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    Thumbs up record group

    having beautiful weather for christmas atleast the way we know it down here makes you wanna go out and send some lead down range. me and 'fullmetaljacket' met up for some shooting and indeed we set up two targets one at 145 m and a couple of others at 138m. i started out by having a look at my wind clock. temperature 19degrees celcius. dialled in 9.3mils for elevation an 0.5Mils left windage.
    aimed for the lower paper and send 3 shots, the first three shots of the day and i was laughing like £"!£R$! full metaljacket came to watch and took the spotter. i asked how much do you estimate that group i just shot, he said well its small thats for sure. measured it and found it 2" at 145m which is remarkable. usually im hovering in about 4-5" groups depending on wind. at the time i shot that group wind was full value 3mph constant. then it started picking up. the other groups we shot where about 4" however we did get 3 shots out of another 5 that where 1" while the other 2 shots opened it up to 3.4".

    heres the setup with the windclock with the elevation and wind drift values which i use for calculations.
    http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL888.../348325256.jpg
    http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL888.../348328813.jpg
    targets on two ends
    http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL888.../348325252.jpg
    target at 145 with two papers for group recording http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL888.../348325254.jpg
    heres the record 3 shot group.
    http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL888.../348325248.jpg
    then we went on the rocks and i fullmetal jacket fired some shots at the orange, being close but not a hit.
    i told him that i wanted to have a go and needed to rework the winddrift calculation, we did and dialed in for a half value wind, he sat behind me with the spotter and i fired the first round, distinctly i hear : you toook it out! rolled over and fell. theres a pic of the exit hole. we had some other targets that we shot with a 2nd or 3rd shot being a hit.
    http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL888.../348325243.jpg
    closeup at 145
    http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL888.../348325254.jpg
    marking the paper for judging which is which
    http://pic18.picturetrail.com/VOL888.../348328814.jpg
    went back to 145m to chrono the rifle in the colder weather(this rifle is use to 40 degrees summer temperatures) and velocity was rather low about 903ft/s average which needed 3-4 clicks extra over what i had worked out in summer. we did shoot some other groups that averaged 3-5inch again however the wind was constantly changing from 1/2value to full value and this played with our groups however some where only an inch from the aiming mark. needless to say we were very happy dudes after. kissed the baby and put her in her cott again
    Last edited by flims; 23-12-2008 at 09:04 PM.

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