Comments on: Ringing Steel at 1500 Yards — With a Little Help from AB Kestrel https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2017/03/ringing-steel-at-1500-yards-with-a-little-help-from-ab-kestrel/ from AccurateShooter.com Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:26:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: Robert https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2017/03/ringing-steel-at-1500-yards-with-a-little-help-from-ab-kestrel/comment-page-1/#comment-52387 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:23:26 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=54481#comment-52387 It take 2.6 seconds from muzzle to target, but wouldn’t it take the sound of the steel ring 4 seconds to get back?
4500 feet / 1125 (speed of sound in ft/s) = 4 +2.6

That’s even more impressive.

]]> By: Paul https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2017/03/ringing-steel-at-1500-yards-with-a-little-help-from-ab-kestrel/comment-page-1/#comment-47365 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 15:28:46 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=54481#comment-47365 Robert’s Precision quality of work is second to none. Great people to deal with. My personal choice for a smith.

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]]> By: Alan https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2017/03/ringing-steel-at-1500-yards-with-a-little-help-from-ab-kestrel/comment-page-1/#comment-47349 Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:19:14 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=54481#comment-47349 This reminds me of what was probably the luckiest shot of my career. In April 2010 the inaugural Coonabarabran 1500 yard shoot was held (in central New South Wales, Australia). Due to a rain interruption, I had no opportunity to practice at shorter ranges, so the first sighter at 1500 yards was my first shot at the location. The targets were 8 ft wide by 6ft high with rings normally used for 800 and 900 yards. Fortunately there was a very light cross-wind. I squeezed off the sighter and the target went down, which was promising, then it stayed down for a long time, which was worrying, then it came back up, with a bulls-eye! That meant it was somewhere between 6 and 12 inches from the middle. Calibre was a 6.5-284 using Berger 140 VLDs at just over 3000 fps. Trajectory was calculated using an Excel spreadsheet and wind adjustment was based very approximately on some distant flags and a couple of tall gum trees!

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