Links to ELR Articles

Clay Rhoden of Team GPG Wins King of 1 Mile

A novice long-range competitor is now the first-ever USA King of 1 Mile. Clay Rhoden, the talented head honcho of Longshot (target cameras), won the match with a superb performance. Clay hit every single shot, without a miss, for the first five targets, all the way out to 1699 yards. There were two additional targets beyond one mile — Target 6 at 1909 yards and Target 7 at 2391 yards. Clay went 4 for 10 at these longer distances, but his perfect shooting out to 1699 yards still gave him a comfortable margin of victory. Read More at bulletin.accurateshooter.com ⇨

VIHTAVUORI’S PAUL PHILLIPS WINS SPEARPOINT 2022 ELR FINALE

Team Vihtavuori member Paul Phillips finished the Spearpoint 2022 Extreme Long Range (ELR) Series 2nd place overall in the Light Division after winning the Spearpoint Finale. Paul had impacts at 1,510 yards, 1,669 yards, 1,860 yards, 1,943 yards, 2,073 yards, 2,203 yards, 2,585 yards and 2,907 yards, giving him a score of 56,356 to secure his first-place finish. Read More at vihtavuori.com ⇨

Big Bore Brilliance — Paul Phillips Optimizes the .416 Barrett

Paul Phillips is a past King of 2 Miles, and one of the world’s top Extreme Long Range (ELR) Shooters. He recently showcased one of his ELR rifles that shoots the .416 Barrett cartridge with huge, 550gr Cutting Edge bullets seated in CNC-machined RCC (Robertson Cartridge Company) brass that costs $10 per case. Read More at accurateshooter.com ⇨

Midland's Paul Phillips part of world-record four-mile rifle shot

Paul Phillips has forged tremendous success in his 25 years as a competitive marksman. But what he and his 13-member team did less than one year ago is unprecedented in the history of rifle shooting. Read More at ourmidland.com ⇨

Global Precision Group Shooter Hits 6,000-Yard (3.4 Mile) Shot

Team Global Precision Group pulled off a remarkable shooting feat recently. The team got together and made a shot previously unheard of before, when Paul Phillips hit a 32×48-inch target at an astounding 6,012 yards, or 3.4 miles away. Read More at ballisticmag.com ⇨

Team Global Precision Group Hits 6012-Yard Target

Source: Parker, John. “Team Global Precision Group Hits 6012-Yard Target.” ssusa.org, 5 Mar. 2019. Web. 9 Feb. 2023.

In January, extreme long-range shooter and reigning NRA ELR National Champion Paul Phillips successfully hit a steel target at a distance of 3.4 miles, with the help of his Team Global Precision Group teammates. Watch the video above. Read More at ssusa.org ⇨

A Vision of Global ELR: King of 2 Miles in France

On April 20-22, 2019, the extreme long range (ELR) organization King of 2 Miles (KO2M) hosted its first international competition at Camp de Canjuers, a military zone in southern France near Nice. The largest military camp and longest shooting range in Europe, Canjuers is situated on a plateau with shooting positions that overlook a sweeping valley. Primarily used to test tanks and other artillery, the base is active every day of the week and open to all calibers, firing 330 days out of the year. Read More at mcmillanusa.com ⇨

ELR Champion Paul Phillips Developing New 33XC Extreme Long-Range Loads

Paul Phillips is like a mad scientist, and we often sit on the edge of our seats to see what screaming velocity long-range cartridge recipe he’s cooked up next. His latest uses the 33XC, a brand new .338-cal. cartridge designed by David Tubb, and in one of the latest tests Phillips has it running at a blistering 3,556 fps from the muzzle. The rifle is the same one he plans to use at the NRA Extreme Long-Range National Championship at Camp Atterbury later this month. Read More at www.ssusa.org ⇨

Interview with the 2019 King of 2 Miles

In this article, we hear from the reigning champion of King of 2 Miles, Paul Phillips, captain of Team Global Precision Group (GPG). Some of the best ELR shooters in the world come to compete every year for the chance to earn the KO2M title. Here Paul shares what it's all about and what the match experience was like. Read More at kestrelballistics.com ⇨

Extreme Long-Range Shooting: How to Hit a Target at Two Miles

The King of 2 miles is a big-bore event with targets ranging from 1,500 to 3,500 yards. The competition started in 2015 in Raton, New Mexico, where it’s still held, and has really grown. There are now Ko2M shoots in France, South America, South Africa, Canada, and Russia, and soon Ukraine and Italy too. My team and I won the stateside event last summer. Read More at fieldandstream.com ⇨

Paul Phillips Wins NRA Extreme Long Range Championship

Competing at Camp Atterbury in mid-July, Paul Phillips of Team Applied Ballistics won the 2018 NRA Extreme Long Range (ELR) Championship. Shooting a McMillan-stocked .416 Barrett rifle with 550-grain Cutting Edge Bullets, Phillips won convincingly, finishing with 62627 points. Runner-up, shooting a .375, was Chase Stroud (56744 points). Read More at accurateshooter.com ⇨

ELR Goes Mainstream

There have always been a niche group of shooters pushing the limits when it comes to distance. But over the past few years, advancements in manufacturing combined with better understanding and tools around predictive ballistics have ushered Extreme Long Range (ELR) shooting into the mainstream. A decade ago, the few shooters who could hit targets at a mile or more were considered super-human. Today, distances once considered impossible with shoulder-fired rifles can now be hit on-demand by just about any shooter with the right equipment and desire to learn. Read More at precisionrifleblog.com ⇨

What The Pros Use – King of 2 Miles Edition

Earlier this week I traveled to watch the King of 2 Miles rifle competition (Ko2M) at the NRA Whittington Center in Raton, New Mexico. It’s one of the few matches where great shooters from across the country gather to push the limits of what is possible with small arms as they engage targets out to 2 miles (3,520 yards). Read More at precisionblog.com.⇨

The King(s) of 2 Miles

The road is rough and rocky, the tires of the SUV kicking up dust and dirt clods as we make the long journey to a rarely visited corner of the NRA’s Whittington Center in Raton, New Mexico. We pass locked gates, steep grades, and even a long-abandoned mining village along the way. The goal is a 2-mile target, and we’re tagging along with the Applied Ballistics ELR (Extreme Long Range) shooting team as they practice for the King of 2 Miles (KO2M) competition happening in mere days. Read More at recoilweb.com ⇨