Luck is certainly a part of shooting but the better shooters, they get lucky a lot. They score luck and skill the same way, though. Lol!
Reloading at the match
- Thread starter Bottom Fodder
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Well I ask a ? About reloading during a match an 4 pages later its all about who is “lucky”lol. I guess your “lucky” if you CAN reload during a match
Life is hard sometimes!
Do you have a more specific question to which you didn't get an answer? I'm still trying to figure out why you asked about bronze brushes in a tuning at the match thread, too. Yes, people load at the match to maintain peak tune as conditions change throughout the day or days of a match. It's a learned skill, reading groups and knowing what to do and when.I totally agree and working hard at all aspects of your sport improves your luck.
However! Pride goeth before a fall. So I work really hard and being a man who never attends church (except for weddings and funerals) I am totally grateful for all the luck that can come my way.
bryn
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Well, back to the first question. I took about a 10 year break from SR BR competition. Prior to my break just about everyone reloaded at the matches. Heck I remember showing up 3 days early to the Cactus just to find all the reloading tables full. But what I miss the most is the camaraderie and the talk in the reloading areas. I learned a lot from the old-timers about reloading, consistency of your techniques and just the general gossip, not to mention the ability to fine tune my load. So recently I decided to dust off my BR stuff and get back at it. At my local match now everyone is preloaded. So roughly you have to have 100 loaded rounds per gun. I have 4 guns, all chambered with the same reamer (my reamer). They all take a different load, bumped differently and different seating depths. Now that's 400 pieces of brass. So I have decided not to preload just after my 1st match back, I just didn't enjoy it as much. For me, reloading at the matches keeps my head in the game. So at the end of this month at the next match, I'll be that lone guy sitting a the reloading area doing my thing. Who knows maybe I can start a resurgence of reloading at the matches. On a positive note, my wife will be happy as I'm not set up on the kitchen table a couple times a week, lol...
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AlNyhus
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With a 30BR, I'm usually one of the very few people loading between relays. I come with 50 loaded rounds and just reload whatever I shot the previous relay. By the end of the third relay at 200, I've got enough loaded to finish the yardage so I start packing up my loading gear.
shoot4fun
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Or just get a tuner
And a cap to cover your bald head once the tuner and wind flags make you pull your hair out!and wind flags
AlNyhus
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There's roughly 30 minutes between relays....there's actually a time rule. Obviously, the more relays there are the more time you have. I can't imagine any scenario that would allow 'annealing' between relays.
Like anything, 'annealing' can be taken to the extreme.
And a cap to cover your bald head once the tuner and wind flags make you pull your hair out!
I think you need to talk to the Uber tuner guru
And here I was thinking guys didn't like tuner posts. Silly me again. Lol!
shoot4fun
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You've seen my head and I don't even use tuners or flags!I think you need to talk to the Uber tuner guru
I will just say this..that I don't load at the range any longer and use the tuner just for this. Ran n133 this weekend in one rifle. It shot well but was the first to go out of tune, too. One mark on the tuner cured it. Not a tuner thread but a tuning thread. Carry on.You've seen my head and I don't even use tuners or flags!
shoot4fun
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Mike,
I believe the general consensus is that you make the best one.
I just wish you would offer yours in .750x32, as most of my barrels are.
AlNyhus
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Mike, having your tuner on my 30BR this season has been very educational for me. I certainly wouldn't have learned as much without your assistance.
Good shootin' -Al
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Trying to learn, So now I’m seeing/reading that some shooters don’t reload at the match any more they tune during the match using a tuner instead of adjusting their load?
INShooter
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I believe that loading at the range is more dependent on the discipline being shot. I shoot registered group matches and almost no one is preloaded. Score shooting seems to be the opposite.
AlNyhus
Silver $$ Contributor
Depending on how they run their program...yes. And many with a tuner still tune the gun in a conventional manner.
AlNyhus
Silver $$ Contributor
Yep...the larger tune window of the .30's makes preloading possible.
I can make you a .750-32 adapter if you want. I've done several.
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