Long range tuning

The speed variances I am seeing leads me to combustion weather that's powder, or primer seating variances, brass etc. but those pesky fliers are 25% I believe that is mostly the loose screw behind the trigger guard.

I skipped the May event to work on my Cabin but it is time to check my tune and load my gear for this weekends match.
The weather has changed from mid 30s to now in the mid 80s so most fellas know how that can wreck a good shooting load.
J

The wind was down to only about 12mph today which is a big improvement over yesterday that blew my flag and stand completely over, anyway this is an abbreviated charge test to ensure im still in my tune window.
I have two of each charge plus two foulers for both test.
Blue -30.4 xxx
Green-30.5 xx
Black-30.6 x
Red-30.7 xxx

500 yards
WSW- 8-12
Mixed cloud & sun

Not the best groups of course, 30.4 looks safe while 30.7 has potential to be great but also risky.

J

I made it back out this morning to have another look at 30.4 (blue) and 30.7 (red), after three foulers I shot four record rounds then wait till the flags became similar to repeat.
The obvious stand out is 30.7 .. Not sure what's up with that but small is small. Ill try to get one more look before we head out later this week.
J

I couldn't out run the changes in this afternoon s swirling wind, oh well. 30.7 ..Time to start loading.....

Today's 1000 yard ladder test all at the same point of aim. I decided to verify the overlapping 30.7..time to load up.

I had a fairly good weekend except for a few unexplained flyers on Saturday, thx to Alex Wheeler for spotting something in the ignition, mostly fixable on site save for a replacement FP spring and a touch more pin fall needed but my tune is good enough for the moment.

Here are the results from today's match, you may notice a pending world record was shot by Glenn Kulzer on the same relay as me... 10 shots 2.695. 100 points

My personal results
Saturday: HG 14th. LG 20th
Sunday: HG 15th. LG 8th

Thx Bill, these fellas are really good and im kinda late to the party so i take my lumps and try to improve each time I go.

Pretty amazing and couldn't happen to nicer guy.




Ya wanna see it ?

The whole Deep Creek gang with Glenn in the forefront.
I heard the flip flops and matching shorts are one of the keys to success.

Weekend bump for a good read.

Two additional matches coming up July & August, I am planning on attending the latter being consumed by a small remodel im doing before winter hits is about all I can manage financially as well as time management.
So after my rifle smith/range mate made some adjustments to my rifle the other day i broke out a new lot number of bullets and had a look.
It appears and without a ton of rounds that 30.7 will be the same poi and very small as well.
More to follow
J

The IBS Long Range committee has selected our range to host the 2021 1000 yards National event this August.
Very Cool...

I have my reservations for Thursday through Sunday, I'm looking forward to meeting new friends and visiting with old friends I haven't seen in a while.

Anxious to get out to the range for practice but the darn weather has just been horrible.

Im 65 miles from Canada !!!

It looks like we are in for a break in the weather this coming week so hopefully I can load up and go put some rounds on paper.

Finally !!