Long Range Rifle Precision Segment US Army Sniper Jim Gilliland of Shadow 6, talks about gear that can make your time of the range more productive and more accurate.
It's interesting how people will tear apart a video designed to skim the basics. Anyone who is interested in LR distances knows there is much more to every component necessary to create the delivery platform. I'll say this, you can go out and spend $10K on a rifle and not be able to hit the broad side of a barn at 1000 meters. it is the person who educates them self, trains on the range to acquire the proper shooting techniques that will hit the target at extended distances. By the way this man is a humble servant of the people who is sharing some of his knowledge and you don't do it all. It take months, sometime years to be a master of a skill. He doesn't boast like a jerk either
Great job Jim! You really have a great projection for video (natch I have your DVD). After years of problem solving and then coaching/knowledge from you and some people you'd know with my DIY Sako L61R 30-06 bolt (next link) made this simple and can do subMOA on demand now whoot! long range precision shooting with perspective
Nice basic info video...pay no attention to the keyboard commandos, Jim...you are a great American! Thanks for your service...USAF Sgt. retired here...
Yep! Totally true and clever. It's makes a big difference for me at the range. People maybe look at me like i'm a kind of Alien, but i always try to choose my weapons and accessories the best logical way for their purpose. Till now, it's working great. Time to go to the range for me now. Best regards from France! (Yes, we also have guns here)... Philippe. 😇🇫🇷🎯🇫🇷😎
Funny, I caught no end of hell from some tool for suggesting that the EOTech EXPS 3-4 was questionable, in the sense that why would you want to clutter up your reticle with 4 BDC's going out to 600 yards on a 1X or 3x(with the magnifier) optical set up?This guy says the 1-6X is good out to 600 yards, hmmm, exactly what I was thinking. Can you shoot something out to 600 yards with a 3X? Sure, but it's hardly ideal. It's all about tool for the job.
If this guy can hit a target almost a mile away with a .308, imagine what he can do with a 30.06, 300 win mag, or 6.5 creedmor!?
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22 long rifle will go about 1500 yards if you shoot it ~30 degrees up towards the sky under ideal conditions. Of course you have 0 accuracy but it will definitely fo further than most people think :)
Strelnikov10 i was just going to suggest rex.. that guy knows his stuff. later on in his videos we even made charts. great to carry with you for a rough idea.
+1. Lucky with mine using Yugo surplus. Haven't learned to reload yet, but like you know handloads will tighten the groups with the right recipe what ever the hell it winds up being. Through the irons both Mosins solid. 4" groups using Prvi Match and sometimes even Yugo Surp. Both my M39 nd 91/30. Both have really sharp barrels, so again, I got lucky finding these especially the Roosky 91/30 blunderbus. These are Minute of Man rifles so 4" groups I'll TAKE especially less handloads yet.
My Mosin Groups at Least 3in at 4 to 500 yards. Better at 1 to 350 yards. I would love to see what I could do at 600. With some better match grade ammo. ( Lapua)
I do long range shooting at 1000yards both of these rifles can do it without a problem but you will have a grouping of about 15 inches i use a 308 with a barnard action with a Krueger barrel 11twist 34 inches in length and i hand load my own ammo with 185grains and im shooting 1000yards with a 1inch grouping
Thats good mate 308 is alot cheaper to reload in Australia its about 32cent per round but if you get the right gear and practice you will gey a 1inch grouping all day
depends on application- just plinking targets at 1200 yards or under, 10x42 swfa ss or 12x42 swfa ss; for hunting id go with either fixed 6x or something like a 2.5-12x scope; get something first focal plane and moa/moa or mil/mil reticle/turrets- get a quality scope, don't skimp on it
go find a ballistics table and compare the .270 to the .260 as far as velocity and energy at various ranges. You could estimate well enough for that. www.hornady.com/assets/files/ballistics/2014-Standard-Ballistics.pdf
Mariah Sinclair , well I've been shooting the .270win since I was 14 years old & I'm now 50. I have NO problem hitting steel @ a 1000yds, for hunting with proper bullet placement and 140gr bullets on white tail deer I limit my shots to 800yds, elk no farther than 400yds with 150gr bullets & moose @ 300yds with 160gr bullets. It all comes down to bullet weight, construction, & placement. Good luck, look up a guy by the name of Elmer Keith, he is the man that proved way back in the 50's & 60's that the .270win can be used for everything in north america short of brown/grizzly bears. He was a very famous hunter, shooter, & gun writer that also proved that you could cleanly one shot kill a elk at 100yds with a .44mag handgun.
