My new baby girl, born 23-02-2006, 16lbs 12oz

Mike,
Brian had a good shoot, he was alittle miffed that they made him shoot F/O with the rest of us, but that's what happens with a .308 and 175gr bullets, you shoot F/O.:eek:
Keith did great and kicked everyones ass.:(
I packed it in Saturday after 2 yardages. Alot of little problems compounded into a piss poor preformance. Plus the heat on Friday cooked me, I stopped sweating at about 2pm, by 3pm I had a massive head ache and Sat. I couldn't focus anything in the scope at 300M or concentrate, threw five rounds right off the target board :mad: so I stopped shooting. I chased Keith on Friday and was only a point or two behind him at all three yardages, gave him the 1000 yards by 1 V-bull, he was on fire this weekend. Once he settles down and stops playing with his baby and starts to pay attention to the little things he missed this weekend, he will be a force to contented with for sure.
 
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The Friday leg, Palma, was me at 255, Inspector at 237 and Brian with a 227.
Brian (256) won the combined Sat/Sun agg by one point over Inspector (255)and also won the Hulbert LR agg (the Sunday AGG) by 6 points. The young lad has great eyes and is one fine shooter. I'm not sure of Bill scores, I missed recording them on my smoke pack after :( only so much room on it eh ;)

init Palma P&E Kirk Hulbert Lt Gov Sat/Sun Agg
ks 255 113 200 173 244 407
gt 237 107 194 173 255 419
bw 227 107 193 179 256 419
 
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Mike,
Brian was moved to F/O because he was shooting 175gr bullets. From what I gathered of the conversation he had, if you are shooting anything other than a .308 or .556 with a bullet heavier than 155gr(.308) or 80gr??(.556) you are shooting F/O. :(
 
mouse said:
If you dont mind me asking. How much was it to get your action trued?
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Originally trued by a smith in Calgary back in the 90's for $100.00
Re-trued by new smith, but I could not tell you the cost, the cost was $### for the complete work, so as shooters on the line tell you when you ask how much windage they have on... the answer is ENOUGH.
 
New Pics - New rings & scope

Leupold Mark 4/M1 16x40mm with fine cross hair and dot and Burris Sig Zee Medium rings
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bigbull said:
I might have missed it but why did you change the Weaver scope for the Leupold?
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Side focus/AO, More elevation and better image with the bigger 30mm tube. I felt the rifle needed/deserved better glass. Plus the 16x40mm M4/M1 also has finer hairs and a smaller dot which I liked. The rings dropped the scope closer to the barrel too. :cool:
Looked liked like a silhoutte rig before :rolleyes:

The T16 worked fine out to 1000 yds, since the T series has 60 moa of elevation in them and I think 30 each way of wind, The T6 also worked fine out to 1000 yds but even the big DCRA target sure looked small at 1000 yds with it :eek:
 
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Time for a update I guess.

July 8-9th SPRA Annual Championship Match 462/510 Two 1st places, Two 2nd's and a 3rd, 1st over-all

Got fried to a crisp this match, no long pants in the RV that day so shorts and a t-shirt with 36C temps! I put on a bed sheet Sunday over my shorts, and then no one wanted me (top F shooter for two days) on their team shoot, ended up on the BC team that day :)

Sept 2 PPRA Match - Alta Agg 223/240 1st place ....300m-60(1st),500yd-51(2nd),600yd-58(1st),900yd-54(1st)
Sept 3 PPRA Match - Man agg. 218/240 1st place ....500yd-59(1st),600yd-59(1st),900yd-52(1st),1000yd-54(1st)
Sept 3 PPRA Match - Sask agg. 441/480 1st place
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shooters in the pic are ??? and R. Kachmarski, ??? and W. Mitchell, E. Kachmarski and K. Skjerdal (all in white with my Navy outfit), E. Brown and M. Sloan

