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Re: The best 500m cartridge

Post by SCJ429 » 19 Oct 2019, 6:27 pm

Ziad wrote:Nearly evening can reach 500m. For hunters it not much of an issue.. heard plenty of hunters saying their 243/308/xxx shot 1" group's at 500m and many bench rest shooters at the range with their 10k setup weren't even hitting 20" targets at 50m.


It is one thing to say you can shoot a one inch group at 500 but another thing to deliver the goods. If you can do one inch or better at a Fly Shoot they recognise it with a screamer patch. I have not come close.

What bench shooters cannot hit a gong at 50 metres, I don't understand what you are saying there. Was it pitch black?

I have used a 243 at 500 and it is very capable. Check the link out for a 243 that can deliver the goods.
https://www.6mmbr.com/gunweek024.html
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Re: The best 500m cartridge

Post by Apollo » 19 Oct 2019, 8:37 pm

SCJ429 wrote:
Ziad wrote:Nearly evening can reach 500m. For hunters it not much of an issue.. heard plenty of hunters saying their 243/308/xxx shot 1" group's at 500m and many bench rest shooters at the range with their 10k setup weren't even hitting 20" targets at 50m.


It is one thing to say you can shoot a one inch group at 500 but another thing to deliver the goods. If you can do one inch or better at a Fly Shoot they recognise it with a screamer patch. I have not come close.

What bench shooters cannot hit a gong at 50 metres, I don't understand what you are saying there. Was it pitch black?

I have used a 243 at 500 and it is very capable. Check the link out for a 243 that can deliver the goods.
https://www.6mmbr.com/gunweek024.html


Well, I've shot at 500m quite a bit. Only on a few occasions got close to an inch group, just over an inch before the Screamer Patch idea started which is actually a 5 shot group of 1.250" or less. Saying you can do 1" groups at 500m is all bull crap, it takes quite a bit of skill to be that accurate all day. Too many variables happen.

Unless the 243W is a special built custom rifle with a special twist rate it isn't going to go very well at 500m compared to other purpose built rifle calibres. I shoot a Sako 85 .243W Varmint in 300m competition, have won with it against a number of other calibres including the likes of a .308 and it does have an edge over smaller calibres BUT...it's nowhere near the ballpark required to compete at 500metres by a long, long shot.
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Re: The best 500m cartridge

Post by duncan61 » 19 Oct 2019, 10:29 pm

My 7mm Rem Mag with the 26 inch stainless barrel and 168gn Match Kings will out shoot my .243 Howa all day long at any distance but the recoil lying down gets a bit much on the 7mm.If the range is set at 300 yards I will go the .243 and do O.K.I am more into zeroing than competing against the top guns
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Re: The best 500m cartridge

Post by duncan61 » 19 Oct 2019, 10:50 pm

https://www.6mmbr.com/gunweek024.html Great link.My point exactly.I have read in earlier post shooters tuning up .223 however the few I have seen at the range struggled with wind drift and elevation at 1000 yards even with the 1.7/8 twist and 80gn pills
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