This video tells people nothing! That said I would hate to do a video about long range hunting as there is a huge amount of info required. I have tried many calibers and I'm a big fan of the .260 Rem but it can’t push a 140 A-Max Fast enough for my liking. My go to for 1000y+ 1 shot kills is a full custom 7mm WSM pushing a Berger 180 Hunting @ 3130 from a 31 inch Krieger. This has claimed several 1 shot kills at long range and does it with authority. The Hybrids just penciled straight through. As for our mate commenting here about 1/2 mile with a Savage and $200.00 scope hmmm yep at a range I bet you can hit targets but in the raw environment hunting you need gear you can absolutely depend on. 1000y+ requires a lot of work, good gear and knowledge in the field, don't think you can buy good gear and roll out on your first hunt and make a 1 shot kill @ 1000y it just won’t happen unless you have someone with you showing you the ropes.
In competition I've claimed national titles. I hunt long range most weekends. This clip glosses over very briefly basic requirements. I have just got a good friend of mine up 800y 1 shot kills and a couple of weeks ago we changed to the 7mm A-Max 162 at 2980 from his SAUM his gear is better than that shown here and he has a huge amount of experience. We hope to get a 1000y shot within the next few hunts with favorable conditions and just maybe he will get his 1000y opportunity. You see it's just not that easy and that's my point. To answer your question Yes I'm qualified to comment! But by all means buy a Bushnell 21 power scope and shoot 1500y as he has indicated here. Trust me an antelope will be a small dot in the scope at 1500y. At 1000y it will be ok I've shot plenty at 1000y with my Night Force 5.5-22 NXS and its fine too. That said with his experience and discipline he may very well be able to shoot too 1500y with that scope at an animal but more likely a 2.4m by 2.4m white target with a 500mm black bull on a dead calm day and his 260 may well put up a respectable group but I would not shoot animals with it. No way!
I can buy a savage rife use a 200$ scope and shoot a half mile ........ what's the most important part... good ammo buy a few different kinds try them out match ammo is NOT always best find what shoots good in your rife and stick with it.
At the ranges most of us are going to shoot the gun is much more accurate than we are, better off spending money on more practice ammo to know how to shoot the rifle you have
Oh god another savage lover bashing custom guns. There's a reason why the military doesn't use savages, can you figure it out? My bug out gun is not a savage for a reason. My HS precision HTR in .308 with a clone of the military's mk316 mod 0 plus .2 grains of 4064 shot a 4.2 inch group at 600 yards the other day. Best 5 shot group was 3.995. Fuck your savage.
tskfrcdgr Dude, I would kiss a porn star on the lips for your HS Precision rifle, but being no rifleman, the $500 I had to spend on an Axis .223 with a UTG 3x9 Mil-Dot reticle puts American Eagle junk 55gr into an inch-and-a-half at 200yds ALL DAMN DAY LONG and i'm sure as hell a worse shot than you are. What the hell would I spend any more money than that for?!? I honestly can't tell the difference between that UTG and a $2000 Night Force or what-the-freak-ever, and I would bet the farm most guys can't either. Gotta be the ruggedness of them I guess, right? IDK
Bret LaRue Not bashing, kudos to the guys who can pull off the long range stuff. It would just tell me that I need to work on my woods skills getting closer to the deer I'm shooting at. Never deer hunted with artillery.
+Jon Kim Not to belittle, but a lot of people have hit someone out to 1000 yards with a 7.62 x 51. Saying this is "that dude" only narrows it down to several 1000.
Jon Kim I looked him up after your last comment. Try adding another 250 meters to that distance. He has the longest confirmed kill in Iraq with a 7.62 x 51 rifle. That additional 25% is a big deal when it is added to the end of the effective distance of the cartridge!
