I'm on top of the world!

[Walter Haas]

Guys, today I shot beyond 100 yards for the first time and I'm so stoked because I hit a steel target at 1000 yards. Yes, it did take about 90 rounds before I hit it but it was amazing! Just f**king with you, in reality I hit:

• every round at 600 yards
• all rounds at 800 yards except the first two
• the fifth round at 1000 yards. It was kinda gusty with average wind of maybe 7mph.

Guys, this performance is nothing to a real shooter but it was so encouraging to me. Thank you for all your inputs, both technical and inspirational! Today I'm on top of the world!

 

[Huskydriver]

Welcome to long range addicts anonymous

 

[acudaowner]

congrats , I can only imagine how it great it feels . So now you can bounce from 100 -1000 yards what's next ?

 

[Threadcutter308]

Guys, today I shot beyond 100 yards for the first time and I'm so stoked because I hit a steel target at 1000 yards. Yes, it did take about 90 rounds before I hit it but it was amazing! Just f**king with you, in reality I hit:

• every round at 600 yards
• all rounds at 800 yards except the first two
• the fifth round at 1000 yards. It was kinda gusty with average wind of maybe 7mph.

Guys, this performance is nothing to a real shooter but it was so encouraging to me. Thank you for all your inputs, both technical and inspirational! Today I'm on top of the world!

Atta Fargin' Boy !.............

 

[Walter Haas]

congrats , I can only imagine how it great it feels . So now you can bounce from 100 -1000 yards what's next ?

 

[Mwalex]

Good job!

 

[Maser]

How big was the steel target?

 

[Lapuapalooza]

Who the hell gets on a gun forum and discusses firearms?
We’re all about saggy boobies and stupid questions up in this place. Please act accordingly...

 

[uffduh]

Who the hell gets on a gun forum and discusses firearms?
We’re all about saggy boobies and stupid questions up in this place. Please act accordingly...

Don’t forget the unions, gotta talk about unions.

 

[Jscb1b]

 

[hlee]

Don’t forget the unions, gotta talk about unions.

"Organized crime" covers so many more bases...

 

[Maser]

Don’t forget the unions, gotta talk about unions.

I think you meant unicorns.

 

[uffduh]

"Organized crime" covers so many more bases...

If I’d meant the Clintons and the Bidens, I would have said it, dammit. But yeah, them too. ?

 

[--BLACKOUT--]

Now you gotta show us your snipery AF outfit you wore when you did this... so these guys can critique it.

 

[TheGerman]

Focus on hitting the first 3 no matter what.

You're not getting 10 shots at the same thing, ever.

Focus on anything that needs to happen to hit the first three, then change targets. Doesn't matter if its closer/further; rinse/repeat. Then refine the process to make the first 3 hit, faster.

You'll also pick up errors when you have 3 shots instead of just pounding rounds downrange until you're on the target and then feel good because you hit 6 in a row; it stopped mattering way before those 6.

eta - This also makes your shooting more about doing work rather than just throwing rounds down range and can make for great training without the cost of a lot of ammo. I also hear there's a fantastic training course if you're ever in Utah; some crazy guy makes you dig ditches and fighting positions while sitting in a lawn chair and umbrella, berating you the entire way and then throws in react to contact drills which you will usually fail at miserably and usually ends up with you digging more holes.

 

[captainmorgan460]

Nice job! I'm pretty sure at this point if you were to quit and pick up a hobby consisting of blow and hookers you'll be money ahead.

 

[Dta1]

Now tell someone to suck your cock and we’ll hit all the points in one thread!

 

[jcam]

Guys, today I shot beyond 100 yards for the first time and I'm so stoked because I hit a steel target at 1000 yards. Yes, it did take about 90 rounds before I hit it but it was amazing! Just f**king with you, in reality I hit:

• every round at 600 yards
• all rounds at 800 yards except the first two
• the fifth round at 1000 yards. It was kinda gusty with average wind of maybe 7mph.

Guys, this performance is nothing to a real shooter but it was so encouraging to me. Thank you for all your inputs, both technical and inspirational! Today I'm on top of the world!

