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Hack No. 1 - Find a wife that will let you spend $2,500 on a rifle.

Congrats on MARRYING UP!!!! You found a keeper!!!

I love that you are getting your wife into the sport. Some of my favorite memories are my wife and kids going out to her parents property to shot. Quality family time keeps the family together and we need this today. I’m 65 and I still try to get every one together to do some kind of family sport be it shooting fishing camping just anything. Love what you are doing!

One of things i love about long range shooting is it doesn't matter if you are Male,female, young ,old or disabled everyone is on a level playing field. We have benchrests at Waikerie Rifle Club here in South Australia so anyone can come and try.

My wife started out 10 years ago fairly ambivalent about guns and shooting. Wasn't against it just wasn't up for going to the range. Fast forward 10 years, and she is now competing with me in 2gun, IDPA, PRS, and even defensive pistol/rifle classes. It all began with her curiosity after watch vids of me shooting in competition and saying "I can do that!!". My response was "Yes you can". Then I had someone else teach her initially so she was learning without my bias or intrusion. Game changing for us, and we have a blast. We compete monthly, and shoot weekly. It's fun to watch her grow and enjoy shooting sports! Hope Emily gets the bug too!

Awesome content! I love how you took a beginner and showed how the basic fundamentals make a huge difference. I remember my first trail and error setting up my .308 with no experience and I wasted so much ammo trying to figure out my scope. Now that I know some of the fundamentals it is so much easier setting up a new gun

Stumbled upon this video/channel when it came up in my feed. Excellent video/advice! As a self taught shooter & reloader, it has taken me several years and thousands of rounds down range to figure out what you presented on here. And you gave me some information/tips that I need to put in my playbook. Thanks for sharing!

Always good to see new beginners enjoy the sport. Looking forward to the next series.

Pretty good informative and instructional video when you can get a relatively non shooter, in this case your wife Emily, to achieve the group size shown, with virtually her first ever group attempt and to then go on to a very near miss at 1000 yards is a tribute to the inherent accuracy of that particular rifle, ammo combination, allied to her obvious natural ability. I think we can look forward to more of these duo events

Not a hunter, which much of your content is targeted to, but really enjoy your channel. Good info for anyone that enjoys firearms!!

She is absolutely precious how excited she's getting over shooting!

Extremely helpful video! And a trophy wife for not only being willing to, but being excited for all the stuff we get wound up for.

Bring her out more often - so much postive energy!

Great description of the mechanics, this is a great video for people new to firearms as well as seasoned shooters. Awesome range-scape. I like to see the diversity of ranges people use. 👍

Lots of good information here. Very cool that you had your wife showing how much fun shooting can be for a newbie. Thank you for all the tips and hacks.

I have a gen 3 ruger precision 6.5 Creedmoor and with 147 grain hornady match ammo it shoots 1/2" all day my first 5 shot group at 1000 was 10.5 " and my second group was 8.5 " the first shot was 2' low and about 10 to 12" right made my adjustments and Holy crap I love the Ruger with just a bit over $2000 into it .

I like your videos and when you involve your wife and kids and make it a family thing. Tell Emily congrats for, in my opinion a successful go at it. I know grown men who are afraid to try this. I am sure you are proud of her as I certainly am! Keep up the good work and keep the family safe. Kudo's from South Louisiana!

Jim, you've good taste. Looooove the Bergara Comp!

The newly released Garmin Doppler "Cronno" device is amazing. I could easily see it helping the serious hunter a ton. Especially in changing weather conditions.

Before you adjust parallax you need to adjust the focus for your eye. So many shooters I help learn to shoot long range do not know that step or forget it. If your focus on the magnification lense where you are looking into is not adjusted correctly for your eye sight specially your parallax will not truly be correct. Also after focus is adjusted, before tuning your parallax knob you should turn the parallax knob to max and bring it from max right to where your reticle stops for you careful not to go past that point or you need to max out again and bring it back. This is done to take the lash out of parallax of cheaper scopes like Arken

I love your sponsors, good solid sponsers. - greetings from South Africa

You are both awesome. Keep her on the show!!

Backfire is a Lucky Man. I have been wanting to say it for a long time

I have learned so much from you keep up the good work thank you

Family fun, great video, it brightened my day.

In all my years at the range punching 300 yard groups, which is as far as I can go, no one has ever mentioned the thumb should lay on the same side as the index finger as opposed to wrapping around the grip. Thank you for this, and I'm going to try this the next time out

Jim, thank you for a great instructional video, as always, for inexperienced and experienced shooters alike. Congratulations, Emily, on some fine shooting! I find it refreshing that Lear Capitol is embracing shooting sports; in today's unpredictable political climate that is a bold stance.

It is a great experience having a partner that you can rely on. You have a pretty good team for this kind of activity.

