How far do you shoot cast boolits?

[6622729]

I have this Berdan primed steel case 7.62x39 reload project I've been playing with for a Howa mini 1500 with 22" pencil barrel. The boolits are all powder coated Lyman #2 lead. Powder is Reloader 7. Primers are Fort Smith 7.62x39 Berdan. I'm using an MP311-410 in flat point and the shallower of the two available hollow points. Flatpoint is about 132grains. The hollow point is about 130grains. I'm also using the NOE311-150-SP (about 150grains) and the LeeCTL312-160-2R (about 160 grains). All have copper gas checks. All are hammering a round 8" steel plate at 200yds. That's the smallest plate and the longest distance my club has to offer.
The MP mold is running 2200fps+ while the Lee and NOE are running a little over 1600fps. So, my question and reason for this thread, How far are you shooting cast lead? What caliber? How far?

[wv109323]

NRA Bullseye Pistol so 50 yards.

[Krag 1901]

200 gr .30-40 at 200 yds for Silhouettes. roughly 1800 fps. Generally only 100 yds punching paper.

[danmat]

AR- 7.62x39, Noe 311-152-SP, wheel weights, gc, pc. Larry Gibsons loads with H4895
Have not checked velocity yet.
First round of working up loads.
Groups 1 to 11/4 at 50 yards.
Went to my 8x10 plate at 250 yds. Dont know about the group size but my Grandson shot last 10 rounds we had loaded without a miss.
Have some more loads worked up with quenched ww, different sizing, just need to shoot some more.
Grandson got married a week back, so he has been busy, this project was for his gun we were doing together.

[jaysouth]

1,240 yards.

I shoot cast bullets at an abandoned railroad tank laying on it's side by abandoned railroad tracks. It lases at 1,240 yards.

Best I know I have hit it once in about 300 tries. But my answer is still 1,240 yards.

[MostlyLeverGuns]

I commonly shoot cast boolits at 200 yards from a .308, 300 Savage, 45-70 and 32 Special, sometimes going to 300 yards with the 308 and 300 Savage, occasionally longer. Off my bench, 1-2 MOA is not unusual, some days are just better than others, offhand and kneeling can be interesting, using standard 200, 300, and 600 yard High Power Match targets help. Walking back and forth can be time-consuming, I suppose I should use the UTV and shoot farther, but this is for fun on my home range. Have not spent tried the 35 Rem past 150 with boolits, same with 444. Cross winds are significant on my range, very noticeable past 200 yards, at lower velocities, velocity extreme spread becomes very apparent so careful load development and 'finding the node' becomes important. More scope magnification usually helps up to 14-16 power for me, the Law of Diminishing Returns kicks in.

[M-Tecs]

1,000 yard BPCR in competition but 1 mile at play.

[Hick]

Mostly 100 yards, but with my M1 I also do 400 yds

[15meter]

Furthest I've shot lead is 300 yards. My club has a 300 yard range and I occasionally whack at a dinger from there. The dinger is the top(or bottom, both ring well) 1/3 of an oxygen cylinder. I buy them cheap at the local Hydro testing shop. A tank that fails hydro isn't worth much but scrap value.

Typical rifle of choice is an M1, but there have been others, Trapdoor in 50-70, a couple of Mausers and a few others.

And a Kimber in 22 LR. The 22 is probably the most fun just because of the lag time, although the 50-70's aren't that much faster.

[Dieselhorses]

As soon as I find a mold for this, it'll be kinda far

[cwtebay]

1,240 yards.

I shoot cast bullets at an abandoned railroad tank laying on it's side by abandoned railroad tracks. It lases at 1,240 yards.

Best I know I have hit it once in about 300 tries. But my answer is still 1,240 yards.

Love it!!!!

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[Win94ae]

With my AK and win94ae, the furthest is 600 yards.



250 yards with handguns.



Unfortunately, that gun leads severely because of the constriction of the barrel, where it threads into the frame. :/

[Bigslug]

250 is all I have to play with, however, for those seeking inspiration. . .

In the narrow window of about 15-20 years between the phase-out of the black powder single shots and the widespread distributions of jacketed spitzers, the early smokeless military magazine rifles had sights graduated out to 1500+ yards, and were shooting blunt-nosed bullets of about 200-220 grains at about 2000fps.

Sound like anything you are making at home? Given the nightmares cupro-nickel jackets were giving during those early days, we ought to be able to do AT LEAST as well. Only challenge is figuring out sight settings for pre-1910 flight profiles on sights that are calibrated for post-1910 ammo.

[cwtebay]

C'mon, someone has to chime in with paper patches and the Sandy Hook trials!!

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[sigep1764]

You guys are far better than me. I shoot pistols at 10 to 15 yards. I test rifle loads at 25 yards at the indoor range and once I find a promising load, I take them to a friends place to go out to 100-130 yards. Loads are for .223 and .270 for the rifles. I haven't gotten my 30-30 out there yet, but then again im not great with open sights even if they are Skinner's.

[rfd]

The .45-70 PPB BP cartridge can reach waaaaaaaaaaay out there. Common for me is 200-300 yards, but those are just the short distances. I'd like a crack at one mile, though ...

[Land Owner]

To "terminal performance" in/through hogs and deer, so 10 yards to 150 (+/-) yards.

[pworley1]

My home range is only 200 yards, so I shoot 200 yards or less.

[sharps4590]

I only have 100 yards at my house, now. On our farm, 500 yards was about a daily thing, rifle and revolver, smokeless and BP. Had friends who had a BIG farm and we could get 1,000 yards there, from one ridge to another. There we only shot rifles, smokeless and BP. Sure miss those days.

[15meter]

Forgot about skip counting. Probably 400-500 yards.

When I was a kid, it was 3/4 of a mile across my dad's and my uncle's farm plus another 1/2 mile to the nearest house. In the those days most fields were fall plowed so it was bare dirt.

Perfect for taking out the 22 on dry days and picking out a dirt clod sticking up and pop at it with the Glenfield.

Then count the skips. Most was 5. Further out you shot the more skips. 3 was virtually every shot. 4 probably 1 in ten, 5 almost never.

Sold the last of the farm this past winter. No more skip shooting. Haven't been able to do it for a number of years, no-till/minimum till leaves too much trash on the surface. Good for the ground, not so good for skip shooting.

I miss sky shooting too.

22 LR shot at about 10° off vertical into a blue sky was cool, with a scope you could see the bullet for a surprisingly long time and surprisingly sharp view of the bullet in the beginning of the flight.

With the block I lived being a mile and a quarter East to West and a mile and a half North to South, of all farm ground and woods I wasn't too worried about it not hitting dirt on the way back down.

22 caliber slug fall at the speed gravity would bring it down wouldn't do any damage unless you were looking straight up and it caught you straight in the eye.

Hatcher proved that back in the 20's.

Although, in the days of yore, none of that kind of analysis even entered my mind.

It was fun to do and there was A WHOLE BUNCH of open dirt for the bullet to land in.