1000 yard mosin?

[cofi]

My "friend" from nj who goes shooting "once a month" claims to be able to repeatedly ring an 8" steel at 1000 yards with a mosin that's been modified (though he couldn't say what exactly had been done)

This is pretty much impossible right? I wanna know if I can comfortably call bullshit over the phone

[quickdraw]

What scope?

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[275RLTW]

Call of Duty?

[islandermyk]

I think it'll reach out there. I tried shooting my buddies Mosin out to 600 yards with irons. I hit nothing but dirt

[Tim K]

Go ahead and call bullshit. Better, ask him how much he's holding over first. It's going to be on the order of 400" or 33'. If the rifle is scoped, it's going to be 40 MOA. If he says five feet, you know he's full of crap.

8" is .8 MOA. I know nothing about Mosin's, but even if they are sub-MOA rifles at 100, it takes an extremely skilled shooter to duplicate that at 1,000.

I have $1,000 says he can't hit once in ten tries.

[BuffCyclist]

Is he shooting a mosin 100yds at another mosin, that has an 8" steel plate rigged to the trigger, so when he hits that plate, it fires the 2nd mosin, which shoots 100yds at a 3rd mosin with an 8" plate rigged to the trigger, which repeats out to 1000yds?

For what its worth, I have no actual reference for whether this is legit or not.

[rondog]

30"-36" gong, maybe. Guys can do that with practice. But 8"? NFW, I'd throw the BS flag on that play. Guys from NJ aren't known for BS'ing now are they? Maybe just a little.....

[islandermyk]

.. but this guy has done some shit to his set up and to top it off.. he rolls his own ammo.

[cstone]

The only question I would ask is if he is rolling his own. If he is shooting surplus, I would call BS. If the rifle is bedded, very clean, with good glass, it could be done with a very good shooter, but only if they have slugged the barrel and are turning out very optimized rounds.

[TFOGGER]

I have a friend who had a Sako Nagant with a .308 bore that could consistently hit an old style 2 lb coffee can(6x8 inches) at 330 yards with handloads and iron sights, but he knew that rifle backwards and forwards. The sights were graduated to 1400 meters, but it's more like a mortar at that distance.