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Originally Posted by svandamme
Well yeah ,I shot sling prone as well too.. it's the only real way of shooting  |
Yup... For the old black powder cartridge rifles, though, we shot sitting or prone with cross sticks. Same way the old buffalo hunters did it. It's surprisingly stable, and very portable. More "historically correct" than slings.
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Originally Posted by svandamme
But the grip does little when shooting bipod if your rifle is properly shouldered.
if your position is steady.. and your rifle doesn't move in the shoulder and on the bipod.. then really you can just not grip it.. And a lot of people don't. grip at that point adds nothing to the shot if you have a match/set trigger.
obviously if your trigger is heavy, touching it will would the rifle and you need the grip to prevent that. But hair trigger... good stable position.. no need for it.
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Yup, spot on. This is all true for shooting the heavy rifles from the "belly benchrest" position. But that's not where this discussion started - Mr. Noir is standing up, with some sort of military style autoloader. For what he is doing, with the rifle he is holding - he's doing it wrong.
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Originally Posted by svandamme
Norway max range 1800 meters
Didn't have the gun for that distance, got out to 1000 emters with 308 and 175 VLD's. But it was sketchy.. Wind is a beast in the fjords, no visible indication, all kinds of weird turbulence.
Borrowed a Sako TRG 300 winmag, range dude gave me wind calls
and managed to get out to the gong at 1375 meters
Nailed it with first shot, got up and called it a day, cause there is no way I could improve on a one shot one hit at that distance
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Man, that looks like fun. And yeah, what a challenge, shooting over terrain like that. Multiple different wind directions between firing line and target. And not just left/right and headwind/tailwind, but up and down as well. What fun.
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Originally Posted by svandamme
my fat ass shootin 1000 yds at Bisley's Stickledown range with a rental TR gun
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Now we're talkin'!!!