Long range shooting...

[Missourian]

What a shot...

 

[whitehall]

Pulling the trigger on some high tech digitally enhanced monstrosity isn't really shooting. It's more like a video game.

 

[Failzero]

I was shooting Valkyrie out to 700 yards ( almost got kicked off the Range because I liked shooting the slightly moving wind socks as it was more challenging than the fairly large Steel target

 

[westwall]

What a shot...

Hmmmm, yes, there are people who can make that shot, but as with all of these long range guys, I want to see an unedited video.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Hmmmm, yes, there are people who can make that shot, but as with all of these long range guys, I want to see an unedited video.

If you want to see how hard it really is watch archived episodes to Top Shot. In several episodes they did long range shooting against stationary and moving targets.

 

[Missourian]

Hmmmm, yes, there are people who can make that shot, but as with all of these long range guys, I want to see an unedited video.

He killed the hostage. Shot her right between the eyes.

But yeah, I agree. A lot of the long range shooting vids are BS.

 

[d0gbreath]

At a distance of 7 football fields, It would have to be dead calm for me to even try. Make that shot in a 20MPH crosswind, and let's talk.

 

[M14 Shooter]

If you want to see how hard it really is watch archived episodes to Top Shot. In several episodes they did long range shooting against stationary and moving targets.

In almost all of these instances, the shooters cheat - bipods, sandbags, benches, etc.
Try it from a shooting mat, on the grass, with nothing but a sling and a jacket, fighting the wind off Lake Erie.

 

[AZrailwhale]

In almost all of these instances, the shooters cheat - bipods, sandbags, benches, etc.
Try it from a shooting mat, on the grass, with nothing but a sling and a jacket, fighting the wind off Lake Erie.

Even military snipers use aids. Hitting a man-sized target at eight hundred to a thousand meters is a crapshoot.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

None of you are Matthew Quigley.

 

[westwall]

Even military snipers use aids. Hitting a man-sized target at eight hundred to a thousand meters is a crapshoot.

No it's not. If you have the proper training it's relatively easy. Hell, when my eyes actually functioned well, 1000 yard shots were done with open sights from the prone position.

 

[AZrailwhale]

None of you are Matthew Quigley.

Quigley wasn't Quigley, it was a movie.

 

[AZrailwhale]

No it's not. If you have the proper training it's relatively easy. Hell, when my eyes actually functioned well, 1000 yard shots were done with open sights from the prone position.

At a thousand yards the average person can't even see a man-sized target without optics.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Even military snipers use aids. Hitting a man-sized target at eight hundred to a thousand meters is a crapshoot.

Meh. I'm not all that good and I have put 19 of 20 into a pie plate at 1000yds.

 

[westwall]

Quigley wasn't Quigley, it was a movie.

Billy Dixon made a shot of over 1000 yards at the Battle of Adobe Walls in the 1870's.

Just because YOU aren't aware of historical marksman doesn't mean we aren't.

 

[westwall]

At a thousand yards the average person can't even see a man-sized target without optics.

If they are hidden I agree. But if they are standing? No problem.

 

[M14 Shooter]

At a thousand yards the average person can't even see a man-sized target without optics.

But he can see a 60" diameter bull.

 

[Oddball]

What a shot...

Um, he killed the hostage.

 

[westwall]

But he can see a 60" diameter bull.

This guy has clearly never heard of the Palma, Camp Perry, or Bisley matches.

 

[AZrailwhale]

Meh. I'm not all that good and I have put 19 of 20 into a pie plate at 1000yds.

You're a better man than I am Gunga Din.