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On Memorial Day weekend my 7mm LRM looked like this:

After that I took off the 7 LRM barrel and put on the 7WSM barrel. It turned in my best 10 shot group at a grand as well with a 8 inch group.

Then this afternoon, I took of the bench stock and put on the McRee.
Took off the 7WSM barrel and put on the 7LRM barrel.
Took of the original Gunwerks brake and put on a Holland Radial Brake.
The Sightron S-III 8-32 came off and on went a FFP Leupold 6.5-20 with Holland's all MOA ART Reticle.



I thought about chopping the barrel down, but I still have not done the load development with Retumbo yet.
I will take the added MV advantage for this comp for sure.
Also added a sling swivel stud in the back on the left side, so I can sling it up.
Now the 7 LRM is ready for WTRC

Great Pics! Those two at the bottom really show some talent.

Here is a 100 yard group off of a bi-pod this morning.
The sucker really torques!

You have some way cool pistols! If/when I can ever find two nickles to rub together I'd like to get one. Interesting side note; that is legal for deer hunting in Indiana, but a 30-30 lever action rifle is not...

Definitely a reason to build one

Looks like your bullets maybe might need to be a tat shorter!

Someday...

Some pics of confirming drops this past Thursday.
Here is 400 yards. The 7 LRM pretty much wiped out the dot I had painted for a aiming point. This was in the afternoon (second time confirming drops).
The smaller hit at 11:30 is from Darrell's AR-15. Darrell was my partner for the WTRC this past weekend:
http://www.macsgunworks.com/Pages/WTRCRulesScoring.aspx
http://www.macsgunworks.com/Pages/Macs.aspx

Then here is at 1000 yards. We were confirming drops in the morning in this pic.
These are the last four shots at 1K:



Then we went back out and shot out to 1K again.
Had some small tweeking to do, but it was shooting very good.

You are the man with that pistol, it's truly immpressive what you can do with that.

This past Friday-Sunday Darrell and I competed together as a team again for a second time.
Having never competed together before we had some hiccups. This year those problems were all but gone.
There were some new teams this year too and it seemed most teams had raised the bar in terms of skill.
We took second place. Third was a good 900 points behind us, and we were behind 1st by about 550 points after the four field courses.
A local team took first this year. They are both great guys and great field shooters.
The biggest and most costly point wise for us, was that my barrel was to thin and when I had to shoot long strings of 14+ shots at distance in heat, accuracy went down. That will be fixed for sure! We already knew that this was likely going to be a problem. But we went with what we had.
The other hitch was that my brake came loose during the end of course 4 (long range again of course). Again a issue that will be easily solved.
Plan on using the 7 LRM again next year. My Glock 17 with the Leupold DeltaPoint did great out to 60+ yards.
Darrell and I had a great time together and we enjoyed renewing friendships from years past. It is a great group of guys.
We need to get a couple of 24 Hour Campfire teams to come out and play.
You will have a lot of fun and meet a lot of great people.

Some more pics of the match.
Here are some pics for you. Thanks to Ken Stoecklin (Bear Tooth Photography) from Casper who took all of these pictures! Maybe we can get Ken a partner and have him shooting more than pictures in the future






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Congrats Ernie, My partner and I bailed on it at the last minute this year. We missed it but three day shoots are tough. Impressive shooting for sure on you and Darrel's part. My S&W has a deltapt sitting atop it this year too. We dropped a ton of pts in the pistol last year and spent a lot of time trying to rectify that for this year. If two teams were able to beat last years winners the bar was definately raised. Maybe see you next year.