"Building a tack Driver"

[Tack Driver]

Originally Posted by Midas

I will be frank, you ain't gonna get a good 1,000 yard or mile rifle for $1,000.

A heavy barreled Savage 12 in 6.5-284 Norma will cost about $1000 and will do fine at 1,000 yards with the right loads.

[Bart B.]

One needs to consider his accuracy objective or requirements in selection any rifle. It boils down to:

"What's the most you want to miss your point of aim when the shot's fired"

If it's 10 inches at 1000 yards, then you need a rifle (and ammo plus shooting skills) to shoot no worse than 20 inches, or 2 MOA at 36,000 inches. That's the diameter of a circle whose radius equals your maximum miss distance. The bullet will strike no more than 10 inches where the sights were aligned at providing you doped the wind and got the shot off correctly.

If it's one third of that, or 3.33 inches, then you'll need the same stuff that shoots inside 6.6 inches.

Now go figure out how much you'll need to spend, plus what you'll have to do, to meet that objective. The closer you want the shots to be to your aiming point, the better the rifle (plus the ammo and you) have to be.

[billy]

today i heard 1000 yard rifles refered to as WALLET GUNS.
that is an apt description.

[hunter16935]

try a 6.5mm X 284 norma. but your still looking at $1500 for the gun and about another $800 or more for the scope. my rig. is a custom. 300 weatherby mag. necked down to a 6.5mm bullet. it will do 1500 yrds easy in the hands of a skilled shooter. i've only ever shot 700 yrds with it with a 5 shot group in a 6 in. diameter circle. i'm not that great out that far. i paid $1000 for mine off some old guy who was giving it up he had probably $4000 total in it.

[hunter16935]

Originally Posted by Shootester

Fair enough. It was just the way I was reading it. I did say it would take him alot of practice, though. I don't think there is a person in the world who could hit at 1,000 yds with only hunting or 100-500yd target experience.

Sorry to bust your bubble but i did it or come close to it. But i had a spotter there telling me just what to do. I was using his rig. which he had 20 years experience with so...

[danf6975]

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