Quote from: kirk13 on May 18, 2016, 06:12:49 PMIve said this before,and I will say this again and again: the 97 is a truly great gun!Hope this one works out for you G!Cheers John. I'll be heading over to the indoor range shortly to see just how well the new 97 and I get along.
Ive said this before,and I will say this again and again: the 97 is a truly great gun!Hope this one works out for you G!
Came a respectable third, with a 44x60. The chap in second was only a point ahead of me and I felt I should have done a little better but I'm not complaining too hard as a medal is a medal. Tough course with a lot of optical tricks that made ranging a real task. Tellingly the guys who make up a large part of the Scottish team all came home with a comparative low score of 53x60, at least 5 points less than most of them expect to score. A series of 6 targets were out across an open field where the wind was playing silly buggers and gusting from zero up to enough to make some folks miss completely.
Quote from: Gareth on March 14, 2016, 12:35:19 PMHere's an interesting alternative to UKHFT: http://www.uksarc.co.uk/rules/There's plan to run 3 or 4 of these comps up here in Scotland with, I believe, slight tweaks to those rules. So no preset positional shots, no peg to hang on to, smaller targets with more realistically placed kill zones, and longer ranges. The idea as I understand it is to make you think if it's worth going for a risky 2 points with a chance of a total miss or play it safe and go for the single point. Well, I got to shoot a competition under the SARCs rules and have to say it's a very fun format. Interesting to see different shooters tackling the same shots in different ways. Even better I won my class with a 42x60. Given the highest score was a 47x60 I'm pretty happy with my shooting.
Here's an interesting alternative to UKHFT: http://www.uksarc.co.uk/rules/There's plan to run 3 or 4 of these comps up here in Scotland with, I believe, slight tweaks to those rules. So no preset positional shots, no peg to hang on to, smaller targets with more realistically placed kill zones, and longer ranges. The idea as I understand it is to make you think if it's worth going for a risky 2 points with a chance of a total miss or play it safe and go for the single point.
Exceptionally well done Gareth Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I've got a "open sights" competition on Saturday in Dunfermline. "Open sights" simply means you can't use any kind of optic magnification, so simple peep sights, notch sights and diopters are the name of the game. The targets aren't quite as small or as far away as on a normal HFT course, but the basic format is the same idea. I've talked about this style before and attended one held at my club and came third. I suspect this comp is going to be a little better attended so I'm not confident of doing so well this time but wish me luck anyway.
Oooh, but it's tight at the top. Two chaps finished on 47, myself and another finished on 46. So this should lead to a shoot-off for 1st and 2nd and another for 3rd and 4th, right? Well, no, sadly not. Why? Because the other chap on 46 missed a target that eventually gets pulled and so is given a bonus point taking him up into joint 1st and automatically dropping me to 4th.Not helped that I had a really rough and ready zero on my scope due to me having had the stock off and only getting a chance to very roughly zero it on the outdoor plinking range twenty minutes before the comp started.
Why did they pull the target?