Shooting Distance

[swynn]

When you guys shoot at paper, at what distance do you shoot?????/

Thanks Swynn

[DIRT Farmer]

Depends how hot it is and where the shade tree is. 35 yds to two hundred

[Muddy Creek Sam]

I only have a 100yds now, but they are coming to thin the timber and I hope to make it 500yds.

Sam :D

[enfield]

at 25 yards and I tell everyone it was 100 yards he he. doesn't everyone do that ?

[oso]

Wiff a handgun 21 - 50 yards, wiff a shotgun 30 yds, wiff a long gun 100 - 200 yds unless it's a rooski then 128.57 - 257.14 arshin.

[Harter66]

Used to be close to a range that went to 300 ,only have about 120 or so now. How far do you need to shoot when hunting or competing? Having that number down i'd shoot that plus 10-50 depending on my shooting tool of choice.

[Kraschenbirn]

Our club range goes out to 300M with berms at 50M, 100M, 150M, 200M, and 300M. When shaking out a new load, I usually start at 50 to develop a rough zero, move to 100 for fine tuning, and then to 150 or 200 for final tweaking. Probably 90% of my "serious" shooting of fully developed loads is at 200M or 300M.

Bill

[BOOM BOOM]

HI,
It varies.
I used to set up steel plates, at every 50yds. out to 200yds, to shoot at w/ Pb. Both rifle & pistol.
But found I needed a real sense of humor past 200yds. w/ a pistol.
Lately the FOREST CIRCUS & City of Provo have been shutting down all to places I went to to shoot.
So this year it has been only about 33yds.
And cost has caused me to shoot 22 alot more.

[Doc Highwall]

My club has on the rifle range 25 yds, 100 yds, 200 yds and 300 yds with pits for target pullers. The club has separate ranges for Black Powder, Hand Gun, Shotgun and Air gun along with Archery.

[MJR007]

Was at the 600m line this morning. I was "sick" of work and no wind... Any time any good place.

[Edubya]

For SD practice I'll start at arms length shoot and continue while moving back at a diagonal. I'll practice on the 7 yd line at a rapid pace. Mostly I shoot from the 25 yd and once in a while go to the 50 yard with my open sight hand guns. I'm only shooting paper now days.

EW

[HeavyMetal]

Depends on what I'm shooting.

Pistol, 22 38 45 44 spec. I limit to 50 yards and under just sighted my custom Ruger Mark I in at 50 a weekend ago.

44 mag and any of the small rifle rounds in the contender about 100.

Rifle as far as the range permits depending, of course, on wind, temp, and caliber!

[82nd airborne]

its best to have a place to shoot that doesnt have targets in 50m/yrd intervals. completely random target distances makes for much better training. What practical scenario are you going to come across where your targets are are always 50m apart? youre not. this is good if you shoot br, which to me tests the gun, not the shooter, to a point, which becomes a money race, not a skill race. Try to find somewhere to shoot with random distances. Shooting without a rediculously solid rest is excellent to practice too. Once again, if you have a 2 point rest, your not really testing your skill, but the abilities of the weapon. I know ill take a lashing from the br guys, and im NOT saying that br takes no skill, not so, simply saying it is best to practice at variouse ranges, stabilizing your weapon with your body and simple rests such as a rucksack or stump, yada yada. This is just my two cents, which probably isnt even worth that.

[sundog]

hooah, airborne. kd ranges build confidence and test the shooter and equipment (and ammo). When that is known, random distance tests the shooters ability to find range, judge distance. and apply that to his 'system'. A range card in a deer stand/p-dog shootin' bench makes it a 'no-brainer', eh? Your two cents is valued at more than the value of the two pennys it takes to represent it. That was a compliment in case you did not get it, airborne.

[okksu]

My club has pistols up to .45's out to fifty yards; .22's rifle/pistol range with targets @ 25, 50, 75, 100; A 14 slot HP bench rest range with target berms @ 25, 50, 100 and 200; another HP range w/ shooting berms 200 thru 600 at 100 yd intervals with two sets steel silhouettes and a 14 target pit. They can stretch that one out to host 1500 yard matches, but that closes down the club house, the two skeet fields, the big bore pistol, .22 and the bench rest ranges. Still leaves open the sporting clays, wooble trap, two plinking ranges, some kind of personal defense pistol range (don't know the exact name for that one), and their new cowboy area. Most of mine is 100 yd bench with milsurps and some sporting clays and wobble trap. Once a year the milsurps do a 200 thru 600 match with the pit targets. Humbling....

[MT Gianni]

Iron sighted rifle @50 & 100, scoped @ 100-300, pistols 15-50 yrds depending on what I want to do.

[nes4ever69]

pistol 15 to 30, shotgun 15 to 30, rifle 30 to 50. longest i have done is 225. need a longer range for my 50, but dam im to fat and lazy to want to walk that far some times.

