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Whats a real drive time from Glasgow? Google is telling me 1h 40m from the hotel. I know, getting soft and not roughing it.

One hour is about right. Good gravel road all the way, after you turn off onto the Willow Creek Road.

Bring your rain gear!!

Didn't realize the shoot was just north of Bonetrail. Only 35 miles north of my house as the crow flies and it'd take me three hours + to get there on the road! Hope the weather is decent for you fellas this year.

Hope you all have a ball shooting. I look forward to seeing the pictures.

What, no real time reporting?

Hopefully everybody heeded that advice.

Estimated rainfall from 11 pm Thurs to 2:30 pm today, red's 2.5":

Looks like they'll be building an ark instead of shooting.

Pat will shoot in ANY weather and that I know for a fact!

Probably why he's such a good shot...shoots all the time in all kinds of conditions.

How much shooting got in on saturday? I hated to leave early, but had to protect my delicate complexion from the falling moisture.

Some of the rigs on the line Friday....







We figgered me and colodog had the cheapest rigs there. Maybe that's why we were banished to the ghetto end of the line......




If I remember right, This is the rifle Carl Ross used to kick azz in the hunters comp.

Well, now I know what to get you for Christmas. You need a bigger umbrella......

I'm going to manufacture a line of umbrellas next year, just for this shoot. I figger a bunch of guys up there will buy them. I'm gonna be rich......


I think I'll call them, 'Bumbershoot Buddy'.....

or maybe 'Parasol Protektor".....

Great time had by all and a big thank you to Pat for coordinating it and Matt for letting us increase the lead and copper content in his property.

One thing that really jumped out at me was the accuracy of the ballistic programs with the wide variety of rifles, calibers and scopes if information was properly entered. From 200-1200 yards I was dead on for elevation after entering the onsite weather conditions. Failure to enter an exact velocity or scope height over bore seemed to be the two biggest issues with getting an accurate data card from any of the programs. A 25fps error or a 1/10" off on scope height lead to being several clicks off at the longer ranges. The third issue was trusting a program. I know in the shoot off I choked because I did not trust the data card. I thought I hit the edges of two targets at 465yard but later found out I centered them pretty good (only feed back in the comp was "impact"). It did not seem like I had enough windage so I added another .5mil and then I proceeded to miss by .5 mil until I pulled my head out and shot what was needed. It was a confidence booster to trust the program and hit the last two targets past 700 yards.

This was one of the common targets and was about 8-9" from back to belly. I know it was out to at least 710 yards and dont recall them being placed further.


We talk about how far you can go with a certain magnification and this might be a good idea. I think I was the only 3x9 on the line. This is a plate rack at 505 yards. For the 3" diamond on the far right I had to make a guess because I was unable to clearly see it once the paint as blown off.


About 2.25 mils of lead for wind on at 1032 yard wolf. I run a simple mil dot but it is clear to see having the half mil dash is extremely helpful for holding wind.

Good overview of the longer stuff. The first target is a wolf at 831yards and then moving to the left it was a plate at 963 yards, a second plate at 1242 yards and a manhole cover at 1480. I bowed out after 1242 when I ran out of comeups on my scope.

Good meeting everyone that was new to the shoot ! Great bunch of guys for sure.

Thanks again Pat for putting it on ! Really enjoyed it...

I can't remember when I had this much fun, Thank you very much Pat and Matt!
I'm a rank amateur at long range and had planned to just hold over for the different ranges as the program in my phone showed hold overs in my SWFA scope from 200-1200yds with my load.
I'm grateful Carl Ross took pity on me and helped set up a quickie range card, Dial for elevation and hold for wind!
I ran out of dial at 1484 and I was out classed by the practiced hands but I had more fun than anybody.
It's gonna cost me money to shoot with these guys...
Thanks!

Huntsman22, how did the 6.5 do?

The little ruger held its own against some purty fancy rigs. Even hit the 1970 yard steel. Took a few rounds, as I was out of 'up' AND reticle. I think they was calling it montucky hold-over, or something......grin

Stunt shooter.