100 yards with a pistol

[Junkers88]

Depends on the pistol and how familiar you are with it. I had a 3 screw Ruger Black Hawk in .41 Mag that was given to me on my 14th birthday by my grandfather. I shot it weekly up until it was stolen out of my house when I was 38 and after 20+ years of shooting it I could ring a 24x24 steel "gong" out at 100 yards with all six in the cylinder once in a while. All day? No. No way in heck. Too much pistol for that kind of range.

Depends on the pistol and the shooter. Is it possible? Yes indeed but not for me.


Richard

Edit: I'd like to find the person that stole that pistol... just once..... and just for a few minutes...

[chrisk]

I almost shot a crow with a .243 encore pistol pretty far away. If you where to hold it would be pretty easy.

[Razorback01]

Back in the early 90s I could hit probably 50% with a rack issue 1911 on man-sized silhouettes, Camp Swift.

Cover the head of the silhouette with the shroud of the barrel. Where on the steel, no idea.

[Mister Bubba's bulletman]

Always fun to watch your 45 bullet go down range.

[Radar]

With a scope and good rest it is very possible and very easy, especially with the right cartridge and pistol set up. A Ransom Rest would be the ultimate testing rest. However, offhand and open sights is totally different.
I would need to see a man shoot a pistol OFFHAND "all day long" and ring a 12 inch plate "all day long". None of us could shoot a pistol OFFHAND consecutively 10 hours and be proficient with it "all day long". The odds are against us, such as body fatigue, eye fatigue, weather conditions, ammo and the firearm.
I am an Elmer Keith fan and have read his books and articles. His story of gut shooting a mule deer 500+ yards and chasing it for the next 5 hours then shooting it again in the hips and chasing it for another hour puts a perspective on long range handgun shooting.
Your co-worker's 10mm drops about 6.5-10 inches or so (depending on ammo) at 100 yards,so he would need to have it sighted in 3" high at 50 yards to be close to zero at 100 yards. I do not know how precise his eye sight is but I would imagine a 12" plate at 100 yards would be covered with the front sight.

[Doug Roberts]

This is my G19 MOS and Trijicon RM01. A buddy of mine and myself were at the range and hitting 12" steel with it no problem... even hitting the half silhouette at 200 yards. The sight is zeroed at 100 yards.... at 25 yards its only about 2-3 inches high.

[Drycreek3189]

I wonder if, when the guy said " all day long ", he didn't mean any time of the day, or he could do it on demand.

When you introduce scopes and specialty pistols into this discussion, you're talking apples to oranges. With my .260 Encore, I will ring steel literally " all day long " if you supply the ammo of my choice and a good shade tree with a bench under it. And I'll do it farther than 100 yards too ! To do it with a hunting gun, sans scope, is not easy unless you practice for it, and to do it with a self defense gun is even harder, but it can be done. Takes burning lots of powder !

Elmer Keith was my boyhood hero, (read almost every word he ever wrote), once put down a mule deer buck at around 600 yards with a 4" barreled S&W .44 Magnum. But, and this is important, there was snow on the ground to mark his misses, the buck was already wounded, and if memory serves, he used most or all of two cylinders full to do it. And he was a magnificent shot, with rifle, shotgun, or handgun. His books on the subject make for great reading, especially his life story, " Hell, I Was There "

[Radar]

What is the "best 5 shot group size" you guys are getting out of that 10mm at 100 yards?
I did a little internet reading on 10mm accuracy at 100 yards and on the average its about 6-8 inches for 5 shots(according to the experts with a rest). If that is correct then the 15 rounds in the magazine should produce 15 rings on 12" steel plate at 100 yards "all day long".

[Mike D]

The round is plenty capable of it, quite easily actually. The shooter may or may not be.

Larry Vickers has hit human silhouettes at 200 yards consistently with a factory stock Glock 20.


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[wsteffen]

Ever shoot silhouettes?

Yup, a 30-30 Contender and a Remington XP100 in 7-08 both with custom open sights. No rest.

100 yards was easy, it was the 200 yard shoots that took a lot of practice.

IMHSA

Those were the days.

[Hoggslayer]

It's not that hard.

[Drycreek3189]

What is the "best 5 shot group size" you guys are getting out of that 10mm at 100 yards?
I did a little internet reading on 10mm accuracy at 100 yards and on the average its about 6-8 inches for 5 shots(according to the experts with a rest). If that is correct then the 15 rounds in the magazine should produce 15 rings on 12" steel plate at 100 yards "all day long".

I've not shot mine at 100 yet, but I will at some point. Bought mine for 50 and under while bowhunting. I figure a dollar's worth of powder and lead beats a $15 arrow in a hog. I've not ever seen an arrow survive a hog run if you don't get a pass through. They will generally break it off if it's sticking in them when they run. And usually, when the hogs show, the deer hunting is over. Besides that, the bang " trains " the hogs to stay away better than the " swoosh " !

[grizzman]

Hit a pie plate a couple of times at 100 yards with my Ruger Redhawk .41 Mag off of a bench about fifteen years ago. It was a slow day at the range and the Range Master spotted for me. Took me a couple of times to get the elevation right. Shooting iron sights.

[rosco11]

Sounds like a challenge I wanna try, I gotta couple of pistols and a pile of ammo, Ill challenge the guys at the ranch and see what comes of it on our next trip

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[DuramaxDude]

How hard is it? Can it be done consistently? Got a guy at work that swears he can "ring steel all day long at 100 yards" with his 10mm


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It really isn't as hard as you think. The same aim small miss small concept applies. I have sat out at 135yds with a heritage 6 shooter .22 pistol and hit an 18" gong 4 or 5 rounds outta 6 pretty easily. Shoot see the impact and adjust.