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A guide to understanding your long-range hunting rifle options

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Shooting beyond 300 yards is fun. Hitting targets beyond 300 yards is even more fun. And you don’t need expensive rifles and scopes to do it.

Tricked out PRS-style rifles (Precision Rifle Series) and 6-30X56mm scopes are not mandatory. The old 1903 Springfield bolt action military rifle from World War I was fitted with an iron rear sight adjustable to 2,800 yards! It was chambered for the .30-06 and a 150-grain spire point, flat-base bullet.

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Bullets: Describing performance goals behind all shapes and sizes

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Bullets come in all shapes and sizes designed to achieve specific performance goals. To use them most effectively, hunters should understand how bullet shapes and sizes contribute to performance.

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A primer on buying and selling ‘historic’ firearms

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But every once in a while someone stumbles upon what looks like just another old cowboy rifle and it turns out to be a rare Winchester chambered for an even rarer cartridge and it ends up fetching tens of thousands of dollars on the collectors’ market.

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