Bruce from West Oz
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An interesting weekend ...
Saturday:
We had the second leg of a tri-club shoot (Rimfire Field Rifle) at Southern Districts Rifle Club. Now, this is in the Darling Ranges to the east of Perth (about 35 miles out).
It poured rain!!! I haven't seen anything like it since I lived in the tropics. Then I realised -- it's only about 2 miles from one of the biggest Perth dams -- hence, in the catchment area. In the rainshed, no wonder it poured!!
It was cold, too -- and dark enough for headlights (headlamps??) at about 4.00 p.m.
The range is in a gravel "quarry" -- I've never heard so many ricochets in my life!!
Oh yeah ... the downside is we came second!!
Sunday:
We shot the inaugural rimfire Hunter class benchrest match at my Club. W..o..h!! That's a whole new ballgame!
One interesting thing we did find was the mismatch of ammo to rifles. The Club sells Winchester Winner, which has always been just "OK" in Field rifle, which is hardly a precision match. However, off the bench we found numerous examples of "flyers" (different rifles, different shooters -- all called the shot as good -- but found it a good inch away from point of aim). Some rifles shot it well, mine (Anschutz) didn't. I then tried Federal Gold Match -- no flyers but loose grouping. CCI Standard shot tighter, but still not a match winner.
Looks like a few dollars need to be spent to find a round it *does* like. (I know it likes Remington Green Target, but it's nearly impossible to obtain).
Shot a 226/250 which put me ninth out of 14!!! The winner (inaugural shoot, remember) shot a 243/250. The ammo -- an "unknown" European brand called "SK" at only $5.00 for 50.
Hmmmm ... head-scratching time.
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Saturday:
We had the second leg of a tri-club shoot (Rimfire Field Rifle) at Southern Districts Rifle Club. Now, this is in the Darling Ranges to the east of Perth (about 35 miles out).
It poured rain!!! I haven't seen anything like it since I lived in the tropics. Then I realised -- it's only about 2 miles from one of the biggest Perth dams -- hence, in the catchment area. In the rainshed, no wonder it poured!!
It was cold, too -- and dark enough for headlights (headlamps??) at about 4.00 p.m.
The range is in a gravel "quarry" -- I've never heard so many ricochets in my life!!
Oh yeah ... the downside is we came second!!
Sunday:
We shot the inaugural rimfire Hunter class benchrest match at my Club. W..o..h!! That's a whole new ballgame!
One interesting thing we did find was the mismatch of ammo to rifles. The Club sells Winchester Winner, which has always been just "OK" in Field rifle, which is hardly a precision match. However, off the bench we found numerous examples of "flyers" (different rifles, different shooters -- all called the shot as good -- but found it a good inch away from point of aim). Some rifles shot it well, mine (Anschutz) didn't. I then tried Federal Gold Match -- no flyers but loose grouping. CCI Standard shot tighter, but still not a match winner.
Looks like a few dollars need to be spent to find a round it *does* like. (I know it likes Remington Green Target, but it's nearly impossible to obtain).
Shot a 226/250 which put me ninth out of 14!!! The winner (inaugural shoot, remember) shot a 243/250. The ammo -- an "unknown" European brand called "SK" at only $5.00 for 50.
Hmmmm ... head-scratching time.
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