

Palma shooters use iron sights at 1000 yards. You also need a shooter that understands wind, ballistics, breathing, trigger control, etc.Ĥx is enough power to make long range shots. That opens up a whole new topic because then you need a scope that tracks. You can make long range shots using holdovers however, unless you have a special rifle scope you'll be more precise dialing. Here's a few ideas: Gun with acceptable accuracy, good trigger, match ammo, high B.C. He has written many ballistics programs and technical papers dealing with long-range flight dynamics of projectiles.Ģ) The fundamentals of making long range shots with AR-15's are the same as making long range shots with any other rifle and are really too numerous to list all of them now. He then began a career as a missile design engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He graduated from Penn State with a degree in Aerospace Engineering. Brian Litz is a great long range shooter/competitor (NRA High Master) and he's the ballistician for Berger bullets. There are even some really good ballistic calculators available for your smart phone.

There are many excellent or free ballistics calculators available. Edited Decemby Chills1994ġ) If you want to really understand ballistics you should get Brian Litz's book " Applied Ballistics for Long Range Shooting" and a good ballisics calculator. mouse over to the trigger looking thing and click on that and the gun fires. hitting the right arrow or left arrow keys changes the windage. hitting the arrow keys up and down changes the elevation. click on enter, then at the next page, click on the stage letters like A, B, or I in the lower left to really get the game going then. I was just hoping to hit the VolksWagen bus's gas tank so I can watch it explode.ĮTA: at that shooterready link you will probably be on the page with just the kestrel looking wind meter. Somebody will be along shortly to get me (us both?) confused discussing first focal plane (FFP) and second focal plane (SFP) scopes, MOA, and MIL/MIL scopes vs. This locks you into just Winchester (Olin) made products:īut at least it gives you a visual representation of various trajectories.Īs far as dialing in clicks to get your "come ups", sorry, man, I don't have a clue. Which lets you input a velocity, a ballistic coefficient, and a bullet weight.