Good Job Man. Its a totally different high.
What caliber? Rifle specs? Factory or your loads?

 

[10ring'r]

Great job!Mac

 

[Walter Haas]

Good Job Man. Its a totally different high.
What caliber? Rifle specs? Factory or your loads?

I'm shooting .308, Hornady ELR Match or ELD Match

 

[Walter Haas]

Who the hell gets on a gun forum and discusses firearms?
We’re all about saggy boobies and stupid questions up in this place. Please act accordingly...

 

[MadDuner]

There are breasts that are held up and presented to a man, sometimes in a glorious fashion. In a glorious, glorious fashion.

Pics - or it didn’t happen!

 

[vh20]

congrats , I can only imagine how it great it feels . So now you can bounce from 100 -1000 yards what's next ?

Wind.

 

[Srgt. Hulka]

You better frikkin hold on to your wallet now.

 

[brianf]

You better frikkin hold on to your wallet now.

exactly...

dont change anything, you have now shown your current gear can hit at distance

no need to change caliber, scope, stock, bipod

just go practice for a long while before you start buying.

we should have the mods track members, from their first post of long range hits to their first question what $1500 scope to buy.

good job shooting!

i still remember my first hit at 1K

 

[Seed tick]

Listen to the G man.

 

[Doc68]

Good Job Man. Its a totally different high.
What caliber? Rifle specs? Factory or your loads?

22LR???

 

[Greg Langelius *]

Oh, you poor guy!. The hook's in and set solid.

Many happy returns....!

Greg

 

[Centuriator]

Guys, today I shot beyond 100 yards for the first time and I'm so stoked because I hit a steel target at 1000 yards. Yes, it did take about 90 rounds before I hit it but it was amazing! Just f**king with you, in reality I hit:

• every round at 600 yards
• all rounds at 800 yards except the first two
• the fifth round at 1000 yards. It was kinda gusty with average wind of maybe 7mph.

Guys, this performance is nothing to a real shooter but it was so encouraging to me. Thank you for all your inputs, both technical and inspirational! Today I'm on top of the world!

It's a great feeling!! Congrats.

 

[calamjn]

Guys, today I shot beyond 100 yards for the first time and I'm so stoked because I hit a steel target at 1000 yards. Yes, it did take about 90 rounds before I hit it but it was amazing! Just f**king with you, in reality I hit:

• every round at 600 yards
• all rounds at 800 yards except the first two
• the fifth round at 1000 yards. It was kinda gusty with average wind of maybe 7mph.

Guys, this performance is nothing to a real shooter but it was so encouraging to me. Thank you for all your inputs, both technical and inspirational! Today I'm on top of the world!

That's awesome! I don't get to shoot past 300 yards very often, maybe 5 or 6 times a year usually in local matches, but when I do get to it's a treat. It makes it worth the time and money I've put into this sport. Enjoy it and keep shooting!

 

[Steel head]

Guys, today I shot beyond 100 yards for the first time and I'm so stoked because I hit a steel target at 1000 yards. Yes, it did take about 90 rounds before I hit it but it was amazing! Just f**king with you, in reality I hit:

• every round at 600 yards
• all rounds at 800 yards except the first two
• the fifth round at 1000 yards. It was kinda gusty with average wind of maybe 7mph.

Guys, this performance is nothing to a real shooter but it was so encouraging to me. Thank you for all your inputs, both technical and inspirational! Today I'm on top of the world!

Congrats!
I can still remember the day I shot 1000 yards

I still shoot that rifle but it looks completely different and has seen multiple barrels since then.

Now 1000 is kinda Meh for me and I’m wanting 2500-3000 and shoot 1000-1900 weekly.

 

[zeroz]

I also hear there's a fantastic training course if you're ever in Utah; some crazy guy makes you dig ditches and fighting positions while sitting in a lawn chair and umbrella, berating you the entire way and then throws in react to contact drills which you will usually fail at miserably and usually ends up with you digging more holes.

That night COF has changed since our last group meeting! LOL

 

[Walter Haas]

How big was the steel target?

They were 24 inch square white targets.

