Townsville 600 yards - today

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woob614271
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Townsville 600 yards - today

Post by woob614271 »

An interesting shoot this arvo; bitching mirage to start with around noon;(the big bore shooters before us couldn't see the markers @ 700 yards!) and then the wind kicked in; switched from 5 0'clock around to 10 o'clock with speeds from minimal to 25+ mph. Didn't stop TonyZ putting down a sub 2 incher with the light rifle early in the arvo, then aJR blitzed a sub 1.4" with that big heavy gun of his: scored 50 3X on that one. As we shoot two details of 5 shots each on each target (saving munny) the final 10 shots would have fallen well under 4' I suspect; didn't see the final outcome as I had to bolt off home.
Everyone (all 8 shooters) were caught at one time or another while lazybones didn't get the Ackky ready in time.
Fly next Saturday morning; maybe I can get things organarsed by then.
aJR might post some piccies if he's feeling good.
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Post by albow »

As indicated by Woob, today was saw the last 600yd match for the year shot here in Townsville with conditions proving to be rather challenging.

Even with these conditions there were a number of range records set being highest single card score in HG by JR @ 54, highest single card score LG by myself (albow) @ 53 and small group for HG by Tony Z @ 1.350.

Final Results for the day were:

Light Gun Score

albow - 193
Eric G - 178
Tony Z - 174

Light Gun Group

albow - 4.964"
Eric G - 5.295
Tony Z - 5.536

Heavy Gun Score

Tony Z - 188
JR - 158

Heavy Gun Group

Tony Z - 3.524
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Apologies to you, Albow; stupid didn't pay attention, did he?
Bloody great shooting under those conditions, all of you!
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Post by albow »

JR I would like to say thanks for using such a democratic approach with the vote :lol: :lol: seriously though I am looking forward to being more involved next year.

For all other areas shooting long range get the 600yd into your calendar for next year as this is one shoot that you can compete in even with a factory rifle and still post pretty good scores unlike the Fly which is a less forgiving target.

If you are looking for any information on what has been done this year then get in touch with myself or JR and we will be more than happy to help out in any way we can.
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