Range Report No Wind????

[kraigWY]

I always said there was no such thing as "no wind".....................I lied.

I shot the Wyoming CMP Games (Vintage Sniper & Garand Match) at Cody on Thursday and Friday. I used my "no wind" zero throughout both matches. Not one click left of right throughout both matches. In nearly 40 years of shooting High Power, I believe this is the first time I've seen this............and in Wyoming too.

Check out the tape on the scope stand.

 

[Niles Coyote]

But how did you shoot.

Myself and Glock24 recently experienced this phenomenon as well, we were holding between zero and .1-.2 mil in either direction as wind tickled our .224 and .264 bullets last Saturday at 1000y. Wonderful day for groups but not much for wind training

 

[kraigWY]

Didn't do too bad with the Vintage Sniper, I was using my home made M1903a4 w/ an old El Paso Weaver 2.5X with at post sight. Didn't have any windage problems but a bit of elevation at 600 years not being use to a scope with a post sight. My doings, more practice. Also I didn't have a partner for the Team match and met a guy from MO who was in the same boat. First time we met let alone shot together. We still got a bronze metal.

As to the Garand, different story, I really suck at off hand because I'm to lazy to practice dry firing. Other then that the Garand did great. Still no windage changes were needed.

 

[coldboremiracle]

You gotta have more pics than that Kraig...

 

[Flying Goose]

Kraig, I had that happen here in Laramie a couple weeks back. It just didn't feel right! Good shooting and congrats on the bronze!

 

[hrfunk]

Good Job! I didn't know they were giving medals now for Vintage Sniper matches. That's goo to know.

HRF

 

[rduckwor]

I bet people fell over when they tried to walk!

 

[kraigWY]

As you can see by the tape (behind my back) there wasn't a lot of wind during the offhand stage either. Couldn't use that as an excuse.

 

[gstaylorg]

I can't believe someone posted that zero wind "didn't feel right". In a 1000 yd match at Camp Pendleton this past Saturday, we had an extremely rapid fishtailing headwind that averaged around 15 mph with gusts over 20. It was a bloodbath. By the 3rd match, I would have killed for no wind (LOL).