Thread: Auck gong shoot done and dusted

Today we held the Auckland Gong shoot as advertised on the forum , what a great day for both participating and being in the beautiful Auckland weather .
Sadly from the start it didn't look like we would get a big turnout and it did end up that way from forum members not able to attend because of various reasons but I turned up as did Lurcher and 5 other keen shooters ranging from Club shooters to general target hunting good keen men .

Having taken a day off work as did my friend Matt we went and prepared the course of fire and set all the targets up at positions ranging from 340y out to 860y with targets ranging from just over 3"-4" upto 10 at the 860y .

Weather was sunny with changing winds from 4-7mph around the valleys and many hits and plenty of misses made - with the aid of good spotting and calling for the shooters by the spotters the hit rate was increase for some - I was using my FFP Mil dot spotting scope and having to try and convert on the run mills to moa which was fun if not testing on my little brain.

One thing one realizes is you must turn up with the correct projectile speed but sadly I was adjusting mine all the way through the comp as my chrony the day before was in differing light and left me upto 100fps out -be prepared or you'll miss shots you should be hitting.

I think some of the guys surprised themselves with hits at longer ranges than they had engaged before this little comp --one just keeps learning and it keeps this type of shooting very exciting.

At the end of the day there can be only one overall winner and that was Matt Ryan with some great rounds on target with his Savage 338lm -he sent some of the targets doing loops around the target frames but as they were his and he is an engineer he made them so they didn't break! Thanks Matt for supplying the targets !!
Thanks to Sportsway Gunshed for the caps as prizes which I forgot to take to the farm so only the winner got a Federal Ammunition cap the others will be for future winners of the gong shoot which we will hold every 2-3 months for those that would like to attend .

At the end of the day the boys shared a beer and watched while a bull decided to rob my car of its apples and when caught in the act dropped one as I confronted it - of course he ate it , he was a big bastard !