600 yards

Nice picture of your reticle and target image, BTW. Does it look like that (sharp crosshairs, blurry target image) when you look through the scope?

I think my camera was on macro, focusing on the lens and thus the image at 750 appears quite blurry. The Mark2 Hunter is a nice clear scope, good multi purpose hunting/target scope for $700, I like it :)
 
Which way is that pointing ? looks like a fella would have fun with the wind:D
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OK, that's standard Federal Gold Medal 168 match ammo. Very good stuff. The _only_ bad thing about it, is paying for it... ;-)

No kidding, it's expensive as hell, but somehow, be it because of it's weight, length, shape, etc., it seems to jive real well with my rifle (better than the Hornady), so I buy it when I can. My friend and I are still putting together our reloading kit, but lots of back orders, so it'll be factory match for a while. I've heard that after just a year of shooting that it's too early to reload, but the cost of factory match is too much to shoot as often as I'd like to (once a week or so).

In some ways milliradians can be [...] your scope has tenth-mil clicks, then 2.9 mils is what you should use.

I was familiar with the concepts of the adjustments, but the refresher was most appreciated and confirms what I understood beforehand. I always like to keep the actual sizes of the adjustments in the back of my mind though, since they're involved with distance estimation, another skill I want to acquire.

There are two ways that I know of.

One is to pay for one, and hire a professional one. That'll cost hundreds of dollars a day though, so that is probably not practical.

The other way is to get a free coach. Which you can find in the form of a fellow competitor, if you become involved in competitive shooting. You'll pay for your "free" coaching, by spending hours (years in fact) on a rifle range. Which is only a good idea if you enjoy this....!

There are a number of very good fullbore shooters in Quebec, but I don't think any fullbore is being shot in the Montreal area any more (the 1000 yard range just east of Mtl. has been closed to shooting for several years now). There is fullbore shooting done in Quebec City at Valcartier (a nice 600 yard range), if it is practical for you to shoot there you should contact the PQRA /ATPQ (P.Q. Rifle Association) and ask them.

There is also some very good fullbore shooting done in the Ottawa area at the Connaught ranges (a 900m national facility, where our annual championships are fired) by the NCRRA (Natl. Capital Region Rifle Association).

Visit either of those, and look into fullbore shooting (either with iron sights and sling, which is known as "Target Rifle", or with a scope and rest, which is "F-Class"). You can spend a lifetime mastering it, if you are so inclined.

Yup, you got that all right... I'd have to drive over 3 hours to Valcartier or 2.5 to Connaught... Kinda a long just for a couple of hours of shooting. Quebec sucks balls for long range shooting if you just want to join a public range to learn the ropes before getting competitive, so I'm stuck hoping the one at Mansonville will exist at some point. It is also my understanding that you have to join the DCRA, PQRA and what not - why can't starting off be much simpler??
 
Kamloops

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Machinist,

If you want to do the Kamloops shoot with a 6BR, let me know and we'll get you hooked-up with a gun. I am loaning one to another shooter in his first year of shooting, we can get you set up too!

When Mick gets done with your 5R, you'll be scaring the crap out of all the better shooters on your own!
 
Which way is that pointing ? looks like a fella would have fun with the wind:D

Well, from looking at those two flags, if I was firing my first sighter, and this is at 500m or 600m, I'd use 1.5-2.0 MOA right, and see what that gave me (I wonder if anyone who is familiar with Volkes, or was there that day, could comment on what was actually needed...?)
 
Wind ??

I took notes at the different distances for future reference and this 500 , we were told to adjust for 1 minuet of wind , the picture on the other page showing three flags is at 600 in that case we looked at the first two flags and adjusted for 2 min according to my notes :cheers:

Well, from looking at those two flags, if I was firing my first sighter, and this is at 500m or 600m, I'd use 1.5-2.0 MOA right, and see what that gave me (I wonder if anyone who is familiar with Volkes, or was there that day, could comment on what was actually needed...?)
 
Rifle

Talked to Tom today , the rifle has a Paramount Action , Kreiger 30 inch barrel with a 1 in 14 twist , he has won many competitions with that rifle. that day he only shot a few times and was not keeping count cause he had a guest with him that he was coaching on the introductry day .

Thank you for the detailed refresher, on the proper terminology used in the known distance target shooting.
Again, I wonder how this target rifle shooter did on that day Machinist?
 
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