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2/13/2009 9:04:06 PM EDT
I was shooting the shit with a client today and he tells me he's into long range muzzleloading competitions.  Granted, I know they exist, but I don't know much about them.  He proceeds to tell me he's got a "tricked out" Thompson Center Pro Hunter.  I tell him that I'm familiar with the gun because I own one, currently in a 300 Mag Configuration.  He says he's got the barrel bored out to .55 and some additional mods to the ignition system.  Okay, so far so good.  

He then tells me he's won $10,000 at these competitions because he is able to shoot a one and one half inch (1 1/2") group at eight hundred (800) yards.  He then proceeds to tell me he can do this with his 30.06 as well.  

So can we officially call shenanigans?
2/13/2009 9:08:33 PM EDT
[#1]
He's full of shit; only I can shoot like that.
2/13/2009 9:11:03 PM EDT
[#2]
Drinks on you after all those $10,000 prizes!  

Isn't this even better than Camp Perry?  I mean that's what, like .25 MOA with a muzzleloader.  I need to get some of that shit to smoke.
2/13/2009 9:16:58 PM EDT
[#3]
Shit, I can do that offhand with my 16" AR with Iron sights.  I can't imagine why this guy couldn't do it with some super tricked out bang stick.
2/13/2009 9:19:25 PM EDT
[#4]
you only need to say two words to him.......Prove It.
2/13/2009 9:27:01 PM EDT
[#5]
During the 1860's, precision muzzle loading rifle shooters competed at ranges out to 1,000 yards. Whitworth rifles were coveted by Confederate snipers during the Civil War. Kills beyond 800 yards were common.
2/13/2009 10:07:26 PM EDT
[#6]
1.5 MOA , Maybe . 1.5" , no way in hell
2/13/2009 10:21:56 PM EDT
[#7]
Raise the BS flag.  He should had stopped before "bored out".  Find out who rifled the barrel afterwards.

Ask him the name of the maker of his bullet molds, and ask him the weight of the bullets he shoots.
2/13/2009 10:24:15 PM EDT
[#8]
So full of shit he needs a wheel barrow to haul it all around.