1000 yd World Championship

[desert deuce]

Here doggie, doggie....

Well, first of all........I did a poor job of putting the new #112 MVA Windgauge front sight on so I had to move it over two and one half lines on the front sight vernier to get in the black with the rear MVA #103 sight on zero. Can you believe it, it was calm enough at 1,000 yards yesterday starting out to get a dead wind zero? After that everything was 1-2 minutes either side of zero. Sun was so bright I needed sun glasses but don't have any with the right prescription in them.

Imagine this...there you are in prone, round chambered, rifle on the sticks, you look up at your wind arrow and the piece of flagging tape on the nock of the fletched arrow is motionless. You look through the scope from 1,000 yards, boil on the face of the target, all flags down range are dead still, drooping down. You shoot, the smoke obscures the target to the extent you can't define a bullet strike but through the smoke you can see the target go down. Comes back up with tail lights.

Puller says on the radio, "I think you were high."

Had to stop at this point and apply some more sun screen lotion and adjust the sweat band to avoid replying on the radio.

Of course it was quite cool for Phoenix, about 72 degrees when I uncased the new rifle.

Ooops, there I go again, getting ahead of myself. Let's see, where was I ?

Oh, Yeah !

I had some odds and ends loads, mostly clearing the brass to start the new shooting season. All were D.T. Designs Money 45 Cal mini 4 groove, 535 grain, 1x16 alloy with Pope #3 Lube, either 75.0 or 75.5 3F Swiss (3 different lots), F150M, avg MV 1304 FPS, ES 5, a wad stack. GM super secret experimental 34" cut rifled barrel with a D.T. Designs 45-90 Money Chamber. Wiping two fairly wet arsenal patches with 1x10 Water Soluble Oil on a Tipton poly brush.

(Get bored shooting a 44-90 or 100...they shoot too good. No fun.)

Anyway....It took three rounds to figure out the front sight needed to be moved and after that three to get on paper as I was a few minutes lower by guesstimate than I thought was about right, so, then I make a SWAG and Drag on the windage and elevations screws on the rear soule and BINGO, ten, nine, nine, ten, ten, miss? (6 O'clock), 8, 8, ten, ten...after that the next two loads drifted a bit lower but the smoke pole seems to be doing just fine.

Both the 8's were at two, made no change to the sights and shot two ten's. Such is Ben Avery.
No explanation or even a guess at the low miss. Likely shooter error of some kind, like maybe loose grip, improper breath control, cheek weld or poor follow through or any combination thereof. Doubt it was rifle or ammo because I was getting strong dragons blood in the freshly extracted cases and absolutely no leading whatsoever.