Lodi scores

[JKR]

Congratulations on your win, Tony. I agree that those were some wild conditions. I shot a good amount of long range twenty years ago as a high power shooter. I never saw conditions like they were on Saturday.
I came to this match knowing how to hold and squeeze and that’s about all. I had know idea what would happen or if I could still see with irons at 1000. When I first saw the mold Jim K. sent me, I thought, “you must be kidding”! I’m looking at a big blunt slug and being an old HP shooter, I’m thinking VLD!
Jim assured me this was a great bullet and talked me through load development. I bench tested at 200 yards until 10 shot groups were under 3”. My load is very simple really. Full case of 1 1/2 Swiss (85 grains), .060 poly wad pushed down .1”, Jim’s bullet wrapped in 9# cockel finished onion skin, case mouth squeezed down a little with a 45 Colt sizing die. That’s it. Jim said it was simple and it is.
What wasn’t simple was staying with the wind. Craneman, tell Daniel that I know how he feels. I didn’t do as well for my shooters as they did for me. My previous experience didn’t prepare me for the way the wind works on these big bullets!
It was a great time and left me wanting more!
Jim Ruch