Down Range Data: A Guide to Extreme Long Range Shooting with your Buffalo Rifle (Deluxe Edition)

With 178, 8¼x11-inch pages, 55,000 words of text, and 97 photographs, Down Range Datais informative and visually pleasing.The purpose of Down Range Datais to provide information and guidance toward getting on target at extremely long range when using a Sharps-style rifle with traditional iron sights. Included are tables and calculation guidelines covering corrections for: spin-drift, wind-deflection, and bullet drop. Trajectory tables cover loads launching typical buffalo-era bullets at typical black-powder velocities. Tested bullets include: 40-caliber, 45-caliber, and 50-caliber.This book includes significant chapters covering the history of long-range rifles, beginning with the Whitworth muzzle-loading rifle; a discussion of how effective that rifle was during the Civil War; how that rifle led to the 45-70 Springfield chambering; and other valuable tidbits that serious shooters, marksmen, and historians will find interesting.This book revolves around the events that occurred during the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, in June of 1874; how Medal of Honor recipient, Billy Dixon, made a battle-ending shot at 7/8-mile. It explains how Falin and friends have duplicated that shot. And, it covers how they established a shooting range to honor Dixon, with the Official Billy Dixon Target at 1538 yards from the Billy Dixon Shooting Line, and a shooting position that allows shots on that target at 1800 yards. Read more