Went to Kingsbury with HWRA. Turned up late unfortunately as someone was supposed to be fetching my car in the morning but they never showed (buyer), so headed off to the range. Got down about 9:30 with shooting well underway and carted my Rem 700 and mat down to the point. Completely forgetting my ear defenders for the whole day, so asked about a bit and fortunately Offas Dyke had their club kit on the range with them with some muffs, so I borrowed a pair for the afternoon (Thanks John).
Our shooters for first detail were all done and dusted about 5 minutes later with still 30 mins to go on the detail, so rather than skipping my go in the butts and shooting on the second detail as I had planned to do I got down and rattled off my shoot on the tail of detail 1.
I didn't shoot fantastically but as there were no wind flags and even if there were I would have struggled to read them I think I did fairly well. Score of 66.2/75.15 at 300 yards. The wind was coming down mostly at 1 o clock, but fishtailing often. Because of the location of the danger flag at the end of the range, it was flapping behind the flagpole and changes were very difficult to see... If I'm honest I stopped trying to look at it and concentrate on a good shot release.
Lunch consisted of an all day breakfast sandwich and a pack of McCoys from Tesco on my way down (for those of you interested! haha! £3 meal deal, even got a bottle of coke too!)...
Afternoons detail we got to move back to 600 and since this was a new round I'd batched at Bisley at 100 but not chrono'd I didn't know exactly where I should be... So I consulted a ballastics table and wound up 12 MOA from 300... I think maybe 1 minute wind.. First shot, smack bang in the middle... A massive smile appeared on my face, so I converted that shot and fired away again, same place! woop, I may be on to something here... and just as astonishingly as I got the 2 V bulls, the wind picked up without me realizing and pushed the next 2 shots into the 3 ring :( sign01
I don't know exactly what the wind was doing for the rest of the shoot, but it was unpredictable to me... most shots were in or very closely around the 5 ring, apart from those 2 shots thrown into the 3 ring. I ended the 600 shoot with 63.3 - not terrible, but not great. Still I have a lot more confidence in the round I'm shooting, especially at 600 yards.... What I don't have is a good knowledge of the wind and how the wind reacts to these little 69gr's (or my 155gr's when I shoot my .308, but that's beside the point...
)I thoroughly enjoyed the day and the weather was great! slightly overcast in the afternoon, but sunny most of the day, if a little breezy... I left with a big grin on my face and a happy chappy. Can't really say fairer than that!
No pictures unfortunately, was too busy having fun!
