jackie schmidt
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As most already know, I had a pretty good time in Midland. I will be the first to admitt that last night, I sort of crashed. We spent the night in San Antonio, got to see my Wife (who is staying with a hospitolized friend), we drove in to Houston today.
I really appreciate all the calls and e-mails I have recieved. Any one who shoots Benchrest, (or is involved in any other competitive endevour), knows that an opportunity to do something really special does not come along very often. Fortunatly, Saturday, such an opportunity presented its self to me.
And almost by pure accident. I had shot one of my 6PPC's Saturday Morning in the LV 100, and was in 2d after four groups, but the darned thing went .400 verticle on me in match 5, and I dropped quite a bit. I was a tad frustrated so I decided "what the heck, I'll shoot my HV 30BR in the HV 100".
Well, that turned out to be a good decision. Since it was a little cool because of the heavy overcast, I decided to just add about .3 of 4198 to the load.
By pure, luck, or what ever, I hit on the best tune I have ever had on a Rifle. The darned thing was simply shooting into one hole. Even though the wind was blowing pretty hard, and switching pretty fast, there was a slight just off straight coming at us left to right that the Rifle Combo just ate up. I had enough time to hit that condition 25 times during the entire match as it would come around and settle. The results speak for themselves.
I have been fooling with 30 calibers about 2 years now, and from the begining, I have always believed that as far as the ability to shoot small groups, it is the equal of anything. Being able to shoot competitive aggs in the Competitive Arena is a different matter. I have now shot it in enough group matches, (Bluebonnet, and Crawfish), to know that the capability is certainly there.
Saturday proved beyond a doubt that a good shooting 30 caliber is indeed capable of shooting in the Group Format. Not only because it did so well Saturday Morning, but the Rifle also won the HV 200 Sunday Morning in some REALLY crummy conditions.
And, I kept with, (what is becoming), the practice of not cleaning the Rifle during either agg.
Of course, everybody wants to know the particulars of the Rifle. The barrel is a 18 twist Krieger, cut to 23 inches. It has my chamber, which is a modified Robinette, in that it is about .050 longer in the trim to length. This is a product of the way we make our brass, that being that we blow it out instead of necking it up. This allows the brass to retain much of the originol 6BR length, on top of being dead on straight, ready to turn. hence I had a reamer ground to suite. Zero free bore, .330 neck. We have discussed this at length on the Forum in the past.
The stock is a Robertson BRX, the action is one of my Farley right bolt left port models from the late 90's. It has a March 50x sitting on top.
I shoot BIB 112 grn FB 7 ogive bullets, pushed with a load of 4198 that yeilds a velocity in the neighborhood of 3020 fps.
I really appreciate all of the congratulations from everybody, the targets and backers are in the hands of the officials of the NBRSA. I do hope that they score as well as they were measured at the Match.
And, I am sure glad I took my 30BR to Midland............jackie
I really appreciate all the calls and e-mails I have recieved. Any one who shoots Benchrest, (or is involved in any other competitive endevour), knows that an opportunity to do something really special does not come along very often. Fortunatly, Saturday, such an opportunity presented its self to me.
And almost by pure accident. I had shot one of my 6PPC's Saturday Morning in the LV 100, and was in 2d after four groups, but the darned thing went .400 verticle on me in match 5, and I dropped quite a bit. I was a tad frustrated so I decided "what the heck, I'll shoot my HV 30BR in the HV 100".
Well, that turned out to be a good decision. Since it was a little cool because of the heavy overcast, I decided to just add about .3 of 4198 to the load.
By pure, luck, or what ever, I hit on the best tune I have ever had on a Rifle. The darned thing was simply shooting into one hole. Even though the wind was blowing pretty hard, and switching pretty fast, there was a slight just off straight coming at us left to right that the Rifle Combo just ate up. I had enough time to hit that condition 25 times during the entire match as it would come around and settle. The results speak for themselves.
I have been fooling with 30 calibers about 2 years now, and from the begining, I have always believed that as far as the ability to shoot small groups, it is the equal of anything. Being able to shoot competitive aggs in the Competitive Arena is a different matter. I have now shot it in enough group matches, (Bluebonnet, and Crawfish), to know that the capability is certainly there.
Saturday proved beyond a doubt that a good shooting 30 caliber is indeed capable of shooting in the Group Format. Not only because it did so well Saturday Morning, but the Rifle also won the HV 200 Sunday Morning in some REALLY crummy conditions.
And, I kept with, (what is becoming), the practice of not cleaning the Rifle during either agg.
Of course, everybody wants to know the particulars of the Rifle. The barrel is a 18 twist Krieger, cut to 23 inches. It has my chamber, which is a modified Robinette, in that it is about .050 longer in the trim to length. This is a product of the way we make our brass, that being that we blow it out instead of necking it up. This allows the brass to retain much of the originol 6BR length, on top of being dead on straight, ready to turn. hence I had a reamer ground to suite. Zero free bore, .330 neck. We have discussed this at length on the Forum in the past.
The stock is a Robertson BRX, the action is one of my Farley right bolt left port models from the late 90's. It has a March 50x sitting on top.
I shoot BIB 112 grn FB 7 ogive bullets, pushed with a load of 4198 that yeilds a velocity in the neighborhood of 3020 fps.
I really appreciate all of the congratulations from everybody, the targets and backers are in the hands of the officials of the NBRSA. I do hope that they score as well as they were measured at the Match.
And, I am sure glad I took my 30BR to Midland............jackie
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As stated in my earlier post (the other thread), don't forget to pat the guy in your mirror on the back - that was some GREAT condition doping and execution on his part!