1'st of the Spring

[desert deuce]

The pp loads were fresh and the greaser's were probably 2 years old as I have not done much with that style of bullet in quite awhile. Nice to see that they still land in the middle. It was interesting that all loads shot to the same POI. I was a little surprised at that. Of course my last shot was in the white @ 12.30 with a paper patch bullet. Oh well, next time!

Funny you should mention vintage ammunition. When the Triple Crown Match was announced I figured it would take at least 400 rounds of 45-90 to shoot through. Since I had a pretty good residue of left over ammunition and not near that many (400) empty cases I had to figure out something. The match of course was the end of February to March 8th so I looked through left over lots of loaded ammunition from previous matches going back to 2014 and took inventory. Fortunately, living in Southern Arizona I was able to wait for cooler days in December and January to shoot some of the left overs in practice and reload those cases before going to Phoenix. All vintage lots shot just fine at 1,000 yards in practice and in the match. Combining left over lots with reloaded empty brass I had enough to shoot the match if I used three different rifles. So that's what I did. One rifle in Creedmoor, another in Mid-range/Long Range and still another in the 1,000 yard world championship. All ammunition used grease groove bullets. All long range rounds were money bullets cast 1-16 alloy, Mid-range cast 1-20 Saeco #745. The plan worked just fine.