Between the last post and the match I changed scopes, put the PST Gen II on the Vudoo, changed ammo, switched to the Lapua Center-X, re-sighted in, got dope out to 300 again, and took that to the match. Long story.
Our squad shot the NRL-22 stages first (100 yards and in), then moved to the bottom part of the range and shot 50 to 150 yards. One stage there was one target 10 positions Rock 1, prone, rock 2, prone, rock 3, prone, rock 4, prone, rock 5, prone. Only one of our squad finished it, and I didn't hear of anyone in the other squad finishing it. I got to rock number four and timed out. We had a couple other stages there with a lot of movement as well. We had two stages where we had to shoot unsupported, one standing, one prone. I cleaned the KYL rack unsupported prone, only one in our squad to do so.
But back to stage one.......round jammed, had to pull the mag, jammed again,......shot a four. Turns out the bag would touch the mag, tilting it down and I'd get a jam. Did that again stage two, then a third time, even trying to keep the bag away from the mag, which wasn't as balanced. Then I noticed a fellow with a Vudoo who had a make shift piece that mounted on the arca rail and blocked the bag from hitting the mag. I talked with him and it turns out he had the same problem and that was his fix, said other Vudoo shooters were putting velcro on mags etc. I'll be making one of those. He was real nice and let me borrow it, and that solved the feed issues. He would use it, then me, very kind of him. (He won the whole match).
There were 24 shooters and I finished 12th, didn't ask how far back from 11th, doesn't really matter. Jeff finished 4th, eight behind number three. He shot real well.
I had a lot of fun, the Manners worked just fine and balanced really well with the bipod on. I'd rather have it in a BA Comp, but the stock sure didn't cost me points, only I did. The BixN Andy trigger is superb, the scope worked really well, and I did a lot of holding, over and under, making hits easily as long as I was steady on target. More holding up/down than I've done in the last two or three PRS matches. Too much movement for dialing.
The NRL-22 stages
The bottom stages were made up by the rangemaster, and he warned us they'd be tough.
Here is a couple of pics shooting our squads last stage (2.5" circle at 110 yards off the post, hit it you leave the rifle and run (walk) to a spool behind us, miss it, you have to stand unsupported and shoot a popper at 50 yards until you hit it, then go touch the spool. My worst stage. *Sigh*
(forgot to get the block from Jeremy and had jams, big dummy.) Edit: Remembered wrong, that was the stage before where I recovered well, just bombed this one.
Yep, managed to miss one at 110 off the post....but I did hit the popper at 50 unsupported and moved on.
Overall it was a lot of fun, challenging on most stages, a couple of gimmie stages, lots of movement, holding over/under, but a lot of fun, and most of it was good practice that can be useful shooting PRS. We'll be doing it again.
