Deep Creek 1000 Yard Match 1 LG & HG Results, March 26, 2022

[Sandstorm]

Alex..thats one Beautiful rifle and you Sir are one Hell of a shooter. ( Congrats )
I love taking out a new rifle to a Match....It can be Magic at times.

 

[Alex Wheeler]

Alex,

You missed my birthday by a couple weeks but I don’t mind late presents!

Dave.

Well, happy birthday Dave. We have a present for you but you have to come back to deep creek to get it

 

[Badbob]

We call them the hero or zero tunes. If you push it, its gonna be tiny or blow up. I have a 14 year old dog that has had seizures for the last 8 years or so. They are getting worse and I knew I would miss matches this year, my dog comes before anything else. So I am happy to shoot a couple small ones. The agg is gonna be hurt by missing matches. I am at a point that shooting small groups is fun, it can be at deep creek or here in dillon. I dont have anything to prove.

The tunes your asking about are not what Id normally chase. Normally I would want a mid 2" vertically shaped group with some wiggle room on powder charge. This rifle showed me it would shoot a zero at 1k if I nailed it but the window was small. A primer change or powder lot would get me back to more of an agging tune or "safe" tune. Im just playing around so I dont mind some big ones. But the more I think about it the more I realize this ones wasted on me and needs to be in more serious hands.

Thanks for the honest assessment. It helps teach us about tuning for a season agg and tuning to push the rig and see where the rabbit hole goes. Only a few of you have the resources to pick lots or primers and powder and pick through barrels. I hope you dog does well. R

 

[Alex Wheeler]

Thanks for the honest assessment. It helps teach us about tuning for a season agg and tuning to push the rig and see where the rabbit hole goes. Only a few of you have the resources to pick lots or primers and powder and pick through barrels. I hope you dog does well. R

I dont pick through lots of anything. I had no powder. Luckily Glenn had a couple lots. I dont pick through barrels either. I put this one on because I thought the first was tight. It wasn't, I had a different issue. This is not like short range. My best shooters have a couple barrels a year chambered. That's all. They just make them work. Tune tune tune.

 

[Hoodoo]

Tune tune tune.

Louder for the people in the back.

 

[Stan Taylor]

@Alex Wheeler
Alex You made a very valid point, I have access to as many barrels as ,I want to use in a season but for the most part,I’ll try to make a couple and tune.
The cream rises to the top on your dedication and time to tune the very very best in which it definitely shows at yawls club ,no matter where you shoot whoever ,pushes the dedication into a good tune providing you have a good Barrel and very good bullets .
The whole thing in a nutshell is a competent smith installing your Barrels’s and having the best no how on tune.

 

[Alex Wheeler]

Something I'd like to add to the discussion since scope questions come up so often. I used a Golden Eagle. I know some guys have very good examples. Mine is quite terrible for glass quality. I cant read the X on a 1k target in ideal conditions. This was on the same day you could see single 6mm holes in the target with a swaro spotter. It holds zero though. I do think I would have shot smaller with better glass, but even the worst glass is capable of 1s at 1k. Holding zero still comes way above glass quality. If Vortex would put some really good glass in this thing we'd finally have the scope we have wanted. Optics and mechanics in the same package without being too heavy.

 

[Jet]

Something I'd like to add to the discussion since scope questions come up so often. I used a Golden Eagle. I know some guys have very good examples. Mine is quite terrible for glass quality. I cant read the X on a 1k target in ideal conditions. This was on the same day you could see single 6mm holes in the target with a swaro spotter. It holds zero though. I do think I would have shot smaller with better glass, but even the worst glass is capable of 1s at 1k. Holding zero still comes way above glass quality. If Vortex would put some really good glass in this thing we'd finally have the scope we have wanted. Optics and mechanics in the same package without being too heavy.

Alex, did you have the GE up on 60 power? I always kept mine at 50 or below due to image quality

 

[Alex Wheeler]

More like 40-50

 

[JFrank]

I find the GE image quality largely frustrating and for the potential 6 weekends of shooting annually I would prefer to at least see the target clearly without dropping $3000 to do it.

 

[INTJ]

I find the GE image quality largely frustrating and for the potential 6 weekends of shooting annually I would prefer to at least see the target clearly without dropping $3000 to do it.

Get a NF BR 12-42

 

[Sandstorm]

A Sightron 10-50x60 is what ive used for
years.. my eyes prefer it over the NF
I do have one of those too for a backup.
Save some coin and try the Sightron

 

[INTJ]

The Sightron 10-60 is $1329 at Optics Planet. The Nightforce 12-42 BR is $1473. Not really a huge difference in price. While I do like Sightron, I MUCH prefer the Nightforce NP-2DD reticle over the Sightron dot for LRBR.

 

[Sandstorm]

You may indeed be better off with the NF BR at such a small savings.
I purchased my optics used so saved some coin there. I have sold many due to my eyes
not quite 100% happy and looking for the next better thing.
Anyway settled on Sightron for now. It works for me.

 

[INTJ]

I my current job I get to look through a lot of different scopes as I develop loads for customer rifles. I think the combination of reticle and scope are what determines what looks best to us. I have a Sightron 6-24 that is very nice for load development. It has a hash mark style reticle with a floating dot, and for me that makes it nice to use shooting paper.

I have also used a couple of customers Zero Compromise Optics scopes. I think they are probably the brightest I have looked through, but I don't like their reticle for paper.

 

[JFrank]

We’ll see how the next few matches turn out , holding poi is paramount but I also don’t think it’s too much to ask to see the damn target more than on the best of days.

 

[INTJ]

We’ll see how the next few matches turn out , holding poi is paramount but I also don’t think it’s too much to ask to see the damn target more than on the best of days.

Last match on Sunday, the first two relays, I could see the "X" with both scopes

 

[JFrank]

Last match on Sunday, the first two relays, I could see the "X" with both scopes

Sunday I could not get a clear X although I did get a decent look at the ( white dot 9) and held a 2 inch vertical except for the two shots I waited on.