Youngest just graduated from college. Got a nice "raise" and understanding wife. Getting back into shooting, which i dropped decades back. Quickly figure out that I love the challenge of long-range work --- mental, physical, technical ----love it all. Not sure if I will compete, but hope to bang steel at 1,000+ yards. I've already hit at 900 and 1,050 --- but need to get consistent to push out to 1,500. The cost savings from the last kid leaving the roost have been more than consumed by the new passion --- wow what a wonderful, terrible, slippery slope of delicious equipment and consumables.-- starting with Bergara HMR and Tikka CTR, both in 6.5 CM ......hoping to have a long, hard summer climbing the learning curve.
Empty nest Newbie --- pedaling as fast as I can
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Is there a quick way to find the 60 online training videos? I've been searching for an hour and can't find anything.Great stuff...Welcome to the Hide. Lots here, enjoy. From SC.
I don’t do that yet sooo, I’d put the question out there. Some one should chime soon sorry no time to search with you , I’m at work 
Adults are inherently apprehensive about shooting at what they perceive to be longer distances (all relative to where you live - out west longer is longer than out east). You can take a skilled junior smallbore shooter, put them on a rifle at 600+ yards, make a wind call, and they will pound the 10 and X ring all day. No fear of distance.
Stick with the basics, don't get fancy in the loading room, buy quality equipment top to bottom without buying into gimmicks and marketing - and you'll do just fine.
Reloading brands to stick with:
Forster
Redding
Sierra
Hodgdon
Winchester (brass)
CCI (primers)
I'd advise against chasing the latest wonder projectile from whomever supplier at the price premium they ask. Yea some day you may chase that next level in your shooting, depending where it takes you, and want to chase BC, but for now, it's a distraction at best.
Spend a few hundred on a good lab quality scale at some point, though starting with a magnetically dampened scale is fine as well. Don't buy into a moderately priced automatic measure. Trust me on this one.
Heck a good 6.5 CM rifle and scope combo along with a case of factory ammo is a great place to start; save your brass, and by the time you get through that case, you will have had enough experience and talked with enough people/made acquaintance with enough knowledgeable and helpful people to take the next steps into reloading.
Good luck and enjoy yourself!
Stick with the basics, don't get fancy in the loading room, buy quality equipment top to bottom without buying into gimmicks and marketing - and you'll do just fine.
Reloading brands to stick with:
Forster
Redding
Sierra
Hodgdon
Winchester (brass)
CCI (primers)
I'd advise against chasing the latest wonder projectile from whomever supplier at the price premium they ask. Yea some day you may chase that next level in your shooting, depending where it takes you, and want to chase BC, but for now, it's a distraction at best.
Spend a few hundred on a good lab quality scale at some point, though starting with a magnetically dampened scale is fine as well. Don't buy into a moderately priced automatic measure. Trust me on this one.
Heck a good 6.5 CM rifle and scope combo along with a case of factory ammo is a great place to start; save your brass, and by the time you get through that case, you will have had enough experience and talked with enough people/made acquaintance with enough knowledgeable and helpful people to take the next steps into reloading.
Good luck and enjoy yourself!
