Steve Lewis’s strange looking rifle in 6XC – shot well though
fore-runner of the AI sniper rifle and Trevor managed a three-shot group measuring an incredible 0.165 inches! Not unfortunately in the head-bull!
I must mention that there are no rules regarding rifle, cartridge, scope, rest etc. so most opted to shoot off the concrete benches. But don’t forget, sighters are absolutely not allowed on the day!
Competitors get to see their (soggy) targets after each stage and then it was a trek to the 300 yard covered firing-point and yes, it was still raining!
Well, all of us managed to hit the target at 100 yards but without sighters, 300 yards can be a different story
Groundhog winner Bruce Lenton is clearly delighted with his target
and today, in the wet, it was difficult to see shot-holes. Nonetheless, all but four registered a score. I won’t embarrass those who missed by naming names – OK then, I will! One was Target Shooter scribe Chris Parkin - last year’s winner in fact. This year he was shooting the fabulous DTA sniper rifle as part of a Target Shooter long term test but, in fairness, he was using factory ammo. and he’d had no chance to get a zero, except at the previous 100 yard stage.
This time the honours for high score went to Chris Vaux who scored 20 points at 300 yards but Darren Grundle’s three body hits on the Groundhog might only have scored three points but his shots were just 0.599 inches apart, so he scooped the small- group award for the stage. Looking considerably wetter but still in good spirits, we trooped back to the warmth of the Range House to mull over our even soggier targets and have some lunch.
An hour later and, if anything, it was raining even harder. Unfortunately, we don’t have a covered firing-point at 500 yards but we do at 600 yards! A quick poll was taken – shoot at 500 yards outside in the rain or 600 yards under cover? It was 29 to one for the covered firing-point. The one? That man Chris Parkin again – he was the only person shooting someone else’s rifle, so he didn’t
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