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Skip Sackett
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Good shooting. Care to elaborate?
How high did you have to hold @ 100 and stuff like that.
How high did you have to hold @ 100 and stuff like that.
I do not doubt those results for a second.
Back in the day, I could nail 12 oz pop cans on the 100 yd berm 4 for 5 with my S&W Model 25-2 using 5.6 gr of Unique under 230 gr Alberts swaged lead bullets.
Great shooting, Dennis!
Noah
Back in the day, I could nail 12 oz pop cans on the 100 yd berm 4 for 5 with my S&W Model 25-2 using 5.6 gr of Unique under 230 gr Alberts swaged lead bullets.
Great shooting, Dennis!
Noah
Sighting think Keith.
Sighting think Keith. The horizontal line is reference point. Since I've shoot the pistol at 25-50&75yards I knew approximately what my hold and sight picture was to be at 100yards. The vertical line gave a centering point for rear and front sight alignment.
The load is a 225Gr TC cast – mixed head stamp brass – WLP primer & charge weight of 5.5Grs W231. A Dillon 550 with RCB dies was employed for reloading.
The pistol is a Colt XSE early production. Basically stock except for the grip safety (Ed Brown), Sights Novak and Micarta grips manufactured locally. The trigger press is set at 4Lbs.
On a good day I'll take the black out of the target at the 50Yd line traditional standing slow fire. Now that I'm in my sixth decade the good days are not as often as they were.
When I have the opportunity I'll challenge the 200yd line or it'll challenge me to the point of frustration.
Sighting think Keith. The horizontal line is reference point. Since I've shoot the pistol at 25-50&75yards I knew approximately what my hold and sight picture was to be at 100yards. The vertical line gave a centering point for rear and front sight alignment.
The load is a 225Gr TC cast – mixed head stamp brass – WLP primer & charge weight of 5.5Grs W231. A Dillon 550 with RCB dies was employed for reloading.
The pistol is a Colt XSE early production. Basically stock except for the grip safety (Ed Brown), Sights Novak and Micarta grips manufactured locally. The trigger press is set at 4Lbs.
On a good day I'll take the black out of the target at the 50Yd line traditional standing slow fire. Now that I'm in my sixth decade the good days are not as often as they were.
When I have the opportunity I'll challenge the 200yd line or it'll challenge me to the point of frustration.
Skip Sackett
US Veteran
OH, I know it can be done. The information given in dennis' last post is what I was after. Other folks need to know too. That's how they will learn.
Back in the day, and like dennis mine aren't as often as they used to be, son #1 and I would take our 6" "L" frames out and break clay pigeons on the 100 yard berm. He went to college and told folks that we used to do that and shoot squirrels with 22's and he thought he was the biggest liar that ever lived. I guess that both of those things are really amazing feats for some!
Back in the day, and like dennis mine aren't as often as they used to be, son #1 and I would take our 6" "L" frames out and break clay pigeons on the 100 yard berm. He went to college and told folks that we used to do that and shoot squirrels with 22's and he thought he was the biggest liar that ever lived. I guess that both of those things are really amazing feats for some!
