January 5th, 1860 Long Range Shoot

[RanchRoper]

Nice day here in southwest Alberta territory. For the first lead down range of 2019, I challenged myself with some long range, old frontier shootin'. Just a light breeze out of the southwest today and 40F.

My classic 1860 Henry, 45 Colt rifle. Open sights. Shooting at 100 yds & 200 yds today. Shooting from 1 knee position, which I quite like & feels very comfortable to me. Little binoculars to check once in awhile that I'm not lobbing rounds into the next township. Wolf ammunition reloads, 250 gr LFN. Pretty consistent ammo so far, and I have shot several hundred rounds of it.

First up, 100 yds, 24 rounds. Ladder rear sight up, and on the bottom notch. Some may be able to get tight groups with the 1860 ladder sights at long ranges but I try to not get too worked up about it. I figure if I can get on the paper consistently at 100+ yards I am doing not bad for a guy in his sixties. The paper is 12"x12", so it's quite small way out there as you know. All 24 on the paper, heck some even hit the targets!

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Next is 200 yds, 8 out of 12 on the paper, which I figure is not too bad all things considered. Ladder sight up, and moved it up to the 300 yd setting. I don't think the settings mean much, as I can't see shooting to 800 yds at least not with these eyes. It would be a rainbow trajectory. I used just a white sheet of cardboard so I could easily pick up the holes with the binoculars.

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And course my trusty rifle

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Hope you enjoyed my little report. I'm not much of a techy when it comes to ballistics & stuff. I just like to shoot.
RR

[CT_Shooter]

Nice day here in southwest Alberta territory. For the first lead down range of 2019, I challenged myself with some long range, old frontier shootin'. Just a light breeze out of the southwest today and 40F.

My classic 1860 Henry, 45 Colt rifle. Open sights. Shooting at 100 yds & 200 yds today...
Hope you enjoyed my little report. I'm not much of a techy when it comes to ballistics & stuff. I just like to shoot.

Awesome shooting, RR. I can't tell you enough how much I enjoy your range reports and how I envy your shooting skill. No one can compete. You're the gold medal shooter here. Thanks.

[RetiredSeabee]

I am impressed! That 12x12 at 200yds has to look like a postage stamp.

[ESquared]

Awesome shooting, RR, thanks for sharing. Many (if not most) of us here would LOVE to have targets like that at 100/200 yds with iron sights. Just fantastic!

[RanchRoper]

Appreciate the kind words guys, thks.

[JEBar]

nice .... no, nice ain't near high enough .... with the way you shoot, no surprise at doing so well at 100 yards, off hand, with open sights .... at double that range, you had a really good day .... nicely done indeed

[RanchRoper]

I am impressed! That 12x12 at 200yds has to look like a postage stamp.

Haha...it literally is a little white dot sitting on top of the front sight post. I cannot wait too long to pull the trigger or the barrell starts to move on me and I psych myself out. Speaking of that, I always have difficulty with those targets with the 4 circles on them. I don't know why but they always give me issues. I have shot the ones with 6 smaller circles and not had a problem at 25 or 50 yds but the 4 never produce my best groups at 25 or 50 yds. Weird.

[BigAl52]

Looks like Buffalo steaks on the table to me with any of those shots.

[Sir Henry]

Looks like Buffalo steaks on the table to me with any of those shots.

Buffalo steaks even at 400 yards.

[RanchRoper]

Not sure how many rounds I'd have to rain down on a buffalo at 400 yds...