22LR is possible in less restricted surroundings. Access to these few remaining ranges will only get more difficult as time goes by and military requirements predominate. Now, there are only about 14 ranges other than Bisley remaining open to civilian use in the whole of England and Wales. In Somerset alone, there are 35 sites of former rifle ranges, including (for example) a short-lived 36 target, 1000 yard range on the south side of Bristol. If you divide the area of the island by that number, it works out that the average distance between adjacent ranges was under 7 miles. Between 18, about 2000 ranges were constructed in Great Britain. Did you know that 100 years ago, the UK was covered with small rifle ranges, many of which were 800 yards long. I have already spoken about the closure of ranges around the country. 22RF is that not many years ahead, there may be little alternative, at least outside Bisley Camp. The main reason I offer you for giving serious consideration to Long Range. The practical limit for competitive shooting with it appears to be 500 yards, but it is possible to hit the target fairly often at 600 yards. For reasons which I will give later, I would define “short” range for this cartridge as up to 150 yards “long” range as between 150 and 300 yards and “ultra long” range as over 300 yards. In fact, 100 yards is still “short range” for the. 22 Long Rifle cartridge is done at 25 yards or 50 metres, and the NSRA only provide targets for distances up to 100 yards. 22LR cartridge is not quite as poor as is commonly supposed.Īs you know, most shooting with rifles chambered for the. Perhaps the ballistic performance of the. After nearly 2 seconds in flight, it still retains 55% of its muzzle velocity of 1100 ft/s in comparison, a Match Rifle bullet fired at 2750 ft/s only retains about 40% of its muzzle velocity after its 2 seconds in flight out to 1200 yards. It was the remaining velocity which impressed me. 22 bullet would travel 514 yards in 1.95 seconds, with a remaining velocity of 600 ft/s. Kolbe’s condensed ballistic table indicates that if fired at an angle of elevation of 115 minutes, the 40 grain. 22LR ballistics in Geoffrey Kolbe’s excellent “Ballistics Handbook”, published in 2000. 22 Rimfire at distances longer than 100 yards (I use the terms “.22 Rimfire” and “.22 Long Rifle” interchangeably).Īlthough I have been interested in ballistics for several decades, it was not until 2009 that I noticed the chapter on. So a different approach is needed if open range shooting is to continue, and I started to wonder about shooting.
In the present and foreseeably future legal climate, with its emphasis on risk reduction, environmental health and safety, it is well nigh impossible to replace lost ranges for fullbore shooting. Without facilities near where they live, young people will never have the opportunity to take up target rifle shooting. The majority of ranges up and down the country have been closed. From about 2008, following the closure and demolition of Pilning and Tyddesley Wood, the last two 600 yard ranges in Gloucestershire (where I live) and Worcestershire (where I was brought up), I began to realise that provincial open range shooting in this country was about to disappear.
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