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Posted: 2/2/2006 6:30:07 PM EDT

[#1]

Confirmed kills on Prairie Dogs
.22 CCI Stingers 268 yards
17 Hornady 325 Yards
AR-15 55 v-max 568 yards
.22-250 55 v-max 621
6MM Remington 991 yards

Posted: 2/2/2006 6:30:13 PM EDT

[#2]

500 yds at silhouettes in BCT with an M16A1, 36 years ago at Ft Lewis, WA. Took a couple of rounds to get the range with my beat up old clamshell Colt, but once I did, I put a couple of them down.

A long time ago, at a place far, far away ......

Posted: 2/2/2006 6:35:18 PM EDT

[#3]

600 meters
AR-15
Grouped well enough using irons and it being my first time shooting an ar15 and the longest range I have ever shot at. I was 16-17 yoa.

Posted: 2/2/2006 6:39:04 PM EDT

[#4]

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Posted: 2/2/2006 6:41:16 PM EDT

[#5]

whitetail deer at 400 yards last year... 30-06 springfield model 70

500 meters in USMC with M16A2

Posted: 2/2/2006 6:41:47 PM EDT

[#6]

Bull elk at 470 yards with a 270 WSM.

Posted: 2/2/2006 6:42:43 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
500 meters

M16a1

usmcshop.grunt.com/Grunt/assets/product_images/bad7t.jpg

I shot a 236 on my last go-round on the KD course in 88 at Edson. Did a 239 on pre-qual day... :(

Posted: 2/2/2006 6:43:01 PM EDT

[#8]

Bout a mile and a half.
I missed horribly.

Posted: 2/2/2006 6:44:00 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Quoted:
500 meters with my 16" bull-barreled AR.

I was shooting off a bench with a bipod, sand bag under the rifle butt, and whacking a 12" gong pretty much at will. (75gr Hornady HPBT Match, 1:9 twist). LOTS of bullet drop at 500m, and I don't think I'd have done half as well if it hadn't been dead calm.

wow, i was always under the impression that 75gr ammo wouldn't stabilize well in a 1:9 barrel, especially out to those distances. i guess that not everything the "experts" tell you is true.

Stabilizes like a mother out of mine!

Posted: 2/2/2006 6:50:51 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Edit: Here's a pic of my wife scooting into the rifle at the Black Rifle Convention in June of 2002. The gong plate (24") was at 450 yards. Hitting it was boringly easy. Over a hundred ARFCOMMERS shot the rifle that weekend.

photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/Attachments/DownloadAttach.asp?iImageUnq=1027

God, it must have been 5 billion degrees that day... Every time I see photos of the BRC range, I almost get heat stroke.

Posted: 2/2/2006 6:56:21 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Pop-up silhouette targets at 600m with an MG-3 (in the army) and its crappy iron sights.

I remember it well, since I was ON FIRE that day, and hit everything I aimed at. With every 2-3 round burst, I'd knock the target down. It was part of a squad competition, and my squad totally smoked the rest, because I was hitting every target at 600m.

I've never shot that well since.

I get a mental image of Da Prof smokin' 'em, all young and confident, then as time wears on, becoming more feeble... Kinda like Al Bundy's (Married With Children) constant memories of the Glory Days as High School QB.

BTW, Doc, we're all totally with your countrymen on the "cartoon" deal that's riling up the ROPers

Posted: 2/2/2006 7:09:09 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Pop-up silhouette targets at 600m with an MG-3 (in the army) and its crappy iron sights.

I remember it well, since I was ON FIRE that day, and hit everything I aimed at. With every 2-3 round burst, I'd knock the target down. It was part of a squad competition, and my squad totally smoked the rest, because I was hitting every target at 600m.

I've never shot that well since.

I get a mental image of Da Prof smokin' 'em, all young and confident, then as time wears on, becoming more feeble... Kinda like Al Bundy's (Married With Children) constant memories of the Glory Days as High School QB.

That's totally me!

Here's me when I still had my hair, and my knees worked (I'm the guy with the MG3, my best buddy has the 84mm Carl Gustav)

BTW, Doc, we're all totally with your countrymen on the "cartoon" deal that's riling up the ROPers

Thanks.

Posted: 2/2/2006 7:12:10 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Edit: Here's a pic of my wife scooting into the rifle at the Black Rifle Convention in June of 2002. The gong plate (24") was at 450 yards. Hitting it was boringly easy. Over a hundred ARFCOMMERS shot the rifle that weekend.

photos.ar15.com/ImageGallery/Attachments/DownloadAttach.asp?iImageUnq=1027

God, it must have been 5 billion degrees that day... Every time I see photos of the BRC range, I almost get heat stroke.

Yes, it was. We still had our "thick winter blood" and nearly DIED.

Did you shoot our rifle? I can't remember everyone who did.

Posted: 2/2/2006 9:14:19 PM EDT

[#14]

Civilian-
500 yards out in the bottoms of the Missouri River in the vicinity of Boonville, MO. Nice October day in '01...about 60*F with low humidity and virtually NO wind.

Using a Remington 700 VSSF in .308 with Federal Gold Medal 168gr. Match ammo. Scope was a Leupold Vari-X III 3.5x10x50 with target knobs. Getting consistent 4.5" - 5" groups at that range shooting bullseye targets. Still have & Love that rifle...

