Hello Renrich,
Lookup Billy Dixon at Adobe Walls. Now THAT was a long range shot. I know this is getting a bit off topic, but there are some that believe that a Schuetzen type muzzle loader with a false muzzle using Black Powder is potentially one of the most accurate kinds of rifle though entirely impractical for anything other than target shooting. The reason I believe some of these are minorly relevant to the discussion is that bullets of this type that aren't pointy and sleek and don't have a wonderful ballistic coefficient are still capable of quite excellent long range accuracy. The midrange trajectory will take them over a multi story house, but they still tend to come down in fairly tight clusters with most of the velocity they were launched at.
Regarding rifle actions and extreme accuracy, The Mosin Nagant is most certainly obsolete, The Mauser 98 is also though perhaps not as bad. Even the ubiquitous Remington 700 is not competitive. Multi lug actions such as the Stolle "Bears" and the AR-15/AR-10 type are the current state of the art.
Pardon me if I have offended anyone. It really was not my intent.
- Ivan.
Lookup Billy Dixon at Adobe Walls. Now THAT was a long range shot. I know this is getting a bit off topic, but there are some that believe that a Schuetzen type muzzle loader with a false muzzle using Black Powder is potentially one of the most accurate kinds of rifle though entirely impractical for anything other than target shooting. The reason I believe some of these are minorly relevant to the discussion is that bullets of this type that aren't pointy and sleek and don't have a wonderful ballistic coefficient are still capable of quite excellent long range accuracy. The midrange trajectory will take them over a multi story house, but they still tend to come down in fairly tight clusters with most of the velocity they were launched at.
Regarding rifle actions and extreme accuracy, The Mosin Nagant is most certainly obsolete, The Mauser 98 is also though perhaps not as bad. Even the ubiquitous Remington 700 is not competitive. Multi lug actions such as the Stolle "Bears" and the AR-15/AR-10 type are the current state of the art.
Pardon me if I have offended anyone. It really was not my intent.
- Ivan.