1000 meter buffalo

[Gabriel Law]

Above is a picture taken earlier today at our Rod and Gun Club's 1200 yard range.  This buffalo target is brand new.  A crew of us installed in on the weekend last.  It is AR 500 x 1/2" thick steel, and is 8' x 4'.  It weighs about  650 pounds!  So mine are the first shots on the target.  It took a while to find the range, having never shot that far before, and there being so much vegetation hiding bullet strikes.  But eventually I got some hits in the loose soil underneath the target, and dialed it in.  I hit it four times out of six once I found the range.  The buffalo sits at 1000 meters which is about 1100 yards.
The rifle is my Shiloh Sharps with a Harry McGowan business barrel @ 28 inches long, and in 50 Alaskan calibre.  I load a BACo 600 grain 30:1 (lead/tin) bullet lubed with SPG over 90 grains of 1 1/2 Swiss Black Powder.  Front and rear sights are from Montana Vintage Arms.  Check out how high up the staff that aperture is!  What joy!

[Coffinmaker]

THAT right there is ....... some real nice shooting.  I don't even think I could SEE 1000 meters any more.  Maybe in brail 

Coffinmaker

[Hargrave]

Very nice .... the buffalo ... the shooting .... and the legs !

I wish the range I belong to had that sort of distance ... 200 yards is a far as we go .... but a buffalo cut out is sounding kind of a good idea ... might have to look into having one made !

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[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

You finally got the range working. I went out there with Sheldon almost 10 years ago to look around.