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Hickok would’ve hit the 800 yds while 360 no scoping

Yea, sounds fun to win a trip with you and a buddy to get yelled at all day with that nervous energy

I like how terrible you treated your "friends" rifle. Just because its not very expensive doesnt mean he wants it thrown around like its trash.

Firstly, I’ve never seen someone complain so much. Secondly, this gun is actually amazing I shot it at 900 yards and shoots absolutely great!

this has left me speechless lol.. not the gun, not the 14 power scope. just a big ego

Title of the video should be “proof I need a $5000 rifle to hit a target”. When the “average human” he is talking about has no problem hitting at 500+ yards with the same gun.

If this guy paid for a full round trip vacation to come shoot with him I'd pass.

I can’t imagine taking a class from this tool.

Imagine being a sniper in the military, failing to show the magical $5,000 dollar rifle, but also not being able to hit the broad side of a barn from inside, AND blaming your fucking rifle.

“I might know what the f*** I’m doing” misses the next 50 shots 🥴

At 10:18 , I love how he says he’s missing in the exact same spot so it’s not him that messing up. Like no, the gun isn’t messing up if it’s stack bullets, it’s the shooter that isn’t holding in the right spot or sighted it in.

If you can only shoot with a $5000 rifle setup, can you actually shoot?

The part that messed me up the most was at the end “ no this wasn’t fun “. That to me told me everything I needed. If you’re a shooter the best part of any gun is learning it, sighting it in, seeing what the gun likes to eat. Nobody ever confirmed zero, no other ammo was used to see if the gun preferred something else. I’ve had competition rifles that baffled me spending hours at the range adjusting loads. I wouldn’t blame it all on the rifle in this case.

I’ve never seen anyone complain so much while they were shooting 🥴

I'm not sure what hurt more, watching him shoot or listening him explain why the gun made him miss. Have to find the video again for the old guy free standing 400 yards with an 70 year old sks and surplus ammo, iron sights. loved to see and hear him speaking about guns and shooting.

What a coincidence, we just performed a similar test using the same entry-level rifle last week. We were in Hailey Idaho and used the same “entry-level” rifle vs an $8000 set up both shooting the 6.5 Creedmoor. We shot out to 500 yards and the entry-level rifle performed well considering what it was. We hit steel most of the time with it which was pretty good for a bunch of fly fisherman… LOL. Oh did I mention that a couple of the fly fisherman are retired “teams” guys. We certainly weren’t complaining as much but we probably didn’t drink as much coffee as this guy did that day. LOL

"The average human wouldn't hit a deer at 200 with that thing" Haha, this guy is hilarious!

You got to love someone blaming the gun for poor marksmanship

Found this vid randomly. I get strong Adderall vibes from this guy. Hopping from topic to topic, explaining things quickly but quasi in-depth, fast talking. Pretty strange dude!

That rifle seemed to shoot exactly where the barrel was pointed. Either shooter error or scope error.

If Rob is trying to snipe you.... you’re safe! 😅😅

I think each time he says "a tad left", Rob's blood begins to boil.

🤣 First and last video I will ever watch on this channel. I was more stressed out then the shooter was while trying to watch this. Goodness, their are so many wrongs in this video and not a single right.

Imagine being this guy's battle buddy???

Wish he would have never lost his way and got so full of himself. Used to love watching his fishing videos. Got too big for his own good

Gun seemed to perform okay, just bad spotting calls. It happens...

I bought a 2nd hand Brno .308 for £100 years back, was shooting 4" groups at 100yds with factory ammo, I bedded it and free floated the barrel, brought the factory ammo inside 2", started re-loading specifically for it and was consistently shooting 1 minute from there. Did the same with a BSA .222 rifle and was cloverleaf 3 shot groups at 100yds, was a great rifle for foxes and Roe deer.

I had a similar issue with my hunting guns. Saw on a forum that people narrowed the issue down to the stock fore end basically touching the barrel. Took the stock off, bedded the entire front end with 2 ton epoxy, and added silicone to the buttstock. After a week of drying the front doesn't touch anything on the barrel even when i apply slight pressure on the bipod. Guns shoot much more consistently now.