7.62 nato is effective to 800 meters and it isnt just in iraq its in the world that has been confirmed and no not a lot of people have used 7.62 NATO to hit somebody at a 1000 in combat shooting at targets and shooting at humans are 2 different things my man
I personally owned a Savage model 110 chambered in 7mm Remington Magnum and at 200 yards I could stretch bullet holes with a regular run of the mill Winchester 150 grain hunting round 😉
plooker39 Aha, , a reloader,,, ever notice that there are few vids that tell the story of how much accuracy is gained by reloadind? Do you ream inside, or turn outside?
Funny how these comments deteriorate so quickly into a macho pissing competition. Some seem to nit-pick with intense concentration, seeking the tiniest 'fault'... some swear like a trouper at the slightest criticism and puff their chests out, there's usually a vet' who asks "were you there, man", someone else just tells everyone he fires a damn cannon (.50) and thinks it will end the 'debate'.. Boys and their toys eh? lol.
So how does a 5" 54 naval rifle figure into the equation? Of course you need to fire it under radar fire control to hit something a 10 miles or so, but it's the biggest thing I ever shot!
to quote Ryan Stuckey "it is automatic. ie the action cycles automatically when you pull the trigger vs a bolt action that you have to operate manually"
I hate to pick, but the rifle to his right is not an auto! It is a semi-auto rifle. Mistakes like that give the gun grabbers ammo to say that we have auto rifles - they aren't honest enough to see the difference.
+StudyinSteel I doubt there are many on here that are old enough that the old nomenclature was what they were taught. Since 1934 the difference between auto and semi-auto has been law and clearly taught.
masterkeep I've heard it used in conversation, especially when talking about pump action and self loading shotguns. You've got a point though, I was annoyed when Kevin de Leon referred to a "sniper-automatic" rifle which is misleading for anyone who is very unfamiliar with firearms. Actually, everything he said is that speech was more nonsensical than misleading.
+masterkeep It is an "auto" loader meaning there is no manual cycling of the bolt needed to put the next round in the chamber. You obviously do not know who this guy is. Other than 6 year old girls and complete non shooters who would think that he is talking about the AR10 platform being full auto? Will a RDIAS even work in a AR10? Nope, so what is the point? I guess it could be a post sample but you wouldnt know that by looking at it in the video so why run your mouth at a dude who has 65+ kills in one deployment? If he wants to call it an auto that is fine, to me it is an auto as well because the loading process is automated compared to my bolt guns. As a matter of fact if he wants to call it a potato ray gun who i am to tell him any different? stfu
Semi-auto, get your terminology right. Have also shot my AR10 in .308 with 155 palmas to 1000 yards and 175 Sierra match bullets to 1000 yards with success.
1 hundred and thirty MORONS thumbed down this informational VID.Most likely MORONS that NEVER made it to the mideast conflicts.I'M NOT ONE OF THEM!!HOORAH!!!😡😡😡
Guys, please stop calling auto-loading rifles "automatics". Just retire the auto-loading nomenclature already, and stop conflating and confusing the terms. It's destructive to firearm owners and adds more confusion to the issue for those out there who don't know the difference.
jetmemphis91 last time I checked, there's a difference between automatic firearms and semiautomatic firearms. It's a difference that a painfully large amount of people in this country don't understand. If I'm a troll because I want people to know there's a difference, then I guess I'll keep being a troll.
Ronnie do you know who that guy is, That's Jim Gilliland, one of the most respected snipers in either Iraq or Afghanistan, hes an Army Ranger and held the record for the longest kill in history with a 308 rifle in Ramadi in 2006, Credibility gained!
how lot of talk about nothing. Thanks you capt. obvious. Why don't you go into detail when talking? You talk about cartridges but don't discus how weight, design, and type of bullet might affect long distance shooting. Do you want a heavy, medium or light bullet for long distances? Then you go into barrels and say to pick a good barrel. Why not say what makes a "good barrel". What twist is recommended? What length works best? anywho before I go any further, just wanted to say this video was a waste of time. I really did expect more, like valuable information.
