ON THE HUNT FOR A.224 TURN BOLT

It was the late winter of 2017 during the writer day (Industry Day at the Range) just prior to the great American Las Vegas Shot Show.

Within the first five minutes of the event, my partner and I quickly found ourselves walking up the ramp into the shooting house that was set up for long-range shooting. This event was my first love, bar none, and here I had at least seven or eight rifles to stretch to the 1,000-yard steel while taking a hard look at optics and varied cartridge application on scene.

I reached the far end of the shooting house about an hour later (and by now quite familiar with the long-range steel target at exactly 985 yards),