One thing I have noticed with respect to body alignment is that in keeping your shooting side in a straight line with your rifle, helps keep the muzzle flip in a straight vertical. I agree with the others; congrats on keeping your family involved!

Well explained! Thanks

Great info, great video, sir!

I love my Bergara .17 HMR. You just took me to another level with the 6.5 Creed.

In my experience, women tend to be very good shooters. They're patient, thoughtful, don't have an ego to overcome, and are good listeners/learners. I bet if you did that same challenge with a man who's never (or very rarely) shot before, you might eventually end up with similar results, but it would be more difficult to get there. Great video!

Awesome stuff! The chemistry between you and your wife is great!

Dang bro - Living the dream. Congrats!

Nice to see someone paying attention to accuracy and detail, and NOT doing mag dumps.

How the hell are you two not on commercials on TV? Perfect couple! Hope you guys the best. Great video also

With regards to the Hornady app, you provide great info. I made the opposite mistake, I was trying to use 4dof for some low grain .224 bullets that they didn't have 4dof calcs for. Eventually when I tried the bc calculator, I found the bullets I was looking for.

Great job Emily!

You have to do the dishes because she missed? Hmm could she have purposely missed ??? 😂

Thank you for the video. I don't currently have a range where I can shoot 1000 yds, but I am hoping someday. I knew many of the things you discussed, but it really helped to remind me of some things I need to, such as building profiles in my Kestrel app. I am fortunate to have a MagentoSpeed Chronograph. You mentioned in your video that the velocities listed on the box are usually faster than "actual" velocity from an individual gun. Personally, I have found if my gun has a barrel equal to or longer than the barrel used by the manufacturer then my velocities have all been faster. Usually not more than just a few feet, but still faster. If the barrel is shorter my velocities have been slower. In some cases as much as 200 fps slower with a barrel just 2 inches shorter. Again, thank you for the video. Excellent information.

tapered scope mounts helps with long range. It is really easy to shoot long range if you can find one of those underground ranges! That is a place where the wind is removed from the equation. But if you want wind, try Camp Perry!

Love the video, info and the views from Warner Valley. It's a great time to be enjoying the outdoors here. Curious what chronograph that is. I've been using a Labradar for a couple of years and finally have gotten more successful at some of the nuances with it, plus a red dot and good mount on top goes a long way. The information is great! I've been mostly occupied with AR platforms the last while but looking to start getting some updated bolt guns soon. I love that Bergara.

Best video yet!

Just listened to Work Energy your book on a road trip with my kids.. They really enjoyed it. You and your wife need to do a video with Jon and his wife with WPSN.

It’s nice to see some one being honest about the ranges that are shooting at , I’ve seen guys claiming to shoot out to a mile with a 6.5 cm with a super sniper,lol. Good job

I just happened across this video, I started watching and was like, “hey that looks like my cousin!” Ha great video, I had no idea you had a channel.

Great video and now I'm interested in a top-mounted bipod. I have a CKYE pod, but I also try to shoot off my pack without a bipod as much as possible since I will always have a pack, but my not always have or want to carry a bipod. Before there were all these apps I wrote a 6-DOF (degrees of freedom) script in Matlab as part of an Ammunition Engineering course I was teaching. I've compared it with the Hornady app and 4-DOF is plenty accurate. They aren't necessarily inputting any extra data, just using more variables so it's computationally more expensive (more time and computing power required), which isn't really an issue on todays phones, but was a big deal on older computers, including supercomputers. Most sets of equations will be truncated for higher order terms and become approximations of the actual set of coupled equations, but even that is not necessary with modern computers. It may take a few minutes but a standard desktop computer can create a range table based on full-blown numerical modelling in a few minutes.

Great video!

this is great!

well your videos have officially gotten 5x better just with the new addition to scenery.

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I use Talley rings on my 6.5 PRC Browning X-Bolt Pro. The rear ring has a built in bubble level and, because I'm "fashion forward" I got the rings in a matching bronze Cerakote. I can get cold barrel 3 shot groups that average 3/4 MOA all the time. After the barrel warms up it's often 1 1/4 MOA groups.

Did anybody else get through the whole video and realize you didn’t learn anything and was a little distracted 😂. All jokes aside some solid tips! Nice job man 🤛

I looked at the bergara but decided to go with the MPA PMR Pro 2 mostly due to the ARC CDG action! 🤤 been looking at his actions for a long time

Bro. So awesome that you did this with your wife. My wife was like "hmmmm, maybe I CAN do that.". Thanks!

you two are wonderful!

Well done from NZ

Nice shooting, you are a great couple! Love that Bergara, wonder why we have not seen much of them in competitions yet.

It's not the range of the shot, it's the size of the target.

