Originally Posted by
Kenneth
Precision rifle isn't about shooting loads of ammo.
I shoot about 20-50 rounds a week through mine and I feel like that's a lot.
Honestly shooting precision rifle gets boring pretty fast unless you have extended ranges to shoot at. I'm limited to 350 yards at my local range and that's usually all I shoot at. A few at 100 for tiny groups and the rest banging steel. I can only shoot steel so many times in a row before it gets old.
I load my own ammo so it's usually a constant version of testing. I shoot a few rounds then stop and tinker with something else. Then back in the bolt gun for a few more rounds. It's not uncommon for me to spend 5+ hours at the range and only shoot 50 rounds through my bolt gun.
To me long range precision is accurate SLOW fire. You will spend more time cleaning and learning about the gun then you will shooting it.
My advice if you want to shoot a lot is to take a long range precision class and get it out of your system.
Once you become a reloader you can shoot the round and reload it over and over. I have 150 pieces of Hornady brass that I am using until I open the 500 pieces of lapua I have. I'm on the 4 th firing of the Hornady.
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Your kind of precision shooting is definitely one kind of precision shooting...
But ask the guys and gals that shoot PRS or other LR competitions -- they'll talk to you about positional shooting, breath control after running, timers, target transitions, movers, barriers, low contrast targets, and a bunch of other "field" condition variables that require precision AND a host of other rifle handling/shooting skills.
At the very least, you could do dot drills, which IMHO are more challenging than shooting plain ol' groups.
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