long range open sights???

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found this on you tube

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4FCVEjPLdk&NR=1

 

cheers

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[Guest buster321c]

That cant be right , i could`nt even see that far

[Mr_Logic 5]

To hit a circular target, irons are very effective. Certainly there were a lot of v-bulls shot with them at 1000 when I was at Bisley last week!

[RicW 67]

  Mr_Logic said:

To hit a circular target, irons are very effective. Certainly there were a lot of v-bulls shot with them at 1000 when I was at Bisley last week!

According to Wikipedia Sharpes rifles were manufactured in the 1860s-1870s for 1000yd target shooting using ladder sights and black powder cartridges.

The rifle in the vid is a replica Sharpes. The term "sharpshooter" derives from the rifle!

Ric

[arveyboy 0]

i've done it out to 600m at a military range with a .308 and iron sights. awesome fun but i was crap at it

[SNAP SHOT 194]

this is indeed for real, i've watched a few such programmes about this,

 

takes great skill but is achieveable.......

[shottyscotty 3]

they used to use lea enfield mark 3 .303 to shoot 900 metres in ww1 with open sights

[RicW 67]

  shottyscotty said:

they used to use lea enfield mark 3 .303 to shoot 900 metres in ww1 with open sights

Way back in the sixties when I had a sniperised Lee-Enfield there were guys in the club who could hold 1MOA at 300yds with peep sights. Yes, that's ten in a three inch group. At 300yds. With iron sights. Youse blokes don't know how jammy you are with all yer fancy glassware! At Adobe Walls Billy Dixon knocked a Cherokee chief off his horse at half a mile with ladder sights on a Sharps 52.

Ric

[Mr_Logic 5]

I've got an old deactivated Chassepot rifle in my loft, well, my parents' loft, it has iron sights to 1000m, and was made 1871.