At 2.35 Miles, This Is The Longest Rifle Shot Ever Recorded In Competition

Bro, do you even long range? With all the advancements in ballistics technology what used to be the benchmark for a long shot—1,000 yards—is downright pedestrian these days. I’ll admit, I fancy myself a bit of a marksman. In the competitions I shoot, we regularly stretch the shots to 1,300 yards or so. I’ve also dabbled in the world of ELR shooting—meaning Extreme Long Range—shooting to 2,000 yards and beyond with the Remington Custom Shop 300 PRC I had built for that purpose. One thing that becomes abundantly clear is that there’s a world of difference between a 1,000-yard poke and one that stretches beyond a mile (1,760 yards). Ryan Cheney, a 41-year-old competitive ELR shooter from Conway Springs, Kansas, just made a couple of those shots that are going to be tough to top. In a competition last weekend, Cheney put two impacts on steel that were jaw-droppingly impressive. He hit a plate at 3,592 yards—which itself was a record hit for a .33-caliber projectile—but then managed to drop a shot on a piece of 6-foot by 6-foot steel at 4,134 yards, which is 2.35 miles. Here’s his account of the achievement, which took place at the Spearpoint Ranch in Barnard, Kansas, on March 27...MORE