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April Postal Match Target Celebrates National Kite Month!
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Windy today with 40mph gusts, but managed to get out to shoot my .32 half stock rifle. Scored 36 offhand. Might try again from the bench when it's less windy.
Great shooting in those weather conditions! Nothing but wind and rain in Northeastern Ohio.
Went out and shot my Kibler SMR today and scored a 39. Pulled 2 shots - must have been getting hot and tired
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.45 Pedersoli Kentucky, 1972 make. 65 Grains 3Fg Schutzen. .015 TC patch supported (sapling) Score: 9 points. Same load offhand but with .018 Oxyoke patches Score: 36 points.
I see this often - offhand score is better than benched. I think a lot of it is how much you shoot offhand and get comfortable in that position.
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Took the Lyman Great Plains rifle and Plains pistol out to try the April target. I did better with the pistol than the rifle. I may try a different rifle before the month is up. The rifle target was a 12, the pistol scored a 25. It was a very hot April day here in Georgia.
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I'm back from "God's waiting room," I mean Florida; have printed my targets, and will try to fly my kite, or at least shoot at it tomorrow.
Not as good as I wanted but better than I expected. This is my deer rig and on deer size targets there is no need for follow up shots but on kites… well this one is wounded bad, should not be a hard track to follow.
I measured the 12:00 shot with calipers but will defer to the scorers for final count.
Thanks Gary
I measured the 12:00 shot with calipers but will defer to the scorers for final count.
Thanks Gary
Nice target Dutch - looks like a 46 to me! Nice looking gear as well
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Northwest Trade gun flintlock
Smoothbore
Off hand
.600 RB with pillow tick patch
Maxi Lube
60 grains of 3F
Score 30. My calipers indicated the hit on the right was just inside the 10 ring.
Finally had a nice day. Mid 50's, sunny and light wind here in Hoosier Land
Smoothbore
Off hand
.600 RB with pillow tick patch
Maxi Lube
60 grains of 3F
Score 30. My calipers indicated the hit on the right was just inside the 10 ring.
Finally had a nice day. Mid 50's, sunny and light wind here in Hoosier Land
Today was pleasant enough to do some shooting, although it's now breezy enough to fly a kite. The best I could do today was only 28 pts, because an errant shot (0 pts.) knocked me out of a potential 30 pts. or maybe even higher. Aside from some minor sighting issues (now resolved), I had a devil of a time with failures to fire: changed nipples (no joy) but FFFg under the nipple worked but not adding it resulted in another failure to fire. Lots of caps didn't help either. I solved the problem by taking out the clean out screw and running a dry pipe cleaner in the flash channel: Voila! Problem solved. Wish my aim could be fixed so easily.
Particulars The rifle was an Ethan Allan made by Mowrey (Waldron, IN). Factory data calls for a .495" RB, which I cast (Lee Precision mould) and wrapped in a .018" pillow ticking patch. The lube was 1 Ballistol : 6 Water, which allows shooting without having to swab the bore between shots. The powder was 50 gr. Graf & Sons (Goex) FFg, I shot this kneeling with my right arm on the shooting bench. As an aside, let me say the drop in the stock and the 1" x 32" bbl. make the Ethan Allan/Mowrey ideal for offhand shooting (which I suck at!), but the hooked buttplate makes shooting from any sort of rest a bit painful, even with lower powder charges. I used Win. #11Mag. caps, which work about as well as the Rem. #11's.
Particulars The rifle was an Ethan Allan made by Mowrey (Waldron, IN). Factory data calls for a .495" RB, which I cast (Lee Precision mould) and wrapped in a .018" pillow ticking patch. The lube was 1 Ballistol : 6 Water, which allows shooting without having to swab the bore between shots. The powder was 50 gr. Graf & Sons (Goex) FFg, I shot this kneeling with my right arm on the shooting bench. As an aside, let me say the drop in the stock and the 1" x 32" bbl. make the Ethan Allan/Mowrey ideal for offhand shooting (which I suck at!), but the hooked buttplate makes shooting from any sort of rest a bit painful, even with lower powder charges. I used Win. #11Mag. caps, which work about as well as the Rem. #11's.
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wow was that rested?
Thanks. Yes, rifle was rested on sand bags.
Excellent I thought we were supposed to mark our targets with which match it is. Again that’s great shooting, it gives us all an something to work for
His targets are marked - look at the boxes checked in the legend on LH side of the targets
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I shoot most of these monthly matches off hand, with an occasional rest position. Strangely I shoot my trade gun smoothie better off hand even though it doesn't have a rear sight then I do my T/C flint and cap rifles and my .40 caliber poor boy flinter. Of course my accuracy with those guns shifts when i get beyond 50 yards.