Army-
M60 range at Ft. Bragg in '97. Getting easy hits on the 700-meter pop-up silhouette targets with 5-to-7 round bursts. Damn the targets were hard to see...but once I saw them they got smoked.

Always qualified "Expert"(36 or better out of 40) on the M16 range...pop-up silhouette targets from 50 meters out to 300 meters. Bone-stock M16A2 with iron sights...

Posted: 2/2/2006 9:21:22 PM EDT

[#15]

about 160 yds, with a 10/22. I couldnt hit the target because I had to hold so high the bullets were hitting the branches 40 yds in front of me

Posted: 2/2/2006 9:25:58 PM EDT

[#16]

for lucky?
My buddy used a 900yd range at his old farm he had a a couple 10" steel gongs out there arond 800-850
I had my reg old 20" A2 colt I joking laid down and spun the sight to 800M and sqeezed off a shot at the at the area they were at and BONG!
I then promptly packed up my AR and switched to my Remington LTR and missed them 5 times
till i got the wind figured out
that is the longest range i have shot on

Posted: 2/2/2006 10:46:20 PM EDT

[#17]

500yds with Rem700P .308. I ran the steel plate a few times. It was cool.

Posted: 2/2/2006 10:58:59 PM EDT

[#18]

800 yards a few times. .50 Hit it. ~1.5 moa
600 yards more often. .308 sub moa
400 yards often. .308 sub moa

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:04:11 AM EDT

[#19]

I used to skip class and take lady friends to go shoot at the old popo range outside Gainesville, FL.
One time, one of 'em asked how far could the Gold Cup .45 shoot. My eyes were never very good, but I was doing a lot of bullseye at the time, so we set a target up at 100 yards. One shot; (the 1st!) Offhand. Right through the "X". I couldn't do that again to save my life. She shot the rest of that day. Not me. Stay safe

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:15:48 AM EDT

[#20]

Not meant to 'jack the thread...but one day at Pendleton, I was playing RO for a bunch of my young troops and next door were two Marine sniper teams practicing. We were shooting at 100 - 300 meters and they STARTED out at 600 IIRC. Man...those young grunts could shoot!

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:22:07 AM EDT

[#21]

Shot a lot at long ranges, but my favorite was shooting at 600yd steel. 16" AR, XM193 and 75% hits.

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:23:23 AM EDT

[#22]

1000 yards, the first time I had ever shot over 500.
I finally got a scope put on my PSS and hit 4 out of 5 at 1000 yards.

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:30:24 AM EDT

[#23]

I shot my .22 pardini free pistol out to 200yrds with standard velocity ammo. hit the 2' gong every time.

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:30:31 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
I shot an evil .50 - caliber rifle from the top of a mountain. It was so powerful that it went around the world and hit me in the back of the head. Fortunately it had lost most of it's velocity (understandably) and only bounced off.

Ban guns...they're evil. Do it for the sattelites.

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:32:48 AM EDT

[#25]

600yds, with a 10x scope, and a decent .308 round is a LOT easier than some of you guys may think. Not shooting golfballs, mind you.... but it is not difficult to hold 1.5 to 2MOA at that distance, even in wind.

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:40:09 AM EDT

[#26]

1000 yards on a somewhat regualr basis.

.308 custom bolt gun and M1A (DMR)

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:43:20 AM EDT

[#27]

600 yards at several civilian rifle clubs and military bases while playing highpower. Best to date with an AR was 192-4X (two 7s and two 9s, sixteen 10s) shooting 75 AMAX handloads. I shot a 197-10X (one 7, nineteen 10s)with my Model 70 target rifle (iron sights) at 500 yards at Camp Atterbery. This is prone, with a sling and shooting coat. No bipod.

I will probably try at least one 1000 yard match at Atterbery this year with my Model 70 and my 260 Rem handloads (139 gr Lapua Scenar @ 2600 fps).

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:48:43 AM EDT

[#28]

281 yards, #1 driver

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:54:59 AM EDT

[#29]

800 yards, manhole cover, HKSR9T, SEMI auto, 7.62 nato, Federal GMM ammo.

Result: BOOM.......SMACK

Repeat, about 18 for 20, pretty rapid fire, not BAMBAMBAM, but fast enough that the benchrest dudes were snickering at me.

Until the RO went up in the jeep, and said "Damn, somebody has been smacking the crap out of the 800Y manhiole cover, I need to repaint it."

Then I got to snicker.

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:58:23 AM EDT

[#30]

When I was nineteen, I did a guy in Laos from a thousand yards out. Rifle shot in high wind.

Ten guys in the world coulda made that shot. Huh. Only thing I was ever good at.

/duck

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:00:26 AM EDT

[#31]

Between 250-300 yds @ a doe, with Savage 7mm mag,with 3x9 x42 tasco, hit her right behind the shoulder, she dropped like a rock. This is the longest shot at a deer I ever took, or had, most shots are 50yds or less, just the nature of hunting in Alabama. The rifle was stolen a few years ago, it was beat to death, scratched up, ugliest hunting rifle I have ever owned, but it never failed.

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