jackie schmidt
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Several Shooter at Rachels Glenn this past week end were using tuners, with a certain amount of success.
Most notable was Bernard Burby, who uses one of Butch Lamberts Shadetree Enginerring tuners. He had two yardage wins, and was the overall 4-Gun Champion.
Next was Gary Walters, one of the class winners. He uses one of my tuners.
Then there was me. I had a third place, two second places, and ended up third in the 4-Gun.
I adjusted my tuner no less than 3 times during the week end to keep my Rifle agging. It was particularily neccessary Sunday when the bottom fell out of the humidity and we started getting into "no mans land" with the N133.
As a note, one notable shooter had a tuner of another design, that is touted on this Forum, and had no success with it. If he wants to log on and comment, I will leave that to him. But suffice to say, he tried just about every thing with it, and was quite disappointed.
Of course, some very good shooters did VERY well tuning in the conventional manner, the most notable being Larry Costas, who can best be discribed as a "wizard" when it comes to knowing what powder charge and seating depth is needed for any situation. It was a real priveledge to get to watch him keep his Rifles working through some very varied temperature and humidity swings.
The general consensus among most of the shooters was that the tuner was nothing more than another way to arrive at the same point, the only advantage being that you can actually change the Rifle's tune at the line.......jackie
Most notable was Bernard Burby, who uses one of Butch Lamberts Shadetree Enginerring tuners. He had two yardage wins, and was the overall 4-Gun Champion.
Next was Gary Walters, one of the class winners. He uses one of my tuners.
Then there was me. I had a third place, two second places, and ended up third in the 4-Gun.
I adjusted my tuner no less than 3 times during the week end to keep my Rifle agging. It was particularily neccessary Sunday when the bottom fell out of the humidity and we started getting into "no mans land" with the N133.
As a note, one notable shooter had a tuner of another design, that is touted on this Forum, and had no success with it. If he wants to log on and comment, I will leave that to him. But suffice to say, he tried just about every thing with it, and was quite disappointed.
Of course, some very good shooters did VERY well tuning in the conventional manner, the most notable being Larry Costas, who can best be discribed as a "wizard" when it comes to knowing what powder charge and seating depth is needed for any situation. It was a real priveledge to get to watch him keep his Rifles working through some very varied temperature and humidity swings.
The general consensus among most of the shooters was that the tuner was nothing more than another way to arrive at the same point, the only advantage being that you can actually change the Rifle's tune at the line.......jackie
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