1 more sleep........

[Strangely Brown]

.did you shoot a mcqueens this week mick.

 

No, it's not started yet; I'm shooting it the week of Monday 18th July, I believe the last day is Thursday 22nd.

[andybrock]

The weather this year was a challenge. I scored 31 fewer points overall and was 4th overall in my class, why, well the two bouts of tropical torrential rain for Detail A at 500 to 300 yards on Saturday did not help but I feel that I had dropped behind well before that but surprisingly not as far as I thought. I shot a .223 all the way through, same rifle in every match, no bipod just sling and magazine rested, however, the .223 even with 77 SMKs cannot compete at long range with a challenging wind against a 6.5 (Berger Hybrid 140 Grain) where a wind shift will move me from the 5 ring to a 2 and the same shift moves the 6.5 from the centre of the 5 ring to the edge of the 5 ring. I won the Short Range Aggregate in Practical Optic but was 46 points behind in the Long Range Aggregate.

 

Not withstanding my efforts the guy who won overall (1160) was using a .223 (RWS Target Elite Plus 69 grain) and he was ahead of the highest Practical Optic shooter (1144) who had used a combination of .308 at Short Range (100 yards and less) and 6.5 Creedmoor at longer range (200 to 500 yards).

 

Bottom line is you can buy points up to a point but skill still beats technology.

So the bloke that won using a combination of 2 rifles does that mean he carried 2 rifles on the course or do you shoot close range and distance seperatly?

[John MH]

You have to use the same rifle all the way through a Match. A Match may consist of either a single practice or a series of practices, if a match has more than one practice the same rifle has to be used in all practices.

[Swarovski1]

I see you have a 6mm xc john.what do you use than on then.

[Swarovski1]

B..o..llocks

If I wrote that it would have been removed

[grizzlylar]

If I wrote that it would have been removed

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