How far do you shoot?

[oldblinddog]

I know there are shooters on here that shoot really long range with their BPCR rifles, but how far do you other guys like me (I am shooting a Rem. 700 .308 Win.) take your boolits?

[sigep1764]

Bout 40 ft max. I don't get to play with my rifles much.

[Calamity Jake]

Rifles are shot out to 200 some, mostly 100, can go to 600 If I want.

[zomby woof]

IDPA USPSA 2 feet to 25 yards
CMP 100-600 yards

[jeepyj]

I'm mostly a revolver shooter 16 - 30 yards would be the majority. The contender 30 - 80 yards, not much rifle
jeepyj

[dragon813gt]

I spend most of my time on the 25 and 50 yard ranges. I can shoot out to 300 but haven't done any cast load development to allow shooting that far. If I take the AR out I don't shoot anything less than 100. Ninjas blasting away w/ them at 25 yards is one of my pet peeves.

[Yodogsandman]

100 yards-rifle, 25 yards pistol, it's all my shooting range has.

[texassako]

Handguns out to 25 yards and rifle out to 100, sometimes 200 if I have access to that. I hunt where you rarely have sightlines farther than 100 yards. I used to have access to a private 600 yard range and occasionally miss the chance to stretch it out if I wanted.

[milrifle]

I used to shoot at 100 yds, but I moved my bench up to about 60 yds a year or so ago when my son brought over a full auto. My backstop is small and I didn't want any bullets leaving the property. I just haven't ever moved it back.

[Idaho Mule]

I practice out to 1760 yards. Porcupines can be dangerous. JW

[oldblinddog]

I practice out to 1760 yards. Porcupines can be dangerous. JW

Wow!!!

I have access to an 800 yd. range and was thinking that would be pretty far....

[pworley1]

I seldom shoot more than 150 yards. My range is 600 yards, but if I shoot more than 150 I have to wade across the creek. `15 -25 for handguns.

[Jupiter7]

I haven't put cast past 200 to date and only to check holdover.

[LUCKYDAWG13]

7' to 100 yards

[osteodoc08]

Handguns on target- out to 50yds typically but plinking can go out to 500

Rifles typically 100-200 yds at targets but out to 500 plinking at gallon milk jugs and stuff.

[bangerjim]

10 ft to 65 ft pistols.

30 ft to 55 yards rifles.

[country gent]

Depending on rifles 50-1000 yds handguns are 25 - 50 ( other than some pecialty handguns then 200 yds). I used to compete in NRA rifle matches. I shot over the coarse 200-600 yds and Long range to 1000 yds. Service rifle I used an M14/M1-A match rifle was a bolt action. These were with J bullets. Once you get the trajectory figured out long range with cast isnt much diffrent other than the amount of drop required. My BPCR rifle are normally shot 100-500 yds. Contenders and such depending on caliber are shot out to 200 yds. Would like to try at 500yds though.

[Artful]

Depends upon the gun - most of my cast 100-200 yds - some like my 243 w/ J-word - over 1000

Look at the base of the Ridge - directly about the man size white target at 300 - that's the 1000
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[BrentD]

Rifle shooting isn't even interesting until there is at least 200 yds of space out front. Truly 1000 yds is where it's at. And plenty of time to roll over into the spotting scope in time to see the bullet land in target berm. After that, everything else just isn't the same any more.

[xvigauge]

As I get older and my ability to walk continues to get worse, my shooting distances get shorter.
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[44man]

I start at 50 with revolvers and go to 500 meters (547 yards) Rifles never shot under 100 unless getting a scope started. Been to 1000 with rifles.

[DR Owl Creek]

The closest range for me is primarily for handguns. It does have one lane for 100 yards, and one lane for 50 yards, but all the others are 25 yards or less.

There's another range that I really like which is about an hour's drive away. It has nice, solid benches made out of 2"x12"s or concrete that are under cover. It is set up for 25 yards, 50 yards, 100 yards, or 200 yards. I use them all, depending on what I'm shooting.

There is a 1000 yard range that's about an hour and a half drive from where I live, but I don't get there very often.

Dave

[reloader28]

I was shooting 44 and 45 pistols between 100 and 150 yds today and smoking the volleyball size rocks with ease.
We have a 1000yd range right out the door, but I dont go past 400 with my cast.
My brother shoots decent groups at 1800+yds with his 243and jacketed and is working on 3000yds with his Ackley Improved 338 Lapua.

A friend brought out some black powder guns one day and we were shooting 1000yds with an open sight 45-70. We only hit the 12"x12" plate once, but were extremely close with most of the rounds.

