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In preparation for the nationals, I am working on a list of plausible excuses for poor performance. Please feel free to add as I am working on a compendium.
10- The conditions (wind/snow/heat/mirage/clouds/humidity) were terrible.
9- My puller(s) are (were) slow.
8- The flags were lying.
7- I was fire-forming brass.
6- My barrel is near end of life.
5- My scope/glasses/eyes fogged up.
4- I put my mat down on a fire ant mound.
3- I left my ammo box in the car/sun, etc.
2- My dog ate my trajectory sheet.
1- My mirage shield was on crooked.
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Powder scale must have drifted off zero.
Seater die came loose.
Or the one I ran into this weekend first hand... 'my bipod came loose'. That one is for real, BTW.
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Found a loose nut behind the butt....
Don't guess they got fire ants up that way though either...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Fire ant definitely not in the Top-10. Too regional. Replace with "I need a new eyeglass prescription." 
Islam is a terrorist organization.
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You forgot about turning your sights the wrong way....wait, you said you hadn`t done that, today?
Good Luck, BTB.
Hope for overcast skies...but with nothing falling out of them!
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I'm getting much smucking farter in my old age and I have come to realize that twisting sight knobs is for young people. I only dial in the elevation anymore. Now, I understand we are going to shoot to 1200 yards and I don't have a tested come-up for that. Computer says another full revolution of elevation and a few bits more from 1000. That is another good excuse in the making.
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Hope your bi-pod don`t come loose..
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rain on my bullets. had pressure lost a primer.. next shots were REALLY low. don't ask...
cross fire.
action and or scope came loose
forgot to focus the objective.
my pointed bullets got mixed in with my unpointed.
3 to a mound first two shooters missed waited 6 minutes (to re-check target) for my 1st shot on score. hey new wind condition sweet.
Last edited by Trevor60; 09/07/11.
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That is not a valid excuse.
It's the truth.
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Ignorance is not confined to uneducated people.
WHO IS JOHN GALT?
LIBERTY!
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The sun was in my eyes.
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#1 I'm old and senile... what the heck am I doing here anyways?
Oh ya, that's right it's a rifle match.
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Solar flare.
The guy next to me farted.
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That ain't no schit! Especially the "Super Seniors" 
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I once shot (on a team!  ) with a guy that shot his 100 yard dope from the 300 yard berm. When the targets came back up, he gave a "What the f....." look (this guy was a HM and Distinguished), looked down at his rifle as he rolled it on it's side, hesitated, and just slumped as he said "Ah man, I REALLY f'ed up...". He didn't really have anything else at that point. The rest of that day quickly became a practice session for the rest of us with that score in the books... 
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I got squaded on the wrong relay....
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Yeah, I saw somebody complaining about that on another thread here. Cost him the match, right?
BTW, FYI, MDAVIS78102 is a formidable shooter in F-open and F-TR. He did very well at the recent nationals, (the fiend.)
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"If I had my best match rifle I would have cleaned house today"
I have heard this before, and always wondered why these guys DIDN'T shoot their "best match rifle" LMAO!!
The one I use most " the force wasn't with me" :>)
Cat
scopes are cool, but slings 'n' irons RULE!
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