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Long Range Shooting Page

Shooting Long Range is a challenge more and more shooters are wanting to try.  We have several long range matches scheduled for 2004 and we welcome new shooters to join us.  But shooting at 1000 yards is a completely different challenge than shooting "across the course".  Please be sure before starting out that your equipment and loads are adequate before attempting to shoot long range:  see the "General Comments to New Shooters" below.  In the next couple of months we will be posting information and links on this page to help you get started.  Please keep checking back, or e-mail with questions.  

Looking for equipment to get started?  Check out the Tube Gun kits offered by MAK enterprises.  These are the rifles featured in the recent Precision Shooting magazine and used by our top shooters.  Click Here

Other long range matches:  we'll post other match schedules as they come in.  

Oak Ridge Sportsmen's Association 2005 match schedule:  CLICK HERE

Ft. Knox, Ky Highpower and Long Range:  Click Here

MRPA Long Range at Camp Grayling, Michigan:  Click Here

General Comments to New Shooters

If you are new to Long Range shooting, please heed the following. The vast majority of “factory” ammunition is not capable of maintaining velocity out to 1000 yd. Also, many bullets are not suited for long range shooting. I have seen many new shooters bring .308 Winchesters, factory varmint rifles, AR-15s, and scopes with insufficient elevation to Range 10 and expect to hit paper without testing their ammunition on a chronograph and ballistics table. There is nothing more disappointing than making the trip to Grayling and have your ammunition fail to make the distance by going subsonic along the way. Two recommendations are to stay away from 168 gr. .30 caliber bullets and leave your AR-15 at home. The 168 gr. bullets are not suited for 1000 yd. shooting in your .308 Winchester (try the 175’s instead) and the AR-15 requires too much effort for a new shooter to have a successful first time out. Do your homework ahead of time and come prepared with reliable ammunition and equipment.

(From the MRPA Long Range prgram.  Our Thanks to the MRPA for permission to post.

 

 

If you are a new shooter to Atterbury or returning after more than a year  please contact us NO LATER THAN THURSDAY AFTERNOON BEFORE A MATCH for security clearance.   Sign up on-line by e-mail at suemogle@yahoo.com or use the form on the "Shooting at Atterbury" page.  YOU WILL NOT BE ADMITTED TO THE BASE UNLESS YOUR NAME IS ON THE SECURITY CLEARANCE LIST.   Match fees can be paid and squadding will be done on-site at sign-up in the parking lot behind KD-5.

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