[John Boy]

BPCR - 200 to 500m and 1000yds
BPCR, Mid Range - 200, 300 and 600yds
30-30 - 200 to 500m Lever Action Matches
Various HiBore calibers - 700 to 1000yds
Handguns - 25 & 50yds
CAS...7 -12 and 50yds sometimes

[mongoose33]

The furthest is 100 yards--both handgun and rifle.

I like loading for accuracy for my .270 at 100 yards....and I practice at 100 yards with my XD-45. Anyone who says a handgun isn't worth much past 15 yards doesn't practice at longer distances. I do. You wouldn't want to be catching what I can pitch at that range...nor would I want to catch anyone's pitches who practices
at longer ranges.

I lucked into some 4x7 sniper targets at an estate auction, and that's what I spread out on the 4x8' target board at 100 yards. I have a spotting scope and the key is being able to see where I'm missing. I don't know how one could practice that without that kind of feedback. If I didn't have those cool targets, I'd probably staple newspaper up.

Here's one I like: 11 shots, 3 in the black (1-foot bullseye), all eleven accounted for. Not sure what happened w/ the one in the upper left. :) That's offhand, no rest.

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[TXGunNut]

Leverguns w/ irons; 50 yrds. Scoped or dot sight rifles: 100 yds. Most handguns 25 yds or less. Can shoot out to 200 if the mood strikes me....but it generally doesn't.

[44man]

I love long range with a revolver but even a good 1911 can do it. I watched a Marine shoot IHMSA with a 1911 at Quantico, he hit almost ever steel to 200 meters but could not knock them down. Off hand guys. His score was not good but he sure could hit.
Now I will shoot 25 with an ACP revolver or a .38 but not with a .44 or larger. I shoot more revolvers at 100 or farther then anything. Many nines just plain suck for accuracy so 10 yards might be it. It is how the gun is built.

[Doc Highwall]

I will have to admit that I do a lot of shooting at 100 yards shooting small-bore prone in a summer league that helps my follow through for Highpower shooting. I have shot across the course with a M-14 at 200, 300, and 600 yards, and even Palma at 800, 900, and 1000 yards but never past that.

I shoot cast bullets at 100, 200, and 300 yards at my club which is the farthest it goes.

Learning to shoot small-bore prone at 100 yards and reading the wind goes a long way towards shooting Highpower at long range. Any body can shoot when there is no wind and adjust the sight height to hit a target, but learning to read the wind is part science and part art and can only be learned by doing and documenting what you learned.

Don't be intimidated just because somebody says they have shot a long distance and you have not. Wind reading is what separates the High Masters/Masters from the Marksman at any distance where wind is involved.

Do yourself a favor and learn to shoot in the wind, even if it is off a bench.

[Blackwater]

I always do initial pistol load testing at 50 yds., but depending on caliber, may move to 25 for more "socially" inclined loads like .45 ACP. Only have 100 yds. in the back yard, but when I go to the 1200 yd. range, I like to shoot at 200-600 with my .44. THAT really gets INTERESTING. And sometimes surprising. I also like to shoot 5 gal. buckets across pond dams when I can. This impresses folks with you, but when you teach them how to do it, they come to understand it's really not magic. Just good execution of some basic fundamentals. I love it when that happens because it teaches them they've got a LOT more potential than they'd given themselves credit for. A few are just lazy and don't even seem to want to learn to shoot well. Even Christ couldn't save everybody, so ... one can only do just so much.

[lbaize3]

My eyes have gotten so bad that I need an artillery spotter past 50 yards.

[RP]

As I get older and my ability to walk continues to get worse, my shooting distances get shorter.
xvigauge
Preach on it brother. Got a spot now we can shoot out to 600 yards which for us is great I drive from target to bench lol. Pistols we play at 100 yards just to see how good we are but for practicing 50 yards is our hunting limits. Rifles with our hunting style a 100 yard shot is rare.

[mold maker]

Apparently different from many here, I shoot at up to 688 yds, but I consistently hit only up to 100. These old eyes and trembles have long since forgot long distances. Pellet rifle at squirrels on my bird feeder, are well within my practice range.

[oldblinddog]

Well' I've shot the M-16 at 500 meters on Edson Range, but that was quite a while ago..I regularly shoot 350 yds. with j-word but have never shot past 100 with cast boolits. I plan to remedy that now that I have access to the 800 yd. range. Was wondering if anyone had any recommendations as to boolit for .308 Win or .30-06? I was considering the 311331 218 gr gc from NOE to start with.

[oldpapps]

I shoot 2 set ranges.
25 yard and 97 yards.
Why 97 you ask? I set my 100 yard range up to be able to shoot from under my aluminum carport covering, set on asphalt... The echooooo (concussion) is so bad that I moved out in front of the carport.
The 25 yard stand was moved out. The 100 yard stand is backed by an out cropping and can't move :(

Thus is life.

