billbonser
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GREAT shooting Jason!
NBRSA NW Regional 600/1,000 yard LG/HG @ White City, Oregon
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Here's a breakdown by day.
Saturday:
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Sunday. Winds 20+ - gusting 25+ at times?
The big cartridges (.284 and .300 wsm) ruled Sunday:
The big cartridges (.284 and .300 wsm) ruled Sunday:
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billbonser
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Congratulations to Larry Bryant. Thanks Jet for posting the results.
Jeff did a great job!! He is also a great guy!
In the pic he posted, that string hanging down from the flagpole went from about where it’s is in the pic to about a 45 degree angle. One flag blew down. Until I discovered the string, I was trying to read the bend in the flagpoles, because they would actually bend during the heavier wind. Such are the joys of reading wind when it exeeds full flag value......
I wasn’t sure about my tune before the match and I am still unsure. I shot second relay the first day and there was a lot of vertical wind shifts. I managed to find settings and hold offs for dead flag, 45 degree flag, and 90 degree flag. Most of the time that worked but I never did figure out how to read the vertical.
The second day I didn’t figure out anything out that worked. I had used up almost all the left adjustment on my scope. Sighters would go from one side of the target to the other. I didn’t notice too much vertical.
I wound up Second in LG Score and Fifth in LG Agg, with embarrassing scores and groups. On Day 2 during the second LG round of the first relay, a target launched itself up into the air and they called a ceasefire. I managed to get all five off before the ceasefire. They reshot the second relay and asked if I wanted to reshoot. I declined. I tracked well, shot fast, and the wind seemed fairly consistent. Turns out I shouldn’t have reshot since I had two off on that round.
A dozen years ago I shot 1k BR in Tucson. I started with a 6.5/2.84 then built a 300 WSM that shot very well. I set two club agg records and shot five screamer groups one year. When I retired from the USAF in 2007 to a full time job in Southern Oregon I quit competition shooting. I started again this spring with a Dasher.
I still haven’t shot as good of groups with the Dasher as I did with my 300 WSM. Everyone keeps telling me the 6mms will outshoot the 30s in good conditions. I haven’t seen that yet. I also think I talked myself out of a very effective load development technique as I was updating the old with the new and misapplied the new.
Tucson is often windy, and when I did so well there I weighed charges on a RCBS 10-10, used a 7/8-14 seater, the only bullet measurement was base to ogive, and I didn't worry much about tracking or reading the wind.
Today with my Dasher I weigh charges to the kernel, use a straight line seater with a press that measures seating pressure, use much more sophisticated bullet measuring methods, have much better tracking, and do read the wind. But I am shooting worse......
I am stuck with a 6mm because the rifle I bought earlier this year has a BAT SV action. I will rebarrel later this year to a 6 BRA. But when I get the funds together I am going to build another 300 WSM. I am going back to my old load development techniques (5-shot groups and low ES) with the addition of using the ladder target Jeff Locke showed me.
In the pic he posted, that string hanging down from the flagpole went from about where it’s is in the pic to about a 45 degree angle. One flag blew down. Until I discovered the string, I was trying to read the bend in the flagpoles, because they would actually bend during the heavier wind. Such are the joys of reading wind when it exeeds full flag value......
I wasn’t sure about my tune before the match and I am still unsure. I shot second relay the first day and there was a lot of vertical wind shifts. I managed to find settings and hold offs for dead flag, 45 degree flag, and 90 degree flag. Most of the time that worked but I never did figure out how to read the vertical.
The second day I didn’t figure out anything out that worked. I had used up almost all the left adjustment on my scope. Sighters would go from one side of the target to the other. I didn’t notice too much vertical.
I wound up Second in LG Score and Fifth in LG Agg, with embarrassing scores and groups. On Day 2 during the second LG round of the first relay, a target launched itself up into the air and they called a ceasefire. I managed to get all five off before the ceasefire. They reshot the second relay and asked if I wanted to reshoot. I declined. I tracked well, shot fast, and the wind seemed fairly consistent. Turns out I shouldn’t have reshot since I had two off on that round.
A dozen years ago I shot 1k BR in Tucson. I started with a 6.5/2.84 then built a 300 WSM that shot very well. I set two club agg records and shot five screamer groups one year. When I retired from the USAF in 2007 to a full time job in Southern Oregon I quit competition shooting. I started again this spring with a Dasher.
I still haven’t shot as good of groups with the Dasher as I did with my 300 WSM. Everyone keeps telling me the 6mms will outshoot the 30s in good conditions. I haven’t seen that yet. I also think I talked myself out of a very effective load development technique as I was updating the old with the new and misapplied the new.
Tucson is often windy, and when I did so well there I weighed charges on a RCBS 10-10, used a 7/8-14 seater, the only bullet measurement was base to ogive, and I didn't worry much about tracking or reading the wind.
Today with my Dasher I weigh charges to the kernel, use a straight line seater with a press that measures seating pressure, use much more sophisticated bullet measuring methods, have much better tracking, and do read the wind. But I am shooting worse......
I am stuck with a 6mm because the rifle I bought earlier this year has a BAT SV action. I will rebarrel later this year to a 6 BRA. But when I get the funds together I am going to build another 300 WSM. I am going back to my old load development techniques (5-shot groups and low ES) with the addition of using the ladder target Jeff Locke showed me.
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