UBR Tn State Chapionship

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I took the liberty to do a copy and paste of the results of the Tn. State UBR championship match from yesterday, from another site. Results are linked. It was a great match and I had a great time! Been a while since I've made time to shoot at all, and it showed..but I was happy and had fun! Thanks Rick and congrats to the winners!!!--Mike

The TN State Ultimate Benchrest Championship for 2016 is in the books. The conditions were as good as we ever see at Gallatin and many took advantage of it. We had 36 rifles competing and 16 scores of 500 or better in the Grand Agg. I think that's the best we've ever done. We had five new shooters who had never shot a benchrest match. One of them, Matt Sheppick, shooting a rifle and loads supplied by Chester Bradford, walked away with the Custom Class 1st Place for 100 yards and the Grand Agg edging out Chester by one point. Jr Rigsby tied the existing 100/200 yd Agg in Unlimited with a 514 and Elaine Lockhart, one of our rookies, shot a 513 only one point behind the record. Danny Hensley and Wayne McNeely joined us from the east. Danny took 1st Place in Factory and Wayne went home with a first in Modifed. Eric Leonard finished 3rd in Custom with his first 500+ score (509). At 100 yards in Custom we had 3 shooters only one point behind the winner, including Morris Shankle who shot his best ever. I could go on, but really there are too many to name. It was a very good day for all of us, even those who didn't come home with a win.

I hope as many of you as possible will be joining us this Friday and Saturday (August 12-13) for the UBR Nationals at Buck Creek KY. If yesterday is any indication we should have some great shooting and a lot of good fellowship. Danny says we are already filling the 5th relay with early sign ups. If you are coming and haven't reserved a room in Somerset I will encourage you do so quickly. There aren't many left.
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FWIW, I showed up pre-loaded and with a gun that I had never fired and of course, an untested load in the gun. It was completely out of tune, shooting roughly 1/2" groups!!! Fortunately, I had a tuner on it and had it at a competitive tune in about TWO MINUTES, by adjusting the tuner. I bought the gun from a friend, that
I had built the gun for a few years back. It didn't even have my tuner on it, but another make. Tuners ARE THAT SIMPLE!! On top of that, but as I said, the gun was unfired by me and the scope had been on another rifle. Per rules, I had one mulligan..the very first shot of the day. I fired and it luckily hit paper. I adjusted the reticle to the bullet hole and then tuned the rifle with the tuner..then fine tuned the scope...all in that roughly 2 minutes. If you're not using a tuner yet, you should be.