OSOK

[BrentD]

Any range is a good range. I used to shoot a lot of 30' in my basement and 50' at a local indoor range. But I live for shooting 1000 when I can. Sadly, that will only be once more this year.

While it isn't exactly the same, shooting .22 rf at 237 yds with quality target ammo will produce a pretty well scaled version of shooting a .45 caliber BPCR with target quality bullets at 1000 yds. A crosswind will blow a .22 target bullet about as many minutes of angle off course over this distance that the same wind will blow a .45 bullet at 1000 yds. It makes for decent practice if you can get it.

[shooter93]

I have ranges that vary between 100 to 1000 yards within 5 to 45 minutes from my house so we can shoot pretty much any distance we want to without a lot of trouble. There is also a number of old ore pits etc. that we used a range finder to check distances so I often shoot pistols 100-200 yards offhand. We used to have a place to shoot the 50 bmg that went to 1800 yards. Kind of neat watching the bullets arc into a refrigerator we set up for a target.

[Kraschenbirn]

The rifle side of our club range goes to 300M with berms and target stands at 50M, 100M, 200M, and 300M and steel swingers at 200M and 300M...and has an electric golf cart setting target (or repainting steel). Unless I'm doing load development, I rarely shoot anything less than 100M...even with iron sights.

Bill

[Bullwolf]

I have a steel silhouette target 53 yards from the porch. It rings like a gong when hit.

I call it a silhouette, (likely incorrectly) because resembles the head & shoulder silhouette of a person. I keep a can of spray paint around to touch up hits, and to refresh the target. The paint also keeps it from rusting too badly.

So the majority of my pistol, and some of my carbine shooting gets done at, or under 53 yards.

I tend to sight in pest control calibers at 50 yards as well. Larger caliber rifles like my M1 Garand, 1917 30'06, or my 300 win mag, get sighted in at 100yards.

Honestly I rarely shoot at 100y unless I go to a public range. I can do 255 or more yards on my property, if I shoot at my back hill across the ravine. That's where I usually break clays though thrown from my launcher. I think what I'm really doing is called shooting skeet, but I'm not 100% on the nomenclature, and it's just informal breaking of clay pigeons anyways.

I've set a target up on the back hill just for fun a few times, but I have to use glass to even see the target, or to see my hits. It's an extremely long walk around the ravine, or an ATV ride to change the target. It's not something that I do very often.

95% of my shooting is at 53 yards, or closer between the porch and the silhouette gong. When I want to sight something in, or a shooting buddy comes over 'll sometimes set up a paper target or two on stands between the porch and the gong, or else I use something reactive like clays, balloons, or water jugs for the kids. Those generally get put between the porch and the silhouette too.

If it's raining and I really want to shoot, I can do a bit more than 25 feet shooting inside the barn, with the added benefit of fluorescent lighting.




- Bullwolf

[Doggonekid]

I shoot mostly pistols so I shoot on a average of 25 yds. When I change to big bore revolvers I change up to 50 to 100 yds. When I change to my XP100 well thats a new ball park. I have shot several prairie dogs over 500 yds. That XP is considered a hand gun but with a 15" bull bbl and 20 power Leupold scope and a bolt action .22 BR it is really more like a rifle that has been cut off at both ends. My hat still goes off to you guys that shoot 1000 plus.

[Dave C.]

One handed at 50 yds.

[shaper]

xvigauge you can walk down to the edge of the pond near the Lakeland Center and pop off a couple of geese, last I saw they come to you if you have some bread. But, I didn't say that.

[smokeywolf]

When my eyes were younger, 700 yards was not out of the question. Now, 200 yards looks like 700 yards and 700 yards looks more like a target in a distant solar system.

[xvigauge]

xvigauge you can walk down to the edge of the pond near the Lakeland Center and pop off a couple of geese, last I saw they come to you if you have some bread. But, I didn't say that.

There are a lot of ponds/lakes like that in Lakeland, but those geese are nasty critters. Besides, I don't want Shady Grady Judd coming after me.
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[xvigauge]

golf carts work great for that ... just a thought............ of course that will depend on if the range is yours or ?????


Great thought. I wish that were possible.
xvigauge

[Jeff82]

Snub Nose Revolvers = 25 yards.
Revolvers = 25 yards to 50 yards.
Carbine w. Ghost Sights = 50 yards and 100 yards (prefer 50 yards).
Carbine with scope = Mostly 100 yards.

It's mostly a matter of the options allowed and available at the range.