Guy literally acts like a hero when he finally hits target at 600 yards, I thought he was a sniper, can’t shoot in a real life scenario

After I read the comments I truly feel bad for these guys. I don’t think they even know how bad this actually was.

You KNOW this guy's got good vision. He can see his cell phone with sunglasses on.

I'm hitting the same spot, means the rifle has no problem with regards to grouping, rather his adjustments and the scopes zero is out.

Looked like the cheap rifle did fine. Rounds seemed to impact in the same place over and over again

Only rob would pay $5k for a rifle to save $40 in ammo 🤣

Where can I get this from? I need one shipped to me in Australia

Id like to mention… If you confirm/know your zero before shooting AND you are using a scope you are used to…. This rifle will keep up. Don’t shy away from a Ruger American Predator rifle if it meets your budget demands. I think this vid demonstrates more about equipment unfamiliarity than equipment inferiority. Thank you for making the video.

I watched my 68 year old uncle hit a walking dear with a heart n' lung shot while it was walking from at least 250 yards with this exact same rifle. And, he had a waaay shi++ier scope on his rifle. I don't think you can say it's junk...

No one gets more pissed off than Rob when hes shooting.

I love it when so called experts blame the weapon instead of admitting that they are not as perfect as they want you to believe.

I won a sniper comp with a Ruger American Predator in .308 out to 500 yards. I had to file the end of the stock a little because it was flexing into the barrel. It was sub MOA at 100 yards. Three rounds in a clover. I didn't have any issues with feeding.

I like the way you just threw your friends rifle around like you would a toy you couldn't get to turn on

The spotter is terrible. "A tad to the left" and he calls a few hits misses. The shooter doesn't zero the rifle and claims is a 3 min rifle. The guy offers a class but he comes across as an arrogant guy who only shoots expensive rifles well. There's guys in KZfaq shooting that same rifle much better without the attitude or the gall to offer to teach you a class.

Funny, my Dad at 82 years old with the same 6.5 Ruger and a 300.00 Bushnell scope was hitting steel pigs and goats out at 300 and 400 yards with shelf ammo back in 2019 flawlessly. Maybe its the old Marine. We had no issues with the Ruger, bolt draw back was smooth and lock up was clean. Feeding mags once we got used to it was no issue. Dad took a steel Boar at 500 yards only needing 3 shots. Maybe bad gun or as Dad says the shooter..

Maybe I missed the vs part, but the ruger American is a solid rifle for hunters and short range guys. I’d recommend a bolt 300 blk suppressed. Game changer

A friend of mine just bought one. We were consistently hitting a 24x24” target at 1000 yards with 140 eldm. Had a Vortex Diamondback Tactical 4x16.

This guy complained a lot I really don’t like people like him you can tell the other dude was done lol

Two things that threw him off. 1. Wind. His spotter literally asked if it was wind and he said definitely not but watching that tree in the background and the grass through the camera. You could see how strong the wind was during the shot and bullet travel. Every time he missed the wind was going strong but when he hit the wind was low or dead. 2. Stock At the start they mentioned it was a $300 to $350 rifle off the shelf. I have one in 7mm-08 and the stock at the front can be bent into the barrel if you squeeze it. Every time he shot that from end of the stock was taking the weight of the rifle and could have affected the shot. For those of you who don’t understand how that affects the shot research barrel harmonics (or look up some videos on it). All in all he complained way to much about it being “what you pay for” and it was “a cheat as fuck rifle”. It was more he was overconfident in his ability to shoot that he let it get in his way of learning to shoot that rifle to its specifics. He is a trained sniper and does know what he’s talking about but he half assed this one and it took a toll on his shooting this time. Don’t hate on him for it and I think his classes would do any beginners some good on how to shoot and zero your rifle. Edit: grammar error sorry God bless you all.

