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First, can you shoot to 800 accurately? If so, then you already know what you need done! You will need a fair amount in scope, bottom barrel I'd say 200 bucks should do it. That leaves 500 for a rifle? Buy a savage stevens and get a real stock and a decent trigger for it. You're out of money so hope that barrel is a shooter!
Oh yeah, youll need a good range finder, several hundred bucks for one of those, too. if you.don't already own one and dont have.a sepatate budget for that then I'm with the above.who say youre a bit thin.in the wallet to undertake this.
I'm not saying that at all. He may very well be able to slap something together that can do the job at that range. I doubt he can work the trigger and turrets for the shot though. Most people don't understand what makes a shot that hard in real life. Shooting a man sized target at 300 meters is enough of a b!tch for me to do consistantly, let alone something I may actually have a use for.Hey OP, are you wanting to do this cold bore one shot type of a thing? Do you have somewhere to spend literally all day zeroing a rifle?
Is he talking about cleanly harvesting these animals " deer,elk,caribou,black bear,antelope,wolf,coyote,moose,sheep,goats" out to 800 yards ?
Quote from: videoman on December 27, 2011, 11:30:10 PMI don't think you can build a 800yd ethical killing rifle for $700I'm thinking he wanted to spend $700 or less on the rifle, not the rifle and scope.
I don't think you can build a 800yd ethical killing rifle for $700
Ghost hunter, when you wake up and read this, please understand I'm not trying to bash you, I just don't think you've grasped the entire concept of all the math involved and the expense of shooting that far. There is only one way to shoot long distance. That one way is also the most expensive part of the entire equation. AMMO! And lots of it. TONS and TONS of it! Even if you handload it still won't be a good idea. Join a marksman club somewhere. I still talk to young joes in the army that think a sniper rifle is some gun with a massive scope on it. They can tell me the stats about every sniper system in call of duty, and when I start getting into the long range ballistics their go to response is to mumble something about the coriolis effect. Not a single one can tell me anything about moving turrets. They forget that bullets arc and they aren't laser beams.
Quote from: coyotewallace on December 27, 2011, 11:54:53 PMIs he talking about cleanly harvesting these animals " deer,elk,caribou,black bear,antelope,wolf,coyote,moose,sheep,goats" out to 800 yards ?In the interest of qualifying my comment: I did not read his post that way. I dont think you can build a hunting setup to kill from 100-800yards for $700. I DO think you could make a dedicated setup for ranges of 500-650 yards in that budget. OP was impressed by an article but only said he wants a dedicated gun to shoot out to "longer ranges." So I guess its in the eye of thebeholder. I have a $500 scope+rifle combo that I can nail targets out to 550 yards consistently. Thats the farthest at the 'public' range I can shoot withoutpaying member dues.OP also admitted to being a bit of a puss as far as recoil goes. Magnums dont really fit well into that. so I would go with .308 or .30-06.
True enough. It's hard to keep a thread on topic at 1 am when the OP went to bed right after he posted. Speaking of which I should try that again. I'll be back in 5 hours.OP if you aren't back by then I'm going to your house and I'm gonna stand 801 yards away and yell at you!
