I bet I could miss 68 out of 69 attempts not even that far
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I was just trying to get my head around 4.4 miles in everyday shooting terms. I have a deer blind that sets up on the side of a hill with a pretty good view. In the dark I can see headlights on the highway a few miles away, and have looked at vehicles through my binoculars on that road in the daylight, and they are TINY! If they aren't white, it's not easy to tell the difference in cars and trucks. There is a barn across the highway that I can barely notice with the naked eye, I bet it's 80 or 100 feet long. I just used google to measure from my blind to that barn, and it's 2.36 miles. Consider that for a minute, then take a good long look at that rifle they used to do this....
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69 shots? Sounds like someone finally got lucky.. LOL.. Meh..Last edited by PondPopper; 09-21-2022, 01:16 PM.
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Originally posted by Dale Moser View PostI was just trying to get my head around 4.4 miles in everyday shooting terms. I have a deer blind that sets up on the side of a hill with a pretty good view. In the dark I can see headlights on the highway a few miles away, and have looked at vehicles through my binoculars on that road in the daylight, and they are TINY! If they aren't white, it's not easy to tell the difference in cars and trucks. There is a barn across the highway that I can barely notice with the naked eye, I bet it's 80 or 100 feet long. I just used google to measure from my blind to that barn, and it's 2.36 miles. Consider that for a minute, then take a good long look at that rifle they used to do this....
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Originally posted by flywise View PostIm wondering how you see any target at 4.4 miles away. Would they have to elevated well above the target or just use GPS coordinates for a direction and turn one loose ?
Whoever thinks that was all luck, give me your theory on figuring elevation, spin drift, and the coriolis effect....I'll wait.
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It's a lot more impressive achievement than people are giving it credit for, but at the same time with the amount of attempts it took it's hard to look at it is something other than dumb luck for them finally to put one on target. They certainly know a lot and did a lot of math and science to get there, but 70 attempts is many, many attempts. Unless they've now dialed it in and can repeat it, which does not seem to be the case, this still feels more like luck than anything else.Last edited by bullets13; 09-21-2022, 01:29 PM.
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Originally posted by Dale Moser View PostI'm not certain, but I am certain that no one here claiming that it was luck, could hit a house at that range.
Whoever thinks that was all luck, give me your theory on figuring elevation, spin drift, and the coriolis effect....I'll wait.
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I knew an older feller who was working with another older feller, both reloaders attempting to break a long distance shooting record. My aqcquaintance helped out his friend by hiding behind the engine block of a truck parked down range to watch the target. At some point, hearing the bullets as they went overhead, he was hearing whirring. Which to him meant the bullets were tumbling and they had to go back to the reloading bench and change the cartridge concoction.
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Originally posted by Dale Moser View PostI'm not certain, but I am certain that no one here claiming that it was luck, could hit a house at that range.
Whoever thinks that was all luck, give me your theory on figuring elevation, spin drift, and the coriolis effect....I'll wait.
EDIT: It also probably takes half of us on the GS a half a box of bullets to sight in a new rifle at 100 yards, so cut the guys some slack! lol
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