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eggs at 500 yards

skychaser53skychaser53 Member Posts: 344 ✭✭✭
edited July 2008 in Perry Shooter Competition Shooting and Reloading Forum
Is this true ? A co-worker told me people were shooting eggs at 500 yards ! He mentioned the .204 I believe,.I'm thinking you need a 1000 dollar scope for this lol. I just put a new scope today with Mildot on my Rem 700 22-250. With 8 bullets I am hitting an inch off center at 200 yards. Not bad off the top of my S10 Chevy, with a pillow for support :o)
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  • XXCrossXXCross Member Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ostrich eggs maybe............big maybe
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  • brickmaster1248brickmaster1248 Member Posts: 3,344
    edited November -1
    http://accurateshooter.net/pix/dstriptargetx900.jpg


    its very possible
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There is an egg shoot match at 500 yards in Gallipolis OH. Lots of people hit it.
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  • skychaser53skychaser53 Member Posts: 344 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    eggs at 500 is what got me interested in how much a bullet drops. Right now I'll settle for a groundhog at 500 :o)
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  • skychaser53skychaser53 Member Posts: 344 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    bpost1958

    Is that a yearly or monthly shoot? Do you know when? I'm 2 hrs from there. I wouldn't mind seeing that and what equipment people are using.
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    skychaser53,

    From the Diggles Range (UK):

    "Our famous 500 yd Easter Egg Shoot and the 500 yd Fly shoot are great favourites with accuracy shooters far and wide."

    http://www.diggleranges.com/

    There are lots of Egg Shoots in the U.S. mostly east of the Mississippi River. These contests have migrated further west as more folks leave the anti-gun environs of the east. The internet has provided the best avenue of communication about these types of competitions and has helped with the growth of the idea.

    The Eastern shoots had been limited to 300 yards to accommodate the Factory class rifles, using the 500 yard eggs as tie-breakers. But with the rapid increase of more highly refined custom rifles, venues are now featuring the longer 500 yard to provide a greater degree of competition for the shooters. A check of the new IBS 600 yard records will give you an idea of just how much shooters have progressed. To add to the difficulty, some of the rules eliminate sighters.

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    Best.
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  • dclocodcloco Member Posts: 2,967
    edited November -1
    Not an egg shoot...and only 490ish yards, but the result is the same.

    There IS some gore...so you have been warned!!

    http://www.rugerhunting.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5157&start=0
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  • rg666rg666 Member Posts: 395 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    California is in the west lol I think its now called little England isnt it?

    quote:Originally posted by nononsense
    skychaser53,

    "Our famous 500 yd Easter Egg Shoot and the 500 yd Fly shoot are great favourites with accuracy shooters far and wide."

    http://www.diggleranges.com/

    There are lots of Egg Shoots in the U.S. mostly east of the Mississippi River. These contests have migrated further west as more folks leave the anti-gun environs of the east.

    3084168511f32ec408fbws5.jpg


    Best.
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by skychaser53
    bpost1958

    Is that a yearly or monthly shoot? Do you know when? I'm 2 hrs from there. I wouldn't mind seeing that and what equipment people are using.

    I will see if I can find the phone number for you and e-mail or post it here.
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    We used to do charity shoots at 225yds. out at the nM Shooting Range Park for a buck a shot, but they have decided that it's just too funky for about 2 weeks afterwards to let us do it anymore. Even after we scraped egg remnants out of the caliche and off the berms it reeked.
    We limited it to .22s and 22WMRFs to keep it interesting.
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  • iwannausernameiwannausername Member Posts: 7,131
    edited November -1
    Public range in the Osceola Nat'l Forest used to do egg shoots @ 200 yards, but like another said, too stinky in the days/weeks following.

    Now they use golf balls.
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  • skychaser53skychaser53 Member Posts: 344 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    according to the internet, Gallopolis OHio, has a monthly shoot. I will be going :o)
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