THE 2011 EUROPEAN F CLASS CHAMPIONSHIPS BISLEY - ENGLAND
Anyway, here’s how the top of the F/TR leader board looked when stats keeper Karen Robertson posted them on the big notice boards in the trade marquee at the end of day one:
1. Alexandr Nicolaev 2. Russell Simmonds 3. George Barnard 4. John Hennessey 5. Stuart Anselm
6. Maksim Semonovykh 7. Paul Eggerman 8. Alejandro Hildago 9. Steve Donaldson
10.Ross Opperman
214.21v 212.14v 210.11v 210.5v
209.13v 209.12 209.9v 207.`2v 206.10v 206.10v
Adam Bagnall was in 15th place on 205.10v - an overall win and 20 League points (needed to snatch the 2011 League from Russell Simmonds) now looking distinctly dubious but there was another full day of shooting to come. Moreover, Russell was having serious rifle problems by the end of Friday and had to retire his number one rifle. He’d brought a back-up but was obviously unhappy about the change and his prospects in Saturday’s matches.
Dodging Headwinds Saturday morning: dark, dreary, fogbound Bisley. No wind as I drove to Stickledown but surprisingly warm for the time of year. The main F/TR group was now on the first detail, 08.30 for blow-offs then 2+15 at 800. The weather forecast said rain moving in from the east - or not if we were lucky as it might reach London and stick there. One thing the forecasters did get spot-on was a near 180-degrees wind switch, giving a headwind with a touch of direction from the right if the flags were to be believed.
Too dark to see the blow-off strikes on the sand so it’s 1-MOA right on the scope for sighter 1 scoring ‘three’ at four o’clock, a minute too far right. Zero wind on sighter 2 and plus half-MOA elevation and it’s a ‘four’ at two o’clock, nearly a half-minute left needed. Check the flags – they definitely seem to run from right to left, my partner agrees. Take the half MOA elevation off, shade left a little and get a line-cutter ‘four’ between 10 and 11 o’clock, wind OK but the rifle’s mucking me about with elevation again. Shade off to the right for the next couple of shots and glory be - a couple of ‘fives’ with good elevation. Perhaps the rifle’s settled down?
Then ... shot 4, right on the three/four line between five and six o’clock, same place as the day before and yet again scoring the lower value! Leave elevation settings alone and shot 5 is back up, a smidgeon below the V. Thankfully, shots just stayed within 1-MOA elevation after that and I kept them all within the five-ring, albeit barely for shots 12 (low) and 14 (high) for 72.3v. Winds were light and from shot number 4 needed left windage on my zero, never mind what the flags said, varying from a shade to nearly a minute towards the end.
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