A new long-distance shooting record of 4.4 miles
 

Thought some of you gun guys might appreciate this. I am intrigued by long distance shooting and have a rifle doped out to 1000 yds. Its hard to find a place to shoot long distances.

A lot went into this shot.

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wow, much involved!

Damn impressive. I couldn't get my son's .243 dialed in past 100yds last weekend.

The round took almost a half minute to get to the target. I'd love to see the arc on this shot.

Wow!

That's really wild.

Crazy. Might be the most expensive mortar ever built.

One time I shot a rope 5 miles

I know a 4 miles is a long way but 24 seconds still seems way too long.

Yeah it does. For 24 seconds at that distance the bullet would average 968 FPS. Considering it left the barrel at 3300 FPS and it hit the target at 689 FPS.

Mahomes has that effect.

That's incredible. I've hit plenty of 1000+ yard shots, but this is a whole different league.

It's a ton of rise and fall to account for though, it's not as if it's a straight 4.4 miles on a line.

Yeah about 2500 feet worth!

I remember when I dropped that 8 point white-tail buck deer from 6 miles out.

Sincerely, every red neck dipshit hunter I've ever met.

Those are a bunch of mad scientists that figured that out.

Hehe, shot No. 69.

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I wonder how far a person can shoot to the point where the bullet slows enough for the guy at the target to just catch it in his hand.

Meh, probably not, considering that most every redneck hunter can actually judge distance, unlike virtually any city-bred fool I've ever met. Nevermind that no rifle will actually shoot accurately 6 miles out . . .

My guess is not very much farther, as that bullet was likely falling nearly straight down by the time it reached the target.

And I wonder what it's like on the receiving end from a detection perspective. If you're some terrorist standing around picking out a goat or child to rape, do you know what's happening as the first 68 bullets hit around you? Or are you looking around and saying, "What's that noise I keep hearing, Achmed?" I'm wondering how noisy a 689 fps second bullet is if you couldn't hear it being initially shot.

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I'd like to see how they had the target set up.

It would have to be pointed skyward. If it was sitting like most targets the surface area would be tiny.

Hmm, so would it be basically falling at a terminal velocity? I wonder if it could get any slower. It seems like it could.

Nice. I would like to hire this guy. To uh...shoot someon...I mean thing. Yeah.

Eh, maybe. I'd have to do some math, which isn't going to happen at this moment, but definitely a significant fraction of Vt I'd imagine. Though there might be a chart one could Google as well. I know ballsitics charts and calculators are a dime a dozen online.

422 grain moving at 689 will still **** some shit up.

It's like getting shot by a .45 ACP at point-blank range. 445 ft/lbs

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After 4.4 miles, this bullet was still traveling at 689 fps, which is about 470 mph.

This is the retrieved bullet.
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They fired $600 worth of ammo for that hit. LMAO

That scope mount. LMAO

23232 ft or 7744 yards.

Yeah, what is the MOA slope of that?

I've got a 30 on my .338 LM. That thing is LMAO.

It has a couple of adjustable optics added to the end of the scope, too. I've seen them, but forgotten what they're called.

Vortex Razor Gen III 6-36 scope.

The target would still be a blip in that sight picture. Aim for the tiny blurry white thing and let her rip.

Yeah what the hell is that at the end of the scope? Is it some kind of magnifier?

It's for more elevation adjustment. The scope doesn't have near enough.

So it was still even faster than a Patrick Mahomes II pass. Impressive.

I took a precision marksmanship course about 10 years ago. We worked in teams. It was pretty interesting to shoot out to 1000 yards and you would shoot, your spotter a split second later would say hit and then you would here the ring of Steel.

Another interesting thing is they set up a target about 650 yards out behind a berm. If you stood up tall you could see the target. You had to try and judge where to aim against the berm lay prone and shoot to your spot. The spotter would walk you into the target behind the berm. That was a lot of fun!

That bullet descended to the target at a 48* angle earth's rotation had to be figured in as when the trigger is pulled 24 seconds later the target isn't in the same location.

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Miles out plus 2500 feet up on a parabola. Plus windage & coriolis.

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I ran across this video a couple months ago. To say it had a profound effect on me would be an understatement. Anyways, I thought it was pretty interesting listening to him explain his record setting kill.

I've shot my brother's BMG 50, can't imagine the power behind this beast.

give mahomes a week of practice and he'll own the record

You’ve hit plenty of 1000+ shots??? I bet most of those were cold bore shots too, weren’t they….

He may have, but a bullet that will go that far ain't cheap... 1000's would be tens of thousands of dollars in ammo

Impressive he hit it with his 69th shot!!!! Cool.

1000 yard shots aren't exactly uncommon these days. Even my BIL who cheaped out on his rifle build has pretty good luck with it.

I figure if I can do it anybody can. The biggest problem is finding a place to do it. I did it at a school in Montana. We had a range outside of San Diego that went out to 860 yards.
Once you get your scope doped its fairly straightforward to repeat provided you use the same ammo.

Some, yes.


We set up balloons and have a gong at 1000. Shot is East to West so that SW Kansas wind can equate to some impressive holdovers.

Hit 1000 with .308, 6.5cm, and 338LM

There are guys out here that would embarrass me, too. Some real skill.

One time I did a man in Laos at a mile in a half in a heavy cross wind. Maybe 3 men in the world could've made that shot. Killing is all I know.

With the way guns are built now, the advancements in ammo, scopes, and knowledge that is available to read. Shooting 1000 yards is about the same as 600-700 yards 20 years ago.

Shit I could probably get everyone on this board hitting 1000 yard shots within 2MOA within an hour with each person.

