Have you ever shot long-range with a .22-caliber rifle?If you’re into long range shooting then you understand the many variables that can affect your ability of making an accurate shot from way out there.
Posted on 06/06/2018 9:27:42 AM PDT by w1n1
Have you ever shot long-range with a .22-caliber rifle?
If you’re into long range shooting then you understand the many variables that can affect your ability of making an accurate shot from way out there.
Having an accurate rifle is a must. The best ammunition certainly helps, but you better watch that wind drift. Power drops off quickly and those bullets drop in a hurry.
From 600 yard out with a slight breeze, its not consistently accurate. 22plinkster hit it 4 out of 20 shots.
At 500 yard out with minimal or no wind and with the right setup 22plinkster faired better, (its a 3 second in flight before hitting the target) its the maximum range to consistently hit.
However, its not the max effective range. See the full video footage of .22LR accurate range here. How about you all do you plink with a .22LR?
“Have you ever shot long-range with a .22-caliber rifle?”
Nope. That’s why I have a .308
For an inexpensive but accurate .22 right out of the box, it’s hard to beat the Marlin Model 60. There’s a reason it’s been popular for so many years.
six feet three inches................
Had my Model 60 for 30+ years. You can drive ten penny nails with it all day.
As a teenager, I once shot a Canadian goose at @ 300 yards with a .22. It was a lucky shot.
I have shot light bulbs at 100yrds with a 22 Remington pump.
You are optimistic.
About ten percent better than a Daisy Red Ryder lever-action BB gun.
Always aim high with a .22. Bullet begins dropping almost immediately out of the end of the barrel.
Early this year, standing off hand, 175m, 4 inch steel gong, 5/5. With a customized 1022 with 6-24x44 scope, CCI Standard Velocity ammo. (best common ammo for that gun)
Only did it that one time, and I had a witness.
I don’t want to do it again, because I think I’d miss 5 out of 5!
My wife loves here Sears single shot bolt action .22
She can consistently hit 5” paper plates over its iron sights at 100 yards.
While the ammo is low cost the platform is not. An Annie or the new Vudoo V22 are what alot use, with a 20MOA rail and scope that can dial. Not a cheap proposition.
Bullet begins dropping almost immediately out of the end of the barrel.
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They all do.
“It was a lucky shot”
Not for the goose. ;)
I used to shoot rabbits at 100-125 yds with my 6” S&W 622 regularly....friends always asked what sort of sorcery made it possible-—my reply was “shooting 2-3 bricks of ammo a week”
[For an inexpensive but accurate .22 right out of the box, it’s hard to beat the Marlin Model 60.]
Duh... range is one mile. Says so on every box.
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Kentucky Windage....................
For you or the goose?..................
While a 40 grn round nose 22LR bullet may travel a long ways, the issue regarding accuracy and range is not that easy. I would suppose if you took the reigning long range champion from Camp Perry( er, Atterbury nowadays), and a basic plinker type, given a quality target 22LR ( Anschutz 1903 or similar) quality subsonic ammo and targets at range, I would bet on the wind doping trigger breaking position repeating high power guy over anyone else. We routinely shoot high power rifles at range in all sorts of conditions and while all of our long range rifles are pretty much equal in basic accuracy ( well below sub MOA) the winners are those who can read and dope the winds, light and other non-firearm variables better than the rest of us.
Small bore shooters shoot at 10 rings smaller than the bullet diameter at 50m from unsupported positions and often the winning score is by center Xs not points ( usually a days shooting is 240 rounds, so 2400 points).
The accuracy of the rifle is really moot for the top-flite shooters, any one modern competition rifle will shoot cleans with matched ammo.
Sure, plinkers with sporters and Walmart ammo, I’d guess a good marksman could hit a 9 inch plate at 200 yards given a box of ammo, and hit it 25 or so times from a supported optically sighted position.
The best? Well, maybe 400 yards but again hit probability is in the low 20%tile, maybe.
Anyways, there’s shooting and then there is SHOOTING. Usually the “Indian, not the arrow” is the weak link,
Remington Nylon 66. They don’t make them anymore. Remington 22lr. bullets at 4 cents a pop don’t do anything for me.
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