Thread: Shooting Today

And I'll lead off. Today at Invercargill Rifle Club 10 or so shooters arrived to try out on a competition sponsored by Custom Guns ( based very loosely on Jim Garner of YouTube Backfire fame).

Conditions 31-43 km/h winds at 100 degrees (as measured at the airport met station about 1500M away). We have two lines of trees running right down the side of the range that produce a big reduction in the wind speed on the range floor, but their distance and gaps causes a lot of turbulence that can be very hard to read.

Targets were a 29mm black dot at 100M (this is exactly 1.0 MOA), a 75mm gong at 296M (0.87 MoA) and a 125mm gong at 480M (0.9 MOA). 5 shots at each with the first 100M group being shot cold bore. To take a voucher off Custom Guns you needed at sub MOA group with all shots cutting the black.

So Greg still has all his money. There were several sub MOA groups but no-one had a perfect zero.

Here is my effort with the Savage 224 Valkyrie:



No cigar. And I'd tested the zero last week, but the range conditions beat me. And whilst on my results I got a 4th shot hit at 296 and none at 480.

Other shooters: no first round hits 296 so no "possibles" but quite a few hits with most shooters able to be walked on. At 480, one possible of 5 hits, one three shot hits and then the rest with a couple of hits each. At the 480 shooters had the option of testing on other gongs first if they wanted, I might have done a bit better had I taken this option!

Then to just "queer the pitch" the RO had a go with my rifle (and adjusted dope) at 480 and bugger me - first round hit, followed by 5 or 6 misses haha. Hard day in the wind!