Wow. The number of great shooters has really increased recently. I should alert the 1stMarDiv scout/sniper schoolhouse that Kansas City is a hotbed great shooters. They might want step up their recruitment efforts. Well done, gents!

Or you can let 5th group know I can still shoot after they invested all the money in me and sending me through Sniper School.

Would if I knew them. What school did you attend? What class? Instructors?

Pretty incredible deal, but its really just kind of a trick shot. The physics make it interesting though.

United States Army Sniper School

A class in 2011

Yes there was 11 instructors

“A class.” Lol. Ok bro.

Doubling down on dumb? Shocking.

208th Regiment //HQ at Helena Montana
Class//1835
Instructor// Matthew Quigley

Modern rifles are pretty good these days. It's more about the quality of the bullet, imo.

I took a long range precision shooting class a few years ago, using my stock Savage M110 (.30-'06) and hit the 1000M gong 6 out of 10 times. But I built the bullet. It took more than a dozen test ladders, iirc to find the right combination of projectile, powder, charge weight, etc. That was about two months of building and firing test bullets, I think. But none of the factory bullets I tried were acceptable, imo, so I ended up building one.

Hell yes. Thank you for your service.

Class 03/04-11

Does that make you believe me? Did my dates make you suddenly stop being a dick because you can’t imagine people can shoot 1000 yards?

You didn't hit shit. I'm still here.

Lol. Tell me you don’t shoot, without telling me. Cold bore at 1000 is much different…but I’m sure you already knew that.

You don’t have shit to prove to me. I can tell you don’t shoot though.

1000+ yard shots aren’t very difficult one you establish your holds, position, range, a basic understanding of the current environment, and the bore is warm. It’s just a matter of consistency at that point. Consistency is accuracy. But real world requires cold bore shots. You do you man. I appreciate your service. We can leave it at that.

YOLO

Exactly. I've lobbed thousands of rounds under different conditions, logged results, temp, wind, pressure. After compiling that data it's not too difficult.

Obviously bullet, powder, load, etc matter. My Steyr SSG04 loves 155gr Sierra Matchking HPBT palmas loaded 43 grain (I'd have to look for powder type, my father does the loading). Steiner 4-16 Military sits on top of that with a mil-dot reticle that also shows .5 mil holdovers.

I have several scopes with christmas tree reticles, and they work great for dogs and coyotes, but I'm not a huge fan of them at the range.

I love it when I get to go to different areas, especially in the mountains where it's unfamiliar. That's a challenge. Lobbing bullets at a set range isn't.

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Actually, a reloaded .308 with 169 HPBT will run you around .65- .70/shot (powder, bullet, brass, primer). I stockpiled a shitload of gear years ago, new prices are probably more.

Given, a .308 will go subsonic on most days to 1000 and ****s with the stability a little, but still pretty good.

I get my brass once-shot from a guy that runs a sniper school in Oregon. Nicest damn man ever, and he sells it by the pound. Great deal.

Why are you bringing up cold bore shots? That isn’t anywhere in the discussion we were having. I have made lots of cold bore shots at very long distances, because I was required to. I do agree that it’s much nicer to have multiple shots at long distances to hit something consistently.


If I don’t have to prove shit, why did you ask me for my class number? Why give a dickhead answer when I didn’t give my class number in my first response? You can’t tell if I don’t shoot or shoot everyday, because you are pulling a BEP and changing the discussion.

Lol

Lol. Walking a shot on at long range takes no skill. I’m sure you’ve made plenty of cold bore shots at 300 at an echo target. Well done.

30 + Guns and I dnt think I.own anything that would stabilize a bullet out that far.
Remington modle 81 in 300 Savage or a 8mm Mauser that i cut 12 inches off the barrel and bed it into a Boyd's stock. It's my wolf slayer.

Have Colt 6601 with a 1/7 twist that shoots Sierra 69gr HPBT Match really well out to 350. Buts that's all the room I had and dnt even have that anymore.

Kind of a funny side story:

My college roommate had a friend that used to come and visit him about twice a month who used to make up stories about being a sniper, Ranger, SEAL, or whatever he came up with at the time when trying to pickup girls.

Well one time he started talking to a group of girls who one of them had a boyfriend that just happened to be yucking it up across the bar with another group. After he already delivered his spiel of whatever SpecOps group he was in that night one of the girls boyfriends returned, it turns out he's a legit active duty SpecOp on leave.

He started asking him all kinds of questions, friendly at first, until he realized he was bullshiting. Grabbed him by the ear and said something about stealing valor (I was standing at a distance so couldn't hear well), escorted him to the door and kicked him by the ass into moving traffic. Almost got hit too.

I grew up in a military family but never served myself and listened to enough conversations to know that there's way too many little details to try and pretend you were part of the group. Plus SpecOps is a very small community, and everyone knows someone.

People that don't shoot but act like they do have their tells.

As soon as people tell me they think better in inches than metric (talking scopes) I kind of check out of the conversation.

My brain melts down when dudes try to do the math of adjustment in MOA at various distance. It's so simple but people can complicate it in a hurry.

I gave up trying to explain MOA and Mil to these guys a long time ago. I prefer mil after starting with MOA scopes. Really not much difference when it comes down to it.

When someone has a mildot recticle and MOA adjustments I just shake my head.

As much as I would like this to be true. Those dudes look like cheaters.

Amazing it was in such good shape.

Why wouldn't they do this sort of thing in the salt flats?

Yeah, I checked a plate at about 1200 yards with my MOA 454SS EFI 3.14.

Hell of a round and gun.