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AlaskanInTexas wrote:Over the weekend, I hit a 18" x 18" piece of plywood from 20 feet with my Gamo whisper quiet pellet gun.

You da man.

Beiruty's rifle is somewhat more than a Gamo.

Beiruty wrote:Good shooting and quality rifle and scope gets you satisfaction at the range.
Anywhere near Dallas, where I can shoot at 1,000 yrd for a fee?

My friend got back to me. It's a "Rainier Arms Select" barrel, one step down from their "Ultra Match".

https://www.rainierarms.com/?page=shop/ ... ct_id=4199

$325.00


The only nearby shooting range with a 1,000 yard range I know of "nearby" (for me) is Tacpro, and it is about a 1.5 hour drive (from Grapevine) and requires a membership to shoot on the 1,000 yard range, or that you be the guest of a member. I shot there once as a guest of a member, but we shot at the 500 yard line, not the 1,000.

Those pictures above were taken at ETTS, about 40 miles south of Dallas. If you google "ETTS shooting range" you'll find their website for more info. I've never been there myself.

Tacpro is about halfway between Mineral Wells and Stephenville on TX108. I've been hog hunting 2-3 times on a friend's property right next door, literally. They share a fence line. Oddest thing in the world to watch deer feeding at a feeder without a care in the world, while someone is running a M240 on rock-and-roll just a few hundred yards away. The wildlife have gotten so used to automatic weapons fire that they don't even look up at the sound of it. I assume it was a M240. The rate of fire was too slow and the pitch too deep for a SAW, and rate of fire too fast for a .50, so it had to have been a .30 caliber weapon. All the same, really weird when you are trying to be quiet, and the game is still very much afraid of men. Anyway, if you google "tacpro shooting range mingus texas", you'll see all their information.

Beiruty wrote:TAM,

Have you asked your friend what is his groupings at 100 yrds. That is awesome from semi-auto 5.56 rd
Is he using a bull-barrel 223?
Is it one of those, or look one of those?
http://www.accurate-ar15.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hi Beiruty, As far as I know, 300 yards is the closest distance that rifle has ever been fired at, and as far as I know, it has only been shot at steel plates; so I don't really know what it will do on paper at 100 yards although I imagine that it will group fairly tightly. The main thing it illustrates is that there is such a thing as target accuracy, and practical accuracy, and they are both valid ways of measuring what a rifle will do. That group at 800 yards means that he can pretty much hit a man-sized target at that distance, with some degree of reliability. THAT is good practical accuracy. The hits on that plate certainly group less than 8", which means that at 800 yards, that is a sub-MOA rifle/shooter combination. So, what it will group at 100 yards doesn't really matter. It will group tight enough to be impressive for an AR15 with a carbine length barrel.

No, it's not one of those in your link, and it isn't bull barreled. It's a home-built carbine. It has a 16" medium weight fluted 3 gun barrel with a mid-length gas port.....I forget the manufacturer. It is NATO chambered, has a 1:7 twist, and polygonal rifling. The barrel fluting is spiral rather than straight..... if that helps identify it. It has a matched set of billet receivers, a rail system (I don't remember the brand), a Magpul UBR stock, an EOTech sight with a 3X magnifier.

Pictures I took from a range day at TacPro.....the rifle on the shooting mat in the background is mine, and the picture was taken at the 500 yard line. My friend is shooting the same carbine he shot yesterday at 800 yards....exact same setup: Just a good job of assembling a rifle from quality parts, feeding it good ammo, and spending time on the firing line, getting good with the rifle. This is why I am not so much a fanboy of rifle brands, as I am of good parts, judiciously chosen, and carefully assembled.

He was building his rifle about the same time as I was building mine, so I don't remember too much about what parts he was using. If you want to know, I'll ask him.

Very nice, Beiruty!

Not taking away from that group at all, it's really good, and 500 yards is harder than a lot of people think.......but I'm actually a little surprised at how good modern equipment makes old shooters look. Here is a picture of one of my buddy's results yesterday at ETTS: That group was shot from a 5.56 AR with a 16" barrel, using Hornady 75 grain match, at a distance of 800 yards. My friend is not a trained sniper or anything. He's an experienced shooter, with a nice home-built AR carbine, shooting off-the-shelf ammunition.

Despite all the griping about people trying to take our rights away, we do live in an era where great rifle accuracy is much easier (and less expensive) to attain than ever before.