Re: For the Houston FTR shooters
WTF: Thanks Joe. I finished the "official" scores yesterday, they should be going out via email during the day today.
jiwilliams: 300 Win Mag? You're going over to the dark side (F-Open) now? You are going to play with guys like Marc Walker and their fancy-schamsy 7mm rifles? And here I thought you liked us F-TRashers.
Yeah, the math says one thing and the reality says something else. Who knew? Just remember, that in theory, everything works.
I have heard enough bullets going by at 1000 yards over the years to know when bullets are coming out of warp speed. Some of your shots were definitely subsonic, but the bullets were stable; no keyholes. There were a couple times when you guys had to call for a mark, and I had not heard the bullet. The impact of your bullets moved very little dirt and it was still damp, so it was hard to detect at times. I do remember a few of your shots were actually as loud as "normal" supersonic shots are, and it those cases, the hits were high on the target. As I said before the range of the hits was quite wide. I think you were shooting factory Federal GMM ammo, is that correct?
At any rate, I thought you did quite well in spite of the short barrel and the ammo. The wind was quite wicked for matches 2 and 3 and it got me several times.
On the second match after my third round for record came up an X, I detected in my spotting scope that the mirage had turned completely around and was now coming from the left just before I was going to shoot #4. The flags showed wind from the right but they were dropping. So, I said to myself "good catch, make sure to hold left of the target, the switch has just occured." So I held 3 lines to the left and broke the shot.
That's when you scored my shot as a 6, almost a 5, perfectly on the waterline a 9 o'clock. I had not shot a 6 for record in a few years.
My spotting scope was focused on the wrong distance and the wind that mattered was still going right to left and I detected the wrong mirage.
Just when you think you have it figured out...
