Recent content by Sandow the Heretic

I think once you get into the 338 improved cartridges then it being a norma or lapua to start with stops making much of a difference. There are at least a dozen versions out there that essentially achieve the same thing. So many in fact that you better commit to buying a reamer and having a...

Probably big parts of it. I'd also add that if there aren't new bullets coming to market in significant numbers then the value in crowdsourcing ballistics data isn't enough to justify the effort. If it costs them $20k to show up and they only get two new bullet reads to add to their list, then...

Honestly I'd roll with 50 if I were you. You are going to have gaps otherwise. With the 5-25 you could nearly zero at the bottom with a 50 MOA Rail+Rings and that would let you dial up to the top, put the prism on and dial back 100 MOA and keep rolling. You essentially can't do that at all...

Out of curiosity, how many ELR matches have you shot in or ran? -Alex

Yes. You loose points if your gun is overweight. If you are at 50 pounds you start at -10,000 which is the difference of a shot or two. If you are so confident that a heavier gun is better shooting then by all means, come and prove it. I would suggest to you like I do to all shooters that...

To be honest, if you have a hard time keeping something in the realm of 40 pounds stable, you probably have something off with your positioning or other shooting fundamentals. If the recoil is that big of an issue for you then I have nothing to say about that. Here is a girl that weighs 90...

Since Ko2M started the sport lol. I would say without question that last year was the most fun it has been since 2016 and that had more to do with the people that showed up to shoot than anything. 40 pounds has been the rule for 5 years now and with the changes to the overweight penalties...

So the ranges are set up along a ring road at the top of a mountain and shoot mostly downward. There are benches at most of the firing points as well as areas to shoot prone from. Some are covered but not all. Parking is essentially right next to the firing point for practice. During matches...

Last time I got results from him was in 2020 and it required about month of calling him a fuck-up on Facebook before he sent them. Personally I regard it as a disservice to the shooters to let their achievements go unacknowledged. -Alex

If you think about this as essentially crowd sourcing the development of field appropriate gear, that perspective isn't far off. True, most competitors in the US are unlikely to shoot anything but targets with their guns. That doesn't change the reality that what we do is often directly...

Black bear shooting club in Gladstone VA goes out to 2100 and is the closest ELR range to you. Would be about an hour longer drive then Reade though. -Alex

I have to assume that going from a muzzle loader to a gun that would cycle helped quite a lot. What else did you guys change? -Alex

Giving people a bit of grace on the weight of a suppressor gives people a choice to use one or not if they are near their weight limit. It probably won't make a difference to many shooters but if we can get more people using them then the selection for larger bores may well improve. Personally...

FWIW, the rules are determined by Eddie, Walt and I. We tried the committee thing last year and it was a clusterfuck. We run changes by match directors to see if there is anything that seems like it will cause problems as a sanity check but experience has taught us that the more people that...

Well I was honored to be a trigger monkey on a gun with a history like that :) I'm converting one of my 50s to 460 and I must say, the performance of the hellfire gives me pause but that would be a ground up new gun. Kinda like the idea of bigger splashes but it seems like a lot of the guys...