The PPRA matches were 2+10's and the winds were fishtailing from 4pm to 7:30 and coming at you from a low of 5-7 mph to 12-16 mph. On a good note, there was lots of mirage to read with these winds and temp ranging from 9c to 32c Sat and 9c to 24c Sunday I watched mirage for direction changes when I was behind the scope, and flags for velocity and direction when my head was up out of the scope. My Kowa 822 spotter helped too a these ranges for reading mirage better. It was switching fast at 900 and 1000 both days. (Less so on Sat than Sunday) The 155g 308 and 80g 5.56 boys were having fun, 4 moa Right, next shot, 3 1/2 moa Left, to a 0 moa wind the next. My 105g Lapua's in the 6/250 IMP had less changes, but there were still there and you needed to click or hold. It was 1.50 L to 2.25 R for me clicking. There was also lots of people being blown clear off target at these distances, and this included good 20-30 yrs of experience TR shooters too. On the downer side, since it was so close date wise to Ottawa, only had 22 shooters on the line this year. Also, I bought some Navy cook white cotton pants at Quinn the Eskimo in ToonTown (Saskatoon) for $5.00 that keep me very cool this weekend. They wanted $26 for Cdn light inf. but found the white cook pants were only $5 so this is what I got. My travelling buddy is 30+ year with the Cdn army, so we were the Army & Navy team LOL. He had a ammo issue Sat (dump 'em on the ground, 100 pc in two different loads) and played "Guess my load" as he shot Sat. Sunday, he came back from last place to take 2nd over-all in F-O class and redeem himself. Hats off to him for just shooting that canon. Both rifles smith by the same gent, Mr J Dugan.
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Above pic is my 6/250, ready to shoot, with spotter and matt and all. even a bolt flag...and the jacket and 2 medals on it (actually 5 medals that day and the jacket but too much eh) were from the annual match and the 3 plagues are from the PPRA match and my buddies 338 Swamp Donkey and his 2 medals from the PPRA match.

At 881 rounds fired now and she will still out shoot me. This weekend, at 8 yardages, we took 1st in all but one, and for the year, in the four matches we made it to, all were 1st and 1st aggs except the very first match this year, but I was happy with that too with 235/240 and 5th. The only place she needs a wee bit of work (I myself a bunch of work) is 1000 yds (only 80 to 93% good there) and I think either some 115g Tubbs or more shooting/practise at this yardage *and wind reading* will fix this yardage too.

This is my last comp. for the year since I'm on-call again for the Frost on the Pumpkin and Palma 900Mx10 matches at the APRA range in Alberta.

Sure like the Leupold scope!!

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She's extremely clear and on a 100 yds zero, the scope is currently at 60 MOA from the bottom. There is 85.75 moa of up remaining, good in my case for a hair under 1900 yds. (Only need 24.5 moa for 1000 yds, still in the middle of the scopes adjustment) This is with Burris Zee rings with ZERO inserts sitting on 20 MOA Weaver modified bases. The way she sits, crank her all the way up till she stops, then down 1 full rev and your good for one mile! Total of 145.75 moa of vertical adjustment. Great scope IMO. With the fine cross hair and dot, you can still see the rings and hold inside the V bull at 1000 yds DCRA target easy. The turrets click easy so you can just set her up were you were aiming and click the cross hairs to the bullet hole, unlike some that are so stiff that you can't keep the rifle still on the target while clicking.

Some will say it's too low of magnification, but I've used a T6 at 1000 yds so this is more than enough mag IMO. You still see the mirage running and you can still see the target.
 
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So I put her away for the year today. Took her out for one last outting at the Saskatoon Wildfile Federation' s 200 yd range using a 200 yd NBRSA Hunter rifle target (1" bull or 1/2 moa at 200 yds). Since the new F-Class targets have 1/2 moa bulls, I figured this would be good practise. I had some left overs from this year's LR matches and I want to anneal the brass (7 times fired now) so had to make 'em empties. She now has 911 rounds down her and she still out shots me by a long shot :)

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10 shot's here at 200 yds That is a hair over 1/4 moa if I do my part, I Love it!
 
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lol...Keith....just be sure not to stick a piece of cable down the barrel, we'll have to spend some more time in your garage making gunsmith tools out of Princess Auto dental pliers....though I hear that the steel rods from a chronograph are about .17 calibre...:cool:
 
Mykhaylo said:
lol...Keith....just be sure not to stick a piece of cable down the barrel, we'll have to spend some more time in your garage making gunsmith tools out of Princess Auto dental pliers....though I hear that the steel rods from a chronograph are about .17 calibre...:cool:
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How did that thing shoot after we got that cable out of your barrel:confused: :confused: Alway remember and never forget, cable is for connecting phones, lights to switchs and towing game up steep hillsides, never for down your barrel.:runaway:
 
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