been to the range.

[curan]

Yeah, but every PB is a little personal milestone, and I know how good it feels.

[sometime shooter]

Good job mate I' getting an ichy trigger finger, picked my rifle up on Friday night but has been bloody shit weather here over the last couple of days and some minor problems to work through so still have to run the new barrel in. Oh well better to do it right the first time than stuff it up right.

[LoneRider]

yes on both counts.
loving pb's and do the job right or you get problems

[stinkitup]

what action and barrel are you running?? I would love to make an F open rifle on a improved 6.5 x 55. I remember a day down in Canberra when I was shooting silhouette and a bloke was sighting in a Ackley version with some handloads that he got with the rifle which were 125 partitions and they were really hooting along. In my old Howa with a 22 inch barrel went as high as 51 grains of 09 behind a 120 Taipan but that was the max load wasn't accurate.

Just noticed this response sorry.. I run 42 of 09 in my old swede with the 140 ssts you mentioned before and they are pretty damn good for a hunting projectile shot a fly with it and the old 3-9 and when I finally put them on paper it was pretty good group of 4 really .

Guys in the states have played with reloader powders and getting over 3200 with 140's sadly NIOA say they aren't bringing it in,rl26 I think it is. Got me going again so need to load up some more for the savage as I think I can run more 2213sc safely.

[LoneRider]

another good day had.
800yrds
no real wind,nice sunny day.
mirage running right to left at 10/11 o'clock.
another PB
92.8
pretty happy with it.

700 next week.

[pavlovaw]

Nice shooting LoneRider.
A PB for myself on Saturday as well. Had a new Lilja heavy tapered profile barrel fitted to one of my Barnard actions for Fclass nearly 2 years ago. Finally got enough time off work and decent weather to do proper load development. We had 12 shooters out on the Saturday for 500 yards, a mixture of fullbore and F-standard. I happened to be the only one to shoot not only a possible but a double possible in flicky winds with a 60.6 and 60.2.

[LoneRider]

nice goin mate....
we got the big "gem shoot" on shortly,thatll be an eye opener for me.
expecting 40+ shooters
http://www.qldrifle.com/images/Calendar ... lds_PM.pdf
there will be C class fullbore... it wasnt added to that flyer for some reason
on the flyer for contacts,im afraid eric oliver will not be available.so all enquiries will be to rob crozier.

[LoneRider]

700yrds
nice sunny morning.
wind does funny things here,mirage is the same.

got a 94.2.
pb for this distance.

600 next week.

[sometime shooter]

FINALLY got to run my barrel in on Friday and Saturday morning and do a little bit of load development.
45.5 grns of 08 not bad but a bit of vertical 45.7 and tight 45.9 started to open up a bit but could have been me.
Anyway came back loaded up 30 or so rounds in case I needed a few to get on target at 800 yards.
First sighter a high 4 ensued, wind down and a low 4 ensued, hmm split the difference and 6 ring for 1st scorer.
Wind and mirage up and down for the first stage, missed a mirage change and a 4 which hurt 55.3 for the first stage.
Second Stage second last down the mirage has gone the wind picked up but stay'd pretty constant first sighter 6 second sighter X so two on. Finished up with a 58.1 so pretty happy with that as so far still have only put 40 rounds through the barrel. Load is pretty mild but not need to open it up for a little while.

[LoneRider]

im running 46 of 08 for 700 yrds and up.
ill drop that back to 45.5 for 3,5 and 600 yrds.
win cases,155gn dia pills.

[sometime shooter]

Yeah I was running up to 46.1 of 08 in the old barrel. Not going to push it just yet not for a couple of hundred rounds, read an article where he does load development at 700 rounds after the barrel is run in and has settled down. I started with 45.5 in the old 28 inch barrel and that was good out to 900 yards so an extra 2 inch's and a bit more powder should be fine.

[pavlovaw]

I was having trouble getting 2208 to be consistent in 2 barrels I have. One Krieger done 800 rounds and a Lilja done 200 rounds. Switched to 2206H and everything is good. Shot a 120.8 at 500 last week and then this week at 600 shot another PB of 120.6 so can't complain with the load performance of 2206H. Will be trying it in any other barrel I get from now on. If the wind wasn't so flicky I think the X count would have been better.

[LoneRider]

thats not bad goin mate.

[sometime shooter]

Wow nice going still chasing that first possible little alone a double possible. Will probably try some 06h at some stage. See what happens will be a few weeks again before I get to shoot a match, with a shut down this weekend and away the week after won't be back until 300 then away again in Canberra but might be able to shoot 300 metres at Canberra before the NSW Queens.

[LoneRider]

another fun day today.
grass was blowin left to right and away.
flags were blowin right to left and away.
red flag at the butts was blowin left to right and away.
and the mirage was going straight up.
and that was just the first half hr....

got an 87.3.
low scores were the order of the day.

fun,fun,fun.....

oh yeah,i even got the lucky spot. [dead centre]