Yesterday I shot the new 108's in Shippensburg's monthly Ground Hog Match. Conditions were a bit rough with switchy, gusting winds in the 5-10 MPH range and some very heavy mirage at all yardages being particularly bad at 300 and 500 meters. In fact at 500 meters you couldn't see the scoring rings on the target let alone bullet holes. After you sort of got a sight setting on the metal swingers you were blind on the record target.
We started at 200 meters where I dropped a point from the git go when a gust took a shot out of the ten ring, giving me a score 0f 49.
Next stage at 300 meters in some nasty mirage I was lucky enough to score a fifty putting them all in the ten ring. Which is no mean feat at Shippensburg even in good conditions.
Then at 500 meters, where it's never over "Till the fat lady sings" I put three shots touching on the metal gong sighter and immediately went to the record feeling my three clicks right windage from 300 meters was still good to go at 500. I preceded to shoot my five record shots pausing between shots three and five waiting for my condition to return. As I said you couldn't even see the scoring rings due to heavy mirage so I just held center of the white bull for each shot.
As you can see by the enclosed photo the group was about 1.5 inches left of where I'd have liked it to be, perhaps a bit more wind came up, or more likely the difference between shooting the metal gong to set windage and elevation, and then moving to a different type of target for the record. This can bite you everytime at Shippensburg. I managed a 41 score and a real nice 1.509 group considering the conditions.
My total score was a 140 out of a possible 150 which was good enough for first place in Heavy Custom class for the day.
This was the 108's initial baptism by fire so to speak and they came through with flying colors.
Danny
We started at 200 meters where I dropped a point from the git go when a gust took a shot out of the ten ring, giving me a score 0f 49.
Next stage at 300 meters in some nasty mirage I was lucky enough to score a fifty putting them all in the ten ring. Which is no mean feat at Shippensburg even in good conditions.
Then at 500 meters, where it's never over "Till the fat lady sings" I put three shots touching on the metal gong sighter and immediately went to the record feeling my three clicks right windage from 300 meters was still good to go at 500. I preceded to shoot my five record shots pausing between shots three and five waiting for my condition to return. As I said you couldn't even see the scoring rings due to heavy mirage so I just held center of the white bull for each shot.
As you can see by the enclosed photo the group was about 1.5 inches left of where I'd have liked it to be, perhaps a bit more wind came up, or more likely the difference between shooting the metal gong to set windage and elevation, and then moving to a different type of target for the record. This can bite you everytime at Shippensburg. I managed a 41 score and a real nice 1.509 group considering the conditions.
My total score was a 140 out of a possible 150 which was good enough for first place in Heavy Custom class for the day.
This was the 108's initial baptism by fire so to speak and they came through with flying colors.
Danny