Shooting at 100 yards.

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Handy

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Last time I was at the rifle range we tried a couple of pistols off the bench. The reasonably accurate Glock was difficult to get a reasonable group at that range. But the HK P9S shot about 8" a little high and left. The P7 wasn't to far behind. Ammo was S&B. I should think a tuned load might do better. No hold over was needed with the fast S&B 9mm. I could see either HK as a "survival" pistol, just for the accurate range they offered (if not power).

Has anyone else tried this with much success? The last time I did was with a tight 1911 and wadcutter loads requiring a yard of holdover. It was like shooting mortar rounds. The sights were to far out of target alignment to try a group.
 
Tried it with my G21 one day just for fun. "Mortar round" is right! :D

Didn't have much success as far as accuracy, though. And I thought that was sort of weird since I was getting "A" zone hits at 50 yards with the same pistol. Maybe I should have tried the bench instead of offhand.
 
Shoot 100yd fairly regularly. Wadcutters are horrible, semi wadcutters with some zing to em not bad. Center of mass on silhoette pretty easy with carry loads but not with mid range target loads.

Big part is holdin precise sight picture. Acceptable sight picture error at 25 yds will show gross flyers at 100 yds.

Practice

Sam
 
Try shooting at 100 yards with a Smith & Wesson
686, with a 6" tube. It's more fun than trying
to throw donut ring's around coke bottle's at
the state fair.:D :) Oh! I forgot this is the
semi-auto forum. Well, hell I can accomplish
a lot of 100 yard feat's with that ole' Sig
P220, just as well.

Best Wishes,
Ala Dan, N.R.A. Life Member
 
Tried it once w/ 6" STI shooting 45 super :cool: Talk about kicks n' grins. First couple had no rhyme or reason, but we figured it out soon enough :D
 
I shot my Springfield V-10 at medium-size cardboard box @ 200+ yards (figure 207-210).

The holdover was best measured in yards with 230gr handloads.

First shot made a dust plume some 25 feet short of the target, but for the rest of that magazine and the two mags after it, that was not a happy cardboard box... ;)
 
Made a one foot group at a measured 165 yards with a mag load of 185+P handloads off my hind legs. My buddy was trying to sight in his Ruger 77/270 Win but had a bad scope on it. His groups were 3 times bigger. Boy, was he mad when he saw what I did! I'm no Roy Rogers, but every once in a while it comes together for me-sure wish I could make that happen all the time! I still get his goat by bringing that episode up;)
 
About three weeks ago, I shot a coyote (in front of two witnesses) right behind the front shoulder with a 147 grain XTP out of a Ruger P89 at a laser ranged 107 yards on the first shot. This wasn't pure luck, out here in the desert we do a lot of long range plinking. If you play around with this stuff a little bit, you get better at estimating range and get a pretty good idea how high to hold over.
 
haha yup me too.

I really can't my target past 25 yards. Unfortunately my dominant eye is also my bad eye. I have been reluctant to get an eye exam for glasses for about 5 years since my left eye is good and that makes up for it.

But when shooting, I only use my right eye to focus on sights.
 
I put around 60% of my shots on a ISSF 25m pistol target at 100 meters with my SW686...The P7 is also a great performer as a compact semiauto, shoots very impressive groups at 50m. The real fun and challenge with (fixed sight) pistols begin at 200m.

Next spring I will try 300 meter if I can convince the rangemaster. :)
 
I shoot my bow at 100 yards no problem. :p

A buddy of mine shoots almost all his pistols at 100 yards at least once. Lots of fun, and it sure amazes some people at the rifle range when they aren’t used to it.
 
First shot, offhand, 108 yards with a stock Glock 20 10mm using silvertips, put the guns down for the day. I have since learned to do it with some regularity. You do indead get funny looks pulling out a handgun on the rifle range. But when they hear "ding, ding, ding" all day long on the 100 yard 8in gong..hehe, its priceless. With practice its not to hard with a hypersonic bullet.
 
Jesse H
When I started shooting as a young kid, I fell into a weird style of shooting. When shooting handguns (I am right handed) I would use my left eye. With rifles it was uncomfortable to climb over the stock so I used my right eye. I never gave it any thought for many years. As I got older my vision started getting blurry when I drove for a long distance or when I read or used the computer for a long time. I went to the eye doctor and found out that my left eye was much stronger than my right eye. He said the right eye would be straining all the time. So, I got glasses. The left lens is clear glass and the right lens is perscription. This is appearently why I always had used my left eye to shoot pistols. I still do that out of habbit but it is inconvienient because I find that when most people sight in their handguns, it shoots to the left for me. Same thing with fixed sights. I should make an effort to shoot with my right eye now that I have my vision corrected but after thrity years it is a habit.
Do yourself a favor and see an eye doctor. From my experience, the problem will only continue to get worse with age.
 
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