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Post by bradshaw on Jun 7, 2019 9:06:06 GMT -5
Lee.... the video instantly conveys the challenge of shooting benchrest through CHOP----note spasdic whipping of the flags. A 2,440 mile drive along the Gulf Coast, up the Carolinas northbound, and I missed the horrific tornadoes. I think the chop you shot in Georgia reflects some of the spillover. I regret our trails didn’t cross, parallel as they were.
Benchrest may not be huge, yet the performance of your group runs TIGHT.
David Bradshaw
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Post by Lee Martin on Jun 13, 2019 19:25:48 GMT -5
Lee.... the video instantly conveys the challenge of shooting benchrest through CHOP----note spasdic whipping of the flags. A 2,440 mile drive along the Gulf Coast, up the Carolinas northbound, and I missed the horrific tornadoes. I think the chop you shot in Georgia reflects some of the spillover. I regret our trails didn’t cross, parallel as they were. Benchrest may not be huge, yet the performance of your group runs TIGHT. David Bradshaw Our paths will cross soon enough David....I promise. Looking forward to shooting Maximum with you in the near future. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by Lee Martin on Jun 13, 2019 19:26:06 GMT -5
Match #64 Fairfax Rod & Gun Club, Manassas, VA IBS VFS 100 Yard ___________________________________________________ It was a good day to shoot a lot of X’s. The wind we predominately left to right, which can be tough at Fairfax. But it didn’t switch much, making it manageable. I started off in a hole, hitting only 3 X’s on the first target. I got it together on the next three, but each time narrowly missed the 5th X (narrowly as in hundredths of an inch). The last target was the most frustrating I’ve shot at 100 in a while. I laid down sighters, felt I knew where to hold, then lost X’s by a hair. Only two were taken on the last frame. I stayed clean at 250 but was disappointed in my X count. And I can’t blame the gun...it shot dots on the sighter. The first three out of the barrel went one-hole.     -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by Lee Martin on Jun 27, 2019 20:17:29 GMT -5
Match #65 Cavalier Rifle & Pistol Club, Montpelier, VA IBS VFS 300 Yards _________________________________________________________________ We held our first 300-yard IBS match at Cavalier under less than ideal conditions. The event started in the afternoon with sun hitting the backside of the targets. At 300 yards, you could barely see the bullet holes (some of us couldn’t see them at all). To compound things, we worked off of plywood and steel benches that weren’t affixed to the pad. Move your body or arms at all and the reticle bounced; depending on how much you moved, the cross-hairs shifted a full ring. But we all faced the same adversity. I shot horribly on the first target, changed my position for the second, then fell apart of the third. Out of habit, I leaned into the top and bullets strayed. For the fourth target, I came way off the bench and improved. Then came target five. I fired one sighter and wiped out the X. The conditions were still and I had a good hold. But the first record bull fell to a dead primer. There’s no sicker sound than “click” when you touch the trigger. I cycled the bolt partially and smacked the BR4 again. No dice. I knew this was no man’s land on pulling the shell. I was careful, but the bullet still stuck in the lands. Powder dumped all throughout the action. I jumped up and cleared the gun with a cleaning rod. However, there was still a lot of LT-30 in the chamber and rounds wouldn’t chamber. I figured my day was done, but good friend Wayne France handed me his 30 WW and a box of ammo. I finished the target and ended-up 6th out of 11. Wayne took home the winners patch.   -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by bradshaw on Jul 3, 2019 8:01:06 GMT -5
CAVEMAN ROCKET SCIENCE
From building his own rifles, to competing with them, to swaging his own bullets for the most exacting of accuracy games, Lee Martin exemplifies the extreme dedication to performance that distinguishes real sharpshooting. An irony of Bench Rest shooting, whether scored on group size or points, is that the SHOOTER pulls it all together. High Power Rifle, Precision Rifle, Rifle and Handgun Silhouette, Biathlon, place success on varying degrees of human steadiness and timing.
While Bench Rest tries to eliminate the human. At once proving it is up to the human to lash together TECHNOLOGY and TECHNIQUE.
In the process, bench rest turns ruthless critic of mediocre equipment. Lee decided to make his own bench rest bullets. Quite a jump from 525 grain 50 caliber revolver slugs. Both Lee and another shooter have won with his bullets, so I would not be surprised to see shooters climbing over each other like ants at a picnic to get his bullets. Which are not for sale.
Just a note of congratulations from one shooter to another,
David Bradshaw
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Post by Lee Martin on Jul 10, 2019 21:13:02 GMT -5
Match #66 Black Creek Gun Club, Mechanicsville, VA IBS VFS 100 Yard ____________________________________________ Mild conditions and a gun that was on kept me in the running all day. In the end, Wayne Wadlington got me on the Creedmoor rule. He shot a stout 50-5X on target 1 whereas I had a 50-4X.   -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by z1r on Jul 11, 2019 9:42:55 GMT -5
That is some good shooting! Well done!
