Got very drunk on whiskey and Cider at the artist before heading to the L&M just before cvlosing on friday night and threw my pint all over the guys surrounding me (oops!) and trampled back to the caravan to fall flat out.
woke up hungover at 6:30 and proceeded to get ready for the day:
after bacon and egg sandwich headed over to short siberia in time for 10 o clock to go through some load development on short siberia (200x) - unfortunately we forgot to take a camera to document the results....
We did however mark down the results on a piece of paper and as a crude shot record.
they looked like this:
Mo's
Mine
unfortunately I only realised that my boing would serve to photograh the groups by mo's last effort... DOH!
Mo's best groups we're load 4 and load 7 (minus the flyer) at just over 1 MOA and (discounting the flyer which I think was pulled) just under 0.5 MOA.
I'm not sure exactly how far spread groups 2, 5 and 8 were on my loads, but Mo did relay that group 10 was keyholed and 1" apart giving me what i wanted from my load at a 0.5 MOA or less.
I wish we were a bit more organised (is this always the way?) so i could see the true group size of what I shot, but keyholing at 200 yards for me was a great feeling... (please bear in mind we were not adjusting for wind or elevation - atleast not enough to get us in the V-bull every time (we probably should have done, but what we did served our purpose).
Later in the afternoon, after packing up and heading back to camp we went over to the smallbore meet on centuary range and saw how that worked..
aside from wanting to spend all my money in the trade tent (which i refrained) I saw how the ticketing system works (or rather doesnt very well), and how to sign in for the events - I know for next year, so maybe I'll book the week off and shot the week aggregate?
All in all a fun weekend and fairly productive on the old load development side of things.
The load I used for my keyholing if anyone was interested was as follows:
46.8gr Varget
Federal Primer
and OAL of 2.875" - a jump of roughly .045"
with Sierra Palma Match, Match King 2156's.
They worked very well and I can't wait to get them out to 300x and 600x at my club competition in a few weeks!
(I also bumped into a fellow FB-UK Member who did introduce himself, but I didn't quite catch your name, and was a little too embarressed to ask
- please make yourself known so I know for future dude! :) - Musta spotted the ink!)
