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Why are lube and sweat always in the conversation, you philistine?

I did some more tuning yesterday to see if a lower speed node would group better at 50 yards. This months course of fire has a lot of small targets from 43 to 65 yards, so I want to focus on the closer shots even if I give up a little accuracy at 100 yards. My method was to start at the most...

The Abilene match was a success if the goal was to see how the RAW shoots in terrible, swirly, West Texas winds. On paper, it was a failure, but the score card doesn't tell the whole story. I've never shot well at Abilene mostly due to the wind, which is why I keep going back. I shot a 321...

If I had a gun that shot slightly left at 50 and slightly right at 100, I would be confused as well. That sounds like more of a scope issue than a gun issue. What I'm seeing is 1-1.5 MOA groups at 50 yards and .7-.9 MOA groups at 100 yards and beyond. When I have time, I'm going to try to...

it was shooting a little high, so the next lowest cross hatch under each group was the aim point. I like to shoot two 5 shot groups instead of one 10 shot group so that the wind will have less chance of blowing a group up.

I've thought about it, but I would probably be shooting the same weight of slugs in .25, so I'm not sure there's any point in changing right now. The BCs are the same, and I don't want to go through another round of slug testing.

Quick update. I went to a club where I'm going to shoot a PRS rimfire match tomorrow to check the dope on a new lot of rimfire ammo. This guy I know that used to be a good shooter (Hi Jeff) lent me a Tract Toric, so I brought the RAW to zero it. The RAW was hammering small targets from 100 to...

No, because there are no flags on a PRS or NRL course. Sometimes you get lucky with tall grass or trees, but no flags.

Not my most imaginative title, but I just mowed the yard in 100 degree heat, so I don't have the bandwidth to be clever. The background I've been competing in NRL22 for about a year and a half using a rimfire rifle. I qualified for the 2025 National Championship in Open class but I couldn't...

Mostly because I have 2 sleeves of 8.44, but also because I've shot 8.44 at 12 foot pounds for 10 years, so I'm familiar with the behavior. And I've only had one springer that likes the 10.3s, but I don't shoot that gun very often.

Math and science are great and all, but I would encourage you to deviate from the theoretical. Next time your are practicing with some wind, shoot 7.9s, 8.4s, 10.3s and 13.4s at a target. I won't spoil it for you, but you will learn something. You have control over your vertical hold (if you've...

Funny thing is Jeff and I can't even agree on what is considered an elevated target when we are setting out targets.

A couple of quick things to advance the conversation (not trying to stir anything up, just trying to get some perspective). If you PREFER to shoot with your eye 10 inches above the ground but you are forced to elevate your eye to 20 inches above the ground for 1 or 2 targets in a match, is that...

PaulNTX

Unless I'm mistaken, I think Paul used a Marauder that he converted to a pistol. He's not super active on here but he might chime in in a week or two.

Oh, this is an easy one. All words are made up. Actually I've heard campaign used this way in other shooting sports that originated in the UK, so I assume it's your run of the mill Anglo colonial-military knobbidness. We should ask David Slade, he put the "bidness" in "Anglo knobbidness".

I think Ken might have something to say about the Piston Rifle Championship, but Randy and Mark did great with the crutches. I wonder if Mark would have done better or worse if he hadn't broken his sticks after his last shot Saturday.

Here are some photos that sum up the shoot from my perspective (a bunch of folks standing around talking smack). There might have been some shooting as well, I wasn't really paying attention.

I should have taken a picture of Jeff climbing up there to get that target. Spoiler alert - he's alive.

Now that I have the scores entered, I can tell you that the lowest percentage non-positional targets today were the longer targets (Lane 1, far on lane 3, near on lane 15). Due to the swirly and gusty winds, that checks out. The kneeling lane was a struggle today, which is odd because it was...