303Guy
08-15-2011, 04:43 AM
It was one of those days. My shooting went badly and I haven't heard the end of it!:oops:
It was windy with strong gusts but my mate was shooting bug hole groups with his 308 and j-words. (A total fluke of course! Just because he put five shots into a dime in the wind three times in a row with a target barrelled, Timney triggered, BSA Mauser, does not mean a thing to the non-believer ..... :roll:.
Then he goes and shoots a magpie at 200m with his 22-250. Also a fluke! And if he mentions it by way of a boast to anyone in my presence, I'll deny it happened. Tee hee!:mrgreen:)
Anyway, some of it was his fault. He told me my gun was shooting high when it was shooting low 'cause he was looking at the wrong clump of grass. On paper the curious thing was the appearance of the bullet holes when they did hit paper. It really was windy with the wind going from zero to quite strong in quick succession but only closer to the target. Some of my shots were in a nice vertical line (I was adjusting elevation - again based on erroneous information) while the rest landed downwind so it could have been the wind (my boolits were only doing 1600fps and the tange was 100m).
But then my apparently accurate load in my accurate sporter at 2250fps did not perform well either! Those few that did print a 'group' (all three of them) were high and at 3 MOA!
So, back to the drawing board. Better 'quality control' on my castings and a re-test without wind from a decent rest to see how the load and rifle actually performs then take it from there.
Even so, a bad day at the range is better than a good day at work!:coffeecom
It was windy with strong gusts but my mate was shooting bug hole groups with his 308 and j-words. (A total fluke of course! Just because he put five shots into a dime in the wind three times in a row with a target barrelled, Timney triggered, BSA Mauser, does not mean a thing to the non-believer ..... :roll:.
Then he goes and shoots a magpie at 200m with his 22-250. Also a fluke! And if he mentions it by way of a boast to anyone in my presence, I'll deny it happened. Tee hee!:mrgreen:)
Anyway, some of it was his fault. He told me my gun was shooting high when it was shooting low 'cause he was looking at the wrong clump of grass. On paper the curious thing was the appearance of the bullet holes when they did hit paper. It really was windy with the wind going from zero to quite strong in quick succession but only closer to the target. Some of my shots were in a nice vertical line (I was adjusting elevation - again based on erroneous information) while the rest landed downwind so it could have been the wind (my boolits were only doing 1600fps and the tange was 100m).
But then my apparently accurate load in my accurate sporter at 2250fps did not perform well either! Those few that did print a 'group' (all three of them) were high and at 3 MOA!
So, back to the drawing board. Better 'quality control' on my castings and a re-test without wind from a decent rest to see how the load and rifle actually performs then take it from there.
Even so, a bad day at the range is better than a good day at work!:coffeecom