I have been wanting to shoot in competitions for a while and finally did my first two today. First was a NRA High Power match shooting in the Sportsman class with my RD Precision rifle described here: http://www.snipershide.com/forum/ubbthre...378#Post1251378
Nothing amazing to report on the High Power match really. I shot 423 points with 4x's out of 500 possible points which put me 3rd place overall out of 11 shooters (including a High Master) and I won the Sportsman class. On the good side I didn't hit anything lower than a 7 and surely would have shot significantly better with a sling. Shooting that rifle with a heavy contour barrel in standing, sitting, and prone unsupported with no sling is not very easy.
After the High Power match was done, we rolled into a informal Sniper match. Course of fire was 6 bonus shots to get 2 hits on steel discs at 200 and 300 yards (I was the only person to hit both with my first shots); followed by two iterations of: shooting 3 bullets at 1" pasters at 100 yards for 1 point per hit; shooting 3 bullets at 1" pasters at 200 yards for 2 points per hit; and then 3 shots shooting at the 1" paster "eye" on the left of the 300 yard silhouette for 3 points per hit with head shots still worth 1 point.
I ended up winning the Sniper match with a score of 37 points which was definitely cool, especially since that means I get to shoot my next match for free.
Here is the crazy part though: the first iteration of shooting the 300 yard range I had never shot that rifle with that ammo (175 gr Black Hills Match) at that distance so I was guessing on data. We finished the first iteration and went down range to check everyones targets where we were all pretty shocked to find this on my 300 yard target:
A group which measures .586", minus .308" bullet diameter, divided by 3 for being at 300 yards and we end up with a .092 moa group. I am not even going to try to beat this group, but am definitely saving the target. Surely a once in a lifetime deal but a pleasant surprise none the less. The High Power director took a picture of it and said something about putting it on the shooting club's website which is cool since I'm not even a part of the club yet.
My next group at 300 (in the following photo) was a more normal 2.370"-.308"/3= 0.69 moa which isn't too shabby. At least I was able to make corrections off my first group and hit the left eye for more points than I got for my tiny group.
Before I have to hear it I know this isn't the Hide standard of 5 shots for 5 groups for accuracy testing. I openly admit this was a fluke and will happily chalk it up to a fair bit of luck and will always give credit to Randy for the outstanding work he did building this rifle. Still though, it was pretty damned cool. And for those of you who want to throw the BS flag, feel free to blast away on this thread and PM me. I will be happy to put you in touch with the High Power director for confirmation or denial.
Nothing amazing to report on the High Power match really. I shot 423 points with 4x's out of 500 possible points which put me 3rd place overall out of 11 shooters (including a High Master) and I won the Sportsman class. On the good side I didn't hit anything lower than a 7 and surely would have shot significantly better with a sling. Shooting that rifle with a heavy contour barrel in standing, sitting, and prone unsupported with no sling is not very easy.
After the High Power match was done, we rolled into a informal Sniper match. Course of fire was 6 bonus shots to get 2 hits on steel discs at 200 and 300 yards (I was the only person to hit both with my first shots); followed by two iterations of: shooting 3 bullets at 1" pasters at 100 yards for 1 point per hit; shooting 3 bullets at 1" pasters at 200 yards for 2 points per hit; and then 3 shots shooting at the 1" paster "eye" on the left of the 300 yard silhouette for 3 points per hit with head shots still worth 1 point.
I ended up winning the Sniper match with a score of 37 points which was definitely cool, especially since that means I get to shoot my next match for free.
Here is the crazy part though: the first iteration of shooting the 300 yard range I had never shot that rifle with that ammo (175 gr Black Hills Match) at that distance so I was guessing on data. We finished the first iteration and went down range to check everyones targets where we were all pretty shocked to find this on my 300 yard target:
A group which measures .586", minus .308" bullet diameter, divided by 3 for being at 300 yards and we end up with a .092 moa group. I am not even going to try to beat this group, but am definitely saving the target. Surely a once in a lifetime deal but a pleasant surprise none the less. The High Power director took a picture of it and said something about putting it on the shooting club's website which is cool since I'm not even a part of the club yet.
My next group at 300 (in the following photo) was a more normal 2.370"-.308"/3= 0.69 moa which isn't too shabby. At least I was able to make corrections off my first group and hit the left eye for more points than I got for my tiny group.
Before I have to hear it I know this isn't the Hide standard of 5 shots for 5 groups for accuracy testing. I openly admit this was a fluke and will happily chalk it up to a fair bit of luck and will always give credit to Randy for the outstanding work he did building this rifle. Still though, it was pretty damned cool. And for those of you who want to throw the BS flag, feel free to blast away on this thread and PM me. I will be happy to put you in touch with the High Power director for confirmation or denial.
