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Ha ha.. geez, it probably wasnt even windy either. Ask 79s what its like here in the gorge. They dont call it the wind surfing capitol for nothing.

Oh damn I remember driving from boardman to the Dalles that wind was horrible. This was in a old square nose Chevy too.. probably got 2 mpg that night lol...

Ha ha. Right. I believe it. I remember having to drop down 2 gears in my 83 4x4 yota, fighting the headwind on 84. Theres a reason i write "windy" on my targets. I have a general rule though. When the wind blows my 35 pound target stand over for the 3rd time, i pack it up and go home . I know everyone else has to deal with the wind too, but its maddening here sometimes.

We get our fair share of the elements.

Entire crew got sick. Had to head back to port early.

Still tryin to scrub the ghey offa the boat

Ha ha. Looks like fun.

I'm a little embarrassed my groups were so off center too, I moved the scope four clicks left after the first group was fired, didn't want to be off paper for the second, after season, I had the rifle out of the stock for cleaning and a few scope screws were removed, cleaned and reinstalled because of rust, I got that rifle really wet a few times last year, all metal is cerakoted though, guess 'Smith didn't want to do the scope screws.

Good shooting nonetheless gunner. My remarks about m1919 were not pointed toward you my friend. I have a lot of groups off the bullseye. Especially as of lately working with load development on some of my new rifles. I'm getting ready to head out and shoot with a buddy. I loaded up some 7WSM and 7mm08 last night. I sure like that big game powder for just dropping loads from the powder measure. It makes loading so much faster. After prepping and priming 160 pcs of brass from the other day of shooting both my creeds, my 22-250 and my 7WSM, I was getting a little tired of loading...

Good luck bsa....keep on shooting. You've posted up some very respectable groups with a variety of wares. Keep the thread going!

Nice job Gunner. Centered or not, those were great groups!

No offense taken Buddy, should have checked it first, blasted the two foulers off in the pond bank the day before, guess I got too many guns ; ] and Thanks m1919, same to you, beautiful shooting.

Thanks my friend!! I'm not submitting this target, but just showing how consistent the Tikka is shooting and finally worked up a load for it today.
It was foggy as fu ck, and I could barely see the orange dot on the first group on the left, by the way, the target stand you see to the left is not mine. My buddy was dialing in his new scope on his new 204 Ruger. That target stand was set at 50 yards, you can't see mine through all the fog in the pic:



Target:


Rifle, that you've all seen before:

That pic was taken after firing off the first 10 shots. 10 more to go in the green box...

Now to show you guys what first time load development with H4350 looks like for this rifle. Keep in mind, I've been shooting my Savage 12fv load and some good loads thrown together with Big game powder. I cheated and used some BR2 prmers for the load development with H4350 powder. It appears to like 1 gran less powder than the Savage, and my a big margin. I hope to shoot some of these loads again in this challenge. I have a feeling it will get me into the sub moa range:


I also let my buddy Mark shoot 5 shots to confirm it is a good load:


This Tikka looks damn promising.. I'll keep at it and post an official target next weekend. I hope!!!!!!

Try imr4350, when I had a 6.5 cm I tried all the 4350's and Imr was the winner. Not saying your h4350 load is not a winner. Believe it or not I never had much luck with biggame.

Sounds like a good suggestion. IMR 4350 is one of my go to powders in some rifles.

Really good shooting, despite those chit conditions BSA, well done!

I'd get that 16X boxed up and sent off, bet those hands an get her squared up and back to ya in a couple weeks.

That would be awesome. I really like that damn scope. Just checked my email and Skyler said they can promptly address that under warranty. Excellent!! Im going to pull my zero stop shims and send it in. Ill just shoot my Tikka in the meantime. , while the savage is out of commission..

GREAT news, and ya, aint like you don't have 30 other scopes to peer through in the meantime.

Alright Wareagle, BSA and TWR, you guys need to think up some more contest challenges we can shoot.