Back in the 1990s the cheapest rifle was a Savage 10/110 with the big heavy birch wood stock. My dad bought me one in 30-06 when I was 13 ( I was big boy and could handle it). Well I’m 38 years old now and still use that same rifle lol. It’s the only bolt rifle I own. It was cheap, ugly, and heavy, but it always did the job and did it well 👍

Man, he complains so much about zeroing. Shoot the rifle, then adjust. It’s not that complicated.

Every shooter on KZfaq - ALWAYS. Miss - its the gun Hit - I’m a good shot.

14:38 Lunkers: "...and I'm hot." Other guy: "yeah you are...." SAY WHAT

"Fools blame their tools" is an apt expression to watching this guy. I've heard of this channel before, but have never actually watched an episode and I wish I hadn't clicked on the video. Also, why does he have such a huge ego to hitting a target at 300 yards with magnified optics when anyone military can hit targets at 300 meters with iron sights? Clearly he's compensating for something, but he believes that he has to spend multiple thousands of dollars in order to stroke his ego and make him a competent shot. Sure does love hearing himself talk, though.

My 1st time watching this channel and I was amazed to see you have 1.88 million subs. I’m guessing you started out with a different attitude and that’s when you picked up most of those subs.

I want three hours of my life back oh wait it only seemed like 3 hours

i have the same rifle i’ve had it for 3 years. i can shoot lights out with it i’ve killed deer out to 525 with it using the precision hunter hornady ammo and a cheap vortex crossfire 4-12 scope using just the mildots but i am looking to upgrade my scope so i can have the turret option when needed

I love how the Vet is so cool with you bro! Regardless whatever is preventing you from hitting the target, there's no room for blame game, adjust yourself to whatever it's and take the target out or else you would be the first one to be taken out. I am glad this isn't in Afghanistan.

I've never watched this guys videos and I hope I never do. I could feel the arrogants coming through my screen. Blames every miss on the gun, the sits up and whines about it, you called it a basic hunting rifle at the beginning but then get mad it can't shoot past 300... most hunters don't shoot past 300 lol. P.s. there is a couple videos of people shooting a ruger american 1000 to 1 mile out

Carlos Hathcock put in flawless work in Vietnam with an old Winchester model 70 in 30-06.

My dad shoots a Ruger American and I agree with most of the comments I see here. This is a 1/2 MOA rifle with factory Hornady 120 A-max or Factory match 140’s.

Rifle data has a lot of value in this line of work. Same load out going through two different platforms with two different twists in the barrel will never be the same. Bullet weight has to be matched with barrel twist. Then pairing glass is another. Y’all will figure it out.

Such a humble man. They both tweakin

I own this gun as well. I've done some serious mods with a trigger, stock, and a decent scope. This rifle out of the box with the lower end Vortex scope is deadly at 600. After I did some upgrading this gun WILL hold at 1000 yards easy. This guy talked wayy too much trash about this rifle but not one time did he mention what garbage the factory stock is, which is EASILY the worst thing about this shelf gun.

I got a Ruger American 6.5 Creedmoor. It shoots a .68" group at 200. Haven't tried to hard. But it's best I've ever done.

Lol every comment I read is saying what I was thinking... This guy!!! 😂🤣🤣

I will never get that time back omg.

The gun is consistent. Cause the initial zero was to the left to begin with.

This here demonstrates the difference between a dialled trained killer and a KZfaq personality - I don’t think you can be both and that’s ok by me. Mad Respect for what he was, and what he is

I was never in the military but I know a marine friend that once hammered a screw in the wall.

He wants to hold a sniper "thing" but complained so much about his gun and in honesty there's gonna be alot of people with 3 or 4 hundred dollar guns and if that's the case I think he is useless for help

damn rob let me know when those classes start, ill come train you on how to shoot the cheap rifle and you can train me on that pile of money. Probably would help if you would have zeroed the rifle yourself at 100yds before you started though woulda made everything a lot easier

“The dipping was more than the rifle itself” fucking felt that. I had NO idea how much it was until I got the bill 😂 I could’ve painted my fucking motorcycle for less

Magpul hunter stock and a better optic. That gun will perform as well as any $5000 set up. I’ve used the rugers for a long time, for the money, they’re hard to beat.

