Business like life is all about compromise. I hate that fact, but it is a fact of life.
Why I have not done it yet. I guess I need to get off of my posterior about getting rid of my long range AR project, and moving those funds on to a project I am more interested in and attached to. Especially since I now live, for 5+ years, in a place where I am limited to 2-300 yards, a 600-1000 yard rifle makes little to no sense.
Quoted for truth.
Whenever I see or hear the word "uncompromising" I wonder if the user knows the definition of the word or if they're just trying to sell something.
Every time I get some sort of delusional hankering for a rifle capable of respectable accuracy and terminal performance at extended ranges - call it 500 to roughly a 1000 yards - I get out the Taser and have Mrs. c zap me a couple of times. That usually does it. If she's not around I get my binoculars and my laser range finder and go outside. Then I try and pick out something on the mountainside with the binoculars and range it with the range finder. Sometimes I pick out something too far away or something close enough that doesn't reflect the laser light very well or the mirage effect keeps the unit from working properly or whatever else happens. In any event, about the farthest I can get a reliable, repeatable reading is maybe 800-900 yards if the conditions are perfect.
The last time I actually walked up the mountain to see the object it took me most of a half hour to get there and the object I was ranging was a piece of a rock that caught the sun for a while and became prominent. It was 29 inches across and 16 inches high at the angle I was seeing it from my yard. So basically it was a deer torso sized target and it ranged at 844 yards, slightly upslope. Without the aid of my fairly good binoculars I had real trouble picking it out from anything else on the mountainside using my naked eye(s). If it had been an actual deer I could not have seen it at all if it were standing still and maybe not even if it were moving. With my best long range rifle I would have still have been roughly 444 yards ( a quarter mile ) farther away than an ethical shot on said deer could have been attempted under those conditions. Rifle: Ruger American bolt action in 30/06 Springfield with a Nikon 3x9 variable up top. Ammo of choice for deer: Federal Premium 165 grain Nosler Partition bullet. Me: Old fart, with considerable experience, corrective lenses, decent field shooting skills and an absolute aversion to tracking wounded game over hills and washes and through creosote and catsclaw thickets because I took a questionable shot.
Point is, a lot of us like to jaw about shooting at long range but actually doing it - particularly doing it effectively can be devilishly hard and frighteningly expensive for the average shooter/hunter. Its cool to ring steel once in a while out past 900 yards - I've done it but I think there was about equal parts skill and luck on those shots if the truth were known. Its really hard to find any sort of reasonably priced hunting rig that can be effective on deer sized game at 600 yards and even harder to find hunters capable of using that equipment ethically and effectively. Paper punchers are expensive too for those who prefer that kind of thing and by the time you get the barrel broken in and a few good loads worked up and a match or two under your belt its time to start thinking about replacing the worn out barrel for a lot of calibers.
Rant off - but I get where you're coming from on the long range project(s)