Thread: long range newbie starting out. gear wanted

Originally Posted by country cuts

hi guys after some advice or experience had on cheaper gear for long range shooting. have just picked up a 300 win mag went this way because I want to tip over deer and goats out to 800 but also have a crack at shooting steel to 1000. so what im after is a scope what sort of power and can it be done on a budget say $1000 and what do I look for in a range finder one I can use with my 308 too would be good. will use factory ammo to break the rifle in then will reload so if there are favorite loads to give ago im all ears.

Hi mate.

Similarly, this is why I bought a 300wm. I am probably getting on top of it nearly a year in. If I were to make a comparison, long range shooting is akin to archery. You need to have a solid understanding of all your variables, including yourself.

I could pretty much shoot it to 650m out of the box and that is really still my limit on a goat in the wild due to variables I'm not good at judging.

I have several steel plates which I hope to get back into in spring. 1000m on steel is quite straight forward really. Three for three on my first attempt. Have yet to go beyond that.

In terms of my set up, it's a B14 hunter, suppressed, Harris bipod, viper PST gen 2 FFP mil. Matched rings, rail. Stabilised and bedded myself. Handloads are 208eldms which, depending on my shooting on the day, I can group between 0.3 and 0.6 moa. It's a hunting rifle first and foremost, not a long range rig.

My advice would be to get consistent at the mid ranges for a good time before moving out further. This will let you bed in your equipment and yourself.

The PST gen 2 has kept me happy this far as an economical longer range scope.

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