 

[Steel head]

They were 24 inch square white targets.

That’s not bad.
I remember someone getting roasted on the original hide for bragging about their 1000 yard performance then it came out the target was 4’x4’

 

[Walter Haas]

Good Job Man. Its a totally different high.
What caliber? Rifle specs? Factory or your loads?

I was using my Steyr SSG 08 A1 in .308 with a Vortex Razor HD gen 2 scope. Firing Hornady Match ELD 168 gr. My instructor, a Marine, had a way of calculating muzzle velocity without using a chronograph. I used Hornady's app which has my ammo in its library. Wind about 5mph and firing uphill to target at 17 degrees laying the app on the barrel.

 

[Walter Haas]

That's awesome! I don't get to shoot past 300 yards very often, maybe 5 or 6 times a year usually in local matches, but when I do get to it's a treat. It makes it worth the time and money I've put into this sport. Enjoy it and keep shooting!

Its interesting how the "zone" I get into dry firing at home is not easy to duplicate at a real range. Everything feels different somehow at the range in my "program" leading up to the trigger break. Even when I couldn't sense what was wrong I just "knew" the shot wasn't going to be right. Even zeroing I couldn't pull my MOA under about 1MOA, when .73 is my best group MOA so far at a 100 yards. So I'm stoked about the 1000 yard result but at the same time I felt like I was "underperforming". I've got to figure out why my program goes to s**t outside.

 

[Steel head]

Its interesting how the "zone" I get into dry firing at home is not easy to duplicate at a real range. Everything feels different somehow at the range in my "program" leading up to the trigger break. Even when I couldn't sense what was wrong I just "knew" the shot wasn't going to be right. Even zeroing I couldn't pull my MOA under about 1MOA, when .73 is my best group MOA so far at a 100 yards. So I'm stoked about the 1000 yard result but at the same time I felt like I was "underperforming". I've got to figure out why my program goes to s**t outside.

More time on the rifle makes for more relaxed shooting which makes for better results as long as you don’t skimp on fundamentals.

I was a legit 1 moaish shooter when I first started the LR game.
By the end of that first barrels life I was fairly consistently shooting groups that you couldn’t get your pinky into and my LR game improved along with it.

 

[Maggot]

Guys, today I shot beyond 100 yards for the first time and I'm so stoked because I hit a steel target at 1000 yards. Yes, it did take about 90 rounds before I hit it but it was amazing! Just f**king with you, in reality I hit:

• every round at 600 yards
• all rounds at 800 yards except the first two
• the fifth round at 1000 yards. It was kinda gusty with average wind of maybe 7mph.

Guys, this performance is nothing to a real shooter but it was so encouraging to me. Thank you for all your inputs, both technical and inspirational! Today I'm on top of the world!

Congrats

 

[Walter Haas]

exactly...

dont change anything, you have now shown your current gear can hit at distance

no need to change caliber, scope, stock, bipod

just go practice for a long while before you start buying.

we should have the mods track members, from their first post of long range hits to their first question what $1500 scope to buy.

good job shooting!

i still remember my first hit at 1K

LOL, I get your point. My friend said to me "the only reason you're shooting is so you can spend a lot of money". That friend knows me too well. I'm already pushing $15K into this two month old new pursuit with all the accessories. But, seriously, hitting from a 1000 yards once clearly justifies the upgrade from Vortex to Hensoldt, right? Just joking. But you're right, I can easily spending between $30K and $40K total, I mean that's just a multi caliber AI setup and a couple German scopes, right? And that's just the bolt action world. What about the AR world? Then we start from the beginning, perhaps a Nemo for the discriminating gentleman.

 

[TxWelder35]

I'm shooting .308, Hornady ELR Match or some shit

BS. We all know that 308 hits a wall at 800 and falls out of the sky

 

[Walter Haas]

BS. We all know that 308 hits a wall at 800 and falls out of the sky

Not sure if you're joking but that's out of a 24 inch barrel so the muzzle velocity is higher. You've got me thinking though, because 600 and 800 yards was just turning turrets and shooting but 1000 yards seemed out of control, like you needed both skill and luck together to hit it. I'll ask my instructor if he thinks we were subsonic at 1000 yards.

