New Contest Starting Now! This Target Haunts Me

[37L1]

Still a good day but dammit!

 

[LeftyJason]

I thought the prime subsonic was supposed to be good for 22lr. Bought a case of 5k years ago.

 

[Maggot]

I have certainly also failed to reset my turrets.....but I'm trying to develop it as a structured discipline.

I've taken clinics with Frank and Marc and have watched Frank shoot....after last shot the bolt comes back, the mag is dropped, and turrets reset to zero....every time. You can see it in his training vids.

Working on that as well. Sucks to see youre careful shot go 100 yds high.

 

[db2000]

 

[edlin_79]

I always clear, then drop the hammer/pull the trigger on my pistols and rifles when I pick them up, ready for the next mag, condition 2, whatever you want to call it. Safely pointed as has been habit forever. I got off deployment and hadn't picked one up in a while and just woke up for a match, because of a late night at work I was really drowsy. I pulled my Comp pistol (Springfield XDM) out of the safe, immediately dropped the mag and thought I had cleared it. I didn't look good enough. Shot at the concrete on my garage floor and now there is a reminder forever of my stupidity. This contest may not have been designed for this kind of entry post but nonetheless that shot haunts me, and it definitely was "the one that got away."

 

[Steeltalon]

I am a novice, self taught, big game hunter in CO. So far, I am one-for-five, taking an adorable 2-point buck @330 yds my second year. Until last year, I had never even seen a hunt-able bull elk, let alone get it in my sights. That all changed when I spotted a bachelor group the day before season. On the sixth day, I found them again with 30-40 minutes of shooting light left. Despite my best efforts, the closest I could get was about 675 yds. I have a great rifle, but I was using factory ammo and using the velocity printed on the box. When it came time to take the shot, I sailed it at least 2ft over the animal. My best shot at a great bull, missed because I was using "best-guess" ballistics. It turns out my MV was roughly 350fps faster than I calculated.
Never again.
In the mean time I've invested in an education, a chrono, and a couple grand in reloading supplies (Thank you Armory, Reloading, & Buy-sell-trade forums). Now I'm ringing a 10" gong at 1000 yds consistently.

This fall, they're going to have to hide a lot better and stay further away.

 

[UNRL Ghandi]

Was shooting in an NRA 600 yard FTR match with my GAP Hospitaller .308. Was shooting the first string of the 2nd relay and the wind died down and I started hammering the x-ring (3" diameter). Had always wanted to get a clean 100 score for a 10-shot string and just missed the 10 ring by maybe 1/16" on my 3rd shot. It was right on the line but scored a 9. Don't have the target but kept my scorecard. Was still pretty happy with the 8x shots out of 10 but that 9 haunts me. This was the same match I got my first cold bore x-ring hit, which was another goal of mine.

 

[Stjames9]

I want to say something compelling or perhaps profound, but too often I find myself just to big a jackass to have the desired effect…
I want to sigh
I want to cry
But the reality is is that I just have a bad flinch on my second shot…
Or I get confident and pull the shot to quickly…
Most the time I can call when the shot is bad the second it leaves the barrel, kinda like when you drink too much and say some dumb stuff you regret later… but there’s something that stings with consistency of my second shot being a loner

Perhaps it’s a metaphor for my impatience
Perhaps it’s a deep reflection I’m supposed to have about life’s imperfect nature
Maybe there’s a lesson to be learned about expectations…
It could also be that my pride tells me I’m a good shooter but the target tells me I’m not… that’s probably it… I like the life imperfection metaphor idea better though so I’m gonna embrace that and spout it out like in proverbs, as a dog that returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly. Maybe I can blame shift my failures on the wind, perhaps the brand of my rifle shall be the holder of the blame…

I will never know the depths of insanity I will approach to convince myself that this is okay, that I can accept the second shot…

Aaanyways if you suffered that this was shot with a pws mk218 6.5 creedmoor