BPTR Rifle Suggestions

[Gunlaker]

Thanks everyone. Zack my load is also with 010.213. Sadly I have maybe a can and a bit left. Hopefully the next lot is as good.

Fogman, I'd shot this load a lot at 300 for practice and it produced a couple of ten shot one MOA groups from prone so I was pretty sure it would work. I had time at the tail end of our silhouette match to put some on the 800m gong and it seemed to work really well, but that was the only LR testing. Bryan said that at 900 I had a good string of shots going that only used about 3/4 a minute of vertical, although a fair bit more horizontal :-) :-).

The one thing I noticed about this rifle and load is that it seemed very predictable in the wind. There weren't too many mysteries about where the bullet went as long as I broke the shot well. I'd say that my other long range rifles seem to be less predictable, but this might just be my inexperience at LR.

I definitely learned some more about Creedmoor shooting. One of the more interesting things was something I picked up from Jimbo. I was generally wiping with three damp patches, but when it got hot on the last target of each day the shots would go just a little lower. I switched to 4 damp patches and the shots went back up to where they were before.

The biggest thing I learned was from watching Hugh Wilson ( my super talented spotter ) call the wind. We had a good collaborative system going where we'd discuss what we thought conditions were going to give on each shot. It was much like when Bryan and I shot together at Worland a couple of times. This is also the way my shooting partner and I do it for silhouette. What impressed me though was the subtleties that Hugh was able to pick up. He was able to give me single minute corrections for changes that I didn't see at all. That kept us in the 9 ring for the most part. I'm pretty confident that I have the basics figured out, but shooting with Hugh showed me that I still have a lot to learn.

Chris.