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Post by squawberryman on Jan 4, 2021 20:18:18 GMT -5
That would be some very special quiet time
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Post by cmillard on Jan 4, 2021 20:30:54 GMT -5
Fine job driving that rifle lee!
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Post by JM on Jan 7, 2021 12:29:41 GMT -5
Lee,
Is there discussion of preferred optics in this thread?
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Post by Lee Martin on Jan 7, 2021 17:09:23 GMT -5
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Post by JM on Jan 7, 2021 17:49:12 GMT -5
That is great information. How long can someone typically stay on the scope at those upper levels of magnification? Thank you. |
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Post by Lee Martin on Jan 7, 2021 21:38:42 GMT -5
Glad it was helpful. Now what exactly do you mean by "how long can someone stay on the scope at those magnifications?" -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by JM on Jan 7, 2021 23:35:57 GMT -5
Glad it was helpful. Now what exactly do you mean by "how long can someone stay on the scope at those magnifications?" -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" Does the higher magnification cause eye fatigue? The reason that I ask is I just upgraded from 3X9/4X12 power scopes, to a 5.5X30. Only one outing so far. Of course I cranked it up all the way. Began to experience eye fatigue about 3.5 hrs later. Hadn't noticed that effect previously. I'm wondering if exit pupil size might be a factor. |
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Post by Lee Martin on Jan 8, 2021 17:12:12 GMT -5
Eye fatigue has never been a problem for me. I've stared through 40x to 50x scopes for minutes on end waiting for the flags to set-up. The key is to keep breathing.....our eyes need oxygen. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by cmillard on Jan 8, 2021 19:53:07 GMT -5
What I do when I am behind my work rifle for extended periods of time is to look away from the reticle for about 5 seconds at the grass....something about the color green relaxes the eyes. It works great!
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Post by Lee Martin on Jan 20, 2021 20:59:18 GMT -5
Match #110 Fairfax Rod & Gun Club, Manassas VA UBR 200 Yard VFS ____________________________________________________________ I took my backup .30 Stingray (BAT action / Dixie stock) to the third 200 yard winter league match. A slow start ensued in spite of my gun’s consistency in the warm-up period. Temperatures were high 20's and the wind was brisk early on. Perhaps I just needed time to settle in to the conditions. I’ve been known to start slow and finish strong at 200 yards. Not sure why, it just seems to happen that way a lot. If I could reverse those two, I would. Tie-breakers are done on the first target. And that’s what gave me 2nd place. Good friend Chris Allen shot extremely well in the beginning. His record #1 scored a 63, giving him the Creedmoor on matching 243’s.  -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by Lee Martin on Feb 10, 2021 20:52:06 GMT -5
Match #111 Black Creek Gun Club – Mechanicsville, VA IBS 100 yard VFS ______________________________________________________ Cold and windy - not unexpected for early February. Black Creek can give really mild days, or breezy days where the wind blows hard but is manageable. Then there are days like last Saturday where it swirls. Bullets were moving a lot. Much more than what the flags suggested. My gun shot extremely tight, to the point where even missed X’s were consistently the same POI. I took 19 out of 25 and they were very solid hits; in fact, 15 were wipeouts. The 6 X’s I missed all landed just above the dot. If you overlaid those 6, you’d have about a 0.15” group. I couldn’t figure out why that was happening. Probably tailwind but the flags weren’t blowing out on those pulls (if they were, it was a timing issue on my end). However, I did notice the felt wind under the shooting line was much more intense than usual. That area is buffered by a thick row of pine trees directly behind the benches. Perhaps swirling wind at the line caused shots to creep up. As for the match, I started slow, pulled it together, went into the final frame with a 1 X lead, and couldn’t finish. My friend Cyril and I were tied most of the day until I shot a 5X on target #4. I was first relay, he was second. On target number 5, I center punched two X’s in the sighter box. Then I moved to the left half and flat drilled the first three dots on bulls 1 - 3. All I needed on 4 and 5 was one out of two X’s. I took my time, found the same condition I used on 1 – 3, pulled the trigger, and watched the bullet ride just over the X (“just over” as in a few hundredths). I went back to the sighter, tested the same condition, and wiped out another X. On to the last bull where everything looked perfect until the paper tore. Dammit!! It went above the X by a few hundredths again. Superimposed, shots 4 and 5 would be the same hole. Because I couldn’t close out the win, I had to watch Cyril on relay 2. He missed his first X and needed the last four to tie me (he owned the tiebreaker, hence the win). Sure enough, he nailed them. He’s a dear friend and great competitor. I was happy for him.   -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by flyingzebra on Feb 10, 2021 21:23:49 GMT -5
Another day of lessons under your belt.
Thanks for the tales from the day!
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Post by Lee Martin on Mar 3, 2021 18:57:00 GMT -5
Tenon Stub ___________________________ Threading the muzzle end of a light varmint barrel presents some problems. Because I’m cutting my 6 PPC barrels at 21.5”, the chuck is holding the blank in a heavily tapered spot. Now this isn’t an issue with the breech. At that end there’s a considerable amount of straight contour. A spider is all that’s needed to steady the muzzle end. Flip the barrel around however, and the chambered side wants to flop in the spider (spinning mass puts torque of the spider screws and they loosen). To fix this, we made a tenon spud which is internally threaded and precisely fit to the lathe spindle. And since my action is glued into the stock, this doubles as a thread checker when threading the tenon. On non-glue in rifles, I use the action to assess thread depth. Homemade 1-18 spud:  Inserted in the lathe spindle:  1-32 threads for my Bukys TSI tuner.  Benchrest is a never ending game of gadgets. -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by Lee Martin on Mar 18, 2021 17:42:01 GMT -5
Match #112 Black Creek Gun Club – Mechanicsville, VA IBS 100 yard VFS ____________________________________________________ The March match was the last of the 100-yard Virginia Winter League and first IBS VFS points event of the season. I had already secured the Winter League win since we take the best 3 out of 5 event scores by competitor. Even so, I wanted a good showing but that was not to be. I started strong but on the second target shot a 9. No idea why the bullet went 9:00 off the 10-ring. There was only mild right-to-left wind and I held at the 3:00 edge of the mothball. The rest of that target wasn’t much better. Maybe the dropped point rattled my concentration. Who knows. When I came off the bench though, Wayne France approached me as said, “Well I just opened the door for you. I shot a 9”. We compared targets and sure enough, we both hit to the left of the 10-ring on bull #2. Like me, he saw nothing on the flags that would’ve pushed it that far. Then again, we only have 4 – 5 flags in that 100 yard span. The wind was swirling and there could’ve been current in-between the flags. When that happens, and it does, you’re flying blind. I crawled back to a 5th place finish. On the last target, I had 7 rounds left to burn up. I wanted the full box shot so I could anneal the necks on that lot. Without paying much attention to the flags, I stuck 7 bullets in the hole shown below. It measured 0.157” center-to-center. There was NOTHING wrong with the equipment. My lackluster performance was all on me.  Subtract 0.308” from 0.465” and you have a 0.157” group (7 shots)  -Lee www.singleactions.com"Chasing perfection five shots at a time" |
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Post by flyingzebra on Mar 18, 2021 18:13:49 GMT -5
If it was easy, everyone would be doing it
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