The Everyday Sniper Podcast: NF ELR Match, 1st Time Shooter

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The Everyday Sniper Podcast: NF ELR Match, 1st Time Shooter

Welcome to the Everyday Sniper podcast, we have an awesome episode for everyone. So the NF ELR Match in WY is one of the most popular ELR Matches in the country. Every Year Accuracy International visits my range to dope their rifles and this year they went 1, 2. 3...


So wanting to participate in ELR Competition Chris Way of RifleKraft Fame decided to throw his hat into the ring. Chris is an accomplished competitor with enough Hardware to my Ace blush, so it was interesting to watch his work up for this event given he had life smack in the forehead before he even got started. So let's listen to Chris' ELR Journey as a first time competitor at the NF ELR Match.

Life comes at you fast so be flexible is what I can say about the first part. You have to decide, do I stay or do I go, isn't that the million dollar question?

Then, when thrown a curve, as in my data doesn't match my ranges what do you do? Do you fold and go home or do you adjust and persevere ?

In the end it's the experience right, taking a big swing with the bat in an effort to gain as much as possible or just be another man on the line.

Chris gives you all the details as he recorded every piece of data imaginable as he followed the ELR Path down that endless rabbit hole we call shooting.

Thanks for listening, thanks for sharing, thanks for being a part of the Everyday Sniper Podcast.

 

[RG0099]

Very cool listen. How do you shoot and keep a journal? Amazing the amount of “on the clock” research that was done. Really appreciate you sharing all that was learned. I hope to gain a thimbles worth of your knowledge someday.

 

[Xerum525]

So, if you have wind at 10:30 and 7:30, the wind at 10:30 is a head wind and creates more drag.
At 7:30 it's a tail wind, so 10:30 would put you low and 7:30 would put you high. 3:00 and 9:00
would cancel itself out because it's a cross wind. Am I thinking of this correctly?

 

[Lowlight]

For my own personal experience, I have found you need 12 mph of wind over your zero wind speed to see the elevation affects

So if you zero at 6 mph, get an 18 mph wind you will see .2 around 1000 yards of variation give or take a trigger squeeze or overly bad call, +\- 3 mph off the mark.

Also note with ELR, and depending on the terrain the bullet will pass over, if the wind get under you, you’ll see a variation. In most cases that little guy is up there pretty high.

 

[beetroot]

I couldn't quite understand what the magazine issues were, seems like a big oof to have an AI giving feeding issues that bad.
Was it using the wrong ammo/magazine combination, or just some bad magazines?

Sounded like Chris ended up shooting a 300NM, couldn't work out what model it was though an AWSM or an AXMC?

 

[ShootnFool8]

I couldn't quite understand what the magazine issues were, seems like a big oof to have an AI giving feeding issues that bad.
Was it using the wrong ammo/magazine combination, or just some bad magazines?

Sounded like Chris ended up shooting a 300NM, couldn't work out what model it was though an AWSM or an AXMC?

He shot 300 prc. The lips on the mag was the issue.

 

[beetroot]

He shot 300 prc. The lips on the mag was the issue.

The feed lips?

Is that due to the magazine being a 300wm one and not tuned for 300prc?

I couldn't tell if he shot 300nm or 300prc, it was hard to tell with the back and forth.

 

[ShootnFool8]

Yes, I shot with him in the same group. Don't remember what mag.

 

[ajokhan]

Yes, I shot with him in the same group. Don't remember what mag.

It's sound thrilling I wanna try too