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Posted: 6/9/2015 7:39:56 PM EDT
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300 - 1000 yds. using big thick elevator weights as targets..
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Posted: 6/9/2015 7:43:17 PM EDT
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300 yards has been my max so far.
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Posted: 6/9/2015 7:46:38 PM EDT
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Anyone shoot the rifle off hand?
Do you punch trough the elevator plates? |
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Posted: 6/9/2015 8:27:41 PM EDT
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I tried to john wayne it once. Never again. Already have back issues. This just added to it.
Elevator plates? |
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Posted: 6/9/2015 9:50:48 PM EDT
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600 yards at the range and 2000+ out in the desert.
The Safety Harbor I can shoot offhand, tried my AR-50 once...once! Tony a.k.a. 50 Cal had a pic floating around of him shooting a Barrett M82A3? It was purpose made to be shot off the shoulder of the user. Once you see the pic you'll understand and want one. To bad it was a prototype. |
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Posted: 6/9/2015 11:27:36 PM EDT
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600
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Posted: 6/10/2015 2:43:38 AM EDT
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100, 300 yds at a regular range we use and our long range is almost 500 yds. Steel plate whatever the scrap yard has available. Paper where someone makes us use it.
Offhand blasting with the Safety Harbors is the best! |
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Posted: 6/10/2015 4:58:56 AM EDT
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600 yards at the range and 2000+ out in the desert. 2000 yards would be a dream come true. Your lucky. |
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Posted: 6/10/2015 5:04:57 AM EDT
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Come out to SoCal for a visit and we'll take a ride. Let me find the link of some pics and you'll want to come.
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Posted: 6/10/2015 7:59:50 AM EDT
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2k yards in SoCal...
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Posted: 6/10/2015 8:37:56 AM EDT
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Must be nice to have that kind of range. In Maryland I have a 100 yard public range and have family member that has an 900 yard range but it is hard to get time to go with him to use it, so I am mostly stuck to 100 yards.
It is fun to shoot on the public range. I love it when I squeeze the trigger and the big bore goes off. The entire range stops shooting to see what just went off. |
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Posted: 6/10/2015 1:10:29 PM EDT
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I would just like to find somewhere I can shoot steel somewhere in southeastern Virginia thats over 300 yards. If anyone knows a place send me an IM
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Posted: 6/10/2015 2:03:13 PM EDT
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I just got my dozer back from getting fixed and I'm going to knock some trees on my property down for a 1000 yard range. Most of the time I've been wasting bullets into my 100 yard tractor tires filled with dirt back stop from my front porch.
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Posted: 6/10/2015 2:23:14 PM EDT
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1400m up at my mom's place in northern middle Tennessee. Usually shoot at 55 gallon drum or a rock that is about 4' across, 3' tall.
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Posted: 6/10/2015 6:27:08 PM EDT
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Drool
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Posted: 6/10/2015 7:45:04 PM EDT
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Have mowed small trees with a semi Barrett at 100 yards, shooting from the hip.
Was very sad when the magazine was empty. 
200 yards is the farthest that I can shoot here. 
You folks with lots of room to "stretch their legs", I envy you folks. |
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Posted: 6/11/2015 12:44:49 AM EDT
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Here's another pic that wasn't posted by MrBen. It also goes back to another thread about ammo that was recently talked about.
This is a 5/8" pieces of steel that we had set up at 1000 yards. Check out the projos that didn't make it through, my guess is they were handloads. 
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Posted: 6/11/2015 1:25:37 PM EDT
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Looks cool to see that.
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Posted: 6/11/2015 6:35:44 PM EDT
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I consider myself to be lucky that only about 15 miles away is my clubs range. There are some limitations put on us 50 BMG guys, but we do have a 600 yrd range. We can only shoot either brass solids or Amax. Would love to have a place like you two with your 1000+ yrd ranges. But the cost of living in CA (not just money) is way to high. To much dumb B.S. laws, then there are the high cost of living out there. But Damn that looks like fun shooting out to those ranges.
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Posted: 6/12/2015 3:19:35 PM EDT
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Elevator weights as targets. Hmm.
There is an elevator service company not far from me, may see if they have some they may want to unload. Thanks for the tip. |
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Posted: 6/12/2015 3:36:55 PM EDT
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I've mostly been shooting my M107 at 300 and 600 yards. Got a 8" ar500(3/4" thick) for the 300 and a 12" ar500(1/2" thick) plate for the 600 yards. I haven't used them too often yet, but so far both have held up well to numerous hits.
I have room out to 3k+ but I can't imagine how big the target would have to be to be consistent on target at 2k with the m107 and ball ammo haha. I use 36" targets at 2k for my 338lm, I think I would need something thats like 5 ft x 5ft for the m107! |
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Posted: 6/12/2015 9:46:25 PM EDT
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Anyone shoot the rifle off hand? Do you punch trough the elevator plates? Had a mag fed one that I could shoot off hand . 