[Dannix]

Well I'm essentially only shooting pistol right now. From 5-10m to, don't know, maybe ~70m. The 5-10m is when I'm shooting multiple targets, think IPDA/IPSC style, just in the woods not a range. At the 'range', more like a clearing with a berm 100m out, I have to guess on the distances, but I'd would venture ~30m-70m.

5m and the like is good practice with a handgun, but I've found practicing at a good proper distance like 70m gives you confidence in what you can and cannot do with your particular gun and load at distance.

[jsizemore]

Smallbore and pistol 25 yards to 100m.
Handgun 25 yards to 200 yards.
Rifle 100 yards to 465 yards.

[geargnasher]

When you guys shoot at paper, at what distance do you shoot?????/

Thanks Swynn

When I shoot paper, I'm studying, so solid bench and exact 15, 25, 50, 75, and 100 yards covers the gamut of my guns and gives me a benchmark. I have little interest beyond 100 because that is the limit of the ranges I have access to, and my own hunting land limits shots to 50-75 yards.

When I shoot for fun, it's usually with known-accurate gun/ammo combinations, so that confidence gives me one less thing to think about when I'm working on ME. Fun/practice shooting can happen at any range, any time, with any gun I take a notion. Last weekend I got on a "let's bang the 6" gong at 100 with my 4" 1911" kick. That was fun and edjucashunal. Final score was gong: 22, Me 4.

Gear

[mpmarty]

I shoot mostly at home. Range varies from a dozen yards to close to a hundred. When using the chronograph I usually have a target at around fifty yards. My plates are spinners and only about four inches in diameter so they are mostly shot at ranges of less than fifty yards except when using my 10mms. Those puppies shoot out of a pistol like a 22/250 rifle.:bigsmyl2:

[steg]

Depends on how the legs feel on a certain day mostly closer is better, unless my son or one of my grandsons are along to shoot, I love taking one of my grandsons along cause it ticks of my son in law, a gun hater, but I taught my daughter to shoot , and she's happy to see one of em go along with me and shoot.......steg

[qajaq59]

Our club only has 50 and 100 so that's what I'm shooting.

[missionary5155]

Good morning
Whatever the practicle use of that firearm will be.
I hunt river bottoms up north there.. not much need to practice a whole lot at 300 yards.
But with a few Caliber .30 I still enjoy smacking the 300 yard gong and launching proven loads on paper out there.
But again... farthest deer I shot was a whole 33 yards. Last dozen I used my 52 pound recurve on. I have thrown a spear at two.
Down here in Peru I fire my 44-40 SRC at 25 -100 yards. But the farthest I have needed to pop anything was up close... call it 10 yards. Now the 308 I fire regularly out to 600 yards. I have open desert hills to pop rocks on.. but again... it is just for practice / fun.

[dale2242]

When shooting test groups or sighting in, I shoot paper targets at the following distances:
25 yds Red Dot and open sighted handguns
50 yds Scoped hand guns and open sighted rifles
100 yds Scoped rifles

When we get sighted in we shoot up to 350 yds at 24" saw blades.
Dale

[miestro_jerry]

For pistol 25 to 50 feet, or close quarter combat for me is 5 to 20 feet.
Shotguns 25 to 60 yards
High powered rifle normally 100 yards.

Jerry

[Blammer]

3 feet to 100 yds, farther if the range is big enough.

[Larry Gibson]

When developing loads for cast bullets I use either 25 or 50 yards with handguns depending on the hangun/cartridge and sights.

With cat's sneeze type loads for rifles I use 50 yards.

For other cast bullet rifle loads I use 100 yards and then confirm the accuracy potential of selected loads at 200 yards. Accuracy testing regular rifle cast bullet loads can be very misleading at shorter ranges like 50 yards and even 100 yards unless a suficient sampling of shots is used. Speer ballasticians says 5 shot groups are not really a good sample but 7 shot groups are "enough". Mostly I like to use 10 shot groups with rifle cast bullet loads at 100 yards as that will really give the capability of the load in that rifle. A 200 yard 10 shot group will give any indications of stability issues with the load.

82nd Airborne is quite correct once the load is developed. His method is not so good for load development. Also many who shoot at ranges other than those they own are restricted to target distances set by the rules of that range. Where I mostly shoot for load development and practice the targets on the main range can only be set at 25, 50, 100 and 200 yards. Thus that restricts my current situation.

I do love to walk the high desert and shoot targets of opportunity such as rocks, sticks, pine cones and cow pies, etc. Did you know that the trapdoor Springfield is a hallucinatory drug?

Skirmishers, form line.

Hostiles to the front at 475 yards.

Mark your target.

Fire!

Oh what a good time, more fun than we should be allowed......can't wait until I move to western Arizona.....

Larry Gibson

[82nd airborne]

hooah, airborne. kd ranges build confidence and test the shooter and equipment (and ammo). When that is known, random distance tests the shooters ability to find range, judge distance. and apply that to his 'system'. A range card in a deer stand/p-dog shootin' bench makes it a 'no-brainer', eh? Your two cents is valued at more than the value of the two pennys it takes to represent it. That was a compliment in case you did not get it, airborne.

gracias senoir

[fredj338]

Rifles 50-300, as far as my range goes. Pistols, contact to 100yds, depends on what I am practicing for.

