Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting Your first strike odds @ 400 yds???

I have shot out to my cousins farm the last three weekends at 100/300/450/750 to prep for a Montana hunt. Now that he has the corn out I can move back. I'm mostly using a portable "bench" but use the sticks and impress the earth with my belly a few times for good measure. 450 is a chip shot but past that everything changes fast. I've been shooting a Tikka T3 in 270 wsm with a TDS'd Kahles and Sako TRG-S Warbird with a IOR scope and a MP-8 reticle. That IOR is fabulous for long shots, or should I say the MP-8 is. The stadia are cut in so nicely that it is pretty easy to get the bullet on level but the wind is always a factor. It seems no matter how much you shoot in it, it can always blow another way to screw you up. And I know it dies, gusts or swirls just when the trigger breaks by design sometimes! I may get another go at it before we leave, but if not I will be moving back to get the full 1000 after we get back. This is the most fun I've had shooting since the old guy in the little shack at the dump let me shoot rats with the Single-six! 18 then and 50 now. It's never too late for another thrill!

The rethoric is no different at the bow range, baseball field, golf course etc. " faster this, lighter that, blah, blah, blah.". It's ALL about practice , PERIOD. You can justify it any way you want, but it's still just BS.

Itppowell, You are right.The gear don't matter if one can't dope the wind and go through a proper shot sequence, be it at 100 or 1000.

Catnthehat

PDS posted

"I've killed dogs at 300 yards with more than 6 feet of wind drift working."

I am not a long range shooter or hunter, but I am somewhat fascinated by it. Please tell me with what bullet at what initial velocity at what wind speed and direction you get 6 feet of windrift at 300 yards. I'm also wonder how you estimate wind speed. 10 mph of cross wind judgement error at 300 yards means the difference between a hit and a miss with varmints does it not?