Sgt Preston
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100 Yards
Very, very nice shooting Dennis ! Preston
Very, very nice shooting Dennis ! Preston
Sgt Preston
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100 Yards
Sgt Preston back again. Dennis I'm still around & check in daily...BUT I only speak when I feel I can add something worthwhile to the discussion. I've also found a nice place to shoot 100 yards outdoors & have just purchased a H.A.R ( Hillbilly Assualt Rifle). Actually it's a new Marlin 336XLR Stainless Steel Lever Action in 30-30 & I'm having fun learning to shoot a rifle again. My M1 Garand USMC skills are still pretty good, BUT the new rifle does have a 3-9 X 40 Nikon Riflescope sitting on top of it. My geezer eyes & opens sights just don't cut it any more. And yes, I am shooting off a gun rest bag these days. BUT most important I'm having a ball & loving life! Semper Fi Jarhead. Dennis check out www.togetherweserved.com. Sgt Preston USMC LLA
Sgt Preston back again. Dennis I'm still around & check in daily...BUT I only speak when I feel I can add something worthwhile to the discussion. I've also found a nice place to shoot 100 yards outdoors & have just purchased a H.A.R ( Hillbilly Assualt Rifle). Actually it's a new Marlin 336XLR Stainless Steel Lever Action in 30-30 & I'm having fun learning to shoot a rifle again. My M1 Garand USMC skills are still pretty good, BUT the new rifle does have a 3-9 X 40 Nikon Riflescope sitting on top of it. My geezer eyes & opens sights just don't cut it any more. And yes, I am shooting off a gun rest bag these days. BUT most important I'm having a ball & loving life! Semper Fi Jarhead. Dennis check out www.togetherweserved.com. Sgt Preston USMC LLA
akjaeger
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Good Shooting!
I shoot my handguns alot @ 100yds, but that's a great group. No real flyers.
I shoot my handguns alot @ 100yds, but that's a great group. No real flyers.
I'm still lost? Was your poa at the horizontal line or did you aim above it? The vertical I can grasp
I would need to paint the target orange just to see it
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As you have learned, the sight elevation at 100 yards isn't as much as most people think. We used to put 6" balloons at 100 yards, and with my (self built) Springfield Armory .45 could break 3 out of 5 pretty consistently. Load is 5.3 Gr WST behind 200 Gr. cast lead bullet and Fed Primers.
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Some of the posts above bring up an interesting point.Although no has has come right out and called me a liar,they DID do it with their eyes.I know that some people tell tall tales and so I guess a certain amount of skepticism may be understandable.....That said,whenever someone finds something simply unbelievable(I'm not talking about the far fetched nonsense that defies the laws of physics),it says more about their limitations than anything else.
I completely believe that you shot those groups at 100 yards.Good shooting.
I completely believe that you shot those groups at 100 yards.Good shooting.
JD 500
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Nice shootin Dennis.
I'd be lucky to do that at 50 yds.
I'd be lucky to do that at 50 yds.
MrPhil
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A friend has 8 and 12 inch steel plates. Usually we shoot them from 10 to 25 yards. A couple weeks ago we backed up to 100. It reminded me how flat 9mm shoots at that distance. I used a 12 o'clock hold and was hitting more than half the time from the start. I was using my everyday carry gun, a stock Glock 19 (4" barrel). Load was 6.7 grains HS-6 pushing a 124 grain Montana Gold JHP.
imashooter2
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I'm still lost? Was your poa at the horizontal line or did you aim above it? The vertical I can grasp
The horizontal line is a reference line. The pistol sights are fixed except for drifting the rear sight for lateral movement or changing the front sight height for elevation changes. One may simply hold a portion of the front sight above the top edge of the rear sight for elevation impact change. Since there is no precise point of aim on the target body other than the head area the contrasting vertical & horizontal lines gave me the POA I required. Another point I've extensively fired the pistol and load at 25 – 50 & 75 yards so I understood the required sight picture.
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idahostreams
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100 yds
A whole bunch of years ago a shooting buddy and I were at the range and I said I wanted to do a little shooting at 100 yds. He said that I couldn't hit anything at that distance with that thing(,357 mod. 27). I suggested that if he was willing to put his felt hat on the ground we would see. The first round skipped off the ground and hit the hat. With that for a sighter I hit the hat five times from the sitting position. He threw away the hat.
Julian
A whole bunch of years ago a shooting buddy and I were at the range and I said I wanted to do a little shooting at 100 yds. He said that I couldn't hit anything at that distance with that thing(,357 mod. 27). I suggested that if he was willing to put his felt hat on the ground we would see. The first round skipped off the ground and hit the hat. With that for a sighter I hit the hat five times from the sitting position. He threw away the hat.
Julian
