can find it...or 8" to 10" white painted circle on a giant rock face. Rock shooting 308 win 1400 yds ...2.4 sec to get back on target before the bullet arrives...spot your own shots. Miss a wind changes you're really off, could be more than the length of those old long Cadillacs...I call a Cadillac off.. but the rock will tell ya, its a tool, always shoot the next shot on 5 seconds after a quick dial and you'll hit the 10" white painted dots, continue to pound them until the wind changes. A hot barrel will change your impact...adjust, if your hitting keep shooting until the heat waves mess up the view, and smell hot steel. I Shoot at least 85 rds in one outing several times a week. After 10,000 rds you'll own the whole area...know the distances
to land marks with out your rangefinder, don't need fancy electric gear...one rifle, same exact load, same scope, change nothing once you find your load, accurate consistent load...be faithful, don't go chasing the latest high BC bullets. Check your load accuracy at 100 yards every 1000 rds fired ...but never practice long range under 800 yds, unless your killing close range squirrels or rabbits. Soon everything between 0 and 1000 becomes easy. Yep know where your rifle shoots at 10 feet, exactly...it will change at 30 feet. This is the only rifle you need...rebarrel it when needed.
