Texas Plinking

The Gun Thing

Let’s see:  1,000 yards, shooting prone only, at a 1″ MOA (10″ at 1,000 yards) plate, in central Texas weather conditions and without a spotter…

I’d be lucky to hit the berm.

Still, a bunch of folks have tried, using all sorts of strange and exotic rifles, and here follows a series of episodes (links in each pic).  (Note:  watching long-range shooting is usually akin to watching paint dry, in slow motion.  This isn’t.)

Episode 1:

Episode 2:

Episode 3 (featuring Courtney):

Episode 4 (that’s a Chey-Tac):

And then, in Episode 5, some ol’ boy named Chad shambles up with a Mosin-Nagant 91/30 (!!!!) using a house brand S.W.F.A. scope and Sellior & Bellot 7.62x54R ammo:


…and much hilarity ensues.

Just the thing for a long, lazy Saturday.

Just FYI:  TP’s host (Brandon) is an excellent shot, as he shows in this video.  His comments on scopes are particularly useful.

Unfortunately, he’s not a good speaker — he tends to rush his speech — and the budget scope he likes is the Arken Optics EP5 5-25x56mm, which I cannot wait to try out, maybe next year if we have a ULD draw.

7 comments

  2. Colonel Jeff Cooper wrote about this contest in “To Ride, Shoot Straight, and Tell the Truth.”
    I believe he called it the “Apollo Challenge”, or the “Apollo Contest.”
    There isn’t even a place around here to shoot at 300 yards to practice for the Swiss Nationals at Frauenfeld.

  3. I tried the long distance shooting with AI AR-10 but I could never get it dialed in. Expensive hobby. I have a cousin that has a Christensen Arms rifle in 338 Lapua that he has dialed in. At 1000 yards on a windless day, my hand can cover 10 shots that I make. He uses the 338 to hunt aoudad sheep in Texas.

  4. it’s amazing what some people can do with a rifle. i’d be happy to make consistent hits at half the distance. the longest range that I know of is 400yards. My club’s range stops at 200yards. I just can’t get good hits at distance when I am prone.

    JQ

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