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Just reloaded the 800 yard target, that I shot with my 284 Winchester. Hopefully it works

Ya gotta love that!

Yes!
Days with conditions like that don't happen every day.
Yep, and I am shooting my 284 Winchester F-Open rifle, that I used for the Nationals and the worlds, when the US hosted the worlds down at the Whittington Center outside of Raton. I just noticed I was wearing the cap from that match.
Seb flew in from Indonesia. He shot TR and I shot Open, and then I also was invited to be a member of TR team, so I shot TR (308 Winchester) for the team match.
That was the first time I had ever compete with a rifle.
Erik Cortina and some other guys asked me why I wasn't shooting with one of my XP-100's...My answer was, "It is not legal. It has to be a shoulder fired weapon."
I had a lot of fun, and got to meet a lot of great men and women!

For those not aware, an F/O target has a 1MOA bull, and a 1/2 MOA Vbull, regardless of the range.
Max 22 pound rifle with anything attached .It is much harder to put 10 or 15 into the VBull than some people on the internet say it is!
That is some tight shooting xphunter!
How did you make out with the TR rifle , that is what I shoot :>)
Cat

Not much point carrying a phone into places with no cell service. I got all the proof of my marksmanship abilities I needed on the firing lines of the many local, state and regional competitions I participated in.

Good for you BH

Cat,
It is the only time I have shot F-Class (weekends are busy for me typically). Truth be known, I was more nervous about scoring someone wrong and not being fast enough in the pits.
I had never done either of these things before. I was fortunate to have an experienced shooter the first day (Jason is a TR Shooter-He is also now a SEB dealer in Australia), and he helped with scoring and the pits.
My goal before we got there for open was to shoot clean. My first day I made several rookie mistakes in one relay, doing three things wrong. Once I got that out of my system, things got better. On the the second morning, my cold bore shot at a grand was a "X". I should have sent a confirming shot (Another X) and went to record score. By the time I started I still shot good = Clean 6X. I made my goal-I was ecstatic.
We ran Sightron S-III's on both rifles. Open was the 8-32, and the TR was the 10-50.
They accidentally placed our TR team with the Open teams, so it took us awhile to find our scores. I don't remember our team score, but our captain told us we beat the Team USA #2.


Pic of the rifle while doing some 100 yard load development (didn't use this scope for the match)

Dan did some load development for Seb several years ago, as Seb was coming over for the SWN (South West Nationals), to shoot TR, and here was his 5-round group at 600 yards with a called flyer.
200.20X/Varget

It was bitter cold (Sub Zero) when Dan was doing the load development with the 200.20X Berger's a little over 4 years ago.

OH DANG! When you said "TR" I thought you meant " target rifle " ( irons'n'sling) NOT " F/TR" ( 18 pounds and either .223 or 308) LOL
Sorry for my confusion !Sounds like you had a heckuva time in any case!
Cat

I should have said F-TR...I was being lazy I guess with my typing. The good ole 3-O-Late or is it the 3-O-Wait

I hope all you easterners are not like you because nobody measures up to you besides you LMAO

Long Range HUNTING:


Range - degrades accuracy Exponentially.

A Hunter - always tries to get closer.

They are not shooting back at you, so you don't need that defensive position.

Get closer.


Long Range Hunting - is a bastard mutation of long range shooting.

Swapping paper for live animals carries a responsibility Long Range Hunters neglect.


Case in point:


They have a screw loose.

One can possibly excuse a bad shot due to poor Marksmanship.

One should not excuse a bad shot due to poor choices.




GR

You fuucktards only judge how accomplished a marksman/hunter is by how far they can shoot. I don't think you're much of a hunter if you regularly have to shoot far or much of a marksman if you have to be prone with rest and/or use a bipod to hit anything.

Well fuggtard when you can't see past 50 yards its pretty easy to shoot free hand BUT you wouldn't know anything about hunting the praires or above timberline.
Please tell us about all your 5,6,7,8,9,10,000 feet hunting experiences in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Nevada and you shot all kinds of [bleep] free hand.

For somebody who hates LR hunting you sure spend alot time on this thread, trying to learn something I suspect.

I guess I'm not a hunter. I take the first legal animal at the range I find it.

I hunted a shotgun zone that was open farm land with huge crop fields for many years. This was back in the days before rifled barrels and sabot slugs and I still killed multiple deer every season. Sure I saw deer that were beyond the capabilities of my smooth bore and rifled slugs. I learned to hunt and filled multiple tags every year anyway. Later I hunted a couple farms that offered longer shots in the rifle zone. While hunting there I killed several deer between 300 and 440 yards. One at just over 300 was with iron sights so maybe I can shoot a little past 50 yards if I want to. Anymore I just don't have a need to shoot very far and don't really want to. I haven't taken a shot over 300 yards in almost 30 years.

That would be the 3-0-GREAT!

Were you really responding to MontanaMarine here?

I think the Backfire challenge required a factory rifle