Dead On: The Long-Range Marksman's Guide to Extreme Accuracy [Paperback]

Tony M. Noblitt (Author), Warren Gabrilska (Author)

Book Description

Series: Marksmanship | Publication Date: November 1, 1998

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 mounting and zeroing a scope, estimating wind values, dealing with mirage, understanding bore sighting, selecting and using iron sights, shooting with a variety of slings, performing preventive maintenance on your rifle and using range finders. Includes scope adjustment charts for a long list of rounds.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

The authors have decades of experience as bullet designers, NRA marksmen and competition shooters and explain every aspect of long-range shooting in easy-to-understand terms. If you want to become the kind of shot that fellow shooters speak well of and envy, this book is right on target.

Warren Gabrilska is a manufacturing/finishing engineer, author, and entrepreneur whose major passion is shooting. He is an NRA-certified rifle and pistol instructor who holds sharpshooter classifications in ISU small-bore and air rifle and an expert classification in NRA high-power rifle competition. He competes inIPSC pistol and three-gun matches and Second Chance bowling pin competitions. Warren is the owner of Timber Beast Products, Inc., which makes custom long-range low-drag bullets for shooting competitors, hunters, and varminters.

Tony M. Noblitt is an operating engineer and jack of all trades. He is an avid varmint and big-game hunter, bullet designer, experimental shooter, and reloader. Tony has shot in NBRSA bench-rest matches, as well as trap, skeet, and sporting clays competitions. He was driven to write this book after finding that this type of material wasn't available when he first decided to go long range. He has the enviable privilege of having a 1,000-yard range right off his back patio. The ability to step out the patio door to the shooting bench and shoot on a whim has given him a great deal of practical experience of shooting long range. Both Warren and Tony are long-time voting members of the NRA

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Paladin Press (November 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873649974
• ISBN-13: 978-0873649971
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #22 in Books > History > Military > Weapons & Warfare > Conventional
  • #34 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Hunting & Fishing > Shooting
  • #86 in Books > History > Military Science

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

161 of 163 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars If you want MOA tables, here they are!, November 26, 1999

By 

Jim Sonnenberg (New Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead On: The Long-Range Marksman's Guide to Extreme Accuracy (Paperback)

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.

81 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Agreeing with Mr. Sonnenberg, January 21, 2000

By 

Dennis Dong (CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead On: The Long-Range Marksman's Guide to Extreme Accuracy (Paperback)

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.

50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, February 9, 2005

By 

James R. Mckinley (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Dead On: The Long-Range Marksman's Guide to Extreme Accuracy (Paperback)

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.