Welcome to the 6th 100 yard match of 2021. This match will run for 4 weeks. The rules and targets can be found at the rules and targets thread for this match http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=125759.0Post a scan or picture of the target by the end of the day Sunday September 19, 2020If you are not a member of the NUAH Club and would like to join or would like to upgrade your Division standing, your submitted target can be used for that also. All the rules to becoming a member of the NUAH Club must be followed also.Please include with you submission:NameAirgunSightsPellet/BulletPositionScore and Group SizeAny other info you would like to share(weather,pictures, etc)Have Fun and Enjoy the match.Results... will be posted ongoing as the match progresses at the bottom of this post. I will break down the scores by the different calibers shot.
NUAH shooters - If I counted correctly we have around 33 days to get our cards submitted for the September match. A little less than 5 weeks. That should give us adequate time. Good luck and have fun.
Tommy, Marty used to run the Matches every 4 weeks, and that is what we were attempting to do.... It gives eight matches between the beginning of April and the middle of November.... It also makes the match end on a Sunday, while running for 4 weeks.... something not possible if you run one each month.... Having said that, if most of the shooters would sooner have only 1 match per month, that is certainly possible.... The decision would have to be made to either run by the calendar month (ending on the last day of the month), or ending on the last Sunday night of the month.... That would mean that some months may not have 4 full weeks if they start on the 1st of the month.... I would suggest that you start a separate thread, with a poll, giving all the reasonable possibilities.... You could also ask when to begin and end the matches for the year, as in many areas it is not possible to shoot before April or much after October, certainly not in December through March....Bob
I would suggest that you start a separate thread, with a poll, giving all the reasonable possibilities.... You could also ask when to begin and end the matches for the year, as in many areas it is not possible to shoot before April or much after October, certainly not in December through March....Bob
Fill your glass with your favorite beverage, pull up a chair, and I'll tell you a sad story.The Shot That Broke My Heart. After a long wait, I finally got the .22 barrel for my .25 FX Crown. I haven’t had much time to work on it but did manage to get a quick tune on it and get it out to the range a couple of times. I think I got lucky and got a decent barrel. It seems to shoot pretty consistently. I used it for the first time at a club match earlier this month and shot my best score ever on the 25 meter and 50 meter matches. My 25 meter score was 740/750 25X.I went out to our club’s Tuesday practice today, mainly to do some work on my .25 Maverick to redo the tune. I took the Crown with me and since it wasn’t very windy and there were no powder burners on the 100 yard benches, I shot a couple of NUAH targets. First target wasn’t bad but I had one round that just broke the 10 ring line, making it a 9, and the last round went into the center of the 9 ring making it a 48/50. The second target was the magic one. The first four shots went into the X ring (later measured at 0.337 “). Just as I pulled the trigger on the fifth shot, a gust of wind pushed the pellet out of the X ring and up into the 10 ring. It was all I could do to keep from purpling the air with four-letter adjectives. I had that very illusive sub-half inch group within reach and let it slip through my fingers. This did show me that this .22, shooting the JSB 18’s, has the potential of shooting some pretty good groups as long as the wind cooperates. Of course, there is always the possibility that it could have been pure luck and I may never see anything even close to this again.Either way, I wanted to share the experience, as I’m sure there are a number of you that have had the same thing happened and know exactly how I felt. “Life can be so cruel at times”. Lol.
Tom, I almost always use wind flags. The exception is when I try to shoot a couple of quick 100 yard targets when the powder burners have left and I've already set up on the 50 yrd. bench. If the 100 yrd. benches are empty when we first get there, there are usually a couple of us that will set up some flags and spend a little time shooting there. Most of our practice shooting is at the 25 and 50 because that is what we shoot in competitions. I'm still not very good at reading the wind but without the flags, I'd be all over the place. I won't say there is never a non-windy day around here but it is very rare. The wind at the range is almost always around 5 - 15 mph even on good days (if we're lucky it starts at 5 mph but by 9am its usually gusting 5-10 mph). The burms on the left and right and baffles overhead cause some very strange variations in wind direction that leave you cussing when the flags tell you one thing but your pellet does somewhere else. I shouldn't complain because other than the wind we have some pretty good ranges here at the Pioneer Gun Club. The range is on 360 acres and I think we have around 10 shooting ranges, a static archery range, and a wooded walk-through archery range. Here are some photos of the 100/200 yard range and the 25/50/75/100 yard range. You can see the berms and the baffles I'm talking about.
Here is a submission from my shooting range in the rain forests of north Mississippi!dgwren100 yards laseredFX Maverick SniperAlpha 6 set on 20X22 gr. FX Hybrid .22Rested on bipod on bench with rear rice sock250 with 3X--group is a little over 0.6"As usual for August in Oxford, MS, it was hot and humid and almost still. This was my third, and by far the best, card. I'll be trying some more, because that group size would fit in the X if was moved over and up a little!! Hard not to try a few more...FYI, I have the Maverick 2nd regulator at about 110 bar, and the hybrids are going out at around 950 fps. I've tried several other slugs hoping to find a cheaper option than the FX Hybrids, but these shoot so well that I think end up saving money shooting them instead of continually tinkering with other slugs. The Maverick shoots JSB 18.1s very well, too. I just turn the hammer spring down 3 clicks and do a little re-zeroing.
Thanks for the kind words! Do Xs have to be completely inside the center dot--without touching the next ring?I don't know why I put "250" on my original post--I guess was excited about that group. I don't see way to edit the post, but I'll fix it if you tell me how.