First 1,000 yard F Class Match

How old is you son?

What a great experience for him, no doubt that is a boost in confidence and hopefully desire to keep at it. I assume he was shooting the loads you were working up earlier in a different thread? What was his load and MV?

Congratulations on your move up to 1000 yrds and spending time with your son for the day.

Wish I started at 15. Really cool you getting to do that with him.

How was the wind at the point in the day when he was shooting? Sounds like it picked up after him?

Very awesome. Well done, Dad. I haven't yet the gumption to try any competitions, as they are so far away. But when I do, for better or worse, the kiddos will come with me.

I'll echo Luke's sentiment. I wish I had done something that wasn't work with my Dad. Again, great job, Nature Boy.

Nature Boy said:

I didn't have a wind meter and the forecast for the day was worthless. I'd guess the winds were 20 to 30 mph with occasional gusts even higher. The first match was a more constant right to left but subsequently began switching back and forth and gusting more, then letting off abruptly.

It seems to me that a 10 to 2 switching wind must be the hardest to shoot in.

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http://www.gilbertazwx.com/images/wind.pdf I use this scale rather than a wind guage for high power shooting. All of our ranges locally have topography and terrain making a wind guage nearly worthless. The speed on the line is generally radically different than the wind over the trajectory of your bullets do to deflection from trees, hills, raised firing points midrange, and sunken drainage structures across the range. I've found I can WAG better using this scale than by using the numbers off the neighbor's wind meter. Great shooting, 1K is an interesting animal.

Great start and quality time - I can relate to that, I shot my very first 1000 yds match in 1963 at Bisley, UK at the age of 13 with my Dad, shooting his Enfield P14, .303 with sling and aperture sights. The targets and equipment have changed but the buzz and challenge is still the same.

Congratulations on your first 1000 yard F class event.
Jim

with a 223 and no wind thats good shooting.

Nature Boy said:

Good to see you here Jim

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Yes sir”
Figured I stop by and visit with you and Mr. Guffey.
I may even be able to contribute once in awhile.
Jim

Awesome! Good job. Impressive with a 223

Impressive. I shoot 300 yards F-class because its hard to find a range that has longer than that. I can hardly guess the wind when it blows seemingly both ways at once at 300. Usually to the left at the line, away from me in the middle and to the right at the target. South of Utica in the rolling hills the wind blows every which way. Can't imagine reading it and shooting well at 1000. Good good shooting Tex, and Tex Jr.

I envy the weather! I shot a Smallbore Prone match on Saturday, and the match director brought out box fans because it was so hot!! (and humid!!!)

I used to shoot 1000 yards prone with a sling, one of the few sling shooters, as most of the shooters were F Class guys. One match my scope mount got loose. Before I figured that out I was cranking big windage changes trying to stay on target. After I removed the scope, tightened the mount screws, and reinstalled the scope, I never got on target again. One thousand yards is a God Awful distance and a little error, and you are off the target. It is the lucky shooter who arrives on the 1000 yard range with some estimated short range zeros and hits the target. Pit pullers got so frustrated by shooters who blasted an enormous amount of rounds in the sighting period, and record period, and hit nothing, that the Match Director instituted a limit to the number of allowed misses.

I know one range, because of encroachment, they will spend lots of time and coaching getting you on at 600, then out to 1000. But if you miss the target once at 1000 yards, you are DQ'd from the match. That club wants absolutely no bullet holes in someone's roof !

Nature Boy said:

The guy who was pulling his target said that during the string he had a 3 shots in a row in the X that were under an inch

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That is extremely impressive especially with the wind conditions and him shooting only a .223. Wow!