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Years into shooting Silhouette - Martini2 - 09-27-2015
This new thread is to comment on but not distract from one here by Kevin A. on Entry year of shooting silhouette. Great post Kevin with it's 20 axioms and observations. Hope you never loose that zest for a wonderful hobby and firearms sport. Certainly today many are BPCR shooting + competing and using such a list. Some lists get longer but in several years there has been no short list found ;-) Today I fired a modified 50 hanging silhouette match 100-400 yds. It was well attended and weather was great. I had a bit of luck and hit 41/50 however it only placed 5th:-( On top were as follows: a 48/50 shot with 40-65 & BP, a 47/50 shot with 40-65 using smokeless, a 46/50 using 45-70 load NA, a 42/50 in 38-55 using smokeless and 41/50 in 45-70 using smokeless. To smoke or not to smoke is not the point here, that's just the way it was. The main thing is we were amongst friends and doing our thing.
RE: Years into shooting Silhouette - SgtDog0311 - 09-30-2015
Thanks for posting! Got two axioms (or whatever they are properly called) yourself.
'To smoke or not to smoke' and 'amongst friends doin your own thing'. I'm happy to see anyone kindle an interest in what was once commonplace, so your first one, what people smoke, won't inhibit my appreciation of your second one. Enjoying the moment, and those with you in that moment, that's a skill worth working on right along with your aim.
RE: Years into shooting Silhouette - Martini2 - 10-01-2015
[size=medium]Just to clarify this smoking reference by me is, was, will always be about the rifle fuel exhaust
I respect the traditionalists using BP. This Geezer is just as immured to the easier clean up of "the other kind" of fuel. What matters of course is the individual results. The loads I'm talking about replicate the same velocity range as BP. My shoulder and scores have proved there exists no advantage in hot rodding either loads outside the correct node of big bore rifle in BPCR.