I am new here and have found myself jumping deep into the weeds on rifle setups, shooting fundamentals, and becoming proficient at longish-range shooting. Please feel free to point me to good threads I may have missed on this subject...
I live in the midwest and do not have access to long ranges. I can shoot out to about 160 easily, but that is the furthest I can get. There is a range that I can go to where I can set targets at 300, but it is quite out of the way and requires a full day devoted to it, and you have to shoot off a bench if there is a RO there. There is a range that I believe goes to 800, but it would require a weekend trip, which is not feasible right now except for once or twice a year.
I found an old thread a while back where Form had posted some 7, 5, and 2 moa targets for an at-home shooting test, which I have started to use a bit. Other than practicing positional shooting at 100-150 yards, what are some suggestions for becoming proficient at longer distances? My goal over the next couple years is to be 100% proficient out to 450 yards. Not "I can hit sub-moa of deer at 300, so let me try this shot" but truly 100% "that animal is dead if I choose to make it that way." Right now, I know that if I build a solid position, likely only possible for me in a version of prone, I can nail anything I want out to 300. But I also know I cannot do that repeatably unless ALL conditions are perfect. Therein lies where I create tension in my brain while hunting, and what I want to remove from the equation.
I live in the midwest and do not have access to long ranges. I can shoot out to about 160 easily, but that is the furthest I can get. There is a range that I can go to where I can set targets at 300, but it is quite out of the way and requires a full day devoted to it, and you have to shoot off a bench if there is a RO there. There is a range that I believe goes to 800, but it would require a weekend trip, which is not feasible right now except for once or twice a year.
I found an old thread a while back where Form had posted some 7, 5, and 2 moa targets for an at-home shooting test, which I have started to use a bit. Other than practicing positional shooting at 100-150 yards, what are some suggestions for becoming proficient at longer distances? My goal over the next couple years is to be 100% proficient out to 450 yards. Not "I can hit sub-moa of deer at 300, so let me try this shot" but truly 100% "that animal is dead if I choose to make it that way." Right now, I know that if I build a solid position, likely only possible for me in a version of prone, I can nail anything I want out to 300. But I also know I cannot do that repeatably unless ALL conditions are perfect. Therein lies where I create tension in my brain while hunting, and what I want to remove from the equation.
