Climb/Shoot?

Josh B wrote:

You know how annoying crag dogs, crag babies, crag drones, and crag bluetooth speakers can be? Crag guns are worse than all of the above.

Unless you're the one who gets to shoot.

If you want solitude all you have to do is hike farther.

Matt N wrote: How do you LNT?

Three of best practices.

Establish your target area (with a natural backstop-and if using a tree, use a dead one) and don't shoot at any other direction.

Stake out your shooting positions prior to going hot at the distances you're wanted to practice. Place your stakes on relatively clear ground where the brass will be most visable.

Don't reload your mags until you police your brass. I have four mags for my glock, I will shoot those off, and before reloading them and firing again, I will insure that I have all brass policed to insure that my collected casings match rounds fired.

Well, at Manassa you can climb and then do rather long range shooting along with the locals that setup their .50 cals and .338 Lapuas right on the road in to the crag. We stopped briefly on the way out to check out their rifles. They are old guys, too, not the creepy redneck youngun variety. 

Yeah, I try to fleece up the brass but, shoot a box of 50 and I never seem to find that last shell.

Still, its a bit like footprints, you can see what others have been doing.

Long range shooting is cool too. I got a .300WSM Winchester, a Ruger Precision Rifle in 6.5 Creedemore and a Les Baer SWAT Monolith with a 25x Swarovski.
The latter gives me 3 shot groups that touch each other at 200 yards.

Anybody see the current world record of 10 shots at 1,000 yards?
Its smaller than my fist!

Can I rattle off a few clips into my project so I can get a few extra shallow holds?

Ma Ja wrote: Can I rattle off a few clips into my project so I can get a few extra shallow holds?

Hahahaha!!

How are you liking that 6.5 Creedemore, Ron? Looks like a nice round.

The Blueprint Part Dank wrote:

...best practices.

Establish your target area (with a natural backstop-and if using a tree, use a dead one)...

The bit about a tree is dangerous and illegal. Live, dead, driftwood or plywood, a wood backstop of any kind can cost six months and $5k...maybe even an eponymous forest fire. There's also the matter of bullets ricocheting off wood. Shoot into dirt.

Tradgic Yogurt wrote: Here's a better idea - find some private land so you don't risk endangering the public.

I like the private land idea. I've been endangered twice on public lands. Frothing-at-the-mouth, in-my-face and unhinged anti-gunners looking for a fight...while I'm holding a firearm. What could go wrong?

A good time to test out your pepper spray.

I also have some rubber buckshot.

The 6.5 is much more fun to shoot than the .300WSM
So far I have only taken it to 400m, and it can do at least 3 times that.
The stock is fully adjustable, and the muzzle brake is very effective.

Nice to hear. I only recently heard about the round.

Love where this thread went  

Thanks for the recs people

Lutz,

I own a Seacamp .32

ABB wrote:

The bit about a tree is dangerous and illegal. Live, dead, driftwood or plywood, a wood backstop of any kind can cost six months and $5k...maybe even an eponymous forest fire. There's also the matter of bullets ricocheting off wood. Shoot into dirt.

I didn't realize that, as I was basing my info on a conversation I had with a Forrest Service LEO who was checking in on the area I was shooting. Guess he was wrong?