You gotta love shooting at 800 yards, biggest damned target you'll ever see in F class, that is till you toss a 9 on the first shot for record.
Anyhow, we had a small but fun 800/900/1000 match this weekend.
The wind was frustrating to say the least. Light winds, but switchy. At one point I was sitting back with another guy scoring and he says, "the mirage looks like it's trickling off left to right" I look in my scope and say , " You mean right to left" he says, "no, left to right"
After a short discussion to see who is focused where we figure out that it's running right to left at 600 and left to right at 800. How the hell do you dial that?
Any how, my day was just OK. I think I shot a 145/150 at 800 and somehow managed to miss the X ring 9 out of 10 times.
At 900 I thought I was going pretty well. I was really working on my wind reading and was trying to make a read for every shot, then I missed a switch and tossed an 8, that hurt, but all in all I felt pretty good because I'd managed to shoot through several letoffs and one other switch and only dropped a few points.
The 1000 yard shoot was brutal for me. Nine hundred and started weak but I had finished strong at with a good sting of Xs and 10s and picked it up again at 1000. After 10 shots I'd dropped 5 points. Then the wheels fell off. If I was really shooting for score I should have waited 5 min to see what developed. The last 5 shots I dropped about 7 points (something like 8-9-8-9-9). Nothing that I could see, no mirage shift, no flags, no indications. We did have some clouds drift over and make the mirage fade out badly but it was just one of those times that I guess I really should have stopped shooting to wait for a condition that I could read.
Anyhow, we had a small but fun 800/900/1000 match this weekend.
The wind was frustrating to say the least. Light winds, but switchy. At one point I was sitting back with another guy scoring and he says, "the mirage looks like it's trickling off left to right" I look in my scope and say , " You mean right to left" he says, "no, left to right"
After a short discussion to see who is focused where we figure out that it's running right to left at 600 and left to right at 800. How the hell do you dial that?
Any how, my day was just OK. I think I shot a 145/150 at 800 and somehow managed to miss the X ring 9 out of 10 times.
At 900 I thought I was going pretty well. I was really working on my wind reading and was trying to make a read for every shot, then I missed a switch and tossed an 8, that hurt, but all in all I felt pretty good because I'd managed to shoot through several letoffs and one other switch and only dropped a few points.
The 1000 yard shoot was brutal for me. Nine hundred and started weak but I had finished strong at with a good sting of Xs and 10s and picked it up again at 1000. After 10 shots I'd dropped 5 points. Then the wheels fell off. If I was really shooting for score I should have waited 5 min to see what developed. The last 5 shots I dropped about 7 points (something like 8-9-8-9-9). Nothing that I could see, no mirage shift, no flags, no indications. We did have some clouds drift over and make the mirage fade out badly but it was just one of those times that I guess I really should have stopped shooting to wait for a condition that I could read.