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Post by Lee Martin on Jul 11, 2019 19:53:50 GMT -5
New Light Varmint PPC _______________________________________ In 2018 I built a dual purpose benchrest rifle. The stock was made light enough to shoot the 10.5 lb class in group using a LV 6mm PPC barrel. I also added a HV .30 Stingray barrel for score competition. But recently I decided to make that gun a dedicated back-up .30 for VFS. Wanting to shoot some group matches this year and beyond, the PPC barrel was fit to my latest toy. Action – BAT 3L Barrel – Lederer 13.5 twist 6mm Chamber – 6mm PPC (JGS 1046 reamer, 0.264” neck) Stock – Bob Scoville Trigger – Bix N Andy set to 1.5 oz Scope – March 48x High Master w/fine cross hairs Rings – Harrells Tuner – Bukys TSI Weight – 10 lbs 0 oz without weight system, 10 lbs 6 oz with      Haven’t had a chance to fire it yet, but will soon. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by squawberryman on Jul 12, 2019 6:59:35 GMT -5
great pics
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Post by Lee Martin on Aug 1, 2019 20:04:09 GMT -5
Match #67 Fairfax Rod & Gun Club, Fairfax, VA IBS VFS 200 Yard _________________________________________________________ Rough start at 200 yards, dropping 2 points on the first target. The conditions were very shootable, but I wasn’t patient enough on the flags. I finished 9th out of 14.  -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by Lee Martin on Aug 8, 2019 19:36:53 GMT -5
Match #68 Black Creek Gun Club, Mechanicsville, VA IBS VFS 100 Yard _______________________________________________ For as many times as I’ve shot Black Creek, I had never drawn bench #1. Match 68 changed that. It’s nestled against a hill and has branches overhanging the bullet path about 5 feet up. The story goes it can be a great bench or a tricky spot depending on how the wind is blowing. Right-to-left supposedly curls off the hill and move bullets down and to the left. Basically, you’re shooting on red which normally moves POI up and to the left. But under certain conditions, lane #1 can make a red act like a green (ie, left to right). All that said, I found a nice hold at 4:00 on the X shooting mild red. I did watch the overhanging branches though. If they were pretty still and I had weak right to left, dot-to-to @ 4:00 took X’s (dot-to-dot is touching the 3/32” reticle dot to the X on the 4:00 edge). The two X’s I missed were just high. The highlight of the day was seeing my good friend’s daughter Tori win her first match. And she did it shooting a screamer (24 X’s).   -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by Lee Martin on Aug 21, 2019 19:26:25 GMT -5
Match #69 Fairfax Rod & Gun Club, Manassas, VA IBS Virginia State Championships, 100 & 200 yard VFS ____________________________________________________________ The VA State Championships were held a few weeks back under nice conditions. The temps weren’t too bad and the winds were mild. 100 yards was shot Saturday and won by good friend Chris Allen. I stayed clean at 250, but struggled on X’s, hitting 17. Five of mine were so close they had to be reticled...and none made. It was a day of narrow misses. The 200 yard leg was held Sunday and I was clicking right along. That is until I had another dead primer. The bullet stuck in the lands as I opened the bolt and powder went everywhere. Even with a can of compressed air, I couldn’t get all the fine cut LT-30 out of the chamber. With time ticking down, Jim Cline handed me his rifle and box of shells. Simply said “been holding at 4:00 all day with it”. In typical fashion, Jim had already run his target. I set it up on my bags and fired a couple into the sighter. It pretty much shot as Jim had indicated. I was down to under 2 mins and had all 5 records to complete. I took out the first two cleanly and rushed the third. In doing so, I held on the condition like it was my rifle. I missed the 10 ring by a few hundredths (another reticle job by the scorer). The last two were solid 10’s. That was the only point I dropped on the weekend. I finished 5th in the grand agg. John Bosley won at 200 and took the grand agg.     -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by Rimfire69 on Aug 22, 2019 7:06:18 GMT -5
Great shooting Lee, especially to jump in behind somebody else rifle and carry on in a competitive fashion.
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Post by Lee Martin on Sept 4, 2019 21:54:31 GMT -5
Match #70 Sulphyr Springs, Pennsylvania IBS 100 Yard VFS ___________________________________________________ My friend Chris Allen and I traveled four hours north to shoot a 100-yard match at Sulphyr Springs, PA. This was my second trip to the range and it’s quickly becoming a favorite. Sulphyr is quite scenic and known to be a place for high X counts. I shot pretty well, but like the past few matches, I missed 3 X’s by a matter of hundredths. 1,200 rounds into this barrel, I can say this. It doesn’t shoot past conditions like Kreiger #1. I’ve been told a tight shooting tube will get a bullet through mild air without minor hold offs. That’s to say, if the streamers are gently moving, simply center hold and let it fly. My first Kreiger did just that. This barrel needs tiny POA adjustments to land big X counts. It’s still a very good barrel, showing solid consistency. But it doesn’t have the killer attitude I found in my first 30. That may change as the round count climbs. Contrary to popular belief, some thirty cals settle in when you approach 2,000. I took 9th place, but was only 3 X’s away from first place. It was that bunched up at the top.      -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by cmillard on Sept 5, 2019 5:02:10 GMT -5
Wow, great shooting. Those are some close score spreads!
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