Shooting situation #2

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smoke

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First, thanks for the good comments on the initial shooting situations! Our second non hardware thread also asks for your input. This sequence of events actually happened - here's how it developed. It's the last target of the day and conditions have been on the decline and are worsening. Our shooter has been very patient, but has had to shoot in two very different conditions. He is totally engrossed in watching for one of his conditions and then getting the shot off. He is still clean at this point. As he fires his l5th shot though, two things happen - as he attempts to go to the next row down he discovers that his front rest has bottomed out!! Damm! Just then the range master announces "5 minutes remaining". Double Damm! OK then, 5 minutes to go - 10 rounds to shoot, no more verticle adjustment and conditions are all over the place. What can the shooter do to salvage what had been a promising target?
 
Relax...lots of time. First fix the rest by lowering the post. Then shoot his condition when it's there and when not, find out what the current condition will give him. If you're going to shoot blind or in a condition you dont like, do it in the last 30 seconds.
 
Not being sarcastic, but if the shooter had properly set up his rest at the begining.....he wouldn't be "bottomed out" with 10 shots to go. Some situations have to do with preparation.

BTW, this sounds like something that would happen to me. :D

Jim B.
 
Go ahead and win!!

Turn his rear bag sideways and shoot off of it. Clean the last ten and take the Wood home. Simple. Good Luck with your problems. Thanks Fred
 
Rear bag adjust

I would carefully move my rear bag an inch to inch and a half away from the front rest, give the buttstock a little tap down on the bag, and quickly get a few sighters off. That should get your rest to the bottom of the target. The wind may not be your friend, but your equipment will no longer be your enemy! You should have a couple of minutes left to salvage your target.
 
Sometimes you can get a row or two from your rear screw. I have also gotten a row or two by adjusting the front screws until the rest almost bottoms out on the bench. Or, as has been said, slide the rifle back if it has a sloping stock. I carry an extra donut that I use to raise the rifle if needed. Works better during setup but, have done it in the middle of a match. Five minutes is a lot of time. ARA and Unlimited 50/50 only allow 20 minutes for a whole target including sighters.

Patience is a virtue, sometimes to extreme. I was shooting a sporter target at the Crawfish in Florida one time in terrible conditions (the only conditions they have there).I had decided to be more careful as my scores were not anything to write home about the previous day. Bottom line, five shots to go, rangemaster says, one minute remaining. So much for patience. Shot the five shots, adjusted hold as determined from the last shot. Would like to say I cleaned the last row, didn't happen. Really wasn't any worse than the rest of the target though.

No great secrets in this game that can be taught on the written page. Lots of tips, but the secrets are gained with experience. You got to shoot and observe what happens to your shots and figure out why a shot goes where it does. I apparently still have a lot to learn.

Ken
 
At the match this past Saturday, I did not have my rest bottom out, but I was clean on the first 18 bulls and conditions were getting worse by the minute. My preferred condition wasn't coming around too often and I was only getting repeatable results in THAT condition. Bull 19 dropped a point, bulls 20-23 were 10's/X's, then on bull 24 I had a 3 pointer go up at 12:30 for no reason I could see, as bull 25 was an X shot in the same condition (from what I could tell) as bull 24. Oh well....
 
Must be misreading this somehow. Why didn't his rest bottom out on the previous cards?
 
Don't care about this shooter, but I offer this advise (haven't read previous post) always always always make sure you can cover the whole target with whatever rest you have before the commence fire command. Been there done that and learned the hard way.

Carp
 
Gordon, In some venues, you must change benches after each target. This always happens at National events.
 
That's why I always start at the bottom row and work up.
Regards.
Don.H.
 
I would go to my truck and grab a pocket book (I always have one there to read if there is a traffic hold up) and slip the book under the rear bag.
College
 
It's time

It is time to put this thread to rest. What the shooter actually did in this case may not be "the approved solution", it was his approach. Not wanting to disturb the rear bag, he lowered the leveling screws of his front rest ( as suggested by several respondents). Chagrined by his rookie mistake of not checking out the coverage of his rest beforehand, and now challenged by constantly switching wind conditions he decided to hold center, wait for what seemed to be conditions that "cancelled out",then shade his POA slightly into what ever condition the flag closest to the bench indicated. He managed to salvage a decent score, dropping one point in the last row. End of story.
 
Smoke,

Don't stop here. Kinda like reading what others may or may not do in particular situations. Maybe you mean to start part three?

Ken
 
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