AV get together in Victoria 18th 19th and 20th July

[The Raven]

ARRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Bad week, getting worse.

If I don't get to this trip I'm going to snap!

My Friday departure date is now dependent on an sudden/urgent meeting that I'm required to be at, but not contribute to.
I'm trying to nail down when this meeting will be, but so far no-one can agree...

I will be there Fri arvo one way or another. The later I am, the worse my mood will be

Good news is the Mk 1 bench is finished.

[trevort]

anyone allergic to dogs?

[mick_762]

anyone allergic to dogs?

Only wild ones mate, they tend to sneeze and their lungs fall out when hit with high velocity copper and lead.

[The Raven]

anyone allergic to dogs?

Not allergic to dogs.

BTW I'll be leaving Melb mid-morning. Should be there around midday.

[kickinback]

Have a great weekend fellas. Very jealous.

[The Raven]

More through luck than good planning, I should be on my way in a hour or two. No meetings!

Just loading the car and getting some supplies.

Looking at the weather.....sounds like some wood chopping is in order.

[trevort]

Oops running late as usual, just leaving 0400594084 if you need me

[Camel]

Well, I am very disappointed that I couldn't make it down Trev, maybe next time mate. Hope you blokes have a top weekend. Knowing Trev, there will be a good sized fire on the next couple of nights, and by the feel of the wind coming from that way today, you will need it. Enjoy yourselves kiddies.

[trevort]

well I like port. But two maybe 3 max little tiny port glasses is enough to start getting sickening, must be my body's way of protecting itself.
So Mick had a 5ltr flagon of really nice port and I had plastic WINE glasses and since it tasted so nice I thought I would have a beer between ports so it wouldnt get sickening. What a really really bad idea it is try to out smart your body's defences. Worst hangover for a long time

But thats the bad bit over

Nice to have met Raven Mick762 and Glen.

Glen, the gong frame had two more holes in it. I think we all had the windage right as the furrows that started up to 50m before the gong were in line with it!

Raven took a few shots to dial it in but we were all impressed with him pinging the truck brake drum at 215m with his 22.

I had a go with Mick's cooper 243, nice rilfe but it had us baffled. I put three shots into 1 hole at 100m but the hole was half inch high and half inch right. Mick thought it was sighted an inch and a half high. Then he fired 2 shots one each on either side of the vertical black cross thru the target an inch high. so I tried and put two more shots in between his to make a four shot big hole spot on windage wise an inch high. How does that happen?

The gong I have in a tree I paced out at 350m, pleased to have it confirmed at 352m with a range finder. It took a bit of a hammering.

None of us will represent Australia at clay target shooting.

a 6.5x47L recoils more than I thought it would, but once again, nice rifle Glen

And the hole in those 9.3 ACPs is very impressive!!

We have to do it again and hopefully see some more gongs and more blokes ( and less port for me)

[MISSED]

Sounds good I reckon a trip to Mexitoria will be on the cards next time.

[glen]

Thanks for the invite.Had a blast,And it was good to meet you all.

[trevort]

Even though I managed to break Glen's magnetospeed (sorry Glen) a cable tie got it back in the game. I found out the JAB does push a 39sbk at 3800fps ( well that was before I broke it so it was consistent with only a few fps between slowest and fastest.

My 6/250 does 3500fps according to Magnetospeed whereas when I last checked with a chrono I remember 3600

the 257 wby was going at 3663 and then it started going faster with each shot until it got to 3727, more recoil was sliding the thing slowly further down the barrel so that shows that where you place it may make a difference to measured speed

[mick_762]

As Glen said,
Thanks for the invitation and it was well worth the 880 km round trip.

As for the cooper, well it beats the shit outta me what was going on, so any feedback from anyone would be appreciated.

Mick

[trevort]

Only photos before the battery died

[stinkitup]

Different shooters with position and eyes. I shoot myartini to an inch high my brother who is a lefty shoots it low or something so can be weird. The only other thing is scope issues maybe?