"Miss!" exclaims Jimmy Durham for the fifth time, one of Outdoor Solutions' long-range rifle instructors. "Oh come on," I curse under my breath, as the shot from my Christensen Arms Ridgeline FFT had broken perfectly. A few moments before, we'd been shooting across a set of twin canyons through some trees at a bear target, ringing steel at 640 yards on the first round at Huntin' Fool and Outdoor Solution's 'Built to Hunt Summit' in Preston, Idaho.
I felt heroic, especially after the group of students I was with was having trouble just getting on target. Yet, when we moved out to a target plate at the mythic 1,000-yard range, I couldn't for the life of me connect. Shot after shot, I hit dirt. The dust kicked up to the left, the right, high, and low by the bespeckled steel.
I was humbled in short order, which is sorta the whole point of 1,000 yards.
