150 yards of bullet drop

[CowboyTutt]

I've never met the guy, but his skills are just so extraordinary. I like the way he just throws around "150 yards of bullet drop" so flippantly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFoxfjORvh8&t=47s

And he finishes with "It's better to be lucky than good any day!" LMAO! As a friend said to me recently, "bullets can never be too heavy, only too long."

Regards,

-Tutt

[Scott Tschirhart]

That looks like a lot of fun. It would take me all day to do that with any revolver, and then it would be mostly luck.

[GunnyMack]

We have a program at school for calculating trajectory. Just for the heck of it i put in the 25-20 , velocity & 60 gr bullet. If I remember correctly the hold over was about 150 yards.

[marlinman93]

Never tried 1,000 yds. but have done a fair amount of dinger ringing at 450-500 yds. All sorts of calibers from .45 Colt, and .45 ACP, plus .38 Special, and 9mm. I love shooting handguns at longer than what people consider normal distances.

[CowboyTutt]

People just don't think to try this stuff at long range, but the reality is, almost anyone can do it. Others I have met tell me it was just normal for their family to hunt with revolvers at long range, or target shoot at that range, and think nothing of it. I'm lucky in that I have a mentor named Jim W. who demonstrates this type of shooting all the time with rifles and handguns. One of my most cherished memories was Jim and I at the L.A. Shooting range our first time I'm guessing, many years ago. Everyone was hunkered down over their rifles, bags and concrete benches shooting long range and Jim was standing up firing away at 6-700 yard gongs. And hitting them. I looked at him and thought "OMG", stood up and started shooting from standing off-hand. Dueling 71/84 Mausers in 11mm Mauser. I am a lefty because of eye dominance so we were shooting back to back as he had the shooting lane to my right. In the moment, he gave me the courage to try. But shooting standing with a 71/84 Mauser back to back with him was really a wonderfully bonding and incredibly eye opening experience. And Jim would do the same with a 38 snubbie DA revolver and hit targets at 100 yards off-hand. Its like playing tennis or any sport. If you want to get really good at it, play against someone much better than yourself. And you will get better. But yes, anyone can practice and do it entirely on their own too.

Regards, -Tutt

[marlinman93]

I started doing it simply to pass time during a lull in our annual longrange shoots. The winds had picked up pretty good and most guys took a break to grab a bite of lunch. After lunch it was still breezy, so I figured why not get out my carry gun, a S&W 59 9mm, and plink with it. Another guy grabbed his pistol, and we were shooting at 150 yd. dingers and hitting pretty good. So we moved to the 300 yd. and then the 400 and 450 yd. dingers.
Pretty soon there were about 4-5 guys out there shooting handguns at the 450-500 yd. dingers, and all having tons of fun. Now we always at some point during our get together bring out our handguns and practice some longrange fun shooting. Nothing puts a smile on your face like hearing a ding when you're holding way over the steel plates!

[CowboyTutt]

That is , thanks for sharing! -Tutt