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Posted: 6/13/2015 4:26:36 AM EDT
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I consider myself to be lucky that only about 15 miles away is my clubs range. There are some limitations put on us 50 BMG guys, but we do have a 600 yrd range. We can only shoot either brass solids or Amax. Would love to have a place like you two with your 1000+ yrd ranges. But the cost of living in CA (not just money) is way to high. To much dumb B.S. laws, then there are the high cost of living out there. But Damn that looks like fun shooting out to those ranges. Why only solid brass or Amax? I could understand not letting you shoot API, APIT, tracer or incendiary. Ball should be fine. AP should be too if those are legal in Commiefornia. |
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Posted: 6/13/2015 12:34:07 PM EDT
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Max Paul isn't from CA, he was just pointing out the stupid laws that people like myself have to deal with in CA.
His range only allows match grade projos as the don't want AP blowing holes in their targets. Or having API, APIT starting fires that could close the range down. If you ask, most ranges don't want you shooting these for the reasons I pointed out. It costs money to fix and replace targets that have been blown to bits. |
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Posted: 6/14/2015 7:23:00 PM EDT
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Thanks 50_shooter,
As for the ball or worse the AP. The club feels that the steel be it mild or hardened will ricochet more easily and we have houses a mile or two down range. Though in the past few years we have greatly raised and thicken the berms behind the targets. I am lucky to belong to a fairly well known world class range. Look at the photos at www.shootingstl.com I tried to hot link it but it would not do it. |
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Posted: 6/16/2015 9:19:38 AM EDT
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Anyone shoot the rifle off hand? Do you punch trough the elevator plates? Had a mag fed one that I could shoot off hand .  https://youtu.be/090X0SGPI-sYou sold it? Did you get another 50BMG? |
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Posted: 6/21/2015 4:16:16 AM EDT
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Come out to SoCal for a visit and we'll take a ride. Let me find the link of some pics and you'll want to come. So 50bmgs are allowed to be brought into the state by out of staters, you just can't purchase one if you live in CA? |
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Posted: 6/21/2015 5:07:36 AM EDT
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You can if you're attending a licensed match. Other then that, no you just can't bring one to plink.
But you can shoot someone that owns one. |
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Posted: 6/21/2015 7:35:00 AM EDT
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You can if you're attending a licensed match. Other then that, no you just can't bring one to plink. But you can shoot someone that owns one. Open season on cali 50 cal owners?
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Posted: 6/21/2015 8:27:51 AM EDT
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But you can shoot someone that owns one. Think I will stay out of california. Don't want my ass shot for being a 50BMG owner. 
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Posted: 6/21/2015 10:47:21 PM EDT
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You can if you're attending a licensed match. Other then that, no you just can't bring one to plink. But you can shoot someone that owns one. Open season on cali 50 cal owners? I remember when the ban went into place. Guys making 50BMGs where spitting out receivers with serial numbers as fast as they could. Guy would buy a receiver and later send it back and the makers would finish the gun. Did this so that guys could buy their rifle before the ban to effect. Thus they where grandfathered in. 50 shooter, can someone that has one of those grandfathered in guns, sell it to another Californian? |
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Posted: 6/21/2015 11:37:23 PM EDT
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I remember when the ban went into place. Guys making 50BMGs where spitting out receivers with serial numbers as fast as they could. Guy would buy a receiver and later send it back and the makers would finish the gun. Did this so that guys could buy their rifle before the ban to effect. Thus they where grandfathered in. 50 shooter, can someone that has one of those grandfathered in guns, sell it to another Californian? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You can if you're attending a licensed match. Other then that, no you just can't bring one to plink. But you can shoot someone that owns one. Open season on cali 50 cal owners? I remember when the ban went into place. Guys making 50BMGs where spitting out receivers with serial numbers as fast as they could. Guy would buy a receiver and later send it back and the makers would finish the gun. Did this so that guys could buy their rifle before the ban to effect. Thus they where grandfathered in. 50 shooter, can someone that has one of those grandfathered in guns, sell it to another Californian? Unfortunately, no... |
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Posted: 6/22/2015 8:14:02 PM EDT
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You can if you're attending a licensed match. Other then that, no you just can't bring one to plink. But you can shoot someone that owns one. Open season on cali 50 cal owners? I remember when the ban went into place. Guys making 50BMGs where spitting out receivers with serial numbers as fast as they could. Guy would buy a receiver and later send it back and the makers would finish the gun. Did this so that guys could buy their rifle before the ban to effect. Thus they where grandfathered in. 50 shooter, can someone that has one of those grandfathered in guns, sell it to another Californian? Unfortunately, no... Thanks for the answer MrBen. Well thankfully Legislators are idiots and wrote up the law to band a cartridge and someone came up with the 510 DTC. Law makers helped the gun industry sell more reloading equipment. And more people either learned how to reload or gave more business to those of you who do commercial reloading. And the other 49 states are going to pick up some used 50BMG rifles from CA. |
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Posted: 6/30/2015 9:53:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Anyone shoot the rifle off hand? Do you punch trough the elevator plates? I have shot my M82 standing up. I'm pretty skinny and its not that bad. Just kinda heavy. |
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