November Postal Match

[Daryl]

Yes indeed, a 44/50 and 45/50.  The 45/50 is the top target score so far.
It was chilly - too chilly.

[Crooked Creek]

Cutting it close for time. Busy month!
Shot from the bench on some inexpensive kitty litter filled shooting bags.
Cloudy cold and damp today.

Two in the 8 ring and 3 in the 9 ring.

T/C Hawken .54
50 Gr of 2F Schuetzen
.018” Hobby Lobby Pillow Tick patch
Olive Oil  lube
Hornady .530 Rounds
CCI caps
50 yards
Bench rest on bags
43/50

[Nessmuck]

Taylor....is that offhand ?

[Pukka Bundook]

Yet again, no time to shoot a match.
Maybe could squeeze it in today but its ruddy cold. being minus 20 C.
I am still going to find a target about this size and shoot it for group at 50 yards, just to see what my rifle will do, even if the match is over.
Never have ink for the printer it seems.

My one recommendation is for the winner to pick a target we can simply make at home or a normal B-17 or some such. I am no good with computers and am likely not alone, and these printed offs targets close some of us out.

[Daryl]

Taylor's targets are both rested. 

[Daryl]

Crooked Creek- welcome and except for 1, a very nice group. Agreed- 43/50.

[Crooked Creek]

Crooked Creek- welcome and except for 1, a very nice group. Agreed- 43/50.

Thanks Daryl!
 
Allen

[Daryl]

Last day, boys and girls.

[Dphariss]

It might not be that bad at the range but I-90 high profile and towing units are routed through town today so I suspect its bad everywhere. This is my home weather station. Airport shows worse. I am such a sissy.

[taterbug]

yep, Im missing this one too.  a 30-30 day here too.  Not the cartridge, but 30f and 30mph winds.  Was 60 yesterday.  quickly reminded me I picked the wrong coat on the 200 yard trek to the mail box and back.  And my lungs reminded me I ain't quite over this flu yet. 

Dogs keep looking at me weird.  I've coughed so much, I think they've decided who gets first bites while I was out to the mailbox. 

[Daryl]

Nasty wind, but fairly warm for you guys, but it's whatever you get used to putting up with, that matters.
-26 here today with wind chill. Too cold to go out shooting, that's for sure. We're such babies now. Years past, we stopped shooting at -40 because main springs tended to break.
Then, we went out if it was only -20.  Now, if it's -5, (or -7 like when Taylor and I were last out on the weekend) it's too cold.
Getting old sucks, but stopping getting older, doesn't look good either.
It was -14 this day - about 2209, New Yeas day, a year & 1/2 before my hunting buddy Brad passed. That's him shooting the flying goose with the .54 S. Hawken he build in the 70's.

[alacran]

Don't let the old man in Daryl!

[bob in the woods]

Targets were taped to cardboard backing for the last week+, but the weather just hasn't cooperated.  Today was warmer, at plus 4 but with driving torrential rain and 80 km wind. The part that kills me now when the temp dips is my hands and fingers
I really want to try out my .54 flint rifle at 50 yards again. Bench, and then off hand
Back in the mid 2000's I managed a 50 at 100 yards on our club range with that rifle, shooting prone.
The rifle will shoot, but I don't know about me !
Looking forward to Dec's match. 

[Daryl]

Well, it's dark here on the West side & time to declare a winner. Taylor, with his 44 and 45/50 is the GRAND winner for November.

[Daryl]

So am I Bob.  Oft times here when we get some warmer weather in the winter, it's raining as well. Nasty to shoot in when we don't
have a covered shooting line. We could use the upper range but it's too noisy most of the time. Too many rapid fire guys there.
If you can't shoot good, shoot fast.

[Nessmuck]

Congratulations Taylor !

[bob in the woods]

Congratulations , Taylor.  Nice bit of shooting .

[Tony N]

Congratulations Taylor!

[Crooked Creek]

Congrats Taylor!

[Dphariss]

Nice shooting Taylor. Especially in the cold. I had my 16 bore out the other day and shooting the hunting load decided its pretty hard on the neck something I had decided sometime back. After shooting 50-54s for the past few years it was a wake up first shot off the bench. 
And its a little heavy for a British rifle. But I made it that way intentionally. I was younger then.  This design is probably the best hunting rifle especially for bores over 58. Though for horseback use the long tang hawken has advantages.
 Not usually cold here when the wind is high. Its 40 as I post and was coldest the other night at -4 or so.
Was out with a brass suppositiry gun to find a deer or elk. Got on a nice WT buck. But had some grass in the way. I moved to the right about 6” and he bolted. It was absolutely still and I had to make about 100 yards in somewhat noisy snow. Its possible they might have winded me with some little drift of breeze. Its almost never still in that valley but it was still as I have ever seen it and any noise would carry. Now waiting for the ML season to start. This brings out people that have no business in the woods with a ML Some guy was out at the range shooting a T/C “New Englander” short barrel plastic stock side hammer with with some naked HP slug. I would not go to the woods if my rifle, or the shooter, grouped that bad.  A friend who is a BPCR shooter made up a 58 Kibler Colonial last summer and killed a nice bull with it early in the general season.
Regards.