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Section 6: Rifles Subject: AR Officer Msg# 920408
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I couldn't agree with your post or the good Colonel more.
900 inches (25 yds) is my standard for pistols....50 yds for target pistols. Even my carry pistols do reasonably well at 25 yds, altho I start them at 50 ft. I shoot them from rest until I find the ammo that they like, then practice with them the way I learned here, but alas, not to the extent that I should. I'll hafta look for the Colonel's book. Sounds like my kinda guy. HGW |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: That's the reason of course, but as a long distance shooter, you know that simply making the target smaller and the distance shorter doesn't equate to shooting a long range. Gone is the need to read the wind, gone is bullet drop at longer ranges and subsequent sight adjustments, mirage is not nearly as much of an issue. Lt. Col. John George, who started shooting at Camp Perry in his late teens, addressed this quite a lot in his book Shots Fired in Anger. He was not at all a fan of using the short ranges and 1000 inch target for qualification. He explained it all in more detail and more eloquently than I ever could with my lack of experience, but he made it clear that this sort of qualification was a sop to convenience and nothing more. And believe me, Col. George was a shooter. |
