This morning a guy came up to the range that was instantly trying to be everyone's buddy that was there...

I was shooting a 223, so he had to get into talking about shooting sage rats...asking if I go over to Klamath Falls or Lakeview to shoot them, and I said yes...

He asked how far out am I able to hit them.. I responded 250 yds pretty reliably.. and at times lucky enough to 300 or so...

Then he tells me about his friend who shot a sage rat with a 22 Mag at 550 yds, and then shot another 2 are 750 yds, with "this rifle right here"... a Sako with a 30 inch barrel, not counting the muzzle brake, topped with a Tasco 4 x 16 Scope...chambered in 7 STW, shooting a 140 grain Ballistic Tip at "3700 fps"...

then I remembered this guy from a couple of years ago.. and saw him and a few of his friends in action try to hit a rock out at 725 yds on our local range...

But as the videos on Thomas the Tank Engine my son use to watch when he was little, use to say... but that is another Story...

This guy is supposedly a minister somewhere locally.... maybe divine intervention does work out in the varmint fields...

Well I once shot at and killed a crow,at well over 800 long paces with the Mossberg 142A 22LR.My wife informed me I missed it when it started flying off,but soon after took a beak dive into the ground.

I see those types all the time at the local range.

I was shooting ground squirrels that were sitting on the 500 meter berm and this guy came over to tell me that I was missing the steel gongs low and to the right and asked me what I was shooting. I told him it was a 6.5x284 and he started telling me that "it takes at least a 30.06 to reach that far".

He asked me if I wanted him to watch through my spotting scope to mark the shots and I told him to go ahead. On my next shot he actually laughed and said, "You're 10-12 feet right and two feet low but you hit a ground squirrel that was sitting there."

I was just amazed.

Frank,

I wouldn't even question your ability to hit a ground squirrel at that range, from a rest...

however, I have seen this particular guy shoot, and shoot with some of his snobby buddies...

They were trying to hit a rock the size of a chair at 725 yds, and they were not hitting it, with all sorts of fancy spendy equipment...

with a plain jane Model 70 in 243 with a cheap 6 power Cabelas scope on it, I was able to hit it within 6 shots, once I got the range dialed in...shooting plain old 80 grain Winchester SPs that I had handloaded...

Some guys can shoot, and others just claim that they can...

As I put it about my local range...
"I can outshoot about 95% of the guys that show up at my local range... but the 5 %that can outshoot me.. well it is just darn plain embarrassing!"

If you go to the range knowing you are going to see or hear this kind of stuff, it can be pretty entertaining. At our local range, it can really be fun to go out when the once a year shooters are sighting in their deer or elk rifles. The stories they tell of how good a shot they are, how accurate and flat shooting their rifles are, are sure humorous because you would never know by the way they shoot.

Shots sprayed all over. Problems finding the paper at 100 yards. Shoot one shot, adjust the scope and keep going until out of ammo. Makes one realize why the success rate is so low on big game.

I love going to the range. Our range has a 100 yard “Public Range†that has 7, 10, 25, 50, and 100 yard targets. There is also a members side that has multiple ranges out to 200 yards to shoot. I like going to the public side because you never know what you are going to see.

I was out at the public range with my 144LSB Mossberg 22LR sighting it in @ 100 yards. I had it sighted in @ 50 yards previously. @ 50 yards with CCI Mini Mag, (I’m too cheap to buy really good ammo) this thing will shoot groups well under an inch all day with peep sights and my crappy eyes. It is a shooter.

I started by cranking off some clicks on the peep and the first shot hit dead center about 10 inches low. Several more clicks, shot. Several more clicks, shot. After a few shots I walked it into the bullseye and put 3 or 4 shots in a nice little group right in the center. I put the rifle down and went down the line to talk to somebody.

When I returned a guy I had never seen before had set up a centerfire hunting type rifle a couple lanes down. I sat down and looked through my spotting scope and he said, “I was looking at your group stringing like that. 22’s are not very accurate at 100 yards. I had a 22 a while ago that was always shooting terrible groups and I could never get it to shoot right. Finally sold it.†I nodded my head and proceeded to shoot.

I put 5 or 6 more shots in that group. I moved over to the 2nd target and put 10 shots right in the middle. I noticed he was watching me through his spotting scope. When I finished he said, “Looks like you figured it out. Good thing. It can be real hard to get a rifle to quit stringing like that.â€

I looked at his groups and they were all over the paper. I never said a word.

Sometimes it's quite entertaining. I've seen my share of fellas toting very nice rigs shooting shit ammo Wolff, American Eagle, ect. complaining the rifle/scope suck We do have the real shooters also,egg timer 6mm BR,2 hours for 40 shots, and they make itty bitty holes.

To this day it baffles me that half these guys don't reload and actually shoot quite abit, must be exspensive nowadays.

I have noticed I see very few younger people shooting. Average age seems to be late 40's early 50's. We have very few junior's at my club, sad to say.

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Originally posted by lennyzrx:
I have noticed I see very few younger people shooting. Average age seems to be late 40's early 50's. We have very few junior's at my club, sad to say.

That is a very interesting observation one ,that when I think about it is true where I shoot also. Probably a matter of afordability,and very little background in fire arms as youngsters. Sadly quite a few of them belong to the G.W.Bush gun club in Iraq. roger

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f you go to the range knowing you are going to see or hear this kind of stuff, it can be pretty entertaining. At our local range, it can really be fun to go out when the once a year shooters are sighting in their deer or elk rifles

The only thing more entertaining, is to go back to the same range on Sunday night of deer and elk season opener...

Just about every bozo that shot and missed something that weekend, is back at the range with 3 to 5 boxes of ammo, and complaining how his ammo or his scope let him down that weekend...

None of these bozos admit to themselves that maybe, just maybe, they are the ones that muffed up the shot.... + =

or even worse...

This is evil but I will tell it anyway. We used to go to the local range and there was always someone shooting an SKS/AK or AR type gun. You knew it was the only gun they owned and bought it for "THUG" value. We used to take our varmint rifles and shoot Itty bitty groups in their targets. They would be exstatic with this. It doesnt matter that they shot 200 rounds rapid fire the target That tiny group was all that mattered. It is amazing how someone can't tell the difference in a target between .22 cal and 7.62. I am not knocking the platform but we have all seen "That Guy" with his AR-15. We used to love it. LOL

There were a couple hilbillies playing GI Joe and shot down the target stand at 25 yards with their SKS. This was "great accuracy" for them.

We had a guy come to the range with a NIB 300 Weatherby took it out of the box ,fired box of shells at the 100 yd gong bitched that the gun was no good and left...no scope on the gun.By the way every range I have shot at for the last 50 years has been a game preserve,,shooting anything but a target on the approved stand would get you your walking papers...jack