Shooting 1” groups at 100 yards is one thing. Connecting with a target (at all) at 1000 yards, or a mile; now that is quite another.
The point here is that true extreme long-range shooting is a whole other ball game. You need equipment that can support you, and you need to train appropriately to be successful. Here’s your primer.
What You Need
What range gear you bring with you...
The modern market is not short of ELR cartridges. There are staples like .50 BMG and .338 Lapua, and some newcomers like .375XC.
But one of the best of these is .408 CheyTac, which has an effective range in excess of 2000 meters, and can even be pushed to 2500 by experienced shooters.
Here are 5 solid reasons this is an excellent cartridge for ELR shooting.
1. It shoots flat
The...
Hitting cans at 100 yards is one thing. Enough people can do that with a handgun, even though it’s hard. Long range rifle shooting, at 500, 1000, even 2000 yards, now that is quite a different story.
And, as one once pointed out, any miss with a rifle is as wide as a mile. Precision matters at long ranges.
So, gleaned from experience, here are 5 suggestions on what not to do so that you...
One of the most popular ELR cartridges of the past 100 years has been the .50 BMG, not just for its insane muzzle velocity and energy, but for ballistic energy retention downrange, which enables it to effectively dispatch not just live targets but also engines, machinery and other materiel.
That being the case, we’re here to shed some light on a little known aspect of extreme long-range...
There are some people that could see a scoped gun and would immediately call it a “sniper rifle” even if it was a slug gun with an effective range of 300 yards, not to mention nowhere near the true accuracy required to earn such a designation.
That being the case, this post will clear up some of the ambiguity surrounding the term.
So What Really Is a Sniper Rifle?
The quandary...
Your .22 plinkster isn’t going to make a good ELR rifle even if it is a tack-driver. Accuracy is one thing, range is another. Bullet drop would take it out of the running fast, regardless of how accurate the rifle is at 50 yards.
The point is some rifles are effective for extreme long-range shooting and some are not.
One of the best of them is the CheyTac M200 Intervention. Here are...
The Cadex Defense CDX-40 SHDW, available in multiple chamberings including .375 and .408 CT as well as .375 EnABELR, is one of the most precise, adjustable, and modular ELR rifles on the market right now.
This whole thing is a system; it’s not just the chassis that makes it great, but the action, the barrel, and the fact that it’s outfitted with some other niceties, like a bipod...
There’s not one single attribute that makes a cartridge effective for extreme long-range, or ELR, shooting, but there are a few cartridges that offer performance that will hit on several of them at those ranges.
Generally, you want to look for a cartridge with low drop and a high ballistic coefficient, which means it will deliver a relatively flat trajectory. However, heavier bullets...
Just like a new pair of boots, your precision rifle’s barrel benefits from break in. The basic process can not only help improve accuracy, but it can make the barrel easier to clean, too.
That said, let’s shed a little more light on what is meant by breaking in a precision rifle barrel, followed by the general process.
What Is Break in, and Is It Absolutely Necessary?
First off,...
For those of you that shoot precision and sniper rifles, one of the most important elements of responsible ownership is keeping the rifle clean.
This short post will cover some of what you need to know.
Areas of Special Focus
One of the most important elements of keeping a sniper rifle clean is attention to the bore.
With each shot, your rifle’s bore will accumulate powder fouling,...
The .375 CheyTac cartridge is not one you’ve likely heard of unless you run in circles devoted to ELR, or extreme long-range, shooting. Honestly, even if you did it wouldn’t be surprising if you hadn’t heard of it before.
Partly this is because .375 CheyTac (also called .375 CT) is a fairly new cartridge, partly because it’s not that widely available commercially, and...
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