Fall Palma/300m ISSF

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Saturday Oct 14 there will be a Fall Palma Match at Mons Range at CFB Borden.
Course of fire is 2 sighters and 15 on score at 800, 900 and 1000 yards.
For first relay at 800 yards the first round that hits paper is considered your first sighter. DCRA long range targets will be used.

Sunday Oct 15 will be a 300m ISSF match. Unlimited sighters and 20 shots for score 3 times on the ISSF 300m target.
 
Tom... are you hanging in for the ISSF... or just the long range stuff? Forgot to ask you when I was ragging on abot the hard disk backup thing... get a Mac and be done with this crap!
 
John,
I am not hanging around for the 300m on Sunday. I need to bring the 40X out of retirement for the Palma. 800,900 and 1000 with no zeros, should be fun.:rolleyes:
 
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Sunday Oct 15 will be a 300m ISSF match. Unlimited sighters and 20 shots for score 3 times on the ISSF 300m target.
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Match director e-mailed me when I said I would attend the ISSF. Told me only 4-5 interested in shooting this, and he has no markers.

NormB
 
Thanks..for the info...

Got talked into a match (IPSC) south tomorrow.

Anyway have a good shoot.

Cheers
BMW
 
Well Norm Barber won the Fall Palms... damn that's two in a row for him! He shot magnificently at all yardages. Not much wiggle room whatsoever... I think he only dropped 7 veebulls total. I shot with him on all three yardages but it's still a blur. I don't remember sweet #### other than they weren't going in for me but there sure as heck were for Norm.

The winds weren't all that bad. I mean we guesstimated them to be about 3 minutes left wind. All of it was coming from left to right. I don't remember it switching around once. It was the angle they were coming across the range. There were some puffs up to 4, maybe 4.5MOA nothing that should have you're heart thumping.

Quite a few guys missing from the line up. Hey it was about the last match of the year. The rain put a damper on the 900 yard relay and it didn't let up for the whole drive home. But when has weather stop guys from coming out?

Well it's the last one for me this season till spring. Just hope I can make it through the winter without having to listen to some nonsense on the superiority of the Stevens bolt face!

Between the Stevens and Savages it's gotta be some kind of conspiracy against the blued Remingtons.

I think some guys are shooting the 300 ISF today. They're probably half way through by now.

congrats to Don McGinnis and even to Roy Ginn who showed. The weather must've have been brutal on Roy's knee but he shot all three yardages yesturday. He's not been out much this year. I don't think he even had a zero when he started.

Kamran looked warm and toasty in his parka. The guys from Windsor/London ways showed up minus Art Grundy who's recuperating from some fancy left elbow and wrist hand surgery. The Blade did do the work on the left one, right Art? I mean they've been know to do some weird ####! Hey Art maybe you can think about the darkside now? You're pretty ripe at this point! You know we don't pin the left elbow to the ground. Norm's got a bunch of old Remingtons I'm sure he'd love to part with. We'd have you rigged in record time once that left hand of your stops looking like a football.

BTW a tri-fold blue shooting mat was left at the range on Saturday. I have it safely stored and the owner will get it back. Tom does it belong to any of your crew?

I'll let Fazal know and he can e-mail the regulars telling them we've found it.

If anyone knows who it belongs to please let me know.

Until spring I can catch up on all the 24 series, Nip & Tuck, and half a dozen other I've missed.
 
John,
Not meaning to blow my own horn, but I won the TR. Beat Charlie by a point in the end, Wayne was third. See what can happen when all the heavy hitters stay home.:p Even a hacker like me can win one:cool:
Along with Roy, I too had no zeros. I put new iron sights on Friday night front and rear and just plumbed them. Pat allowed me unlimited sighters to get on target. With Syxx15 spotting for me it took 5 rounds to find paper, one more to find the bull and another to confrim it wasn't bouncing in. The first sighter hit the 500 yard mound:p I can't figure out why it takes guys 20 round or more to sight in at 100 yards when I can do it with 7 rounds at 800 yards.

I think you do have my mat, if it is a blue tri-fold with the ORA crest on it. Thanks for picking it up. Too much junk with 4 of us throwing 3 guys kit into the van. If you are going to the council meeting on Nov 4 I will get it from you then.
 
Well, it's congratulations to Tom and Norm! The scores look real good. Cold rainy weather usually brings out the best or worst in competitors. Sounds like the "best" surfaced at this competition.
 
Congrats to Norm and Tom, sorry I missed it but family obligations. After talking to Norm last week, was looking at a Stevens 200 in 7mm-08 and almost pulled the trigger on it, but did not want to explain it quite yet to the better half. Maybe after I wow her on her birthday in Nov.
 
Thanks John. We just shot our "Frost on the Pumpkin" Gil Hurst Memorial Match and used the 1/2 minute Vee targets with some very humbling results. When I get them I'll post them in the APRA thread.

Cheers, Glen
 
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Thanks John. We just shot our "Frost on the Pumpkin" Gil Hurst Memorial Match and used the 1/2 minute Vee targets with some very humbling results. When I get them I'll post them in the APRA thread.

Cheers, Glen
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I'm not sure what's going on with our group... Norm had some 1/2 MOA faces printed up, there was also talk about using the 500 yard target face at the longer ranges, but we're shooting on the bigger veebull? Why the weebull has been given up I'm not sure...
 
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John, at the places I shot this season, the ICFRA type 1/2 minute target was used for about half of the matchs. The International in Chilliwack, the PNW in Oregon and we used it at the APRA. I like it. It's challenging and really, other than numbers, we're always shooting for the center anyway. What we did was put in the new small Vee center and squaded the TR guys togther and the F class guys together and with competitor marking, scored appropriately and it worked quite well. There were a few glitches initially, but after the markers got used to the Bull 5 ring now being the F Class 4, it went really smooth. I'm sure we'll see more of it regionally as F Class numbers grow.

Cheers, Glen
 
Glen,
Sorry I missed that match. We had a "cow crisis" and I spent two days building/ repairing fence instead of shooting. Perhaps I should have spent some time cow shooting. Regards, Bill.
 
It was a good Fall Palma. Just for future FYI, when you shoot with maynard make sure your not in the aim before he creates his own wind if you know what I mean. It will diffently through your shot off and who knows where your shot could end up.:kickInTheNuts:
 
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Syxx15 said:
It was a good Fall Palma. Just for future FYI, when you shoot with maynard make sure your not in the aim before he creates his own wind if you know what I mean. It will diffently through your shot off and who knows where your shot could end up.:kickInTheNuts:
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have to ask... how was the drive home?
 
The drive home was pretty good. Had a nice drive along the country side home. But we did have a few pit stops here and there.
 
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