[ghh3rd]

I've been shooting .44 revolver at 50 yds, sandbagged. I haven't tried 100, as am using a red dot.

[miestro_jerry]

My problem with my range is a simple one, I live in the hills. I can't find a flat area that is longer than 175 yards. I have found mountain top to mountain top shooting to be interesting, but it can be a long wall to put up new targets.

Jerry

[Dannix]

Jerry, you could consider investing in a 'flash' taget.
http://www.mgmtargets.com/products/product_page.php?cat=15


My problem with my range is a simple one, I live in the hills. I can't find a flat area that is longer than 175 yards. I have found mountain top to mountain top shooting to be interesting, but it can be a long wall to put up new targets.

Jerry

[HandgunHTR]

25 - 200 meters, depending on which animal I am shooting at (IHMSA silhouettes).

I practice at 100 mostly.

[swynn]

Thanks for all the replys guys...I guess we all shoot as far and as close as our range safely allow...

Regards
Shelby

[10mmShooter]

25 yards for accuracy work from the bench, in self defense shooting 7 feet to 25 feet max. When I'm playing I shoot un-supported at the berm 100yards away at steel plates about 12 inches across..... all handguns no rifle.

[miestro_jerry]

Defensive shooting, I practice from 5 to 20 feet. Plus I practice with the pistol Parrnell to my chest. You have to be careful doing that, I have gotten burned with the muzzle flash. That can be a life saving method of shooting, you don't need to turn your whole body.

Jerry

[stephen perry]

Hard to determine whether some of you are shooting Cast or not. I will talk Cast.

I shoot more rifle Cast than I do pistol Cast. What I have done before is sight-in at 25 yds then move back to 100 yd. When I shot .222 Cast I generally got 1 1/2- 1 3/4 inch groups shooting across a wash. These were 5 shot groups. Same for 30-06 Cast except on calm days when I could get close to an inch, not always. This was back in the 70's before I knew how to deal with wind conditions. Today I am a benchrest shooter so wind flags are common for me. I would suggest for any casual Range shooting at say 100 yd with factory or better rifles I would suggest a minimum of 2wind flags both in the first 50 yds.

I am an optimist with rifle Cast shooting. Since I am a Shoot Director, Angeles BR, for the NBRSA I have no time for Cast BR, and no interest in driving to Modesto to do advanced rock throwing with the Cast boys, 1000 miles round trip. My Cast shooting will be Range shooting and hunting.

I shoot local at Lytle Creek we have 2 Ranges 100 yd at one 100-300 at the other. Next year a 600 yd will be built.I am getting Ruger 308V in September, I have 10 molds for .30 cal bullets. I want to make this my long range Cast gun, I will shoot out to 600 for target at Lytle Creek and silohuette at the Pala Range. I shoot now at Pala with a 6x47Lapua. Scopes of 20-36x Range are desireable for 200-600 silohuette shooting, that's what I have.

Stephen Perry
Angeles BR

[frankenfab]

Wow, you have alot of cool things going on! Have a great weekend!

[Cowboy T]

I shoot almost entirely cast in my guns. The sole exception is the Ruger 10/22, which gets the Wal-Mart bulk pack ammo. Due to range limitations, the max I shoot is 25 yards with any gun. Hopefully someday that will change.

[SCIBUL]

Hello all !
My shooting distances vary because of gun type and ammo used.
For pistol training I use 25 meters (and always shoot cast).
For pistol plinking it could be from 7 to 200 meters (always CB shooting)...
For rifle with cast from 50 to 300 meters (I wait the NOE .311 spitzer to go much far).
And for rifle with condom bullets 800 meters is the end of the range :lol:

[Ron]

My practice and competition distances are 7 metres/10 metres/ 25 metres and 50 metres with S&W "L" Frame revolver and iron sights. Starting to have real problems getting half decent groups at 50 with my nearly 66 year old eyes but still enjoy the challenge.

[qajaq59]

Hard to determine whether some of you are shooting Cast or not. I will talk Cast. I'm not sure my 30-30 would know what to do if I put a jacketed bullet in it.

[miestro_jerry]

With the exception of my Glocks and my J Frame Carry pistols, I shoot cast in all of my other pistols. As far as rifles, my ARs and my M1As being the exception to shoot cast bullets, all my other rifles, especially my Marlin lever guns, I shoot cast in them, many times at speeds that come close to factory jacketed stuff.

Jerry

[XWrench3]

when starting out a new load, OR, shooting reduced loads, i shoot @ 50 yards. when practicing for hunting, or trying to improve my skills, 100 yards. it would be longer, but i can not find a good place to shoot longer than that with a good backstop. and i will not shoot in the woods and not have a backstop!