You two are a cute couple, -but yes a informative/well made video. Thanks

Love that scope

We all need a part II please

I have that exact scope and its fantastic.

Before you do anything, check to make sure the action screws are torqued correctly.

"There will be no twerking on this video" 😂😂😂 Love your videos man .. keep up the great work !!

I was watching a retired Navy SEAL sniper instructor who explained why it is better to breath through the shot than hold your breath. I have zero experience at shooting at these ranges, but I thought I'd toss that out there. I think his name was Chris Sajnog? I'm assuming he's legit. Your wife's joy and excitement really made the video more entertaining.

Her closing statement was awesome.

I like the fact that you are rocking a Bergara. For a reasonably priced rifle, they are great for long range. My next bolt action will be a Bergara chambered in .300 WinMag. Personally, I think it is the definitive "bang for your buck" bolt gun. I'm stuck on the scope though. Experimentally(and not well tested) cheap optic V trial proven(and very expensive, probably more than the rifle) scope. I'm sure that I will end up spending $1200 on the rifle and $3000 on the glass. Because the scope makes the difference at 1000 meters.

How do you like the premiere competition? I'm thinking about getting one in 6mm creed.

So I've been a fan for quite awhile. 1 thing I've never really seen you discuss is the 6.5 grendel. Is there a particular reason or can I just not find it?

Speaking about bipod mount I would be interested in a center bore mount

Nice lady, And you explained all that very well, Very easy to understand.

Love seeing how happy she is

That’s awesome, I am going to use this video to convince my wife to start shooting with me!

Regarding shooting positions, what I've noticed is LOP importance. In the proper prone position, lined up as you both were, the LOP/eye relief is substantially longer vs when you would be shooting off hand. Eye relief changes dramatically. If you hold your hunting, while standing, as though you were stalking and just jumped a deer at 50 yards, your body is NOT square with the direction you aim. Your rifle is nearly parallel to your shoulder to shoulder position as though you are just about aiming to your right or left. Change that back to the prone position and now you've just increased LOP and thus, extended your eye relief. Every time I get a rifle built and request a 12.5" LOP I'm told, "that's short." Well it is. But that is the only way I can see out of the scope at full magnification when I'm lined up straight behind the rifle. I've never found or tested any ring mounts that can shorten eye relief while maintaining a stock with a standard LOP of 13 to 13.5 inches. And most all of my shots are while prone

I’ve told multiple people that 1000 yard shot is wayyy easier than you would think. It’s intimidating at first, but once that first shot hits the target you just want to go further 😂

Good stuff.

Can you do another 6.8 western video? I’ve been trying to get one for years and finally was able to get my hands on a xbolt! Paired it with the veracityph and it’s the smoothest shooting gun I’ve ever owned!

Small tip, measure the group from the side to the side of the holes. This way you get the exact heart measurement. So the left side of the hole and the left side of the other hole.

Hi Jim, will you be making the recoil pad available internationally?

Excellent 👍🏻

Can we all agree he outkicked his coverage with that wife?

One thing I've run across over and over is to NOT have any support on the rifle barrel itself. You say the flexible forearm causes problems itself, so you need to address both problems. It Will throw off your grouping. You can group, but not as tight and you will get (close) flyers. See your groups and the flyer. Support it on the stock forearm. See other KZfaq Vids on the subject.

Cmon Jim, Part II please!!! haha

Love that rifle. How did you order that ? I must have missed it in their catalog

Would you recommend the Sig Cross or the Bergara B-14 HMR for an all around hunting/long range precision rifle (6.5 Creedmoor)?

DOA shooting benches are awesome! Why not get one for shooting. The guy that sells them is a mile away from your house. Love mine I got the big one so a 50 bmg fits on it.

This is my first time viewing one of your videos. I'm curious have you shot the "milk jug challenge" ? If i lived in Utah I would for sure be doing that.

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That picture that you added from the SWAT TV show, I'm like 95% sure the guy with the massive height over bore has a break barrel air rifle!😂

Love your content!! Hight above bore doesn't matter.. most of the time... the higher the scope is from bore, the more rifle cant will effect the POI shift.. a bubble will fix that, but most hunters I know don't run a bubble on their rifle..

The style of shooting bag is one thing, the filling in it is what really makes or breaks it. What do you use as shooting bag filler?

Couldn't find a video of yours where you are talking about Howa 1500

What do you really think about the Arken optics? Can you do a review on them I don’t think any of your optics reviews has had the arken before. Thank you

What state did you film this in? The surroundings are really cool.

That is cool man. 😎

When using a scope such as a 5-25x, when zeroing your gun at 100yrds do you just leave it at Max power?

Sure wish I could take you up on that 1 moa challenge, I have 4 hunting rifles that shoot 1/4-5/16 consistently