Long Range Shooting SIP #3

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Delving Into the Details
I fell in love with archery long before I was old enough to fall in love with a woman (yes, I know this is a gun magazine, but hold on just a minute … ). Ted Nugent is notorious for citing the “mystical flight of the arrow” as the source of attractio
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The 6.5-284 Norma
Hornady now produces cases and will produce ammunition (depending upon rifle manufacturing) for this long-popular wildcat chambering. Originally, this version of the .284 Winchester was designed to offer a shorter hunting cartridge that approximates
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Letters To The Editor
I enjoyed Patrick Sweeney’s great article on the .375 H&H Magnum Mauser in the June 2019 issue. It did raise a few questions, however. On page 33, he says, “Only later did I discover the trick of a standing support for test-firing magnums.” My questi
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Building Your Long-range Kit
The South Fork 6.5 Creedmoor rifle teeters on custom-made performance. At the heart of the South Fork is a modified Remington Model 700 action, upgraded with a coned bolt nose, fixed ejector and modified controlled-round feed. Badrock mates its actio
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Affordable 1,000-yard Rifles
Today’s shooters like to go long—that is, they enjoy the challenge of reaching out and touching targets at advanced ranges. Sometimes, the ability to fire accurately at 600-plus yards costs a lot of money; sometimes, it costs less. But the basics of
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Scoping The Savanna
For those hunters who have never experienced Africa and perhaps haven’t yet been bitten by the allure of making tracks on the Dark Continent, I suspect that there are few things more annoying than listening to someone who has been there drone on and
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Sig BDX System Specifics
Relinquishing control is something that’s never easy, and that’s exactly what you must do with Sig’s BDX System—to a certain extent. From Kentucky holdover, drop-compensating reticles, dialing turrets and now, to digital elevation-compensation techno
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Accessibly Accurate Bravo : Howa Krg Bravo
My first long-range rifle took a chunk out of my savings to the tune of nearly $6,000 ... and so did the second one I had built. These custom rifles also took better than six months to complete from the time ordered. Since those days (just a few shor
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Hornady’s New A-tip Tech
So came the instruction from Kyle Lynch, a fellow gun writer and my partner for some shooter/ spotter exercises we were participating in at the Leupold Optics Academy. I spun the elevation turret of the scope and backed off just a bit on the magnific
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Watch Your Speed
There’s a fine line for gun gear. Too much, and you end up with bi-pods, slings and what-have-you moldering away in some closet or on some shelf. Too little, and you run the risk of limiting your potential as a marksman. Yes, you really might need to
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Three Affordable Chronograph Options
This chrony is arguably one of the best values available today. Sensitive enough to handle everything from a BB gun to a .50-caliber, the do-all Ballistic Precision unit is practically everything you need. In addition, the chronograph links up with y
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Secrets Of The Scope
Over the past three decades, I’ve had to extract every bit of accuracy potential from both my recreational and duty rifles. Coached by my precision-driven father on the handloading bench during my teenage years, I developed this same obsession at an

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