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All Y'all have some nice shooting skills.

RIO7 - Is that with your .243 AI ?

VERY Nice indeed

OWL, No that's with standard .243 1x8 with 107 smk and 48.4 gr of Retumbo Rio7

Rio, count me as jealous on your setup also! Very nice!

And the nice thing about shooting long in the wind, is you then realize when to say yes and when to say no to shots

I'm 100% with Rio on the wind thing. Up here on the plains, If I waited for the wind to be nice I would never go. A couple of weeks ago at 1355 I was holding 3.5 mil of wind shooting a 6.5/143 ELD-X. At 32 degrees F I might add.

And yeah, Rio has a really nice setup judging by those pictures.

JTPinTX, where abouts are you up there? I've been hunting up there for over 20 years now. I've lived all over the place, and I've never seen wind blow perpetually like it does up in the TX Panhandle.

We are thankful for the breeze off the gulf in the summer makes it livable here, except for August during the dog days with no wind, and the windmills don't turn the water tanks start to dry up then we want wind.

Most of the time I go to the range early in the morning before the wind gets to strong, works most of the time. Rio7

Best thing you can really do is shoot about 10 pm or so. All you need is any kind of light on the target. None needed at the benchrest.

You can use a 12v batt and 12 volt bulb or about anything.

Thats when I did all my final load tweaking/testing at 600 here years ago when we still shot.

Generally wind still if its going to be that way. Does away with any mirage. Its very nice to shoot at night.

rost495, My lights go out about 9:30 pm I'm up at 4:00 am every morning, no night shooting for me. Rio7

JG, I live in Wellington, 30 miles north of Childress. So I don't have perpetual wind quite like they do in Amarillo and Lubbock, but I would say I get about 75% of what they do. And since today is March 1rst, well, the wind is pretty much gonna blow the next 4-6 weeks anyways. Wind is 13 right now. Supposed to be 15-16 tomorrow, 16-18 on Sat and Sun. I don't even worry about it anymore, I just go shoot.

Except load testing, and making sure my zero is good. I cherry pick those times. Usually wind is good until around 10-11 am and I can get some quality shooting in then. Even though that 10 pm thing sounds pretty good too. I have done some zeroing of night vision around that time, and conditions sure are nice then on average.

4 am its still dark here.... just saying. Mine go out about 9pm or so generally but if we needed to do testing...

Its amazing without the hint of wind AND mirage how much snugger groups get. Mind you thats only to confirm testing.... so we didn't do it that often... But it does confirm loads and zero's VERY WELL.

Just remember it, it might come in handy some day.

Once you have the load and zero's worked, the ONLY way to learn is to shoot in the wind. I loved windy days for matches.... I realized I'd likely not shoot a perfect score and might not even win, but every time I shot I generally learned more and felt more confident. And by confident that also meant to hold up right now and wait out the lull if you need to shoot... or like on game, no way in heck can you shoot in these conditions past X yards( sometimes that was 200 yards like it was the last day of deer season last year since the wind was blowing me around to much to hold still for a couple of 300 plus yard shots that I wanted to take.

That looks like a good time.

rost495, Really don't mind shooting in the wind, as it's fun to see if I can shoot well when it's windy some times it seems that my bullets are going to do a U turn and come back the wind is so hard, I rarely get a shot on game here over 300 yrds most shots are inside 200 yrds because of the brush and high weeds there is no such thing as a prone shot here, I try to shoot sitting or standing with sticks and on the range I shoot sitting with my bags, you can bet I won't forget the shooting at night. Thanks Rio7

Higbean, It's an old airport that I turned into a gun range, it is a lot of fun, I am building a bunch of new steel targets now as my old ones are all shot up, we have been shooting them for over 10 years.time for some new ones. Rio7

I thought that looked a lot like a strip!

I get ya all the way around. Practicing for reality. Playing for the other stuff. And I loved shooting in the wind. Shooting in the calm was boring and repetitive. It only told you if you could break 22 shots in a row that were good enough or such.... but chasing around to get 22 and not drop a point was fun.