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Centercut

Centercut

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Decided to shoot at 75 yards off plastic laundry folding table, cheapo bipod and rear rest. About 90 deg in El Cajon, CA, winds averaging 6 mph varying direction. I shrunk down the EBR target so I could fit four on a normal size paper. I think 60% of normal size, but not sure. The bottom 2 groups of targets were with .25 Vulcan Tactic JSB Kings, and most of the top 2 groups of targets were with .22 Cricket mini Carbine with 18.1 JSB Heavy. All are at least five shots, some more than that. Once I hit first shot I didn’t change aim point and just allowed the winds to move the pellet. I shot a couple sighters at the Extreme Benchrest logo at bottom of each. The .30 FX Bobcat is apart in my workshop undergoing a little tuning and TLC. Not too bad but I’ll need to do better to place at EBR. 

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Not bad off a plastic laundry table, lol Imagine the possibilities when you hit the concrete benches
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Thanks. I shoot off that portable plastic laundry clothes folding table all the time. Gotta hold the bench and gun steady when you shoot. ;). 

At least at EBR everyone gets to shoot off solid cement tables. At RMAC the Sportsmen had the privilege of shooting off slightly wobbly wooden tables while the Pros shot off cement. ;(


 
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Not bad off a plastic laundry table, lol Imagine the possibilities when you hit the concrete benches
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Thanks. I shoot off that portable plastic laundry clothes folding table all the time. Gotta hold the bench and gun steady when you shoot. ;). 

At least at EBR everyone gets to shoot off solid cement tables. At RMAC the Sportsmen had the privilege of shooting off slightly wobbly wooden tables while the Pros shot off cement. ;(

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HAHA Hey I'm not sure what having a solid rest is like at all, some of my best groups have been from grandmas 100 year old paper "card table" 
 
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Those are awesome groups certainly. Imagine how stable you will be shooting off of a cement bench. If you get good at staying stable on a wobbly table everything else will seem super easy I’ll bet. I shoot off of a fairly stable wooden bench using the same bags at the same targets. When I use a wobbly surface or a branch or lean on a tree l can’t do very well at all! I’m a really good shot...but only at my bench with no wind lol! And it’s humbling to be able to shoot an inch at 100 yards from the bench... and then miss the starling at 25 yards because I can’t hold still enough!
 
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Centercut - I just pulled my targets at 75y from a couple days ago. They are very close to EBR targets (I forgot to include the width of the lines in the circle diameter, still within a MM to the 7 ring). I posted the target a few weeks ago but can send to you if you PM your email.

I think I did pretty good on this one.... Not my best eyeballed score and I use the 'inside' scoring approach, not sure how that's actually done at EBR/RMAC/PACup. Still the groups are better than the targets with better scoring. My red ink bleeds like crazy in the humidity so pardon the 'bleed'. 

5 shots per target. Splatter is from the AR plates mounted below the target area.



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That’s a score that would qualify you for the 100 yard finals Sunday morning. Good shooting! My targets are all shrunk down to 60% of regulation size, I could measure them. The 4 ring on mine is about 3 inches diameter not 5.125 which is the regulation size. The bottom row of 4 targets would most certainly qualify for the finals, not so much for the other 3 rows I did shoot the bottom row first with the .25 Vulcan Tactic with 25.4 grain JSB Kings at about 890 FPS. I always shoot bottom to top.

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Thanks Bill. Now I'm really feeling the pressure~! ;) 

The Bobcat has been acting up ever since it broke at RMAC. And even though I've got it working OK, it just doesn't feel the same, like its no longer "in tune" like it was for the past two years prior and like it was when I (almost, except for a rookie mistake) won the Saguaro Classic 100 yard BR near Tucson AZ in late March 2019. 

I had a slow leak and replaced all O-rings and seals, and also re-built the Huma, plus replaced the valve seat and valve pin. The one I replaced it with I think was slightly larger in inner diameter than the one that came with the gun, so even with the same reg. pressure it was shooting around 895 to 905 FPS (I had it set in the past to approx. 880 FPS), and its hard to describe, but didn't feel like it used to (if you've shot thousands of rounds through the same gun you know what I mean). So I backed off the HST until it was shooting around 885 or so, but it still didn't feel (or sound) "just right". 

So I removed the Huma and backed off pressure from 165 to 160 bar, and then backed off the HST a few turns until it was right around 875 to 880 FPS. Now it feels like things are coming together, but I haven't had it at 100 (or even 75) yards yet. Before when it was in perfect tune it would shoot four 9 shot magazines from a 250 bar fill, and still have enough for 4 shots until it fell off reg., so about 40 shots. 

I'll know for sure this weekend if its back in top form. Fingers crossed.
 
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