What's your average shooting distance?

[Frankie]

What's the average distance you find yourself shooting your 15-22 - are you geared more towards up close and tactical or are you pushing long range?

Since I mainly shoot paper targets I find myself shooting at about 25yds, sometimes even closer. This is because any further out and I can barely tell where I am hitting the paper.

[edgecrusher]

i shoot my gsg5 out to 100yds, but not much. mostly to 50 yds on steel, you can always hear your hit

[Frankie]

Do you have your own steel targets or are they range provided?

[edgecrusher]

i bring some from what i cut as scrap from work.

[Frankie]

Nice!

I need to invest in some steel to mix up my shooting. Do you recommend any particular type/thickness for .22LR?

[Microgunner]

I generally shoot .22lr rifles at 50 yards, .22lr handguns out to 25 yards.

[asmurff]

I shoot a tricked out 10/22 in Rimfire Tactical matches the targets are generally 25yd since shooters can use rifles or pistols.

50 to 100 yds when I'm trying to improve my accuracy. I have an el cheapo Marlin bolt action .22 I love to use off the bench with bi-pod at 50 yards on small challenging targets.

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[edgecrusher]

Nice!

I need to invest in some steel to mix up my shooting. Do you recommend any particular type/thickness for .22LR?

22Lr doesn't have to be thick, but for .308 i use the 3/8" to 1/2", goes through 1/4" like butter, actually got it through two 1/4" plates at 75 yids. 22Lr just goes splat, and disintegrates

[Madhouse]

I do all of my rimfire at my steel silhouette range, chickens at 40yds, pigs at 50 yds, turkeys at 75 yds, hogs at 100 yds.

[Microgunner]

Man, that's a nice range Mad. :thumb:

[Madhouse]

Yeah, it's great.  And it's private too, which is cool, no jackasses from the general public.  It only costs $140 / year with access to two ranges, but the other is quite a drive and I've never been.  That other one has rifle ranges out to 1000 yds.

[Rob]

I swap out the 22 for same distances as regular centerfire, so anywhere from ~ 7 to 20 yards with the pistol and ~ 7 to 100 yards with the rifle. Of course sometime a tad closer or further depending on what drills I'm doing or speed.

I do find I tend to use reduced size targets more often with the rimfire in order to get them in closer so i can see shots on the paper. I'm a fan of shooting steel as well. Mostly because I'm lazy and hate swapping paper or other targets much.

I also have the advantage of having a private set of ranges on the farm here in good old Virginia.