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Originally Posted by wayne goerres
One mile is 1760 yards thus 1/2 a mile roufly 860 yards. Quite doable. The lo0ngest recorded shot with a sharps is refured to as the Billy Dixon shot. Billy shot an indian off his horse at 1700 yards with a big 50. Distance was survayed bu the U S calvery.
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In the last 15 or so years Mike Venturino was in Arizona or New Mexico somewhere and he happened to have a couple Army Engineer guys I think they were . Anyway they did some calculations and told him the elevation to use on his Sharps and he made a shot that was considered to be very similar to the Billy Dixon shot .
I shot the Hi Power silhouette range at Ridgeway PA once with peep sighted lever action rifles using cast bullets and let me just say 500 meters (550 yards) with an iron sighted rifle is about it for me !
Suffice to say I doubt if I would have hit what I did without the guy that was spotting for me . That day I used a circa 1952 Marlin 336SC in 35 REM with a Lyman peep and factory front sight with my home cast RCBS 35-200GC bullets pushed with SR4756 or SR7625 can't remmmeber which ! Can't say I hit them all but I did hit a few .