Texas State 200/300 Yard VFS Results

[jackie schmidt]

Walker County Benchrest hosted the second leg of the Texas State Varmint for Score Saturday, 200 yards and 300 yards.

The weather was bright, sunny, and windy. By mid morning, the mirage was already so heavy that seeing the lines on the targets at 200 was beginning to be a challenge. Gardner Rose handled the conditions and came out with the win.

When we went to 300 in the afternoon, Larry Deese, the Match Director, decided to have a warmup match and hang the targets so the shooters could at least see where their shots were landing. Nobody could see any bullet holes due to the extreme mirage. He also was timely in hanging the targets from the previous match so Shooters could see where bullets were striking and being able to compensate.

Needless to say, this makes Score Shooting a prohibitive challenge.

Once again, Gardner Rose was the victor, giving him both yardage wins and of course, the Grand Agg Championship.

These scores were combined with the previous 100/200 yard results from Tomball back in April, and once again, Gardner Rose took home the Texas State Varmint for Score Overall Championship.

Congratulations to Gardner for a well earned victory.

Here are Saturday's results"

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Thanks to Larry and Beth Deese for hosting their Matches at Walker County Benchrest. The next NBRSA Registered Match is the 200/300 VFS and Hunter Longrange Nationals Sept 1st and 2d.

 

[Steelhead1]

Great shooting, but how did two of you drop that point on the last target?

 

[Joe Duke]

Congrats Gardner!

Looks like it was truly tough. Sorry I had to miss the match.
Joe

 

[jackie schmidt]

Great shooting, but how did two of you drop that point on the last target?

I can't speak for Gardner, but I had been shooting a head on neutral to just a little Left to right green. The condition had swung more to a straight on to a little right to left. I knew this was about a line's worth of hold. But, I forgot to also hold about a line down as the bullets would also go high in that right to let, and the shot hit just enough high at eleven o'clock to miss the 10 ring by about .020 inch.

In short........Shooter error.

 

[Hunter]

I had been shooting a head on neutral to just a little Left to right green. The condition had swung more to a straight on to a little right to left. I knew this was about a line's worth of hold. But, I forgot to also hold about a line down as the bullets would also go high in that right to let, and the shot hit just enough high at eleven o'clock to miss the 10 ring by about .020 inch.

In short........Shooter error.

Thanks for explaining what you saw and did -- but, what happened on your first target at 300?

 

[Chism G]

Walker County

I shot this same match at Walker County,Huntsville,Tx, a couple of years ago. At 300yds, I very seldom was able to see my bullet holes on the target. This made the sighter almost useless. This range is made up of white sand with spots of green vegetation. When the sun is out, and all that heat reflects off the ground, the mirage makes a blur of the target. The mirage is just about the worst I’ve ever seen. Finding an aim point ,with all the optical illusion, is just a guessing game.

I don’t think There is a Competition model scope made, variable or fixed, that will limit the effects of the mirage.

Now, dont be discouraged by my observations. You should plan on attending the next match at the Walker County Range. If the Sun is out, you will definitely learn something about shooting in mirage.

Congratulations to Gardner Rose and all the competitors who were able to navigate their way through some really tough conditions.


Glenn



Glenn

 

[jackie schmidt]

Thanks for explaining what you saw and did -- but, what happened on your first target at 300?

Disaster is what happened.

Nobody could see their bullet holes. So we shot a warmup, so Larry could hang the warm up Targets so we could get an idea where we were hitting.

I came up 18 clicks on my scope, (March High Master 48x), and picked a condition. I shot a 3 shot Group in that condition.

When the warmup targets were hung, The three shots were in about a 3/4 group in the eight ring to the left.

So, in the first match, I moved the scope 5 clicks to the right and tried to shoot that same condition with the cross hairs centered in that fuzzy target, still not seeing the bullet holes.

All five shots were way to the right in the outer rings. I dropped 14 points on one target.

I then moved the scope back 5 clicks and shot pretty decent for the remaining four matches.

I am thinking that I moved my scope 10 clicks instead of five.

So, to sum up that first target at 300. .......Shooter stupidity.

 

[Steelhead1]

The 300yd is a bear, when I shot the Nationals in Vegas there was only on shooter that could see his shots, everyone was basically blind. I think that also happened in Casper, The mirage gets bad and couldn’t see holes. I wonder how those remote camera systems would work? Would they be legal, I don’t recall anything in the rule book that says they can’t be used. Everyone on the line is at the same disadvantage though, kind of shoot and pray!