Dead on: The Long-Range Marksman's Guide to Extreme Accuracy

by Warren Gabrilska and Tony M. Noblitt

Book Overview

This hands-on manual walks the shooter through every step required to become a true long-range marksman, from understanding minute-of-angle principles and selecting a rifle, caliber and cartridge to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873649974
• ISBN13: 9780873649971
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Paladin Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Read it again!

This book becomes more and more applicable as you return to it. My hunting partner is a Marine Scout Sniper and he feels it is excellent for beginner or pro. As you progress in this sport more usable details will appear. It will be in my library from now on.

Dead On is Dead On

Lots of good information and the charts are useable from now on. Directions are for the most part easy to understand. It was a good buy.

Great for beginers

This is a great book if you are just getting in to long range shooting. It covers the basics of long range shooting, rifles and extra equipment as well as a suggested distance to zero. It is a small book in volume and size. It can fit in your cargo pocket and it only took me a couple days to read it. There are a lot of other books out there that cover long range shooting and sniper shooting, but many are so in depth that it can be difficult to know where to start. Take zeroing, if you talk with a hunter, he'll likely tell you to zero your rifle at 200 yards. If you talk to an Army Sniper, he'll likely tell you to zero your rifle at 300 meters. If you talk to a Marine Sniper, he'll likely say 600 meters (at least that's what they all told me). So, where do you start? This book talks you through a 100 meter zero. Once you gain experience, you will have the know how to choose what is best for you. It also covers the proper way to mount a scope, if you're so inclined. If you are just getting into long range shooting, this book has a lot of great, basic information so you don't get lost. If you've never shot before, especially long range, this book might just inspire you to get into it. After 10 years of being away, this book inspired me to get back into long range shooting.

Interesting

Both and educational and critical look at what it takes to both get on, and stay on target at long range, would recommend to those looking to get started in long range shooting, however keep in mind that it can be done on a cheaper budget than this book suggests.

A pithy little book

If you've ever run out of elevation adjustment on your scope at 600 yards, this book is for you. Noblitt and Gabrilska have put together a cogent (pithy) text to get you on paper at 600, 800, or 1000 yards. The solutions are surprising, some rather simple and elegant recommendations to create a long-range system--an adequate rifle, the right cartridge, the right scope, the right bases and rings, the right zero or zeros. It's amazing what you can do even with a 1MOA rig, if all these factors are working together. I've discovered some of these techniques after much money and time at the high-power range and in open country. If I'd only known about this book 10 years ago. The data tables in the back are worth every penny. They are generally reliable. Of course, you'll need to create/tailor your own tables using your field trajectory data, but that's the joy of shooting and discovering how your rifle and cartridge perform under different environmental conditions. If you are an advanced shooter, you might want to pass. But, if you are new to long range precision rifle and want to get the most out of your equipment, this book comes highly recommended. Not an encyclopedia like many books on this topic, but dialed in on essentials. One of my favorite little books.