Hope some Folk might enjoy this video.
Will look forward to whatever distance you work out of your High Wall, RR. Easy to see you (anyone) being excited about getting/shooting one of these rifles.RanchRoper wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 11:26 pmI have watched that one several times before but enjoy it every time. Thanks. I won't be shooting that distance with my new High Wall, but expect to have at least that much fun....
shooting sport. ~~~PT7Glad to provide the reminder, Al. Eight years of fun, right?
My only long-distance shooting experience was those two years sending 1-oz slugs downrange (between 150-240 yards) with my 12-ga smooth bore pump s/g. These rifles look to be even more fun, as they easily reach out much farther. 
PT shot anywhere from 250 out to 1200 yards. Most of the matches were from 250 to 1000 yards. Shot a 1000 yard match one time where we shot at a square and a circle. circle was 3ft in diameter and the square was 3 foot also. 40 rounds. All my loads were with Swiss 1FG black powder. 86 grains .030 vegie fiber wad and a 540 grain Paul Jones Creedmoore bullet cast from my own mould. Lubed with SPG with some tranny assembly lube added to it. Was alot of fun but it takes alot of time to be good at it. You need a good spotter to. The spotter is just as important as the nut behind the butt.PT7 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 12:33 amGlad to provide the reminder, Al. Eight years of fun, right?
What were the distances you went out to? Since I don't know, are there competitions for this style shooting, too?
~~~PT7
Yeah, Al. That does sound like a blast to shoot. Easy to imagine the work it took to become good at the sport, just from what it took during my two years of dabbling in long-distance shooting.BigAl52 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 9:03 amPT shot anywhere from 250 out to 1200 yards. Most of the matches were from 250 to 1000 yards. Shot a 1000 yard match one time where we shot at a square and a circle. circle was 3ft in diameter and the square was 3 foot also. 40 rounds. .... Was alot of fun but it takes alot of time to be good at it. You need a good spotter to. The spotter is just as important as the nut behind the butt.
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In backpowder catridge silhouette the closest targets at 200 meters one is reqiered to shoot those standing free hand. The national average score is 1 out of ten.North Country Gal wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 10:45 am, I'd need those shooting sticks, too, but would probably need to have my spotter lift the gun up on the sticks for me.
Ha! No kidding!
Alliance, Nebraska. Know the area, well. Grew up in Nebraska and lived in areas all across the state. Dearly loved the Sandhills and the pine ridge. Miss it very much. Love our north woods, but those wide open spaces are in my blood and always will be.BigAl52 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 16, 2019 3:13 pmI use to go to a range in Alliance,Ne. They had what they called buffalo matches once a month along with levergun sillywet matches. The off hand target there was a coyote at 250 yards. With a 34 inch barrel buffalo gun with a #1 heavy barrel it weighed about 12lbs. Wheaties were necessary to shoot one off hand. One time in the 8 years I shot that match I hit that coyote 3 times. Most of the time it was one or none. There then was a circle at 400, a square at 500 a diamond at 650 a buffalo at 800 and the big ole bear at 900 yards. You could shoot prone or off sitting sticks. Levergun was 50 100 150 and 200. It was a lot of fun to. I used my 38-55 for that match.
