New to Long Range Shooting Questions

[AR_ART]

So, I had forgotten a friend I worked with was a competitive benchrest shooter, he took me out to the range yesterday to work on long-range shooting.

WOW, as you state, "Tim K", I learned more yesterday morning shooting with someone like that then I'd probably have learned on my own in year!

Suffice it to say, by the end of a few hours I was making consistent and repeatable shots out to 500 meters hitting center mass in about a 12" diameter of a human-sized target we had set-up! I know for some of you thats nothing, 500 meters, but for me it was a big deal as a few days earlier I was shooting out to 300 meters and it really was just a huge wag about what I was doing. So to be able to consistently and repeatedly hit a target 200 more meters than I was able to shoot a few days earlier and understand some factors that goes into making those shots was really informative.

This was from a bench shooting bulk reman. ammo. using a rear sandbag.

I'm not saying, "I know it all" now, nor that I'd be able to hit the same target in different conditions, Just saying I enjoyed it and really got me interested in doing more of this! Being an engineer I really like the trying to figure out the bullet drop, windage, and all that the things it takes leading up to and taking the shot. Again, I'm throwing those words out there, only because I was told those are important, not that I know how to use them yet.

So we've made plans to go out more to help me learn more about this!

[Wakesurfer]

[quote=islandermyk;541935]this is a bad addiction to get into...


... it's worse than playing with carbines and pistols


I concur with islandermyk's statement. I thought BRD was bad until I started putting together a long distance shooter. I have pretty much learned everything I know from SnipersHide, check it out and shoot often. Magpul also has an informative video called The Art of Precsion Rifles, I absorbed a lot of information watching those videos.

[ark3maxu5]

Hi AR ART, while not new to long range shooting, I am new to this site so hope I posted this right. I agree with everyone else about snipershide... I thought I'd reply to your post for a few reasons:#1 I love long range shooting and after spending countless hours on the internet,talking to people and my own trial and error over a couple years, I hate to see someone else go through all that themselves. #2. I'm by no means an expert but I do go up to the mountains with a couple guys and we consistently shoot man/deer-size targets out to a mile with a .308 and further with larger calibers. Be happy to take another shooter along, the more the merrier! #3. I'm interested in how accurate (your rifle) the Savage 10 is because I'm looking into the 110ba in .300 win mag or .338 lapua (can't get the wife to let me spend $4000 on a Tactical Rifles build) and would like to try it out as I've read about accuracy issues online which may or may not be true.

Can't offer any advice on benchrest or matches you could go to but can help with anyting else. As for how far you should be able to consistently hit a 12'' target with a .308, we shoot a 12'' steel target at 1100 meters and hit it almost every time with a DPMS LR 308 168 grain or 175 grain hornady or sierra matchkings. As for zero, my .308 is zeroed at 100 meters. Let me know if you want to go up with us sometime, we go about every month.