All the "ELR" Talk...

[98Z5V]

So, 4 or 5 years ago, we discovered that the offset Long Range site, from the SDTF - that particular 850-yard target over there, was 1.00 Miles from the campsite right at SDTF.  We've been shooting a legitimate Statute Mile (1760 yards) ever since.  In all that time, we were simply shooting at an IPSC plate, which, at 18" wide, isn't even 1 MOA wide for that distance - run the math.  2 Fall Shoots ago, we have a few years of this Mile thing under our belt, and we increased the target size, and more people start hitting the Mile, with many more calibers.  That was the desire - get more people on target, get more hits, get more people interested in stretching this stuff out further.  But, then, we're getting hits with a 6.5 CM, that goes subsonic at 1400-1500 yards...   I mean, if you shoot at it long enough, you'll probably hit the thing...

This coming January will be the 2nd anniversary of setting up the 2k.  We had to do something.  We had to stretch the distance, over the Statute Mile, 1760, make it tougher, and eliminate the braggarts with their 6.5 CM "that shoot a Mile..."   well, they HIT the Mile, but that doesn't mean "they shoot a mile..."  Big difference...

Last Fall, 2280 came out.  This Fall, more is coming out, and we have 2900 on the books...  Hopefully...

Everyone is now talking "ELR" this and that - we're not shooting ELR...   Nowhere close...  Of course, back in the day, you were a badass if you could plan, set up, and execute a shot at 1,000 yards.  Okay, we can do that with small-frame ARs now.  1k is a joke.  So is the Statute Mile, 1760.  All we're simply doing is shooting the Nautical Mile (2,000 yards), and hitting it routinely.  2280 came up, 4 people went up the hill, 4 people hit it.  Great.  BUT...  this is NOT "EXTREME LONG RANGE..."  It's just not.

Yeah, it's Long Range, for sure.  But, it just isn't ELR.

For some perspective, check this interview out with Chase "Pump" Stroud and Erik Cortina...

  

We're only shooting "Long Range," people - we aren't doing any ELR, not quite yet.  Be quite some time before we can pull anything off like that.  Gonna take different calibers, different guns, and some radically different Density Altitude, to pull off any ELR out here, FWIW. 

By all means, be proud of what you've accomplished, and hit - we've come a long way, in a short amount of time, really.  We're not in any ELR game at this point, though...   

Edited 10 hours ago by 98Z5V