lazyengineer Wrote:I am curious, I'm not familiar with an 850 yard course of fire. Most of the time I see Service Rifle delineated in increments of 100 yards, with Long Range being 800, 900, and 1000 yard as the more typical strings. I didn't know ShotMarker had an 850 yard NRA regulation target distance in its' library, or there were NRA regulation 850 yard black targets?
The FPS was bare minimum at 1180, 1130 for the SM is minimum.
Nope no NRA 850, and if you were to shoot it with a rangefinder it's only 835. it's just when our range was renovated the powers that be had the berm at 850 and the flip up targets installed at 835 because of a drainage pond. When we shoot competition we move the portable electronics to the other side of the drainage pond at 800. WHen I hang my SM I use the flip up at 835, I just call it 850 since it sounds a little less strange. No idea why the range was done that way, above my paygrade kind of thing. Since there is no regulation 800, 835,850, or 800 yard targets the 1000 yard targets are used for F class and NRA tactical prone as well as HP competition. That is why I tell newbies to F class that the 800 yard matches are the easiest because the target has a 10 inch ten ring whereas the 300 ten ring is a bit less than 3 inches and the 600 is exactly 6 inches. You can double that for the NRA HP targets which is what the prone uses. After shooting F class for a few years a 20 inch ten ring is like shooting at the side of a barn
Still I will have some serious competition if I move over to this class for the matches. We have some good riflemen at our club In F open matches I am a just a middle of the pack shooter. In the three years I have been competing the best I have done is one third place. In the December 800 yard match a buddy shot a 198, 194, and a 180 something with a .223 AR using 77 gn handloads in the tactical prone division. That was his first time shooting in that class also and the wind was kicking on his last target