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"I shot a few of those scaled down matches back in my younger days. The "purists" in our club objected to the concept because all else being equal you were still only fighting 200 yards of wind and mirage instead of 600."

Boy are you right about that! That is what long range shooting is really all about. Anyone can do it with no wind or mirage. Well...I had a lot of problems on those rare days when there was neither.

I shot NRA High-Power matches for a while. 600 yards was the longest range for iron sights. Most of the time we used a target that was scaled down to simulate 600 yard shots at 200 yards. Smaller bullseye etc.Marines have the right ideas on the matter: Every Marine a rifleman. Every Marines qualifies at 500 yards. Even cooks.

I shot bench rest matches too (back when my eyesight was a LOT better). I shot quite a few 1,000 yard matches. I enjoyed it then. It is far too technical and demanding of physical ability for me to enjoy it today. I think probably the longest shots I ever made were around 1,400 yards using a .300 Win Mag. These were not on a measured range since none had those distances back then. Those were the good old days!