How far do you shoot cast boolits?

[Kraschenbirn]

300 yards...'cause that's the longest distance at our club range.

Bill

[derek45]

here's about 90 yards

[Larry Gibson]

I shot quite a bit of .308W and 30-06 at 500 and 600 yards on the old 5V targets years back out of M1903A1 and M1903A3s along with the occasional M1917, SMLE and MN rifles. Mostly used 311/314299s pushed along by 4895 to 1900 fps +/-.

On my "walk abouts" in the desert here I've been know to stretch the distance with my M1903A1 match rifle out to 1200 yards on a pile of rocks I staked in a long wash. Also shoot the H&R OM TD 45-70 and M1884 target rifle out to the same distance.

With the iron sights on the above rifles there was enough sight adjustment. Problem with most scoped rifles is having enough elevation adjustment or being able to use a spot "above" the target to compensate for the drop of the cast bullets.

I have shot the 30x60 XCB rifle at 600 yards for group. Bullet was the 30 XCB (NOE 310-165-FN) over 53 gr AA4350 for 2900 fps. One morning before the wind got too bad i shot two 10 shot groups and one 11 shot group. The average for the three groups was right at 1.5 moa. Here is the smallest group, the 11 shot group which was right at 5.9";

The rifle;

Attachment 285919

Shooting position;

Attachment 285918

The 600 yard 11 shot group;

Attachment 285917


The hole low right in the white is not a bullet hole.

[tejano]

Larry, you da’ man!

[LAH]

Good shooting derek. Same to you Larry.

[blue32]

300 meters with the 32-20 but that was with the stock ladder sight. Haven't tried with the Marbles tang yet. My furthest cast pistol shots have been at 40 yards with a frosted bore Colt 1903 (and sometimes a Kel Tec P32) running the RCBS 32-77 RN over 2.2 gr. W231.

[earlmck]

I shoot at a wonderful range here in Central Oregon which has targets as far as I can see. My BPCR group shoots regularly to 1000 yards and occasionally to 1200 yards which is pretty normal shooting for the big buffalo guns. But this next shoot we are going to try something more challenging and do a "mini-Quigley" where we shoot pistol-caliber cartridges (from levers or single-shots) using our mid-range course of 300 to 600 yards. Should be interesting! I'm going out today to get some sight settings for the event.

[one-eyed fat man]

Been here a time or two, with a trapdoor.

[thompsonm1a1]

I sort a lyman 314299 to collect match bullets and load them up for hunting and can get 1 inch groups at 80 yards. they are moving about 1800+-. I shoot all my deer in the head and never miss. the woods I hunt in is very thick on cape sable island, but we have too many deer at the moment and they are becoming a problem with many road kills.