My friend wanted to sight in his .50 BMG at long range so I grabbed my BFR .45-70 with the cast bullets from my home made mold and went over. We set up targets for him and got the settings. We have a half size steel buffalo at 510 yds. I decided to see if I could hit it with my revolver. I am sighted for 75 yds for deer and didn't want to change it so I started by aiming at a ridge line above the buf. I have the Bushnell red dot sight on it. First shots were just under the target. I aimed a little higher and put two just over that hit a large rock behind the buf. These impacts were only 3" apart. My next shot hit the buf just below center so we quit because it was getting dark. All shots were directly in a vertical line with the center of the target. I just had trouble with the proper elevation because I had no aiming point. I estimate the holdover at roughly 24 feet. The bullet impact on the rocks was tremendous creating a huge plume of dust. I am extremely happy with this bullet and the accuracy is really great. I would really like to see what it can do with something to aim at. It's tough to aim at brush and sky. Any ideas on getting a target 24' above my buf? Yeah, I know, I'm crazy but darn it's fun.

I don�t think you are crazy it sounds like something I would do.

A few recommendations on how to set up your target

Possibility one: If you have a tall enough backstop you could screw 3 to 4 sheets of 4' x 8' x 1/2" plywood together to make a target tall enough to shoot at. Just put a series of bull�s-eye about 2ft apart and you can start having fun.

Possibility two: is get a mill-dot scope the dots will help with hold over elevation.

When I am sighting my rifle and want to check bullet drop at different ranges say 100 yards, 200 yards, 300 yards, 400 yards, I use 1 sheet of 1/2" plywood put a 1.5" florescent orange dot about 1.5 feet from the top, back up and keep shooting at the same dot. Tape measure the distance from the bull�s-eye, and write it down on a card and keep it with me for future reference. BTW I am using an 8 to 32 power Bushnell Scope on a 22-250 or 7mm Mag. Good shooting

Swede44mag

If you get some times when the wind calms down, put up a balloon on a string.

Notrichochet, thought about the balloon idea but we never have real calm days. Then I figured out that if I fill the balloon with lead it would not blow around.

If it blows real steadily, how about a kite?

I thought this was going to be a post about hunting down here in East Texas, an mosquitos! I can't wait for a frost!
If this is a place you go to reg'lar like, you could sink a piece of 1 1/2" to 2" pipe, almost flush, in the ground about 2ft. Then make up a jointed piece of 1 1/4 or 1 1/2" PVC pipe in about 4-6ft joints to put together, an slip it into the ground pipe each time you go. Paint 4" to 6" black bands every 4" to 6" (i.e., equal B&W STRIPES?), like a range pole. It should be 2-3ft BESIDE your target, so you can use the horizontal crosswire on the bands, and the vertical on the target. That way, you won't likely hit the pipe. I got to shoot at a range one time with a setup like this... It worked pretty well! This was a permanent set up, and they had used drill stem, and it was 30ft tall! They had 12" to 2' gongs out of 5/8" or 3/4" plate out to 1000 yds. We had a ball! Wish something like that were around here.........Bug.

I was at the cowboy shoot the other day. After it was over a guy brought out his 45-70 single shot and tried shooting the buffalo, ours is around 300yds. I had a bunch of 45colts leftover, so I sat down with my 4 5/8" BlackHawk in the Elmer Keith position. Once I got the elevation down, I put more on the target than he did.

Lar45, I once put 12 shots out of 12 through a 5 gal. bucket at 400 yds with my Super Redhawk .44. I cheated though, I had a scope on it and adjusted it to hit.

Reminds me of the time we were at a public range and this fella unloaded a pile of guns from his car. He asked if he could put up a target. Well, he walked out about 30 foot or so and stuck a stick in the ground with a huge paper target on it. I watched him put one or two holes in it with a couple of cylinders full. I asked if I could try his Blackhawk. I clicked a bunch on the sight, grabbed some of my loads, got in a Creedmore position and proceeded to bounce a gallon milk jug all over the 200 yd. berm. Ever see HUGE GIANT EYEBALLS? I don't think he knew the thing would shoot past 30 feet. Darn, that was fun!

Hey guys, I just spent two days making an LBT type boolit mold for the .44. It came out a little heavy at 330 grs. but it is .430 and is only .0005" out of round. I have to tap the gas checks on by rapping them on the bench so I will try to anneal some. I will let you know how they shoot soon.

I shot the .44 boolits I made today (just six) and even though I forgot my glasses and see 3 fuzzy dots in the red dot sight, I had all six shots in just over an inch at 50 yds. I am happy.