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Offline Roger Fisher

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Positively the latest shoot yesterday!
« on: November 19, 2012, 07:28:43 PM »
Shot at Langehorne R & G yesterday.  Fine weather and a good day shootiing.  Shot for turkeys (neighbors will be well fed) and merchandise. 32 shooters various matches and positions 25 to 50 yds.  Next year we will go at it at 75 yds and plank matches.  Some old geezers are whining about needing something to rest on.... ::)

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Re: Positively the latest shoot yesterday!
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2012, 07:34:44 PM »
Always a good time at Langhorne.  I couldn't make it yesterday.  Wish I could have...

James

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Re: Positively the latest shoot yesterday!
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2012, 01:16:17 AM »
Got together at the Guthsville Rod and Gun Club (PA) yesterday with the usual suspects (Dale Atkinson, Carl Schmoyer, and Frank McGrath) and worked with my .32 caL. Schimmel.  It's a good looking gun and has shot well for the eight years or so I have had it.  I decided to do an informal load development session (offhand at 25 yds.) instead of going to the bench.  My interest in doing this was to develop a load using SWISS powder.

My hunting load has been a .315 RB patched with .015" cotton over 30gr. GOEX 3F.  It has shot well, about one minute of squirrel.  The problem, common with small calibers, is how fast the rifle fouled.  I can get two, maybe three, shots from it before it had to be wiped.  If I took it to a shoot, where I might shoot 30 shots from it, it would need a good cleaning every 10 shots even when wiped every other shot.

I went for the Swiss, $20.00 per pound compared to the usual fourteen I pay for the GOEX.  It was well worth it.  I fired 15 shots from it before I wiped it for the first time.  I could have shot more, but I did not want any fouling present to affect accuracy. 

I started off with a cast .320 RB, .018 ticking patch, and 27gr. of Swiss 3F.  This load shot very well, less than two inches offhand, but I needed a mallet to get the ball started.  Not a good choice for a hunting load where I would have to reload in the field sans a mallet.

The next load was a .315" swaged RB. .016 cotton patch, and the same charge of powder.  Again, an accurate load, maybe a little smaller group than the one with the .320 RB.  I will want to see what this load will do from a rest, but I think it will be my new hunting load.  I fired another 15 shots and the 15th was as easy to load as the first (from a clean barrel.)  Swiss powder is my choice for the .32.  Now, let's see what it will do in my other small calibers.

I plan on using this gun more, but considering I also have a .36 and .40 cal., I'm not sure how often I will take it out for squirrels.  Maybe the .40 will be strictly a target gun (double-set triggers) and the .32 and .36 will be my squirrel guns.

Anyhow, it was a good day shooting with some great guys.

James

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Re: Positively the latest shoot yesterday!
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2012, 01:31:06 AM »
Roger, what are plank matches? Sounds like something you lay on, but it could be a target of some sort too.

Offline Roger Fisher

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Re: Positively the latest shoot yesterday!
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2012, 03:03:14 AM »
Roger, what are plank matches? Sounds like something you lay on, but it could be a target of some sort too.
Search out the Sept 19th post on this... Detailed description there..

Sawhorse with an inclined plank resting on it.  Upper end on the sawhorse.  Shoot from kneeling position with rifle at rest on upper end of the plank.. Its a Western thingee and works out there...Usually shot at 60 yds string measure ;but no one says it can't be shot various distances and/or targets.... 


Offline Dave B

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Re: Positively the latest shoot yesterday!
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2012, 09:40:01 PM »
I susspician that the need for the elevated rest for the Montana Wyoming crowd is that if you lay down you cant see over the burm of snow.  ;D
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Re: Positively the latest shoot yesterday!
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2012, 10:49:53 PM »
I believe Dan Pharris has a video with him shooting some long-range targets at a plank shoot.  Could be wrong.

Offline Roger Fisher

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Re: Positively the latest shoot yesterday! Again
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2012, 12:06:15 AM »
Susquehanna at Danville, Pa shot their last 2012 shoot yesterday in the 30 degree cold and wind.  Silohuettes out to 90+ yeds, 11 shooters stuck it out til about 1 PM.
17 hits out of 20 won the match.  I was struggling with a new lady and shot poorly.  Double sett trickers were set tooooo light and did the proper adjusting last night on the bench.  Tightening the trickker spring did the deed.  (Apparently)  In any case I finished way down in the pack.  Shot for $.

Offline Roger Fisher

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Re: Positively the latest shoot yesterday PART2
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2012, 02:12:54 AM »
Boyertown with the help of several good volunteers ran a 25 shot woodswalk yesterday.  Perfect conditions The first placer had only 2 or 3 misses and first grab off the blanket. There were 25 shooters and all had a good time (seemed like) I would have also if I would have had my act together.