Two shots.

In case your curious, here's the guy who let me use his rifle. http://thompsonlongrange.com/

He's a good guy I have known for a year, but he was a little skeptical of what a Marine and a rifle could do. I think he thought I was going to ask for some free classes after missing. I burst his bubble by not missing.

Nice shooting JJ, what range were you shooting at, 1000 Yards?

That was at 790 yards. We drove off onto Mark's land and chained the target to a fence post. We used a range finder to get the distance.

1/2 steel plate target and that rifle almost punched through at that distance.

You planing on going dinosaur hunting? Man that thing packs some punch!

Very cool! Nice shooting JJ.

When you gonna get one of those Rich?

Hah! That set up is worth about as much as my car!

In New England...a 200 yard shot is like a mile.

WELL, 800 yards is almost a half mile, it should work well then!

Wow!

Weatherbys are good rifles. I have two and my brother has one. One of them was a birthday gift from my mom to my dad in 1980. Chambered for .257 Wby Mag, it's a flat shooter.

It's a custom made gun using a hand-loaded 30-378 Weatherby Mag. cartridge. There's something about a rifle that kicks like a 223 but still sends a 200 grain round out the barrel at 3,400+ fps and producing 4,600+ ft/lb of force.

Nice Shooting!

My cousin runs a .300 RUM which has similar ballistics. But, I love the Weatherby cartridges. I use a .257 Weatherby Mag for everything. But, I want a long range .30 cal for the bigger animals at longer distances. I am seriously considering a 30-378 for my big .30.

Again...nice shooting.

To be honest with you, I gave Mark (the owner of the rifle I fired) a hard time about his gun. However, I watched his videos and heard his friends tell stories about his hunting. He knocks big game down at 1,200 plus yards. You don't even have to be quiet at that kind of distance.

I'm not quiet either....I just hunt deaf animals...

Nice shooting!

Don't you feel guilty about hunting the disabled?

Very nice hooting, a photo man who has not lost the touch! I remember when that round first came out and a lot of guys had to have it until it came to finding and paying for the ammo. Still a bad A round.