I recognize that place! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DonnyCommo
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I recognize that place! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by DonnyCommo
It's a pretty nice range!! We got three of the lanes cleaned up. Hoping to do more in September!Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
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Spent some time at the Olympic Training Center again Tuesday night with my Remington 40X rimfire. Shot about 75 rounds or so.
A good friend was shooting his 40X with a new Lilja barrel. His accuracy went way up with a much higher X-Count than with the OEM barrel.
The nice thing was we had the whole range to ourselves. All the resident athletes were done for the day leaving us knuckledraggers to train.
Hopefully soon my rear sight will be in and I can start some coat and sling shooting with my Anschutz 2018.
The new barrel is a hammer. I still threw out 4 or 5 nines, but they were crazy huge misses down in the low 9's. Clearly I was screwing something up. When I did it right, I'd guess group size decreased by 1/4 or 1/3 from the original barrel, which shot pretty dang well for a 58 year old tube. I went from an average of probably 10.2 or 10.3 to a 10.6 or so. It's pretty cool to have a .22 so good that you know that a miss is you and not the gun or ammo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoser
As an aside, it's just amazing to me how subtle a change in your position can put you in the 9's. I had a couple 9.3's that were immediately preceded by a string of 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8's. Five or ten perfect shots followed by one out of group, and I didn't detect anything different in my set up. I'm looking forward to going back next week and trying to nail down the changes that cause misses. My guess today from some careful observation at the end of the string is that it's related to head pressure and the rear bag getting compressed.
Helped some Scouts realize they can hit a clay from 100 yards using a .22. Also had several shooting paintballs off golf tees at 50 feet using iron sights. They were lined up to try the (relatively) long range shooting. [rockon]
Care to elaborate on which tolerances were tight? What issues did you have? Which ones have been solved? How did they get solved?Quote:
Originally Posted by cmailliard
sorry to rapid-fire the questions, but I'm very interested in how the LMT works for others.
The other day took out the CZ 455 varmint in 17 hmr. I was using 17 grain hornady vmax. These were the best 4 round group of the night.
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It's a sweet little shooter. Most of my groups we 1" as the evening went on.
Went to Frontier Sportsman's and fired some rounds through my new BCM SS410 upper. It's a pretty sweet shooter!
Factory ammo was giving me an average group of .81" at 100yds. I loaded some 75gr Hornady HPBTs and my best group with those was .542" with 22.0gr of H335.
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For anyone interested, FSC had a new sign up on the trailer saying that the Hanover Range 200 and 300yd ranges are closed M-F until further notice to facilitate construction of the 1000yd range. Could it be? Are they finally really building the 1k range??! :D
Practiced some more with a couple of handguns. Sent 200 rounds downrange. Did quite well by my standards. Really focusing on trigger control and trying to stay more focused on the front sight. Now, if I could just do that when the timer sounds and everyone is watching.
All three of my targets pretty much looked the same. Hard to tell from all of the pasters how well I did so I took a shot of the back side too.
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Took my daughter out again and after about 20 rounds at 10 yards she felt she needed a bit more challenge so she went and moved the target back to just about 20 yards and she was still able to hit the ten ring. She gets better every time she shoots. She hung a target in her room and does dry fire practice two or three times a week. Last night after I went to bed I could here the hammer falling for about 30 minutes.
I spent some time with my 686 and SKS, been a while since I took the 686 out for a round and she still impresses me, best handgun I have ever owned, never sell her.