MRPC Air Gun Competition

The weather man was wrong. Who knew. The day warmed up, but the wind continued to blow. Left, right, to us, away from us... Tough conditions to sort out changing a scope at 90 yards as I switched back to the Viper PST for 24X magnification and a first focal plane (FFP) view of the MOA reticle (switching it off the 30 caliber FX Bobcat of George's onto the TM1000 25 cal). Thankfully left to right was good, just a 20 MOA holdover to get to 90 yards. While the club rules allow 25's to shoot at 80 (while the 30's shoot at 90), I chose to shoot at 90 yards. No excuses!

In addition to the wind the shooters at one end (the 30 cal section, including me) had to shoot without the benefit of the cover. The high winds on the 14th tore off the tarp completely.

After (from the other end)

So, scope change. Wind. Missing tarp. Well why not try to use the camera and collect video of the shots. Bad idea. The sun made seeing the screen difficult, and the angle of the targets actually created shadows.

My next mistake (which I corrected when I shot targets 3 and 4) was I should have pulled a patch through the barrel before I got started. The intense wind made it hard to verify the source of larger groups. Was I missing the conditions that bad? Well I went from shooting a groups which were not good to getting 90 out of 100 and 4 bulls eyes after cleaning the barrel. Almost everyone else went down in score because the conditions worsened.

So I tried to do too many things. But had a lot of fun, the chile was great, and I got a lot of good wind reading experience.

Check out the very short You Tube video to see if you prefer side by side or Movie-in-Movie formats from the dual video I captured.

Gun I was shooting:
-TM1000 with 3 groove benchmark barrel
-JSB 25 cal Kings (head size sorted with a Lead Head), HBN coated
-Vortex Viper PST (next time you see me it will have my Nightforce on it)
-Rempel bipod with angled adapter

Sam