long range shooting (with style)

the article is not bad, but a lot to digest for the beginner. There is no discussion on actually making the shot, and that is the art of the rifleman. If you want to learn to make the shot, but don't want to join the corps, find an appleseed near you, attend an event, learn to shoot, the go back to that article and start applying whats in it

www.appleseedinfo.org
 
WOW-- I never did any of that. I just went out and started shooting.Jumping 100 yards at a time. Im a click counter on the scope and write it down when i hit target. I think practice is all you need.:D
 
Well it is pretty decent; you might try using a word processor to type your blog in first then copy and paste it in. There are a few spelling and grammar errors that I can catch with my lacking education and English was always one of my worst subjects. Remember however, most word processors don’t have a complete dictionary in them either and some of the words you use might not be in there.

A mil dot redicle is also very helpful. If you buy a mil dot and it is a variable power scope, make sure you know what power it is calibrated to. If money weren’t an issue I would have a Leupold Mark 4 8.5-25X50mm ER/T M1 Front Focal with a illuminated TMR redicle (in case you wanted to know).
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These both should be reticle. Your word processors will usually want you to change this word to reticule so don’t trust it on this word. When in doubt whip out the old Webster’s dictionary to make sure you have it right.

Now that we are at the range lets get started
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Try let's or let us instead.

Do your research. I like the thermally insensitive powders like Retumbo and Varget they are getting harder to find but they shoot the same whether its 30 degrees or 100 (this is a bit of an exaggeration).
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Should be it is or it's. Plus I don't know if you are correct on the powders getting hard to find. Hogdon makes plenty of the "extreme" powders that are good over large temperature ranges. Retumbo and Varget are pretty easy for me to find as well in several shops here locally.

There are a few more mistakes, and some fragmented sentences that you could correct to help the flow a bit. All in all though it isn't a half bad read. I probably would have broken it down into several different blogs discussing your reasoning for each selection choices such as rifle, chambering used, and optics. However you can blog about each one of these separately and link them back to your original blog so it is all good.

I try my best when I post here and on other forums to make sure everything is correct as far as grammar and spelling go. Nothing to me is as annoying as reading post that are run on, without paragraph breaks, capitalization or look “texted” from a cell phone. Some days I do a better job than others, I always try to at least give my posts a cursory proof read before clicking the submit button. Plus I’ll proof read the post after submission, and edit anything that needs it.
 
Your efforts and time are commendable. I will admit that I didn't read everything word for word, but it definitely looked like good useful info.

I will second the above statement that using a word processor is a good idea. I have seen far worse writing than the few mistakes pointed out, but bad writing is a sure way to turn me off of an article/ blog/ etc.
With that said, I'm no best selling author.
 
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