So Anton dropped a packet of his R50 in front of her and asked her to shoot some more prone. The results were slightly better, dropping two points for a 198. My turn then and I put a box of that Tenex in front of her but not promising anything because I knew it did not go through Wolfies and Anton’s rifles. This lass shot a tight 200 straight away and beamed at me. Her coach asked her to continue (great having two that spoke German with us eh?) and she shot the rest of that box clean! 50 straight tens, indicated she had her system pretty straight!
The coach disappeared and came back with another stack of R50 in different batches for her. They tested ammo for the rest of the day, with no real results and we could see she was totally stuffed after a very long series of prone shooting. Anton asked the coach (sorry I forget his name) if he could test some for her and promptly shot some pretty good results through his own rifle. That batch was actually better than the brew he had selected in Furth, so the coach issued him with a stack of it, enough to shoot a world cup in a few days or so. I gave the lass enough of my Tenex to shoot the next world cup and history has it that she won her 3x20 sport rifle event with it and a quota place to boot. The best offshoot though was that the Aussies were very welcome from then on to train with a top echelon German squad when ever we were in Europe. Big
bonus!
There is also another instance that needs relating when we see Harald Stenvaag, an incredibly good Norwegian shooter over the years and a great personal friend of mine who would give his eye teeth for ‘his’ batch of Russian ‘Dynamo’ ammunition he found and used with extremely high results. He shot this stuff in the Sydney 2000 Olympics and hung an Olympic gong from his barrel with it.
Believe me, ammo selection and testing is mandatory if you want to succeed in small bore. I have no idea why but it goes from the article above that what goes in one rifle does not necessarily go in another. Sometimes it takes a lot of experimentation to find out but when you do find it, believe me it is worth the time.
My eternal thanks go to Fred Lawler and RTM for the effort he put into building my rifle and the test facility they have in both Eley and RWS that allows this level of testing. Perhaps I was lucky, I have no idea, but it made a huge difference. None the less, if you do some test work, you too may reap the benefit. I will leave this with you thought. You may have the best batch of ammo and a brand new Bleiker in your kit, but you still have to shoot it, don’t you?
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