7. Team GPG, of which Phillips was the captain, had three rotating shooters - Phillips, Derek Rodgers and James DeVoglaer. Not long after helping their Nomad Rifleman client break the Wyoming record, Scott, Shepard, and a group of their friends who also share a passion for long range shooting decided to attempt to set a new world record extreme-long-range shot; the record at that time was four miles. A wildlife, Jugs of urine tossed out vehicles along Wyoming highways have been dubbed trucker bombs and there. , Scott Austin and Shepard Humphries, joined by a half-dozen friends, hit the 8 bullseye with their custom long-range rifle, surpassing the previous world record of 4 miles! "It's a pretty high-end level of shooting because of the nature of what we're doing," Phillips said. DeVoglaer was the man behind the gun for the four-mile shot. A shot like this requires a custom-made, one-of-a-kind rifle. When we were making 2-mile shots previously, we could rely on dust from the bullet impacts to help us walk the shots in to the target, he said. Phillips' father, also a veteran of the Marines, was there to see the shot, too. Although the shooter wants to remain anonymous, we would also like to congratulate you on an incredible shot. I joined the one mile club in 2015. Thats a somewhat difficult question to answer as a lot of skill, engineering, and prep workmore than 1,500 hours, according to Humphrieswent into the feat, which required an element of favorable probability (aka luck) to come to pass. Shepard likens it to the I, Pencil story about the thousands of people who must come together to make a simple pencil. We keep pushing to refine these things to keep getting better. Hangfire; Sep 25, 2022; Firearms Chat; Replies 6 Views 271. Shortly after 7:00 a.m., the shooter (who remains anonymous) sent the first hand-lathed 422-grain .416 Barrett round downrange. Phillips' 10-year-old daughter, Addison, is using lessons learned from her father to make her way into the sport as well. Co-authors of Nomad Riflemans Guide to Extreme Long Range Shooting Fun, Scott Austin and Shepard Humphries, joined by a half-dozen friends, hit the 8 bullseye with their custom long-range rifle, surpassing the previous world record of 4 miles! Barrel: LRI 40-inch barrel with 1:9 twist that was structured by tacomHQ, Scope Mount: Custom 350 MOA mount by S&S Sporting. Joshua Mulligan and Eric McCampbell were on the team's safety crew, and Guy Desbiens, Wes Karmazin and John Armstrong were special guests within the industry. It was first reported by the Abilene Reporter-News that the incredible three-mile shot was made on Jan. 14 by a Tuscola, Texas, man named Bill Poor on a ranch near Midland. The long-range shooting world record was broken yet again when a team of spotters and a shooter hit a target at 4.4 miles (7,744 yards) in the Wyoming desert earlier this month. Co-authors of, Nomad Riflemans Guide to Extreme Long Range Shooting Fun. The long-range shooting world record was broken yet again when a team of spotters and a shooter hit a target at 4.4 miles (7,744 yards) in the Wyoming desert earlier this month. MIXED ODDS MARKET: 2.80 Honolua Bay, 4.00 Catch A Wave, 4.50 Spirit Of St Louis, 5.00 Captain Ravishing, 12.00 Major Meister, 12.00 Mach Dan, 14.00 Hurricane Harley, 23.00 Expensive Ego, 34.00 . This was on top of a 36 MOA left mechanical wind adjustment made at the beginning of the day for an overall 53 MOA. According to Shepard, With this kind of shooting, nobody has yet figured out how to get first-round hits. Since Lynn would be leading the forward spotters, and she is quite attractive and fun to be with, Shepard kind of wanted to be sure the bunkers would be safe. This adventure took over 20 months of dreaming and 1,500+ focused man-hours of studying, building and testing a never-before-built system of rifle, ammo, optics, and gear; bunkers and ballistics study and the subsequent custom builds; extensive terrain scouting at various ranches in four states; months of practical testing to get to the point that the bullet even landed on the hillside, much less the target. The record eclipses his own previous best of 2.35 miles, established in March. Recreational and practical applications abound with these .22 caliber handguns. Landing a bullet on target at 4.4 miles was simply phenomenal, said long-distance shooting enthusiast David Asmuth of Laramie. Reactions: Eddystone and acudaowner. Jeff Odor 6.5 Creedmoor, 1760 yards. Phillips does most of his research and work at the Midland County Sportsman's Club, where he is a longtime member. The forward spotter, typically either Shepard or his wife, Lynn Sherwood-Humphries, when more than 100 yards from the target, would most frequently hear a whistle above, right or left, and a thump somewhere behind or between them and the target, but could not see any dust. (Photo provided), Pictured isthe Nightforce scope on the rifle that was used to shoot a world-record four miles, with the tacomHQ Charlie andDelta accessories in front of it. He has worked with scopes, bullets, ammunition, stocks, barrels, actions and other parts of guns used by the military, law enforcement and other entities. You know, we havent decided yet, he said about attempting to go farther than 4.4 miles. BC over 1.1 MV of about 3015 fps with low ES in teens Using around 191 MOA. of the women's mile finishing 11th with a time of 4:43.32 . 