Tomball Varmint for Score Results

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jackie schmidt

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Damn Jackie...

One great score!! Better use that barrel for group as well. Looks like your match was a lot of fun. One of these days I'll have to make the trip.

Virg
 
Great shooting, everyone, especially Jackie. Glad I wasn't able to get down there after all. Woulda just been a waste of money - easier and cheaper to just send you my money!!:eek::eek:

Dennis
 
Dennis, we had some exceptionally light conditions for Tomball, heck, sometimes even two flags pointed in the same direction;)

Mirage was really bad the last two matches, and I tend to shoot high in bad mirage. Convincing myself to aim down in the mothball ain't easy, for fear of having a shot go really low.

Our final match is the first Sunday in October, 200 yards. It will be a LOT cooler then, maybe you can make the trip.
 
virg said:
One great score!! Better use that barrel for group as well. Looks like your match was a lot of fun. One of these days I'll have to make the trip.

Virg
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Virg, that barrel is 5 years old, it's on it's 3d setback. The last time I chopped the entire chamber off, and just treated it like a new blank. It's down to 20 1/4 inches long.

What's left looks brand new. And shoots pretty darned good.
 
Hey Jackie,
Nice targets.
When you check bullet seating. Hard jam. Do you get any land marks ? or a circle.....???
I got a barrel that still shoots really good. I have not set it back. 6PPC. I stopped cleaning it at a Match. And it shoots better after 3-4 matches/targets.....Maybe I should let it just stay dirty....
Wondering if I could set it back.....???
 
zippy06 said:
Hey Jackie,
Nice targets.
When you check bullet seating. Hard jam. Do you get any land marks ? or a circle.....???
I got a barrel that still shoots really good. I have not set it back. 6PPC. I stopped cleaning it at a Match. And it shoots better after 3-4 matches/targets.....Maybe I should let it just stay dirty....
Wondering if I could set it back.....???
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On my 30BR, at this time I might even be jumping the bullet a little. I can move my seater out around .005, and barely see marks with a magnifying glass. The way I am shooting it now, I don't see anything.

I turn my necks to exactly .010 thick, and use a .325 bushing in a .330 neck. I have gaged my chamber's necks and confirmed that the reamer does cut a true .330.

The picture shows that "sine wave" soot mark that everyone seems to strive for.

http://benchrest.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=18115&stc=1&d=1470614083

http://benchrest.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=18116&stc=1&d=1470614228

I am a real stickler for keeping the throats in barrels fresh. It is so easy for me to set a barrel back, I have kinda got hooked on doing it.

The cleaning thing?? I do not clean the 30 for an entire Grand Agg, my best target today was probably match 5. That was after 26 shots including sighters.

I have shot my 6PPC an entire yardage without cleaning. I did at Walker County at the HV 200 came in 3D with a pretty decent Agg.

But old habits are hard to break. I still catch myself cleaning the 6 after every group.
 

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very nice shooting Jackie!

time for some(more) group shooting!
 
Jackie,

Awesome shooting.

Do they have a provision in benchrest to establish a record in VFS? In high power, if you shoot possible 200-20X, you have to the option to make a run for the record till you stop shooting Xs.
 
NezRongero said:
Jackie,

Awesome shooting.

Do they have a provision in benchrest to establish a record in VFS? In high power, if you shoot possible 200-20X, you have to the option to make a run for the record till you stop shooting Xs.
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Nez, VFS records are kept by both major Sanctioning Bodies, the NBRSA and the IBS. In order to have targets submitted for record consideration, a Match must be sanctioned by one of these Bodies. Plus, there is a strict protocol to be followed.

This was a non registered Club Match, so what a shooter gets is a big attaboy from his peers and the satisfaction of accomplishment.
 
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so weeks later a question pops into my head ,

how often do you clean your rifle ?

how do you clean ?

and what bullet were you using that weekend ?

thanks
 
CMaier said:
so weeks later a question pops into my head ,

how often do you clean your rifle ?

how do you clean ?

and what bullet were you using that weekend ?

thanks
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I shoot the entire Agg, or Grand Agg, without cleaning the 30BR.

When I do clean, I just run a brush saturated with Butches through about 5 times back and forth.
I then run as many saturated patches through until the blue that comes off of the brush disappears. I then use however many dry patches, usually about 4, until it is dry. I then run a wet batch of Butches in and put it away for the next time.

At this particular Match, I shot Bart's 112 X Outs. But last week end at Walker County, I shot 112 BIB's. Even though I only shot 21 X's last week end, the Rifle was shooting just as good. The four X's I missed were so close that they had to use the Reticle.

That's the nature of score shooting, sometimes a couple of shots just .010 from the X means the difference between "great" and "pretty good".
 
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thanks jackie,
i'm just starting with 30br,
and little bits of info help.
 
CMaier said:
thanks jackie,
i'm just starting with 30br,
and little bits of info help.
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For what it's worth, I use 18 twist cut rifled barrels, Kriegers to be exact.

My chamber differs from the standard Robinette in that my trim to length is 1.545 This is a product of the way I make cases. I blow them out, rather than neck them up. Since they retain more of the 6BR's original length, I had a reamer ground to make a 1.550 chamber.

A lot of shooters in this area use my reamer.
 
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