Tips For Long-Range Shooting

Long-range shooting is a type of sport shooting from a rifled long-barreled weapon with a telescopic sight, usually at long distances against small targets. Here we have some tips of long-range shooting for you.

1. Buy a good scope

You cannot go anywhere without sight, and there is not much choice. Humanly speaking, the trajectory in ultra-long-range shooting is so steep that most sights simply don't have enough corrections for drum travel. The larger the field of view, the harder it is to focus on moving animals, the more time it takes to find an animal in the field of view at all. An extreme case is when a hunter is watching an animal at a distance and suddenly finds himself in close proximity to another hunter. The high magnification also means that the scope is much more demanding on the shooter. The shooter must maintain the correct distance from the eye to the eyepiece, meaning it becomes especially important to properly tab the weapon when firing.

2. You should have a ballistics calculator

The most important part of a precision shooter's equipment is the ballistic calculator. It is a program that calculates all the ballistic parameters necessary for shooting, including at ultra-long distances. For shooters, choosing a calculator is as important as to choosing a religion.

3. Choose your body position

In the prone position, shooting accuracy increases dramatically. However, changing your aiming position is not as fast.  Accurate shooting is also an art of calming the body and eliminating unnecessary muscle tension that can later cause tremors. And trembling, in turn, will cause your aiming settings to malfunction. So lie down in a comfortable position and breathe steady, and then take aim.

4. Choose your ammunition

The problem with long-range bullets is their aerodynamics. Understandably, the better it is, the farther the bullets fly.

5. Warm up the bullet

Within reasonable limits, you can warm the bullet in your pocket or in the palm of your hand before firing. Firing a cold bullet is not so dangerous, but sometimes it changes the ballistic characteristics noticeably. To put it simply, a cold bullet won't go exactly where you're aiming. When you warm it up, during the velocity build-up in the barrel when you fire, energy is spent on velocity, not on temperature compensation. The same can be said of the barrel, groupings will tend to get tighter after a few shots.

There are a lot of tricks to learn for long-range shooting, and if you want to get better at it you need to clean your guns regularly with a gun cleaning kit, but you also need to practice more with the tips.