Cartridges, Rifles, Targets and Your Effective Range
When talking about effective range, it’s easy to focus on the effective ballistic range of a cartridge. However, many times the effective range is limited by the shooter’s ability or the firearm.
Tag: Long Range Shooting
Getting Started with Long Range Shooting 4: Cartridge Selection
While cartridge selection is important, it’s easy to overlook the fact that common rifle cartridges can be used to develop skills and ring steel at extended distances while being allured by popular extended long distance cartridges.
Getting Started with Long Range Shooting 3: Rifle Scope Selection
The rifle scope is, in my opinion, the most critical component of a long range weapon system. In this post, I’ll break down what I consider the most important scope features to help guide the selection process.
Getting Started with Long Range Shooting 2: Developing the Shooting Solution
Took a bit longer to get to the second installment in the long range shooting post series. Nevertheless, here is a look into developing a shooting solution and the tools that puts that process into easy mode.
Getting Started with Long Range Shooting 1: Fundamentals
A few folks have asked me to help them get started with long range shooting. While I’m no expert, I’m taking what I’ve learned and putting a series of posts together to guide folks into this arena. Here is the first post which starts with the fundamentals.
What is Long Range Shooting?
I’ve yet to find a good definition of what long range shooting is. As such, I’ve decided to share my opinion on what it is and at what distance long range begins.