Match

[Distant Thunder]

All I can say is that it is a great place to shoot. They have a very nice 1000 yard range and Friday is a practice day. I used that practice day to shoot Kurt's .44-77 Shiloh. A very nice rifle and a great cartridge especially when loaded with paper patch bullets. If there is a cooler looking cartridge in BPCR I've never seen it. Thanks, Kurt.

I also shot my Hepburn with some of Brent's powder that we loaded in my cases with my bullets so he could see how it shoots in an accurate rifle! I followed that up with 3 of my own loads for a comparison which resulted in 3 10s. Then I shot 3 more with some paper patch bullets a good friend gave me to try. My long range pp bullet is an elliptical and it shoot very well, these other ones were rather blunt in comparison and are longer and heavier too. I expected the first one to fall short. To my surprise I shot 3 more 10s with out even touching the sight setting! How that could be I have no idea. It seems I can put any ppb on my load and shoot 10 after 10 at 1000 yards! It could just be the rifle I guess, it does shoot pretty well.

So here's the results of two days of shooting and we had some pretty switchy winds on Sunday.

GRRC LONG RANGE MATCH AUG 2019

KLUSKENS JIM 511 9X
FARRINGER STEVE 448 4X
DANIELSON BRENT 445 3X
ODEAN LYNN 401 3X
THEISEN MIKE 389
SAATHOFF BOB 368 2X
FREIER GARY 368 1X
LOQUASTO ALAN 319 3X
ALTENBURG KURT 276 1X
MACE TOM 252
SCHAAF DICK 236
ROGERS LOWELL 231 1X
NEWELL DAVE 194 1X
MARTIN BOB 101 1X

Not only was the shooting great fun but the club put on a fantastic lunch Saturday for everyone! The potato salad was really good. Then Saturday evening Bob Saathoff grilled up a bunch of brats and there some more potato salad! Then a few beers were consumed just for good measure.

Another thing is that the club waves the registration fee for first time shooters! That was pretty nice. If there is a friendlier bunch of guys and gals I don't know of them. It was well worth the drive that is for sure!

I'm going to have to plan on getting back over there again next year.