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

• If you want MOA tables, here they are!

  
  By A3759ZAUN5B8LB on 1999-11-26
  I was disappointed in this book. Half of it is tables with MOA scope adjustments for various bullets and ranges. (Pp 1-86 are chatty text, and pp 88-161 are MOA tables) These are essentially useless to most people because they would have to be modified for one's own rifle/bullet/scope combination.

  I was hoping for more information on accurizing techniques (barrel bedding, cryo treatment, moly coating, etc). Instead, the only real description of any use to anyone is how to use a boresight to mount a scope using Burris rings. If you don't want to use Burris rings and a Bushnell or Redfield boresighter, then you probably won't get much useful information from this book. At least, I didn't.

  While there are some helpful hints sprinkled in the text, most are things a moderately experienced shooter would already know. Certainly anyone who is buying a book on long-range shooting (600 to 1200 yards) would already know most of the elementary information presented.

  My recommendation? Save your money, or buy two other books for the same price.
  
  

• Agreeing with Mr. Sonnenberg

  
  By A19HACQ1IJGYJE on 2000-01-21
  I have to agree with Mr. Sonnenberg's review of this book. I think it's geared mainly for the beginner shooter. I also think it's over-priced since half the book consists of ballistic tables that I will never use. A serious shooter other than a beginner should already have their own ballistic charts for their rifles.
  
  

• Save your money

  
  By ALJGB7XHPFCR on 2005-02-10
  Almost half of this book is balistics tables, probably for cartridge and bullet combinations you are not shooting.
  
  The rest of the book is mostly geared to the beginning shooter, but the information is not very good. For instance, the authors suggest using scope bases with the built in windage adjustments. The authors must have about zero experience with these bases, which are known for unintentionally allowing your zero to shift. I don't know of any military or lawenforcment tactical shooter, or any civilian long range shooter using the scope bases and rings suggested in the book. The best shooters are using solid steel bases secured to the rifle with over sized screws.
  
  Also, there is no up to date information on long range rifles, gunsmithing, or modern cartridge and bullet design.
  
  A waste of time and money.
  
  
  
  

• A pithy little book

  
  By A2KXF8S3KVK99J on 2006-10-06
  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 on taking your heavy-barreled bolt gun, chambered in a suitable long-range cartridge with appropriate optics and getting 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.
  
  

• Jim Sonnenberg's 99% right

  
  By ACW2QZIQVQMOW on 2004-06-03
  Jim has (almost) hit the nail on the head - for the "not so experienced" long range shooter there are however one or two pearls contained in the text. Would I buy this again? maybe, but not at this price.
  
  

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