2020 Creedmoor Cup Lodi

[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.