buffybr
Well-known member
^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^Know your personal limitations and the limitations of your rifle. Work within both of those parameters and everything is hunky dory. Push the envelope on either and that's when things go south.
Years ago at one of our Gun Club's annual picnics, a friend and I were shooting the 400 yard steel ram silhouette targets with our .22-250s. We could hear our bullets hit the steel, but they didn't have enough energy at that range to knock the targets over.
Another time I had a piece of 3/8" cold rolled steel and I was curious what my .22-250 would do to it. So I hung it on a block of wood in my back yard about 20 yards from my house, and sitting next to my house, I shot the steel plate with a 52 grain hollow point. The bullet put a hole completely through the steel that was big enough that I could almost put my little finger through it. A couple of days later I learned why they say NOT to shoot steel at close range. The copper jacket of that bullet had ricocheted straight back and was lodged in the siding of my house very near to where I was sitting when I shot the steel plate.