Re: 600 Yards with a 1911?
Hitting a full size silhouette at 100 yards is good but not really outstanding; I have done it pretty regularly shooting DA, two hand standing with a 3" Model 36 and standard .38 Special ammo. Also, I have put every shot with that Model 28 from a rest in a group about 4" at that distance.
But the trouble is that MOA really isn't very consistent at the longer ranges, as there are just too many variables. A pistol that will shoot 2" at 25 yards won't necessarily shoot 8" at 100 yards.
When Colt was "hyping" the AR-15 and the .223 (it wasn't the 5.56 yet), they did an ad showing a GI helmet with a bullet hole in it, saying that their wonderful new rifle would penetrate a helmet at 1000 yards. When some of us questioned that, not only on power grounds, but on the fact that no one could even see a helmet at that distance, let alone hit it, Colt admitted that "we did some computer simulation" and that they actually shot the helmet at 50 feet. So much for advertising.
JIm
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