Well, best laid plans of mice and men ---- Got over to Frank's place and found out he forgot to tell his wife to leave the horsies in the barn, not to mention the fact that the wind had picked up and it was swirling all over the place so we headed for the indoor range -- Had to come up with a target for this month's match even if I did have to shoot it indoors!
Class: Unlimited/Target
Distance: 100 Yards Indoors, no wind
Rifle: Savage Model 10 Tactical in a Choate "Ultimate Sniper" stock with Nikon Buckmaster 6.5-18 X 40 glass. Mil Dot retical with super fine center crosshairs.
Position: Seated at bench, rifle on front bipod, rear monopod (built into the stock)
Ammo: Handloads, 75 grain PPU BTHP over 25.5 grains Hodgdon Varget on the uncolored target and 69 grain PPU BTHP over 25.0 grains Alliant Reloader #15 on the colored target.
Scores: Colored target, 157, uncolored target, 161 (For some reason I missed shooting the 4 altogether!
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Could just barely see the outer ring on the uncolored target but the red color on the other one helped a lot. Took 10 uncolored targets to get lucky and come up with one where I managed to at least nick the outer ring on the 13. Took 2 on the colored one as I went to slightly heavier bullets and had to adjust the elevation by one click. I thought I aced it, but it looks like I may have nicked the ring on both the 12 and 13 so I'm calling it a 157.
Dang, Mav, you just keep coming up with the wildest targets to shoot at! Fun stuff!!!
Jim