Ernie has the story. Note Ernie’s Suburban just over this gentleman’s left shoulder.
For those who aren’t registered with Specialty Pistols, here’s the relevant parts of Ernie’s post:
Seb and Lily […] (They live in Indonesia) spent several days with us after the 2008 SuperShoot. They flew into Gillette on a Sunday afternoon, and after unloading some things at our house, I took Seb & Lily out to a ranch about 45 minutes from the house for some quick dogging between services.
This was Seb’s first time in Wyoming and it was Lily’s first time in the US, so there were many new things for them to experience. As you can guess many pictures were taken that afternoon, and Seb was able to take several pd’s just under 250 yards off of a bipod with my 6mm-284 (Broughton 5C 1-8T), center-grip Remington XP-100, using 115 DTAC’s.
On Memorial Day just Seb and I went out shooting, and on this day, I pulled out my rear grip Rem XP-100 chambered in 6.5-284. Built by Greg Tannel, it has a fully trued action, Krieger 1-8 twist 17″ barrel, 140 Grain A-Max’s. Stock is by Mcmillan. Optic is a Leupold Mark 4 8.5-25 with Holland’s ART reticle.
This set-up was much easier for Seb to use since he was able to use his rest and it was an ambi-grip
Seb had told me he had never shot beyond 400 yards, and that was with a rifle. I knew that barrier would be broken before the day was over, and hopefully we would reach his goal=1,000 yard pd with a specialty handgun. Seb picked up using a riflescope on a specialty pistol quickly and before the morning was over he dropped a pd at 1,008 yards (ranged several times with a Swarovski LRF).
I guess Seb was not content with a typical body shot but went for a head shot. [thumbs up]
Well, that is where he hit him anyway.
You can see my Suburban in the distance, just above Seb’s shoulder.Here is Seb working off of my Hart portable Bench, using his rest
He just couldn’t stop smiling after he made that shot.
Won’t read anything that I have to register to get to.
Aw, nuts! I was wondering if folks had to register or not. Edited to give you the important bits.
And we just used to sneak up on em with a .22.
Getting them from a pickup was good, too. It was rodent elimination and excellent practice.
OK, let’s see what we have here:
1. A handmade SBR (sorry, that may fit BATFE’s definition of a pistol, but it doesn’t fit mine).
2. Probably a thousand hours to amke the weapon, including all it’s handmade components.
3. A specialty caliber, so brass has to be made by the each, and all ammo handloaded.
4. High precision bench shooting leaves little to chance.
Yep, it’s one hell of a tack driver for those 2-3 pound varmints. Probably takes a steady hand to make a 1,000-yard head shot, too, since that head subtends only about .25 to .3 MOA at that range.
It’s not tactical, it’s not concealable, it’s impractical for anything but what it was designed for, killing sage rats.
What does that make it? Fun? Waste of money? Sink-hole for available time? All of these, but is this one of those why-do-you-climb-the-mountain things?
Meh. Doesn’t turn me on.
Yes to all four (except there are factory 6.5-284 match rounds available now, but they’re spendy). However, very very similar results are possible with much more compact and less-expensive versions of the same thing. Which is why I’m so into them. 🙂