Hey folks,
Been hanging around for a minute, reading and browsing. Figured it might be time to jump into the discussion.
I'm up in the great white frozen north and started competitive pistol shooting a few years ago. That opened up the reloading rabbit hole, and precision rifle ammo is way more interesting than stuffing 3.3gn Titegroup and calling it done. So we spiralled a little deeper..
I grabbed an R700 in .260 and took the Furlong course in AB, and those guys walked me in to 1000m on my first weekend behind the gun. I've been banging steel on an 800m range since, mostly on my own, and shot a couple of club level matches. Started hunting two seasons ago and managed to connect on my first white tail this year. I've had a couple factory rifles and semi customs come and go, and just finished putting together my first mid/high end rifle. Looking to take the competition game a little more seriously this year, and spend more days in the field and mountains chasing upland with my dog, and game with my buddies.
I've got a fundamentals refresher course lined up and my load workup is nearly done for the new barrel. Big focus this year on cold bore, small target, first round hits. Going to try and make as many local (within 6 hours, Alberta is funny like that) matches as I can. I'm a half minute shooter on my belly, hands loads are generally single digit SD. Learning more and more about my Kestrel, and I've gone all the way back to the beginning of the EDS podcast. Will take a stab at truing my BC out to 800m over the next couple weeks.
I've got a pretty lofty goal of 1 mile by May, when I'll have access to the range and some world class spotters. Will be back to lean on you guys about how to best get there (.264, thinking ELD-M 130 or Scenar 136 with some RL17)
I've been on some less than stellar forums and message boards, the Hide seems like they generally have their shh together, happy to be on this side of the fence.
Cheers,
Been hanging around for a minute, reading and browsing. Figured it might be time to jump into the discussion.
I'm up in the great white frozen north and started competitive pistol shooting a few years ago. That opened up the reloading rabbit hole, and precision rifle ammo is way more interesting than stuffing 3.3gn Titegroup and calling it done. So we spiralled a little deeper..
I grabbed an R700 in .260 and took the Furlong course in AB, and those guys walked me in to 1000m on my first weekend behind the gun. I've been banging steel on an 800m range since, mostly on my own, and shot a couple of club level matches. Started hunting two seasons ago and managed to connect on my first white tail this year. I've had a couple factory rifles and semi customs come and go, and just finished putting together my first mid/high end rifle. Looking to take the competition game a little more seriously this year, and spend more days in the field and mountains chasing upland with my dog, and game with my buddies.
I've got a fundamentals refresher course lined up and my load workup is nearly done for the new barrel. Big focus this year on cold bore, small target, first round hits. Going to try and make as many local (within 6 hours, Alberta is funny like that) matches as I can. I'm a half minute shooter on my belly, hands loads are generally single digit SD. Learning more and more about my Kestrel, and I've gone all the way back to the beginning of the EDS podcast. Will take a stab at truing my BC out to 800m over the next couple weeks.
I've got a pretty lofty goal of 1 mile by May, when I'll have access to the range and some world class spotters. Will be back to lean on you guys about how to best get there (.264, thinking ELD-M 130 or Scenar 136 with some RL17)
I've been on some less than stellar forums and message boards, the Hide seems like they generally have their shh together, happy to be on this side of the fence.
Cheers,
