Hit a Baseball?

300yds is as far as I think I could ever make those shots, benched or bipoded with a rear bag. Two of my rifles could do better than that, but they have the same limiting factor: me behind the trigger, and my reloads.
 
loose_holster_dan said:
or some BA liars!
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The insults are quite unnecessary. The yardages suggested in this thread are not extraordinary. Hitting a 3 inch circle at 300 yards is 1MOA, hardly ridiculous from even a factory rifle. At 400 yards it's 3/4 MOA, better than average but still not miraculous by any stretch. I expected some of the experienced long range guys to be talking 7, maybe 800 yards.
 
Savage 12 in 22-250 with Leupold scope

The gun is probably capable of a lot more than me. I have hit prairie dogs beyond 300 yards a few times, but heck, I can't hardly see a prairie dog at 300 yards with my naked eye. With my best handload maybe 275 yards for 9 out of 10. Consistency just ain't my strong suit. :D Persistence? Yup. I will stick it out all day if I don't run out of ammo and eventually get quite a few of them little boogers. And I generally don't get all butt hurt if I miss.

Back in July there was a good dog town in front of me, and that Savage had a run of 18 straight hits at varying distance. My wifey called on the cell phone, and after we talked, I had lost the touch. Missed 3 in a row. Huh??

So yeah, on a good day if the phone doesn't ring, maybe 275 yards.:D
 
It is interesting to note that not one of the respondents to this post have replied that they actually went out and shot a baseball at (enter yardage) and hit it nine out of ten shots.

So I will say (with a sneer) :rolleyes: "Talk is cheap.":p jd
 
Under ideal conditions (no wind or weather of any kind, level terrain, no mirage, perfect temperature, no heat in my barrel, a rock solid rest molded around my gun and no gravity) I could hit all ten at 150 yards! Oh,... with my Swift! :) In the field, hunting coyotes (alot larger than baseballs) I would be lucky to hit 2 out of a pack of ten at over 400 yards before they all left. And that is reality!:D
 
jdscholer said:
It is interesting to note that not one of the respondents to this post have replied that they actually went out and shot a baseball at (enter yardage) and hit it nine out of ten shots.

So I will say (with a sneer) :rolleyes: "Talk is cheap.":p jd
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As I said in the OP, a standard max size baseball is 2.944 inches. Do I actually have to shoot a baseball if I have shot 3" groups at "X" yardage?

I only included the baseball because it's Playoff time and it was on my mind and it seemed like fun. 3" groups are 3" groups.
 
As I said in the OP, a standard max size baseball is 2.944 inches. Do I actually have to shoot a baseball if I have shot 3" groups at "X" yardage?
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while I agree we don't need to destroy baseballs, you would need to put that 3" group in a 3" bullseye to qualify.
 
mavracer said:
while I agree we don't need to destroy baseballs, you would need to put that 3" group in a 3" bullseye to qualify.
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True, but then there ain't much sense in launching bullets if they don't land where you want them. ;)

I suspect the most of the guys who thinking hitting a baseball at 300 yards is so difficult have never hunted woodchucks.
 
It is interesting to note that not one of the respondents to this post have replied that they actually went out and shot a baseball at (enter yardage) and hit it nine out of ten shots.

So I will say (with a sneer) "Talk is cheap." jd
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Baseball no, you are right there but I do use a 50' smallbore rifle target at 200 yards for all of my .308, 300 Wby and 7MM mag shooting. I have destroyed tennis balls threaded to a string and dangled from the cross bar of the 200 yard target frame does that count? How about 2x4's laid on its side with the small end facing me at 200 yards, 22 LR not to much damage and only 5 out of 10 shot were hits but a single shot from the 30-06 destroyed any chance of using that hunk of 2x4 for a target again. I had to laugh as I watched the pieces come down from where ever they went to through the scope and was glad it wasn't me. That was a 180 gr Remington Core-Lokt bullet.

If you have read some of my earlier posts you will note that my idea of shooting is shooting ridiculously small targets at ridiculously long ranges with ridiculously small chunk of lead.

I do this without match weapons or bench-rest guns and there isn't a single high dollar scope in the house, They are the kinds of scopes us blue collar type will put on our woods guns. I'm not the only one like that, we just shoot and then we shoot some more and it's so much fun we shoot again.

Now if the challenge had been a golf ball I would have had to rethink my answer. Next time I get to a place where they sell them I will buy a bucket full if they are cheap enough and let you know how it works.
 
I don't see all that good but 200-250yds with my 22-250. Was hitting crows last year at 200 yards easy.
My groups are almost a half inch, right after getting the stevens sighted in i shot a 5rnd group of .6"
 
I shoot golfballs at a 100 meters shot for shot.
I prop Clay pigeons on the berm at 300 yards and can run them shot for shot usually .
I do mix in golfballs with pigeons and 300 yards and I do hit them. Not shot for shot but, I do hit them.
Maybe 3 out of 10. Sometimes better If I skip my morn'en coffee.:D
 
300 Yard golfball

Sight-in target and golfball

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