I recently acquired a copy of Ryan Cleckner’s long range shooting handbook. I took my Remington 700 ADL .308 and put about $700 worth of glass, base and rings on it and bought some Federal Gold Medal Match ammo. I’ve been hunting and shooting since I was a small child, but I’ve never really stretched any of my guns out. I set up the rifle “properly” according to Cleckner’s book and put all my specs in a ballistic calculator on the Vortex website. I dialed to 10.5 minutes and put 3 rounds cold bore on a 10 inch plate at 500 for the first time in my life. All this to say, I’m making it work with equipment that is “good enough” and I couldn’t be happier.
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A $200 hooker can get the job done just as well as a $2000 one...
When you close your eyes they all look the same.
But sometimes, the cheap one is desperate and the expensive one does not care. That’s why my most expensive and my least expensive hunting rifles both have a special place in my heart and an honored place in the gunsafe. Another one, that promised great dreams and was priced to do so, turned into a nightmare and is now somewhere else.
But sometimes, the cheap one is desperate and the expensive one does not care. That’s why my most expensive and my least expensive hunting rifles both have a special place in my heart and an honored place in the gunsafe. Another one, that promised great dreams and was priced to do so, turned into a nightmare and is now somewhere else.
My first thousand yard rig was an SPS tactical I paid $569.00 for and with bipod, glass, rings, base and what not maybe a $1200.00 rig. With hand loads I could hold over and hit 1000 yards all day! Took a shot or 3 to walk it in on a calm day but I would get there. The more expensive guns and gear make it so you can pull your rifle out of the bag and get a first round impacts at 900 yards in 15mph winds. I wont lie the beginning is probably more fun, you are constantly making new personal bests, learning tons of information, and its all very exciting. Good luck on your journey sir!
That's cool, man!
Yes but they taste a lot different .
The better the rifle shoots the higher your hit probabilities get.
The OP doesn't know it yet, but he just stepped off into the deep end.
But they most often do not. That is why a 2,000.00 hooker can charge 2,000.00
My wife just bought me Ryan Cleckner's book after seeing I looked at it online. I like the guy and his approach. It's refreshing when you start getting too wrapped up in the minutiae of the sport.
I think it sort of depends on the size/range of the target...
Back in the day it was $12.75 in Times Square.
That's great man love to see people get out there and get started. If you decide to dive in deep there is plenty of time for that, but you are figuring out this isn't rocKit webbertry to get going. Have fun!
I started with a savage and a $600 scope.
I ran that for a good number of years before getting something expensive.
It gave me time to learn what my wants and priorities were so when I started spending more serious $$$ I wasn’t wasting any on bad decisions.
I ran that for a good number of years before getting something expensive.
It gave me time to learn what my wants and priorities were so when I started spending more serious $$$ I wasn’t wasting any on bad decisions.
Good on you, get your bipod dirty and have fun…
My longest serving bolt gun is a R700 308, now on its third barrel and third scope.
I smack steel at 1K with it every Sunday I can make it to the range.
It has been a long, strange trip, lol.
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My longest serving bolt gun is a R700 308, now on its third barrel and third scope.
I smack steel at 1K with it every Sunday I can make it to the range.
It has been a long, strange trip, lol.
My 308 bolt gun odyssey....
I had lurked on Snipers Hide for almost a year and a half before I finally joined in October of 2004. In the time I was lurking, I bought, in this order, a Leupold MkIV 8.5-25x50 from SWFA ( for less than $1000), a Ken Ferrell 20MOA base, some medium Leupold PRW rings and an AICS 1.5 chassis...
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