My wife has been out of shooting for the last 4 years due to eye cataracts. Last year she had her eye surgery to implant new synthetic lenses. Yesterday she came to the range to sort out her gear. She plans to shoot the ORA Annual matches in F Class.
During her time off I replaced her rifle barrel and changed from 6.5-284 to 6.5-08 Ackley. The object was less recoil and better short range accuracy. I have not done any load development for her rifle, but my rifle is in the same caliber and uses a similar barrel chambered with the same reamer. She shot some of my ammo. It was a bit stiff to chamber and extract, but good enough for the session.
We took advantage of a 100 yard practice session organized by Tim and Barney. Her aiming marks were just black patches. She fiddle-farted around dialing out parallax and re-focusing the scope for her new eyeball and finally started shooting. I was watching with my scope, hoping she would at least be on paper with the new barrel. I was also hoping for a group good enough to lift her confidence. Shooting is always more fun when she is shooting too.
I could not see any holes on the target. There was a fair amount of mirage and the scope I was using was not the best, but it was good enough to show the groups on my target. I did not say anything, and as we walked down to inspect our targets, I was thinking of an exercise to get her rifle on paper. Bore sighting was my first choice.
Turned out she was doing ok.
During her time off I replaced her rifle barrel and changed from 6.5-284 to 6.5-08 Ackley. The object was less recoil and better short range accuracy. I have not done any load development for her rifle, but my rifle is in the same caliber and uses a similar barrel chambered with the same reamer. She shot some of my ammo. It was a bit stiff to chamber and extract, but good enough for the session.
We took advantage of a 100 yard practice session organized by Tim and Barney. Her aiming marks were just black patches. She fiddle-farted around dialing out parallax and re-focusing the scope for her new eyeball and finally started shooting. I was watching with my scope, hoping she would at least be on paper with the new barrel. I was also hoping for a group good enough to lift her confidence. Shooting is always more fun when she is shooting too.
I could not see any holes on the target. There was a fair amount of mirage and the scope I was using was not the best, but it was good enough to show the groups on my target. I did not say anything, and as we walked down to inspect our targets, I was thinking of an exercise to get her rifle on paper. Bore sighting was my first choice.
Turned out she was doing ok.
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