The best laid plans... Nick and I headed to Descanso this morning, intentions were to shoot the .30 Safari at some spinners at various yardages, then shoot at least two competition EBR cards at close to 100 yards. After that I had planned on getting some trigger time with my .30 Vulcan2 Tactic in KYL and Speed.
Well, we got to Descanso around 9AM and it was COLD and WINDY... I thought it would get warmer and calm down, but no dice. So while Nick was zeroing in the .22 FX Bobcat I had rebuilt and tuned, I set out some spinners and targets for the Safari. I shot about two fills, and then decided to shoot the EBR card. Farthest I could get was 96 yards. As I was setting up the temperature dropped and wind picked up. It was 11 mph with gusts to 20 when I started.
And being a California boy, I wussed out after three groups of five shots at 96 yards with the JSB 50.1 at approx. 850 FPS. Wind was blowing left to right, but gusts were from over my left shoulder, making it difficult to read the wind. So here you go. Pretty good, and with conditions that were worse than either 75 yard or 100 yard day at EBR this year. I can tell you that the 50.1s are notably better in the wind than the 44.75s that we all tend to shoot... The Daystate Safari performed flawlessly, very consistent, great trigger, and very easy to shoot off the picnic table with a front bipod and rear bag. Third group it really started blowing over 20 mph and two shots got away from me, but what can you do? Scope was 18x.
Nick and I decided after the short hour session that it was time to head home, and live to shoot another day. Perhaps tomorrow in El Cajon if conditions are tolerable...
Well, we got to Descanso around 9AM and it was COLD and WINDY... I thought it would get warmer and calm down, but no dice. So while Nick was zeroing in the .22 FX Bobcat I had rebuilt and tuned, I set out some spinners and targets for the Safari. I shot about two fills, and then decided to shoot the EBR card. Farthest I could get was 96 yards. As I was setting up the temperature dropped and wind picked up. It was 11 mph with gusts to 20 when I started.
And being a California boy, I wussed out after three groups of five shots at 96 yards with the JSB 50.1 at approx. 850 FPS. Wind was blowing left to right, but gusts were from over my left shoulder, making it difficult to read the wind. So here you go. Pretty good, and with conditions that were worse than either 75 yard or 100 yard day at EBR this year. I can tell you that the 50.1s are notably better in the wind than the 44.75s that we all tend to shoot... The Daystate Safari performed flawlessly, very consistent, great trigger, and very easy to shoot off the picnic table with a front bipod and rear bag. Third group it really started blowing over 20 mph and two shots got away from me, but what can you do? Scope was 18x.
Nick and I decided after the short hour session that it was time to head home, and live to shoot another day. Perhaps tomorrow in El Cajon if conditions are tolerable...
