Long Range Rifle/Scope/PRS question(s)

I installed the higher (by .0365) latch in the Hawkins bottom metal.

The plastic Vudoo mag snaps in easily and has less play now. I tested it by pushing the mag hard into a bag against a solid surface duplicating the hardest pressure it might see in a match, and it ran 100% holding hard pressure against the mag.

The 10 & 12 round aluminum Vudoo mags were hard to seat, like smack the bottom of the mag hard, but they did catch. It took a lot of pressure on the latch to release them. I can either take a hair off of the mag catch, or mod the two aluminum mags by taking a hair off the ledge the mag catch goes under. Leaning toward option two, haven't made up my mind.

A big success!

I am going to call Manners and ask if they make an extended mag catch for their bottom metal (whatever it is they use or make), or I could weld it up and re-cut it longer. Hopefully it's good steel and not molded pot metal. I'll ask that as well.
 
Walkalong said:
mod the two aluminum mags by taking a hair off the ledge the mag catch goes under. Leaning toward option two, haven't made up my mind.
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Do this.

The high mag release improved reliability. Which is “‘nuff said” on its own. But further, it’s an aspect of the common component, whereas each mag is an individual component. Makes more sense to have a bunch of mags which run 100% in the rifle than have no mags which run reliably, and within that set, some lock up looser than others…

So I vote for making the mags work with the rifle, rather than making the rifle accept some of the mags better, reliability not withstanding.
 
They are changing things around at Altus, we had a standing off hand stage, we had a 10 dot 10 shot stage at 100 yards with 1/3" dots.
We had a stage where we had various things to choose from and had to pick 10 out of them to shoot one shot each from at a small pig
at 735 yards. The KYL was large to small, 1 point, 1.5 points, 2 points, 2.5 points, 3 points. I hit four and quit, lots of zeros on that stage.
I was 6th overall on the KYL, only two people cleaned it.

I hit 6 and was high score for my squad on the ten dot target. 9th overall.
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Jeff on the "Come Sail Away" stage. I couldn't time the swing on this one and chalked up a big fat zero. Brutal.
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We had a mover, and that was the timed tie breaker stage. I hit eight of ten in 30.22 seconds. The fastest today was
20.11 seconds with ten hits. That's smoking.


18th overall today out of only 25, but took top senior (3 of us). Lots of fun, except for that danged swinging platform. I shot it well
the last time at an NRL-22 match. Sigh.
 
Tested some .22 today, SK Standard Plus, SK Rifle, SK Long Range, and Lapua Center X in the 20" Vudoo.

I was so focused on shooting, I totally failed taking pics. I did get a pic of the target though.

If you were taking this rifle to an NRL-22 match this Sunday, which ammo would you use?

Wind was mostly light, quartering away left (4/5 oclock to 10/11 oclock), and the groups reflected this.

I shot fast, which helped, and only had two "Dang, I pulled the crosshairs a bullet hole" shots, with a
couple of "I think that was wind", but a couple of "WTHs" as well. Overall everything shot pretty well.
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On another note, I called Manners and they have an extended mag catch for the bottom metal they put in their stocks. Sweet, and
cheap, $5 plus shipping, so I ordered one and it came today. I asked how much higher it was and Jim said I would have to trim it to fit,
so perfect.
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Walkalong said:
Tested some .22 today, SK Standard Plus, SK Rifle, SK Long Range, and Lapua Center X in the 20" Vudoo.

I was so focused on shooting, I totally failed taking pics. I did get a pic of the target though.

If you were taking this rifle to an NRL-22 match this Sunday, which ammo would you use?

Wind was mostly light, quartering away left (4/5 oclock to 10/11 oclock), and the groups reflected this.

I shot fast, which helped, and only had two "Dang, I pulled the crosshairs a bullet hole" shots, with a
couple of "I think that was wind", but a couple of "WTHs" as well. Overall everything shot pretty well.
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SK Standard+ shoots really well out of my Vudoo but if you have Center X, that would be my choice :cool:
 
My take on the targets is Center X #1 and Standard Plus #2, but another run at it might look different. I've been shooting some Standard Plus in it and so I knew it was shooting well.

I have been shooting Center X in matches with the 18" Vudoo and it's rare to get a “what the heck” where did that go shot on something you know you should have hit. That same rifle will usually shoot SK Rifle Match into tiny groups, but I get the occasional flier that isn't wind or me, as in when shooting a 3x4 head on a silhouette at 150 yards I'll get ding, ding, ding, ding, a “what the heck” miss by 6", ding, ding..........not good enough to shoot matches with.
 
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Walkalong said:
Tested some .22 today, SK Standard Plus, SK Rifle, SK Long Range, and Lapua Center X in the 20" Vudoo.

I was so focused on shooting, I totally failed taking pics. I did get a pic of the target though.

If you were taking this rifle to an NRL-22 match this Sunday, which ammo would you use?

Wind was mostly light, quartering away left (4/5 oclock to 10/11 oclock), and the groups reflected this.

I shot fast, which helped, and only had two "Dang, I pulled the crosshairs a bullet hole" shots, with a
couple of "I think that was wind", but a couple of "WTHs" as well. Overall everything shot pretty well.
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"Lapua Center X" looks pretty good to me.
 
Yea, it really only had one bad shot, but that one bugs me, it wasn't me, so maybe I missed a good wind gust, or maybe it was just a bad round, which bugs me. That said, it happens. I had one shooting Center X in a match at around 80 yards where I missed and after I finished a fellow asked......What happened? That miss was unusual....for you. I didn't know, it should have hit the plate.
 
Heading out to Alabama Precision for a PRS-22 match.........meeting Jeff in Alexander City and going from there. It will be a good test of the extended mag catch in the Hawkins M5-DBM bottom metal in the Foundation Revelation stock. I also fitted the new extended mag catch in the Manners stock and it ran 100% for me with pressure on the front of the mag, but am not shooting it today.
 
Long day, cold day, 30ish when we started, and windy, and on top of a hill most of the time, so no respite from the wind. I knew
it was going to be a long day when we got to the top of the hill and I saw the sizes and distances of the targets with gusty winds
that also changed directions. Not much under 100 yards, and the targets were challenging size wise, plus challenging wind.

High score of the day was 76 out of 98, that kind of challenging.

Jeff was 12th with 48 hits and I was 13th with 46 hits, out of 23 shooters. I shot the "boat" (platform swinging on chains) well today
though, which was nice. I was pleased with my overall speed finishing 7 stages, timing out on three, and one has so much movement
and space to cross I never finish it anyway. Lots of fun, despite some tough results on some stages.
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One lefty in our squad, nice fellow, shot well.
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Jeff
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