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- Mon Feb 02, 2015 8:57 am
- Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
- Topic: Long distance shooting?
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Re: Long distance shooting?
During my time in the USMC we had to qualify annually at Edson range at Camp Pendleton. The farthest targets were 500 meters (about 550 yards I think). We shot at 22” targets on about an 8’ x 8’ butt. As I remember the butt looked about the size of a postage stamp with a pencil dot in the center. I think the trick was to ignore the bull’s eye and just shoot for the middle of the “stamp”. I had young eyes at the time (45+ years ago) and had no trouble qualifying expert each time. I’m quite sure that I could not do that now… but it would be nice to try.