Long Range Class - Guernsey, WY - May 3rd-5th 2010

[MrButterpants]

Precision Rifle Workshop - Extreme Long Range Rifle
May 3rd-5th, 2010- Guernsey, WY
http://www.precisionrifleworkshop.com/index.html


"Bring that .50 BMG, that 300 Win, the .338, or even that tuned 7mm Mag. and shoot out to 1500 yards. Learn about wind calls, long range ballistics and build the ultimate drop chart".
(Tuition - $650 3 days, includes on base accommodations and food! Round count - minimum 300 but feel free to bring as much as you like, we'll shoot it. Some shooters in the last course dusted off 4 cases of ammo!)

This school is geared towards the long range hunter or target shooter. There aren't going to be any fieldcraft or sniper tactics taught for those wondering. If downing an Elk at 500 yards is your goal, we can help. If getting closer to making the elusive 'mile' shot is your fancy, we can help there too. Challenge yourself and push that rifle to its limits!

Topics to be covered:

- Positional Fundamentals
- Ammo selection
- Rifle/gear Selection
- Ballistics to include calculation of a Density Altitude based
elevation adjustment chart
- Wind reading and calls
- Spotting your own hits
- Shooting 100-1000yds on paper, 300-1500 yds on steel


Register here:
http://stores.precisionrifleworkshop.com/-strse-48/Extreme-Long-Range-Rifle/Detail.bok

If you've got any questions shoot me a PM or post here and i'll try to answer them. The base food isn't bad either..... :)

Pics from last class here:
http://www.co-ar15.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14581

[MrButterpants]

Last week to reg for the May class

[CareyH]

thats a beautiful range.

[MrButterpants]

.....and the class is in the bag. Special thanks to the personnel at Guernsey ANGB for their hospitality and use of the terrific ranges.

Here's a photo recap:

The first day consists of 1/2 lecture/powerpoints on the topics I like to cover in a course of this nature....mostly external ballistic oriented with some other tidbits. Second half of the day is on the 1000yd known distance range.

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Military Style pits, but with shooting positions every 100 yds....not like a high power facility. I set up some steel as well, but the purpose of this exercise was to get real world dope every 100, out to 1k for the students.
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The steel used in this course was a mixture of AR500 1/2 and 3/8" plate obtained from LVShooter and OSUArchetech who can be found on the Snipershide Forums

[MrButterpants]

All types of shooters, rifles and calibers to incluse everything from a Barrett 50 all the way down to 7mm Mag sporter profile rifles shooting off portable benches.
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[MrButterpants]

Even the hippies came out
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Half of the second day is spent on this range as well. Lucky for us the wind played nice up until about 900 yds on the second day, so the dope gathered was good.
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[MrButterpants]

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[MrButterpants]

Since we had hippies, the po-po were soon to follow...
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[MrButterpants]

Some action shots of the 50ies
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[MrButterpants]

The afternoon of the second day we went over to one of the bases long range steel machine gun ranges. Decent sized targets littered throughout the countryside with 3000yd shots possible (good luck). The weather held out but the wind was insane.....gusts to 50...30mph sustained.
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500yd'er here
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900 on top of the double conex boxes and if you squint down you'll see a
white diamond 12'oclock to the 900. That's at 1225yds and 12" wide.
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1680yds. Full size ipsc
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[MrButterpants]

FYI, 50cal API rounds mess things up....bad.
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The 3rd day was spent entirely on the automated, scored green bad guy pop-up range. For those that have never experienced it, it's cool as hell. You zip a round through one of the green plastic bad guys and they fall down, then a few seconds later rise back up on their own. There are even vehicle rads to shoot at with 50ies.
Quite the target rich enviroment, but here's an overview of the distances possible.
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[MrButterpants]

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Can never get enough of the sexy Barrett
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Me spankin greenies with a 223. Consistent hits out to about 500 were easy, but after that my eyes are toast....need magnified optics.
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Thanks to everyone for attending (Ken, Ron, Jerrod, SJ, Fred and Gary). Special thanks to big chuck for helping out.

Next class is Sept 28-30th 2010. Register here:
http://stores.precisionrifleworkshop.com/-strse-48/Extreme-Long-Range-Rifle/Detail.bok

These ranges are world class. How often do you get to spend 3 days shooting interesting stuff like this for 650 bucks....and get a room and food at the same time, no extra charge! That's what I thought....go ahead and register now :)