r/canadaguns • u/Leviathan134 al • Apr 24 '26
Shooting Long Range
Hey everyone, hope your having a wonderful day. I live in calgary and have been wanting to start doing long range until now I've only shot up until around 3-4 hundred yards. I have been trying to find a spot which is longer and havent been able to is there anywhere you guys know where I would be able to do find a longer range. Thank you
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u/Professional_Chef379 Apr 24 '26
I am in Calgary and wondering where you even found 300-400 yards?
The only places I know are the ranges (long wait list) and the rocky mountain house range (I think that's the one) with 1600m
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u/Murray3-Dvideos Apr 24 '26
Waiparous and McLean Creek if ur willing to walk a few hundred meters.
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u/Professional_Chef379 Apr 24 '26
Interesting. I just started going to Waiparpus a few months ago and haven't really ventured off the road, mostly because I didn't randomly want to walk through snow hoping to find a spot.
I'm going to need to check out McLean Creek. I just assumed that that place would be covered with Jeeps
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u/Murray3-Dvideos Apr 24 '26
Hunter Valley road often yields some good secluded shooting spots. But you usually have to walk a few hundred meters off the road to a high spot (and to avoid potentially being in violation of some laws). THEN you gotta walk your gong out and back to the distance you want to shoot. Lots of work but your huffing fresh air and seeing beautiful scenery.
I only say McLean Creek because many others insist there is some really good long range spots there. I personally haven't gone looking for them and ultimately hate shooting there because of all the crazy people you usually crosspaths with. On top of that, theres a bazillion "Provincal Trails" you gotta dance around since legally your not allowed to pass a bullet within 400m of them (outside of hunting scenarios).
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u/Professional_Chef379 Apr 24 '26
Thanks for that! I am going to check out Hunter Valley road.
That was my fear with McLean Creek. A long time ago I used to own a Jeep and go play in the mud there and I figured it would suck to shoot there
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u/ShadowcastZ Apr 25 '26
Prince George is a ways away, but they have 1400 meters, and I saw they're working on pushing it just past a mile this summer
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u/Traditional_Bus2955 May 02 '26
Full Bore gun club is accepting new applications with no wait list. They focus primarily on long distance shooting up to 1km I believe.
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u/CR123CR123CR Apr 24 '26
Lots of suggestions here but as a bit of an alternate:
Try doing .22lr at 200m+ if you want to get a feel for what long range is like without really going down the rabbit hole.
Get a couple boxes of SK standard/Eley Target/Lapua Biathlon ammo and see which ammo your rifle likes best at 100m and go from there
A base model savage mk2 is more accurate than most shooters are so you can get into it pretty cheap if you don't have a .22 bolt gun.
Its just an easier/cheaper way to get a similar experience and get your skills built up for longer range shots.
My base mk 2 is about a 1.5MOA rifle when it's secured in a vice clamped to a bench and with SK Standard ammo btw. The triggers ok out of the box but the bolt and magazines suck are where they really feel cheap.
My CZ 452 is about 1.1MOA in a similar condition and is a much better experience overall but it's got North of 25000rds through it and I haven't been the kindest of owner to that thing xD
I add 0.5 - 4MOA to my shots depending on shooting position/how I am doing that day as well as a heads up. I am usually near the bottom of the NRL22 competitions I do though so below average shooter for the shooting competition folks.
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u/MoosedMilk Apr 24 '26
Honestly the only similarity between the two is you have to adjust your turrets. 22lr at 200m+ will never come close to the neuron activation of slapping steel at 1km+
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u/CR123CR123CR Apr 24 '26
Ya it's definitely significantly more "brain ticking" to hit things at the longer ranges.
The skills are similar enough between the two. Takes roughly the same amount of time for a .22LR to fly 300m as a 6.5CM goes in 1000m (very roughly).
You have to know how to adjust for and read the wind, you have significant ToF and drop, you need to be able to shoot very steadily, you need to know how to adjust as your barrel warms up, good trigger control, etc.
Plus I can shoot 500 .22LR for the cost of like 40 of higher calibre stuff using match ammo for both.
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u/Professional_Chef379 Apr 24 '26
This is where I'm starting at, but I sold my savage because I kind of hates it and got a cz 457 lrp instead
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u/CR123CR123CR Apr 24 '26
I bought the MK2 for my wife and was surprised by it.
I had an old Lakefield MK2 I inherited but bought a CZ452 to replace it longer than I care to admit ago xD
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u/Next_Chicken9739 Apr 24 '26
Generic answer is range (Milo and Rocky) have decent distance ranges.
Is some opportunities for long distance and high angle shooting on crown land but will take some effort to get to.