Small Rifle Mistakes Become BIG Misses at Distance

In this series, we're starting with the 223, which is fantastic to learn your wind readings on because that little bullet gets blown around the farther, farther out you go with it.

Once we take what we've learned with the 223, we're gonna move up to the 6.5 Creedmoor.

Now, I understand that a lot of you don't like the 6.5 Creedmoor.

That's on you.

This, in my opinion, is one of the best cartridges to learn on.

I consistently hit 1,000 yards with my first shot with a 6.5 Creedmoor more than any other round I've ever used.

So why aren't we using it for the mile shot? You can, you can hit a mile with a 6.5 Creedmoor.

People do it all the time.

But I want a consistent shot, which is why once we take what we've learned from the Savage 6.5 Creedmoor, we're gonna move up to the 300 PRC.

This bullet can do a mile very easily, and that's what we're gonna do the mile shot on.

Now, talking about all this, our next steps are to talk about how we control the rifle.

Um, more cartridges out there can do what we're attempting, but we made these selections for a reason, and that's part of the Quest to a Mile series.

Our next steps are to talk to you about why you keep missing the target.

If you've never shot before, listen very closely to what we're talking about in this specific video, uh, because it's gonna save you a lot of headaches, except for wind.

Wind's going to create you headaches.

Um, wind is going to be one of your biggest challenges, but we're gonna walk you through wind later on in this course, and we're gonna go step by step on how to read the wind at the different ranges.

So if I'm shooting at 1,000 yards, I wanna get my initial wind reading at where I'm at, and then at 500 yards, I wanna read mirage, wind patterns, and direction, and then do the exact same thing at the target.

Then I take the three combined winds, figure out my dope, and nail the target.

Uh, one of my proud shots is I hit 1,000 yards with my very first shot in 25 mile per hour wind on a rifle that I had never touched before.

Stepped up, chambered it, asked my spotter where the, uh, recommended wind hold was, and I placed that wind hold in, looked at the target and what I saw there, and made my corrections, fired, and nailed it.

That is here on YouTube and in other locations, and there's a link to that shot, it's a short video, uh, in the description as well.