In HP. what position do you best at?

[Fatelvis]

In Highpower, do you do best in offhand, sitting rapid, prone rapid, or prone SF?

[Quintin Likely]

Sitting's my best effort, I can usually shoot low-mid 90s in sitting if everything goes as planned.

Prone slow fire on 300 reduced is hit and miss, something about the smaller target and the distance doesn't compute in my head, but I'm working on it. I've shot better slow fire scores at 600 than 300, but I've crossfired more at 600 than 300.

Offhand, I'm still working on every chance I get, lots of dryfiring. I plan on buying myself a .22 upper for Christmas.

[Blackfork]

I think sitting rapid is the easiest- It's the biggest 10-ring from a stable position. 300 rapid is next. You're rock steady in prone. I ENJOY shooting standing, but that's my worst position. 600 can be tricky if the environmental conditions are shifting- light, wind, et.

let's say you are going to shoot with a little skill:

Standing: 85 Inside the eight ring.

Sitting: 90 Inside the nine ring with a couple eights.

Prone: 90 Inside the eight ring.

600: 180 Inside the eight ring.

Total: 450. Not bad.

Now lets say you are going to win Sharpshooter Class:

Standing: 90. Nothing outside of the black. Or two 8s plus two tens

Sitting: 95. Nothing out of the aiming black.

Prone: 95. Nothing outside the nine ring.

600: 190. ten 9s and ten 10s.

Total: 470.

Now, win the match:

Standing: 95.

Sitting: 98

Prone: 98

600: 195

Total: 486

Now let's shoot when you are lucky AND good.

Standing: 97

Sitting: 100

Prone: 99

600: 196

Total: 492

Where you drop the MOST points is where your attention should be.

[Jon Coppenbarger]

I love the wind conditions at 600 yards in slow prone. I love to watch the changes and little things that make a good shot in tough conditions.
my eyes are not the best at 52 anymore and I lose more shots out the top that I do in any wind condition anymore.
I have not missed a leg cut since I legged out and the last one is exactly what I mean about 600 yards in the wind.

I waited for like 4 or 5 minutes between the 19th and 20th shot. Every body was done before I took the 19th shot. Now yeah I could of took a guess at the change and been close. but I did not want to take off left wind and put right wind on unless I had to because I hate 3 to 5 minute changes unless it is a palma and you gotta shoot it sooner or later.
It finally turned back around and I took 1/2 minute off and pin wheeled it for the last shot.

Do not know how many years I have left with the service rifle but coaching is something I would like to get more envolved with. I have had the pleasure of working with some good coaches and with that I think I will do more of it in the coming years. It is a great feeling to help someone shoot a good score and bring out the best in them. Coaching at the nationals has been a good experience over the last several years and having my own whistler boy team I would say has been one of my most rewarding things I have done.

[bobsmith]

When I shot highpower, I used a boltgun and though I gave a little up in rapid fire stages, I always made up for it in prone slowfire. That Winchester 70 in .308 with heavy Hart barrel really came into it's own in the prone slowfire stage. It loved 168 Matchkings ahead of 42 grains of 4064 in a WW case and a R-P 9 1/2 primer.

[MacPelto]

I've only shot 3 reduced course matches so far, but it looks like sitting rapid. I must say however, that both my prone slow and standing have come up dramatically since I started.


Mac

[M.E.Eldridge]

I shoot best in sitting rapid. I'm just starting out, am not good(think high sixties to mid seventies for each ten round stage).

[wanderinwalker]

Well, I took this past season "off" from Highpower in the hopes of finding a bigger payday between semesters.

Now, when I am practiced and hammering, I am disappointed in a 2-rapid of under 97 points. I expect to be in the high-90s on that. Actually, I shot a 99 with a few at the Trophy Team match summer '05. (Sadly, that was the last highlight of my week.)

My next favorite is 3-rapid. Again, dialed in and in practice, I can hit the mid-to-high 90s without much thought. One night at a late-afternoon match, in awful conditions, before Perry, I bested all comers twice at this position. I'm very strongly a position shooter and not a sights shooter. Though light was fading and the fog and gunsmoke made things tricky, I shot a combined score somewhere in the 190s. Just had to trust the repeat after the reload and go with it.

Slow prone is fun too. At our 300-reduced practices I've had a couple of top-level long-range guys comment on my shooting. I beat a guy with a scoped varminter on a Harris bipod one night too. I don't know if he'll ever live it down. "If you can't keep 'em all in the X-ring with that rig, you just can't do it!" ;) 600 is fun, mostly because of the additional changes which I don't get to practice much. Of course, this is where I came apart at the NTI in '05, so I know I need practice.

Least favorite is offhand, but even then I've had moments of pure brilliance. (And just as many moments of DUH! :banghead: ) My first summer of highpower I was consistently in the 93-95% range offhand. Last summer I was lucky to hit a 90. I'm confident in saying I started over-thinking and overworking the problem.

But it's ALL fun, and I'm looking forward to getting back into it come spring. Lots of driving and early mornings and days off from work, but worth it. And I will return to Perry for '07! :D Every highpower shooter needs to go at least once!

Forgot to mention: I shoot an Armalite M-15NM, now wearing a White Oak 1:7 barrel after the stock 1:8 was deemed tomato-stake ready.