2020 Creedmoor Cup Lodi

[Don McDowell]

It's hard on the check book, but you're fouling control problems will disappear with 2 of the BACO kits in 44 caliber, and a box of 250 felts...Push the wiper thru with a 2 or 2 1/2 inch dry patch behind it.

[Distant Thunder]

Don,

I will look into those. The rifle/cartridge shoot very well I just haven't been successful yet in controlling the fouling when I'm under the clock at a match and both these matches are are pretty fast paced, giving you only about 1 1/2 minutes per shot. If you get behind the clock for any reason you are in deep dog poop!

I really did like the scope on that rifle though! I haven't seen the number boards from a 1000 yards in a few years, but I could see them Sunday!

[Distant Thunder]

Arnie,

Absolutely! A 600 yard shoot would be a good start for the season if there is one next year.

My fall is complicated this year by having to sell and move all my machines and get my building up for sale in the spring. Retirement is a lot of work for someone like me, self-employed, because it also means the end of the company. I wish I could just lock the door and walk away but that's not how it is. The government wants to make sure they get their share of my 40 years of hard work and they WILL!

[Kurt]

Arnie I would like that very much.

[Don McDowell]

Jim what I do with those wipers is have them in a container in front of me, along with one of dry patches. Right next to my line box. After the shot, and you roll into the ground scope to watch impact, eject the fired case, grab a wiper start it into the chamber , put the dry patch behind it and push thru. Usually within a matter of seconds after the target comes back up, you can be chambered, and ready to make any sight adjustments , and fire.
Eddie an I were both shooting our shot strings with about 10 minutes time remaining, if we weren't trying to wait out conditions.

[Distant Thunder]

Don,

That is pretty much the way I do it with my bore critters now. It works pretty well with my .45-70 but this .44-77 is a different animal. The .44-77 has not done well using this method. It's good for 4 to 5 shots and then the residual fouling becomes too much and shots start dropping low. I do not have any residual fouling in my .45-70 doing the same thing.

Some of that problem may have been my choice of powder, Goex 2f, but the same problem was there with Swiss 1 1/2. If I wipe with 3 wet patches I did have the fouling problems but that takes time and time is in short supply.

During the CUP match I used every second of the 20 minutes allowed. I don't see how I would get 13 shots accurately down range in 10 minutes. Most of the time, even with my Hepburn, I was down to under 45 seconds remaining for the last shot. I never really waited on the conditions, it was mostly just shoot, turn to the scope, pop the empty, wipe, load, read the conditions, make any needed change and line her up and send the next round down range. You only have slightly more than 1 1/2 minutes for each shot. It might take me a few seconds to figure out what I'm seeing in the conditions but I ain't waiting on them, no time.

The other thing that ate up time was confirming each shot number and value with my spotter who was scoring for two shooters, so there was some time spent getting the info through and straight to confirm my score. The guys scoring for me did an excellent job keeping up with two shooters which can be a hand full. Thank you Dick, Tony and Bill, well done.