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Interesting how "1,000 yard shooting" always seems to go hand-in-hand with the .50 BMG.

I suppose a fellow could use Mr Browning's .50 for shooting deer at 100 yards or less from his favorite ground blind...

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; Shooting at long range is a specialty of the .5 clubs around the States for sure. However - the current and past record bench rest records are very much small than the smallest group ever shot by a .5. The current 1st and 2nd place winners are .30 cal.. with 5 shot groups of under and just over 1 1/2". I think the current .5 bench rest rifles are still struggling between 3 and 5 inches. It was only a couple years ago, that the smallest .5 group was around 5 1/2" for 5 shots.
; The record 1 shot, 1 kill Taliban still sits with a Canadian snipe with a .5 - somewhere between 2,400 and 2,500 yards. This is a game that nothing smaller cannot compete in - at least .5 is where the match bullets capable of maintaining 1/3MOA at long ranges have some emphasis.
; I suspect a .416 to .458 calibre wildcat could be made to work, but as yet, there is no work being done with BR quality bullets in those calibres as far as I know. - Could be, though.
; I should add to this, sniper work for freedom is where the .5 belongs and due to the private use of the round in clubs for long range TARGET shooting, the true accuracy potential of the round has been brought out.
; If someone wants to use one for shooting big game out to 300 yards, I'm all for it along with about any other round suitable - to 300 yards. I do not condone shooting anything but Taliban and El K's any further out.
: Too much happens between the trigger pull and the bullet hit. Even at 300, the animal can move and make a gut shot.

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Daryl


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