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I like your enthusiasm gunner. One shoot you may be interested in trying is the Carl Ross positional match:

Carl Ross postal positional match

This gets us off the bench and more into our favorite field positions. It's also a timed event, so there's no dilly dallying around. You really got to work at it to get a decent score. The best I did was actually with one of my favorite AR's. I've mentioned this shoot quite a few times, but it doesn't get a lot of interest. Formidilosus played along, as did a few others, who actually earned my respect in that shoot. I believe I was the high score on that shoot, with my 18 out of 20 score, and didn't even post my best score of 19 out of 20:


because there was such a lack of interest in that shoot. I tried bumping that one along, but no one wanted to play. Even Pat Sinclair tried, but with only 2 shots on each target, then never posted again...

I also believe Formid uses this drill on occasion as a partial training for his guys. Generally I shoot this with my new rifles, to see how they do in different field positions, which is extremely valuable to me as a hunter. I've actually sent a couple rifles down the road, after shooting this event and finding out they didn't fit me well enough to warrant keeping around.

The AR that surprised the chit out of me, with the score of 19/20, was my Northtech defense with a 20" fluted stainless barrel:

I also used this rifle to shoot my second best score (my best was .833 MOA with my Stag 6H) in the black rifle challenge:


I highly suggest you try this one out for yourself buddy. It is excellent practice and keeps your field positions from getting too rusty..

Nice, Thanks Buddy, I didn't hit the link yet, but are these at 100 yards?

And holy chit, TIMED event, I'll hook the trailer to the back of the John Deere lawn tractor and have Wife drive me back up to the house while I lie back there with a quart of muscadine wine calming myself ; ]

Ha ha. Yeah, they are shot at 100 yards. You aren't kidding. I left the part out where it actually wore my azz out, trying it the first few times. Especially when I was shooting my heavier rifles, like my 9.3x62mm...

Whew, that's what I was afraid of lol, on a serious note, that Northtech AR is a hell of an accurate little banger you've got there Buddy.

Thanks my friend. I hate to say it, but i'm more attached to it than I am my Noveske...

When they go where you're pointing it's impossible not to like, I should see what one of my 7 twist PSA's will do, would need to put a good glass on it, they're just house guns now loaded with EoTechs, 64gr Nosler bonded splatmasters and 62gr TTSX.

You can use your bolt action hunting rifles too. Carl posted this thread in the hunting rifle forum. If you click on the link, you'll see there was not much participation. Not even from those hunter types that mock some of us for shooting off the bench. What some of them don't know, is we don't all just shoot off the bench.... . We don't all just shoot at paper targets ALL the time either... , as they so cunningly wish to believe..

How about the "National Match Challenge"?

You can shoot 50 or 80 shots.

I'm gonna toss this out... orange and red, my eyes see very blurry targets, no precise edge definition etc... my eyes allow me to shoot better with buff or white background, a black diamond with white center diamond.

Y'all are doing great, but the bright targets might not be helping.

Everyones eyes are different. The brighter orange with the black center helps my piss poor eyesight.

10-4 on the bolt guns, and yes, surprises can and do come in many differing areas to doubters.

I use solid black painted steel gongs at the house, no reference points except the target itself, makes leveling and centering those Sharps rifle iron sights that much tougher, same/same for scoped rifles, the object itself is your mark, bracketing it center, then striking center mass with reticle or iron sights is job number one, my thinking on that is I've never seen an animal with a target dot on itself ; ]

The little redfield targets with 1" squares come in handy for setting a zero on set and forget standard type hunting rifles.

Are you crazy? No one can shoot 50 rounds in a setting much less 80...

Help me out if I shoot one shot every 5 minutes, how long would it take? Grin

Why does it take you so long to get a shot off?

50 to 80 rounds?...........................zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........................zzzzz...............oh chit, I had a mini stroke just reading that! lmfao!

You gotta keep the barrel cool...

LOL, I shot four, then three, and three, letting the barrel cool, still took better than an hour and twenty minutes to get it done, but that was with the little Swede, a 300 magnum in august would take all damn day.

You need to get over yourself man. If you are not happy with your results, because your barrel was smoking hot, shoot it over. Im not whining because your rifle has a custom fu cking tube on it. Quit whining about how we shoot the event. Maybe youll do better next time.

Oh nevermind, you're a hoot!