500 yard Match Plot
The rifle was used in F Class (overweight for F/ TR and fired from a front-rest) on a day with an East / 10-11 o’clock wind that produced a near 20 mph speed range on the firing line. There were 24 or 25 competitors including three ‘Open’ shooters using 284 Win custom rifles. My score of 85.4v was first equal with an F/TR shooter and one of the .284 users to take second match place on V-Bull count-back.
More illuminating was the bullet’s small vertical dispersion given the wind variability and direction as these conditions often produce elevation fliers as well as the usual lateral dispersion on this range. Every shot bar number 16 that was just below the Bull circle level would have fallen in the half-MOA V-Bull if my wind reading had been better. I was impressed!
Blair
How about long ranges, which is where performance really counts for many TR and F/ TR shooters? Stuart Anselm of Opsrey Rifles used these bullets at Blair Atholl in the five 1000 yard matches covered in Les Holgate’s The Long View and had three unhappy matches on the Saturday. The word went round the F/TR
community that “The Aussie bullets don’t shoot at 1,000!”
Things changed in the two 20-round matches on the Sunday with Stuart up in 3rd F/TR place on the day’s aggregate with 176.11v, a mere point behind event winner Russell Simmonds and two behind Sunday’s top performer Steve Donaldson, also getting the equal highest V-count of the day, Hugh Inglis in Open, the only other with eleven.
Stuart told me afterwards that Saturday’s ammunition had been loaded just before the meeting and he’d noticed that his electronic scales were acting erratically (another example!) but too late to do anything about it. Sunday’s cartridges used the same recipe but had been loaded some time before and with consistent charges. So, I think we can put a tick against long-range performance too.
BJD-HBC bullets cost £280 per 1,000 and are available from Fox Firearms UK, telephone 0161 430 8278, website
www.foxfirearmsuk.com
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