Re: Long Range Pistol


"John" <jgleipold@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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# On Jul 25, 10:24 am, "Ol Shy & Bashful" <selway...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
# # How far can you shoot a pistol with consistent accuracy? Lets use a
# # target area of say 3' high and 2' wide (about the same as a typical
# # combat silhouette). Doesn't matter the caliber, scoped or not. I had a
# # lot of fun lobbing bullets out at what appeared to be an auto gas tank
# # that had floated onto a sand bar with my Ruger 7 1/2" .44Mag. We used
# # an early model rangefinder to estimate the distance at 800 yards.
# # Could make hits of about 1x5 and the rest were spalshing water close
# # by. Using my match tuned 1911 and match hardball I can make 5x5 at
# # 2-300 yards all day long.
# # I'm not talking about how effective the shots are at that range, only
# # that they'll reach out that far with reasonable accuracy and much
# # farther than most people think possible. I'd still hate to get hit by
# # a bullet no matter how far it traveled first!
# #
#
# Welllll...... This starts to sound like a tall tale here, but my
# cousin and I were shooting our T/C Contenders one day and we started a
# little "how far can you shoot" contest. My cousin was shooting a 30
# Herritt (sp?) and I was shooting my 7 TCU. It worked out that the 30
# was hitting a 5 gallon bucket at 675 paces consistently and my TCU was
# getting to be hit and miss. We ran out of ammo and had to stop before
# we paced off the range.
#
# So the range was at best a guesstimate and it may have said more about
# the shooters than the cartridges.
#
# We both had scopes on the barrels and I had a super 14 and Bill had a
# 10 inch.... (Can you believe it??? I didn't think so.)
#
# It took a lot of Kentucky windage to get them out there but they both
# could do it.
#
# P.S.
#
# My favorite contender barrel it the .223 It picks up ground squirrels
# four feet off the ground and flings them 25 feet to the side.
#
I have a buddy that has various barrels for a Contender. This week he was
shooting a 1 foot square metal plate at 200 yards very consistently...almost
every shot hit. This was from a bench with a scope. Not sure but I think
it was a 308. Big kick...


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