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First Big Bore IHMSA Match
Field Pistol and Small Bore range on far right. Distances to 100 yards there, which has been my bailiwick so far. Big Bore targets center and left. Yee Hah!
Shot three guns, of which my current Field Pistol gun was shot last in Unlimited Standing. Absolutely no 150 or 200 yard sight settings, and slow FP lead bullet loads, but what the hey, worth a try!
More in a couple of hours....
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Did not shoot sighters on the chickens (50m) and pigs (100m) as they should be the same or close to the same distances as FP pigs (50 yards but 1/2 the size of BB pigs) and rams (100yds). Made a SWAG setting and let fly on the 150m turkey. Good guess, elevation-wise, but somewhat to the right. Tried another and got a hit so used the last three sighter rounds to find the rams, somewhat! Again, more trouble with windage than elevation. That "el cheapo" used Simmons 3-9x scope with target turrets is proving very user friendly. It took an entire turn of elevation from the 100 setting to get on the 200yd rams!
Done with sighters, cranked out the extra turn of elevation post haste (lest it be forgotten) and a bit more to the previously established 50yd/m setting.
BTW, the load is quite mild, being that it's pure lead, swaged SWC Speer "plinker" bullets. Found that a charge of either Reloder 7 or IMR4198 (used here) that fills the case to the bottom of the bullet runs clean, isn't powder position sensitive, and has upped my Field Pistol scores immediately upon adoption. Must be subsonic, but no chronographing done yet.
So, onto the show! Managed to snatch the trigger only once during the 50m chicken stage, so 9 out of ten. Happy, happy!
Moved over to the 100m pigs and got six, which is about average for the similar sized 100yd FP rams, so no real complaints there, except misses were generally right, even with a bit of left hold courtesy of my spotter's instructions.
Turkeys, evil turkeys! Only two out of ten, again, elevation pretty much where the crosshairs were showing when the trigger was pulled, but weird windage variations! Tried very hard not to induce cant, either by looking at the high rise mount's orientation or the crosshairs in the scope, which seemed less reliable....Even tried dialing in windage, but the results were inconsistent or counterproductive.
Late in the day, a little breeze doesn't help matters standing steady, fatigue definitely an issue, and dehydrated. Not no mention a bit confounded! Happy that there's no elevation inconsistency issues, though.
Finally, Rams! Big ole' CLANK makin', slow falling, massive rams. A comment was made to level the crosshairs on the support rail and then lift a little to the desired POI, which seems logical, so here goes nuttin'.
Get onto ram #1, double check it's the correct one (!) aim, Squeeze, aim, squeeze some more, bang.......Drat. Right. Add some left windage, Bang.......Clang!....crunch. Over goes a ram. Finally.
At least the misses are consistently right. Mess with windage, overcorrect, come back, miss right again, hold left the next time, etc. Final tally: four rams. (21 total)
Done! Pooped! And three hour's drive to go before home. But happy and challenged! Will be back for more.
Also shot a Dan Wesson .357 Super Mag/Maximum, but wrong brand and NOT standing, which removes much of the thrill. (Score: 24, with 4 mysterious pig misses) A TC in 7-30 Waters was tried as well. Pulled a 30 out of 40 with that one.
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Glad you could make it Jay, l too shot my 629-4 8 3/8''. 0pen sights
Field Pistol loads on those 200m rams make them fall before the 'KLANG'
Bullet @800FPS. Sound @1200FPS.Watching HIT, then SOUND is eerie
75Vette stayed home and played with his new DILLON 550
Charles went from 7 to 13 over last month shooting 629 Magnum Hunter
He got 4 rams. 3 in a row on the last bank. His first time using Mag loads
Shot 800FPS loads @ 50m & 100m. Then 1200fps loads on turkey & ram
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This brought back memories!
Back in the early 1980s, I shot IHMSA a few times with my 8 " Model 27 at a club in southern Pennsylvania. I enjoyed those matches very much. I would love to give IHMSA a shot again.
May I ask where this match was held?
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I wish I still had a IHMSA club close enough to shoot occasionally. Was in the 80's when I last shot. I have a lot of those "5 Straight" and some "10 Straight" pins around my gun room somewhere. I had transitioned from a 7 TCU to the 7X30 Waters towards the end , and I never did realize the accuracy of the Waters. It was all iron sights back then.
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I shot IHMSA a few times with my 8 " Model 27 at a club in southern Pennsylvania.
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Was that at Atglen?
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What is that scope arrangement?
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I believe it was at Atglen, but when I reached out to the club, no one had a recollection of them ever having conducted IHMSA matches there.
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I believe it was at Atglen, but when I reached out to the club, no one had a recollection of them ever having conducted IHMSA matches there.
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I can most assuredly confirm your memory. I shot several matches there and I was also Eastern PA IHMSA Director in 1977 & 78.
Adios,
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What is that scope arrangement?
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Weaver base under a Ken Light high rise mount, under a set of Millett rings which holds a used (read: "Cheap pawn shop find") Simmons 3-9x target scope. (The only person known to shoot a perfect IHMSA Big Bore 60 out of 60 standing score uses a BSA scope!)
It's basically still in the experimental stage, done mostly for shooting "only" out to 100 yards.
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0K all you Past-IHMSA and wannabe shooters, Come to Gainesville Ga the first weekend in May..We will be shooting for THREE DAYS.. Fri, Sat,
Sunday.6-7-8 May.Ga State Field Pistol Championships.. Bring those Smiffs and they feed you TOO...April we had Tacos with ELK Burger...
Chili with Elk too
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. . . Field Pistol loads on those 200m rams make them fall before the 'KLANG'
Bullet @800FPS. Sound @1200FPS.Watching HIT, then SOUND is eerie . . .
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The following is probably nitpicking, but may be of interest to you. The hit, then the sound of the hit, is a function of the distance from the target, and nothing else. What the velocity of your loads affects is the time from your muzzle blast to the hit.
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The following is probably nitpicking, but may be of interest to you. The hit, then the sound of the hit, is a function of the distance from the target, and nothing else. What the velocity of your loads affects is the time from your muzzle blast to the hit.
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In actual fact, our slow bullet loads can push the rams over so slowly the clang! may reach us before the thing topples. That's unnerving!
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