Handgunning at 200yds.

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Marcus

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I had some fun with this at the range today. The 200yd. backstop was covered with great big clumps of dirt and one of the guys I was shooting with started trying to pick them off with his MKIII Enfield offhand. We didn`t have any targets left,hence the dirt clumps. Encouraged by his results we tried a few other rifles (an H&R Handi-rifle in .45-70 was the most fun. You could actually SEE the big 350gr. lead slugs through the spotting scope before they hit!). Then I decided to see if we could spot impacts from a .22 at 200yds. The only .22 we had among us was my Browning Buckmark Micro+. I was amazed when the guy spotting called every shot within about a 3' circle! Elevation was within a foot or so but a slight crosswind was stringing them to the left. Next was my buddy`s Springfield Loaded 1911. With this he had problems. The trajectory made him aim so high that the muzzle obscured the target area and accuracy wasn`t up to it`s normal high standard. Finally I tried my CZ-75B Mil.,standing and using the side of a post as a rest I put 2 15rd. clips into an area about 4' across with most of them in half that. By the time we were done there was a dark spot of freshly disturbed dirt on the back stop you could see from 200yds. without optics. What fun! Next time we plan to me better prepared with a more powerful spotting scope and some BIG Shoot-n-see targets. Who else has tried this kind of thing? Marcus
 
I have a range where we do this fairly regularly. It is a 40 acre field witha 10 foot berm (levee) down one side. It is truely surprising how accurate a pistol can be at even 3 or 4 hundred yards. Try some other stuff, say .45 auto or .38 special. While they are not bolt gun accurate, if someone was shooting at me with one at that range I would deffinitely keep my head down. I do not think they probably have much energy left when they get there, however!
 
I've done similar long range work with my pistols. I'm not going to try to say I got 2 inch groups or anything like that, but I was surprised to see that I could make hits at that range with a pistol, with misses falling right around the target.
 
You need to try metallic silhouette shooting. http://ihmsa.org/ Ranges from 25 to 200 meters with just about any level of equipment you have already.Iron sights, scopes,single shot,revolver,etc. There is a class for everyone. Great fun and very humbling.

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A while back I was at a tactical handgun class at Front Sight; there was a practical rifle class going on at the same time. Dr. Piazza is known for challenging the rifle shooters on behalf of the handgun shooters.

The contest was simple: one on one, first hit on a humanoid silhouette at 200 yards, any position, starting slung or from the holster. We tied.
 
3 Gun, great post. That 200 yard ram is a bugger and gettin in the sweet spot so it will go down seperates the gunnies. Specialy with production sixgun.

Sam...whadda you mean shoot at 200yds, that's barely drivin distance any more.
 
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