Morning fog burned off with the sun. My rifle at the 100 yard line.
Check zero, first 5 rounds.
Some rifles on the line. My shooting partner was using the AR in .224V. There were 3 privately owned SSG3000, I call them kiss asses. Another shooter was using a Sig supplied loaner SSG3000. You can show up at Sig absolutely naked and they will provide everything to participate in class - no charge for loaner gear, you pay for expendables.
Zero after 15 rounds. I made a .1D/.1R adjustment.
Some other groups while other shooters sought zero...
A neat wind excercise, 5 rounds fired on a price tag. I went 2/5 and 3/5. Should have done better. Video of my 2 hit tag in motion.
My three hit tag. Four hits were recorded by 4 shooters.
The next picture was a pretty good exercise. You and your partner must use 5 shots to get a poker hand. First shooter gets in position on an empty gun. At go shooter gets up runs twenty yards, gets one bullet, runs back to gun, loads, than finds and fires at his chosen target card. After first shooter fires second shooter runs off gets a bullet and fires one round. Repeat until team has fired five rounds total.
We kind of cheated. The instructor said we would need to communicate to locate our target card. The cards at 100 yards are small, most of the reticle covers your card or if you zoom out you cant see the cards.
He didnt say we couldnt write on the paper so by writing x,y grids we could call out cards to each other and use the numbers as reference to place a hold.
Our intent was to get a hand of 4 Aces, K high.
I shot 1,1,
Partner went for 2,3 and neither of us was certain his round wasnt in the spade not seeing the hole at 1,4,
I took 4,3,
Partner had 7,3 but called it a miss so I went 7,3.
Wind was messing with his leetle bullets. Im not sure if the American Eagle variety ammo was best for his rifle. I guess there is limited choice in the .224V offerings.
We also did a few spotter/shooter comms excercises.
Spotter would designate a point of aim for the shooter than he would provide scope adjustments the shooter had to input to "drive" through a spotter chosen route across the grid paper.
We did well. It was tough with the single turn Premier, the "clicks" are so tight and the MTC caused a jump usually.
I had an "Ah, ha!" moment after the class and realized I made things too complicated and really could have made a mess out of this drill.
When spotter would give me "Dial, 2.6 mils, up", I was thinking "Okay, move up 26 clicks".
I should have just looked at what was on the scope say 1.2 mils for instance.....added 2.6 to 1.2 and ended up at 3.8. Doing what I was doing is a mess. Always shooting from a bench or at some KD target DOPE changes are not routine for me. I either read them from my data book or its just tweaking for conditions.
That little discovery was worth the cost of the class.
Goals
I feel confident of ten students I was in top 5. The two women attending shot within top 5 also. One was using a borrowed .308 SSG. The other a sub caliber (any bullet smaller than 7.62) and she was very realistic in her self assessment - good shooter.
Desires
1. Instructor inquired about my rifle after first sight in group commenting he shot similar in USMC.
2. My partner is new to "mid range" shooting and his rifle is relatively new to him. We talked about some stuff he saw me doing and inquired about. The class didnt give him enough of the beyond 100 yards experience he hoped for. 750 yards was tough for his rifle. His scope topped out and I dont think the ammo was matching his rifle. His spread around the steel was inconsistent. Sub calibers become tough to shoot. Ive seen other students with .22 bullets moving from 300 to 750 at Sig struggle. That was the jump that the excellent woman shooter became critical of herself. Im thinking accept recoil and enjoy more hits.
3. Entertainment - Not as much as I hoped for. It was a pretty high end group of shooters - soft wear engineer, lawyer, secret service agent, owner of an adventure/outdoor company, a resident from St Maarten that is taking a job at Sig and will commute from St Maarten. One shooter claimed attending over 300 courses at Sig. The instructor seemed to corroborate the claim and his toys indicated he had the disposable income.
Conclusion
Pretty much the final of the 3 instructional scoped rifle classes at Sig focusing on fundamentals. They have other classes on wind calling, unknown distance, scopes - that are more class or observatory rather than "shooting". Id probably benefit but if Im blowing a vac day I want trigger time.
My round count yesterday was 90 FGMM for a day spanning from 0830 to 1830. Subtract an hour or so of brief in the AM, an hour of lunch and 45 minutes of clean up debrief at the end of the day.
I think going forward Ill want to repeat the two day PSRII class and take "other rifles" to the "Reach for 1000" class to get dope and experience the challenge of some rifles that are quirky - old school 3x9 Redfield clones, maybe an external adjust Unertl or my USO MST100.
Ive got 90 days now to get a discount on my next classes. Ill be looking for one in the spring and one in the fall - good times.
