Conditions today were 30-50kph constantly fishtailing headwinds- something we have been getting alot of for F class as well. Very easy to get carded as our first shooter found out. Dave Kerr is one of the nations more successful benchrest shooters and his 50lb heavy gun 300WSM got blown clean off. On the other hand some of the f class guys with their 308's did amazingly well. Doug Goldsworthy took out Std class and would have cleaned up the LG and HG guys as well with his 308 mauser that has seen in excess of 10,000 rounds we believe. Not sure whats going on there! HG wise there was 300WSM and 7SAUM, LG had a 6BRX, 6.5x47L and 260AI and all standard rifles were 308's. To make it try and run a bit smoother, everyone shot blind which had no complaints anyway. Yours truly didnt get to fire a shot, I figured with the club new to it all, someone needed to put a day in getting there a couple of hours earlier to get everything laid out and ready to go, was a good idea. We got a good rotation of scorers going so people are getting experienced there and another shooter took over RO duties at the end of the day for a relay as well so fingers crossed a few more people will step up and I can get some rounds downrange.
A couple of pictures as well.
Dave Kerr and his 300WSM BAT
Brett Bunyan and his 260AI "Rolle" (remington with stolle style sleeve)
Bob Kinnear 7SAUM BAT
Graham Oates 308 Remington
Charlie Thomas 308 Barnard having some difficulty with a firing pin- gun was retired from the range.
Bill Hallam 308 Milennium- this gun does alot of winning in the f class std division here. His group showed. Very flat on elevation.
Results are up in the relevant forum.