4.4 Mile Rifle Shot! Using a wood frame, he selected two thin sheets of 4x10 metal and painted an 8-inch circle in the center. When you think about the variables the bullet encounters with wind alone over 4.4 miles you can see where striking the targetat least with todays technologyinvolves probability and chance. More than double the distance and real-world environment; this "record" is 1,000% goddamn luck. At 1,000 yards that would be a sporty targetbasically 15.4 by 11.8 inchesbut by no means difficult to hit consistently with a good rifle and ammo. With the custom rifle and custom ammunition finally complete, the days for the attempt were set for mid-July 2022. Breaking the previous record of only 4 miles, and the Wyoming state record of 3.06 miles, local media outlet KSLTV explains that the shot required years of planning from two expert . For a rifle like this, having a precision standard of one-ten-thousandth of an inch would not be good enough. Journey to the World-Record-Shattering 4.4 Mile Long-Range Rifle Shot Scott Austin, Shepard Humphries, and half a dozen friends surpassed the previous record for longest target hit with a long range rifle on September 13, 2022, but their journey started long before that day. In the 1970 finals, Andy Isla-Rubert of Hillside (Proviso West) recorded a manual time of 4:07.1 in the longer mile run (9.3 meters longer). We could obviously put a few more shots in the bullseye right in a row right now, but we are tired, so we will stop shooting and strut away now, Shepard joked. His 5,280-yard shot breaks the unofficial record of 2.84 miles (5,000 yards) set by retired Navy SEAL Charles Melton in Sept. 2017. The long-range shooting world record was broken yet again when a team of spotters and a shooter hit a target at 4.4 miles (7,744 yards) in the Wyoming desert earlier this month. Even at 8.7%, it's luck. For many years they have operated Nomad Rifleman, a boutique extreme long range shooting. High School Records are those ratified by the T&FN Records Committee (p after mark = ratification is pending). SIG Sauer MCX-SPEAR: Civilian Version of XM7 Rifle Arrives! Lynn and four friends hunkered down inside the steel bunkers near the target, 4.4 miles away from the rest of the team, to listen and watch for impacts from missed shots. 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Their custom-built rifle, with parts coming in from all over the world, took over a year to build, and testing their systems, including optics, wind readers, and custom steel bunkers, took months more. Of course, this presented another issue, they had to be close to the target. (Photo provided). The .416s muzzle velocity was 3,300 fps and by the time the bullets reached the target (which took more than 24.5 seconds), they had dropped to 689 fps. experience, out of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. There is nothing quite like the feeling of hitting a target at that kind of distance. But even when shooting a beast like the .416 Barrett, spotting impacts becomes difficult at 4.4 miles. The list of United States high-school national records in track and field is separated by indoor and outdoor and boys and girls who have set a national record in their respective events. Setting the Wyoming state record for longest hit on target only spurred a desire to go even bigger. The previous record of 4 miles set in 2020 was defeated by a 4.4-mile target hit in the high desert of western Wyoming. The ammunition used for the record rifle shot was made by Unknown Munitions in Post Falls, Idaho. The cartridge was custom made by Unknown Munitions in Idaho (which we think is the best commercial ammunition maker in the world), with Barrett brass, H50BMG propellant and a CCI135 primer. blendedplanet 2.87K subscribers My lifelong friend Paul Phillips happens to be one of the top distance shooters on the planet and last week successfully made a 3.4 MILE shot, which slaughters. PINEDALE, Wyoming (KIFI) - A group of friends set the world record for the longest rifle shot at 4.4 miles on Sept. 13, but their journey to do so started a couple years back. The 1.93-second drop in the record was the largest margin since Ryun set his first record in 1966. The long-range shooting world record was broken yet again when a team of spotters and a shooter hit a target at 4.4 miles (7,744 yards) in the Wyoming desert earlier this month. Phillips said once current COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed, he plans to execute a 4.5-mile, or 8,000-yard, shot with the team. The marksmanship feat was orchestrated by Scott Austin and Shepard Humphries, who run Nomad Rifleman, a long-range shooting school out of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. They joke that, Those who can do. They said its not statistically repeatable, he said. Humphries and Austin acknowledge that the hit isnt a repeatable event, even after several hours spent walking the shot closer to the target. Texan breaks marksmanship world record with 3-mile shot. In January 2019, Phillips was behind the gun when the team connected on a 3.4-mile shot with a .416 Barrett rifle. Phillips recently wanted to find a new challenge in shooting and, with his rifle team, pushed the envelope and stretched their shots past the two-mile mark they had already attained. Andy Ward 1,790 yards. Scott Austin, Shepard Humphries, and half a dozen friends surpassed the previous record for longest target hit with a long range rifle on September 13, 2022, but their journey started long before that day. (Photo provided/Paul Phillips), Paul Phillips received this Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for being part of a world-record rifle shot, as well as numerous other international marksmanships feats. David Parish and Dimitri Bogatirev served as safety and range officers. The angle of the rifles barrel, coupled with shooting from a ridge above the target, accounted for the arc in the bullets trajectory, he said. No rifle range anywhere is four miles long, so the team travels to private ranches in Kansas and Texas. The targets dimensions (120 inches by 92 inches) made it 1.54 MOA wide and 1.18 MOA tall at 4.4 miles. The bullets flight path is over 2500 feet above line-of-sight and there is a lot going on up there that we are unable to predictably compensate for. Nonresidents will have to wait a full week longer than Wyomingites to start hunting shed antlers, Forget about Bambi, deer can be incredibly aggressive toward each, Jugs of urine tossed out vehicles along Wyoming highways have, An elk antler auction in Jackson. This speaks volumes about their integrity. 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