F T/R Competition Another HUGE thanks to Jeff Rorer

[J-ROD]

About a month ago Jeff invited me down to shoot 1,000yds with him. Quite intimidating to say the least; like playing a few games of HORSE with a NBA All-Star.
Gobs of fun and learned a lot, including that my wind reading abilities are still horrible. Sorry, no pics but basically my groups were magnitudes larger in vertical and horizontal than his. I did manage to never actually hit the target (~10"x10"), just the cardboard around it....quite impressive I think, lol!

I have been wanting to try Lapua brass for awhile now but never made the leap...been using Win. Well Jeff sold me some of is old, multiple fired brass so I could try it out. I feel less guilty running used Lapua through my reloading "process" than virgin brass. He has been giving me tips on how to get these Berger Hybrids shooting well, I think he told me too much this last trip out ;-)

Fast forward a month. Been out of town for three weeks, stayed up all Friday night to work up some loads to try out a few things and had get my crap ready.
Some limb trimming and brush reorganizing was required but I now have a spot to shoot 350yds at the farm I have been going to, will have to use the weed-wacker next time out as the grass will be taller. Have to shoot out of my 4runner but I can work around that. Just nice to get more distance to check vertical.

I have been fighting a flier problem (flier correlates to high/low fps) so I made a few win test batches as well as groups for node testing with Lapua. Findings are (for me) lot & weight sorting Win brass does not help, except to cull the extreme heavy/light cases. I also thought I was on to something by sorting Win brass by the height of the "hump" inside the case around the flash hole. No difference there either.
I did find a significant difference between my tuned Ohaus 10-10 and GemPro 250. The last step was brass.

And the winner is........LAPUA!!

Scope on 42x

350yds, 5 shots, winds <5mph; don't know if the mirage caused the two water levels or loose nut behind gun. Now that I found my node, I will load up more than just 5 to test.

Thanks again Jeff for all of the help!!

 

[40xs]

I've been knowing Jeff for almost 10 years now and watched him progress through that time and I can say whatever he tells you, you can take and run with it!! Good luck and good shooting!

 

[asbestosglove]

Jeff shot a Nat record at 800 yesterday, 150-12X.

 

[KT35]

Jeff shot a Nat record at 800 yesterday, 150-12X.

There is no NRA record category for 15 shots at 800 yards. Only 1000 yards.

Jeff shot on our target Sunday. He was shooting lights out. I think he only dropped 7 points all day Sunday.

It's pretty awesome that a National Champion takes time out to help new guys get started in the hobby.


KT

 

[USFTR]

If it were registered as a Fullbore match, definitely a record. I don't think so in this case. If there was a Palma aggregate, it would have been a range record for Palma. However, no records this time I believe. I'm just happy I'm able to help other shooters in this game and I try to have fun along the way.

 

[J-ROD]

Thanks for the good words.

Well that stinks Jeff!! Dag on technicality, still though, congratulations on the score, that's simply amazing, much much respect my friend!

It's pretty awesome that a National Champion takes time out to help new guys get started in the hobby.


KT

You got that right! I know I sound like a broken record all the time on here and online "thank you's" are cheap (free) but I mean them. The least I can do is always give credit where credit is due. I am by no means good now but you should have seen me before, I have come a looooong ways because great people/shooters like Jeff have taken time out of their busy schedule to answer all of the questions I had that they had to figure out for themselves.