Don’t blame the tool I’ve seen you miss with same problems with a 5000 dollar rifle I would not take a class from you if it was free.

Zeroed and did some basic ballistics and I was getting first round hits on water bottles at 450 last weekend with mine.

Me *as an European* after reading the thumbnail: "Bruh you guys have walmart rifles!?"

The 5k rifle is of course going to be better than a 500$ rifle. Looks miserable laying in the sun like that trying to focus on shooting. Sweet video.

Try a cheap rifle and a mid price range scope, i think you'd have done a little bit better if you had the vertical mil dots

Many people have shot a mile with the same rifle with 2x less ammo than he shot at 500

Love watching this shit dude. Is there any way when you go to the view of the target that you can put an arrow on the video to show which one you're aiming at? Hit markers would be dope too :D

First tip...don't wrap your thumb around the stock...rest your right thumb parallel to the rifle, you don't want to introduce a deviation to the rifle as you squeeze. If you can manage, pinch the trigger without gripping it at all. I've watched masters shoot and I was blown away by the details of precision shooting...This comment might piss people off, but that's not my purpose. I thought I was an expert until I watched pros do it right and want to share.

Haven’t watched this channel in a solid year, and I just wanna say, I miss the old Rob. He’s become more arrogant and lacks the humility he had at one point. I appreciate him and his service more than anyone, but dude, ur losing relatability...

Robs sniping skills= why bin laden got away for so many years , Lojos simping skills why he's now a googan 🤣

Vietnam snipers used allot of Winchester model 70 in 30-06. They didn't seem to have a problem with a rifle you could buy at Walmart. This is laughable.

Why is there buddies who’s twice there size talking so nervously to him, he’s just talk 😂

the way you talk and move your hands around is like watching luke bryan rapping about trucks and dirt road dancing

If that’s a American ruger it has a accu trigger and is very smooth! the barrel starts to warm up and also shoots different than a cold barrel.

That big guy looks like a nice guy to hang out with the other one is just nervous scary how he handled the rifle most of the time swinging it around...

My gunsmith recommended the ruger American for my first bolt action. He said, if I end up liking it, there’s a lot of aftermarket support Andover time he could turn it into a completely custom rifle a little bit at a time or all at once.

Simple case of bragging exceeded capability. Why would he let someone else zero the rifle? Dumb all the way around

7:05 "I need some more fluff." And now we know how Lojo got his way into the squad LMAO

He planned this whole vid just to make this rifle look bad. The gun hit the same exact spot every time and he just let it keep missing.

“How low?” “A bit” 😅😂

I wouldn't call myself a great shot. I got into the Creedmoor Round, a few years ago, bought a Mossberg 6.5 w/Vortex scope ($350 Combo). Boresighted it at 25 yds. Got it on...Not only have I not missed...but I'm tapping 450 yds with 125 grain ammo. Buck this year at 290 yds. Again, the actual price of the combo was $349....

I know from personal experience that the only issue that rifle has with feeding is it doesn’t like to be babied, if you pull the bolt clean back and push it forward with a little bit of umph it will feed every time

This guy is a time bomb.

When he was at 900 he hit it 3 times, before his friend called a hit lmfao....

Would have loved to see the 5k rifle shot back to back like the cheaper rifle

Says it's always gonna be solid, price doesn't always matter... proceeds to shit on the 500$ rifle the whole time hahaha

Just found your channel. Really liked the video. I noticed you didn’t shoot your rifle. Curious to see how it would have compared. I’m a gunsmith and had a question. Would you be willing to redo the headed to headed shootout after doing a few minor things to the ruger like upgrading the stock and having it bedded? Did this with a Savage Axis and was able to achieve 1/2 MOA groups consistently. Thanks for your service and for the video