 

[Walter Haas]

Focus on hitting the first 3 no matter what.

You're not getting 10 shots at the same thing, ever.

Focus on anything that needs to happen to hit the first three, then change targets. Doesn't matter if its closer/further; rinse/repeat. Then refine the process to make the first 3 hit, faster.

You'll also pick up errors when you have 3 shots instead of just pounding rounds downrange until you're on the target and then feel good because you hit 6 in a row; it stopped mattering way before those 6.

eta - This also makes your shooting more about doing work rather than just throwing rounds down range and can make for great training without the cost of a lot of ammo. I also hear there's a fantastic training course if you're ever in Utah; some crazy guy makes you dig ditches and fighting positions while sitting in a lawn chair and umbrella, berating you the entire way and then throws in react to contact drills which you will usually fail at miserably and usually ends up with you digging more holes.

That's good advice, that's going to be my next goal for the 1000 yard range. I need to learn the ballistics app better, I knew most of it but there was some stuff my instructor was doing I didn't understand and noted that for learning later. Such as "axial form factor". As a devoted cynic and former engineer my first thought when I saw that was "when the algorithm isn't worth s**t you put in a bulls**t variable to override your f**kups and then you can blame it on the end user of the app." I hope that's not too cynical for the bear pit.

 

[Walter Haas]

Congrats

Thank you

 

[Walter Haas]

Listen to the G man.

Who's the G man? The German? There's a guy on YouTube called Germandude and he is most responsible for me buying this Steyr SSG 08 A1 because he has a very cool video of shooting out to 1000 yards and made it look, well, cool.

 

[vh20]

That's good advice, that's going to be my next goal for the 1000 yard range. I need to learn the ballistics app better, I knew most of it but there was some stuff my instructor was doing I didn't understand and noted that for learning later. Such as "axial form factor". As a devoted cynic and former engineer my first thought when I saw that was "when the algorithm isn't worth s**t you put in a bulls**t variable to override your f**kups and then you can blame it on the end user of the app." I hope that's not too cynical for the bear pit.

Uh, no - that fits right in, actually.

 

[TxWelder35]

Not sure if you're joking but that's out of a 24 inch barrel so the muzzle velocity is higher. You've got me thinking though, because 600 and 800 yards was just turning turrets and shooting but 1000 yards seemed out of control, like you needed both skill and luck together to hit it. I'll ask my instructor if he thinks we were subsonic at 1000 yards.

I was kidding. Definitely sarcasm font

 

[Walter Haas]

More time on the rifle makes for more relaxed shooting which makes for better results as long as you don’t skimp on fundamentals.

I was a legit 1 moaish shooter when I first started the LR game.
By the end of that first barrels life I was fairly consistently shooting groups that you couldn’t get your pinky into and my LR game improved along with it.

How much dry firing were you doing to pull your groups in so tight? My instructor says it should be 10:1 at a minimum, 10 dry fires to one live round at the range.

 

[Steel head]

BS. We all know that 308 hits a wall at 800 and falls out of the sky

Hell
It actually bounces back!

 

[Deadeyeky81]

Guys, today I shot beyond 100 yards for the first time and I'm so stoked because I hit a steel target at 1000 yards. Yes, it did take about 90 rounds before I hit it but it was amazing! Just f**king with you, in reality I hit:

• every round at 600 yards
• all rounds at 800 yards except the first two
• the fifth round at 1000 yards. It was kinda gusty with average wind of maybe 7mph.

Guys, this performance is nothing to a real shooter but it was so encouraging to me. Thank you for all your inputs, both technical and inspirational! Today I'm on top of the world!

Congratulations and keep on pushing yourself. LR shooting is addicting and rewarding. You will have amazing range days and frustrating range days. What will keep you going is the knowledge and experience you gain from the time spent behind the rifle, spinning turret, reading wind and analyzing each shoot you take.

 

[Walter Haas]

You better frikkin hold on to your wallet now.

Why are so many of you saying that? Lol