Klutz347's Nov. Custom target

[klutz347]

OK. This is my first attempt at this and I feel that I did fairly good. Depending on if the liberal, anti gun hippy lady 2 houses down didn't call the police on me for shooting (which is 100% legal) I may be able to better myself this month and post it.

My score was a 45. While it isn't the greatest, it is great for me.

I was shooting in my back yard, temp was 48 F, wind was NE at 2 gusting to 7

Thanks for a great site and a fun contest.

Ron

[cajungeo]

Good effort klutz. It looks easier than it is. So far you are in 1st place. ;)

[klutz347]

Originally posted by cajungeo@Nov 2 2003, 04:48 PM
Good effort klutz. It looks easier than it is. So far you are in 1st place. ;)
Thanks cajun. You are right, it is harder than it looks.

When I was setting up, I thought, "this will be a breeze. 50 yrd's is 1/3 of what I normally shoot". This target was my second one that day, I went thru another 15 trying to better it. I even cleaned the barrel after every set just to keep everything as the same as I could.

I guess I will keep trying and see what I can do.

[cajungeo]

I'm gonna hafta do some more tuning on mine. Maybe try some match ammo other than the green tags, and play with the tuner a bit more.

[Carnifex]

Good work Klutz. I even cleaned the barrel after every set just to keep everything as the same as I could. I would advise against this. When shooting rimfire you want the bore seasoned with lead and the lubricants they put on the match bullets. I cleaned my barrel for the first time last week. I did a test by shooting a target before and getting sub .5'' groups. After the cleaning it took 20 shots before the groups would resettle into the sub .5'' consistently. I have talked to many world class rimfire shooters and none of them clean there bore untill groups fall off. Just my .22 cents -Carnifex http://www.photobucket.com/albums/0803/Carnifex/889a9d06.gif

[klutz347]

Originally posted by Carnifex@Nov 3 2003, 11:29 PM
Good work Klutz. I even cleaned the barrel after every set just to keep everything as the same as I could. I would advise against this. When shooting rimfire you want the bore seasoned with lead and the lubricants they put on the match bullets. I cleaned my barrel for the first time last week. I did a test by shooting a target before and getting sub .5'' groups. After the cleaning it took 20 shots before the groups would resettle into the sub .5'' consistently. I have talked to many world class rimfire shooters and none of them clean there bore untill groups fall off. Just my .22 cents -Carnifex http://www.photobucket.com/albums/0803/Carnifex/889a9d06.gif
Thanks Carnifex for the advice. Let me elabarate a little. By cleaning, all I do is run a dry patch on string line trimmer line to remove any powder fouling. I don't brush or anything like that.

[cajungeo]

I just clean mine when I get back from the range. I have fired up to 300 rnds and not noticed any diff in groupage. I just don't like dissimilar metal (lead) or powder staying in my barrel till next time which may be a while.