Posted on 02/05/2020 8:26:41 AM PST by w1n1
About $300 to $400 for a good one. Mine just 10 years ago I paid $125.
CC
Most 1 k targets are 4X8 board.
If metal, and they get gonged, cool.
I personally see people use iron and hit a black dot at 900 yards. Of course, the black dot is 6 feet diameter.
Still, quite small and fuzzy at distance. Takes a while for the gong to get back.
Sometimes takes a few shots to dope the wind, and get lucky!
I’m not recon ranger life of danger marksman
But I’ve shit deer at 300 in Texas at rest with a .243 steyr daimler puch mannlicher half stock very very tricked stock bolt
70s leupold 3x9
Nothing like today’s 30-40mm 56mm telescopes
Grazing deer
I hear a lot of folks make claims
I’ve see that Aussie couple make some simply incredible shots with
300 win mag
7.62 By 51 and 54
Lapua .338 mag
Winchester .338 mag
.375 Cheytac.....phenomenal.....375 Gibbs sorta
.308 Ackley
.378 Weatherby
One to two mile and beyond shooting
About 80 percent over my pay grade
I don’t want to risk a shot on an animal I’m uncertain I’m killing
Regards taking long shot on animals,, vs original statement regards whose eyes they use for long distance, two different subject here.
Bonging the gong long range is a thrill, and takes a lot ( a lot) of discipline, and continual practice.
Some do so with iron, more power to them. The fact is, the center of the fuzzy spot is still the center.
I have clients that are religious in their training and practice schedules.
Some use only iron, and are proud of their expertise.
Others, equally proud, have boucoup bucks into their rigs, including the best glass, range finders, and the latest in apps that read the range and set the scope come ups so all you have to do is concentrate on your heartbeat and shoot between beats, becaus the target still moves with each one!
Hunting on the other hand, especially iron sights, I would never pull the trigger further out than absolute certainty.
The third area, the hunter sniper, they do not use iron, they train daily, every day, every day, for that one shot, and even then do miss occasionally.
Some people have good eyes, others need glass.
Regards the leupold, I had a similar, a redfield, a fence post sight, worked nice!.
Target is 20 inch by 20 inch metal plate.
And the ones made when the Russians were being pushed back deep into Russia and losing small arms by the hundreds of thousands aren’t such great shooters as the tolerances were allowed to slip in favor of numbers.
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