Phoenix Tango Competition

[John25]

I hereby lay claim to the title Tango Zero of the meeting.

Multi target this afternoon only 21 rounds to count. Why? Should have cleaned it then the lifter on my Winchester .45AE would have ejected the empties instead of just turning them round in the tray.

And my advancing target? Got away! :lol:

Where's me Browning and why isn't it still called the Whitehead?

:roll:

[Dougan]

If it's any consolation, I only got 1 shot away (in total for the day!) on my first trip to the Phoenix a few years back...that's the point at which I swapped my Winny for a Marlin...

I'm not sure excactly what a 'tango zero' is (?) - but before you lay claim, I'm trying the advancing man for the first time tomorrow...and there's much potential there for a cock-up!

[John25]

Its a tango, zero, five, five, echo, romeo.

T055ER

:lol:

[Dougan]

Its a tango, zero, five, five, echo, romeo.

T055ER

:lol:

Ah! ok :lol:

Then definately too early to claim that!

[Mike357]

Hey, it's early days. Still a lot of shooting to be done yet!

[Dougan]

All in all I didn't have a bad afternoons shooting - On the down side I was running a temperature, which was making my safety glasses steam up a bit - but on the plus side the adjustments I've made to my Marlin worked well, and Dodgyrog's bullets were shooting very nicely

I shot the Grannet first, which wasn't very good - my POA was off by about 3"...maybe something to do with practicing indoors in a dark range? - I think next time I'll get squadded to shoot a precision round first and use it to zero in...

Next was T&P1 - Had a slight TZ moment, and by rushing the 1st detail dropped a shot (and that's the easy bit :roll: )...but then didn't drop another shot through the turning target details (which I've never done before), and ended on a 299...which is a PB :shakeshout:

Then straight to the advancing targets - there was no time to watch the previous detail, so didn't really know what I was doing -when the targets started moving forward, I was thinking 'so when do I start firing?' (definate TZ moment ) - then when everyone else started firing I realised...so the first target was awful, but got better through the comp, and I look forward to trying it again...

Mike: how did you get on?

[John25]

If you got a PB, well done now stay off the Tango Zero post!

:roll:

[Dougan]

But it could have been the illusive '300'! - I even put my watch on the inside of my fore-arm to time the 2 minutes...then got all 'excited', completely ignored it, blazed away like John Wayne and finnished with 40 seconds to spare :roll: ...I was calling myself worse than TZ at the end of the detail :lol:

[ovenpaa]

Well there is always my F Open results to look forward to...