My Best 6 shoot group at 100 meters

[SRGTO04]

This is my best 100 meter 6 shoot group shoot on 11/5/2016 at the 100 meter Benchrest match at Phoenix Airgun Club

This was shoot with my RAW BM 500X 30 cal with JSB 44.7
10x , 10x , 10x , 10 , 10 , 9 , for a 59-3x out of a possible 60-6x

My score for the match was 537-9x, out of a possible of 600 I took first place at that shoot in Precision Class

 

[AG72]

Wow! You need to film some of those shooting skills you got and post it! Great shooting!

 

[NMshooter]

Nice job! Don't you just hate that 1 shot, still a fantastic group.

 

[Crutcherro1]

Great group! I'd love to get in the same neighborhood as that group. What's your rest and scope set up?

 

[SRGTO04]

The front rest is a Farley with joy stick, and the scope I use on my 30 cal. is a Sightron 10-50x60 with the MOA2 reticle 

 

[Salticon]

Sick group man! Let's see the rig!

 

[SRGTO04]

Here is the set up that I used for the match

 

[Salticon]

Sweet! Martin is putting my HM in a BR stock with cheek riser, and CF bottle, I went with HM for the option to use mags for hunting, got a thumb hole stock for it too.

 

[SRGTO04]

I also have an extra LRT stock from RAW that I have a Harris bipod mounted on it, so when I shoot in the hunter class I can just change stocks to fit that class rules.

 

[nomojo65]

Wow!, that's a very good group @ 100yds I would be estatic with that group!, can't wait to hear from Sandra, my BM-500 should be ready mid december?

 

[SRGTO04]

Thanks I know you will enjoy your new rifle. I currently have 3 RAWs that I shoot in different matches here in Phoenix, and the group that was pictured was @ 100 meters or a little over 109 yards.

 

[fe7565]

Amazing group at 109yards (and outdoors)! Great rifle and shooter. What is the group size?

 

[SRGTO04]

We measured the 6 shoots at 1 inch ctc. 5 shoots were at a little under 3/4 of an inch ctc.

 

[Salticon]

"SRGTO04"We measured the 6 shoots at 1 inch ctc. 5 shoots were at a little under 3/4 of an inch ctc.

that is amazing, well done!

 

[Percula]

Check out RAW's FB page for more from that competition.

 

[jking]

SRGT, 
Great group first off, congrats!
Are you sorting pellets by way of weight, head size, rolling or sizing or a combination? Curios too on how your positioning your body on your stock. I can see your trigger hand and get what you have going on there. I just started incorporating some different techniques for better BR shooting. 
Jimmy

 

[SRGTO04]

Hi jking I will try to tell you my position behind the rifle, I use a lite pressure on my check to get the same eye relief each time and very little presure into the shoulder with the butt of the rifle lettting the rifle move. The placement of the rifle on the front rest is a trail by fire. Make sure and try different placement or balance points front and rear to try and get the best harmonics or movement of the gun to get the smallest groups and repeat, repeat, repeat, and so on. Now for the pellets I use an Air Comparator to air gauge the size of my pellets. The Air Gauge System I use is made by Mark Buchanan from RAW (Rapid Air Weapons) Phoenix office, he can be contacted on there web site. After that I will weight them. I know what psi range my rifle barrel likes and I will use those for the match and the other sizes for practice. Oh ya and practice as much as you can and try to read the wind. Wind calls I think is the hardest thing to learn. You will also need a good set of wind flags very important, ask CK (Cold King) about that and the condition we shoot at the 2016 USARB Benchrest Nationals in Oxnard CA.

Hope this help in some small way

Allen S

 

[SRGTO04]

Here is a little story about the winds at Oxnard by CK (Coldking), this was taken from WRABF....ERABSF....25meter target post thread


September 24, 2016 at 9:55 pm Coldking Accuracy:

Just finished Day Two at the Nationals -and the only word I can think of is HUMBLING ! For guys that complain about winds– I can now say – You ain’t seen nothing until you’ve shot at Oxnard! Many a guy looked shell shocked by the end of this day! Me included -in all my years of shooting, I don’t believe I’ve ever shot in such conditions? -Just impossible to read these winds- they would turn in the other direction in a nano second! I have another bite at the apple tomorrow but – it’s definitely like nothing I’ve ever shot in before – not one competitor there thought differently – This is a sample clip of the wind conditions – I’m not sure of the video quality – but you’ll get the jist of it! 
https://youtu.be/PSqOZw_9ahwThe good part of this adventure was putting faces to so many people that I’ve typed to-It was a Hoot to meet Allen Surratt! He’s a Really nice guy! everybody at the event was incredible! And our host was the Best! My hat goes off to Joe Friedrich! Now if he could just grow some trees to stop them crazy ass Santa Anna winds!
It was great too see Gals like Linda Koch, Vipha Milller – really outshining the guys! 
But Allen Surratt does seem to give off his own light?

Metting the Arizona team- Mark Bucanun – all super nice people with a devotion to Airguns –
‘also James Brinkly -shooting in springer class – so many great people – to numourous to list !CK

 

[jking]

Dang, from looking at the video I'd blend right in being from the treeless corner of NM, just adjacent to the treeless edge of west Texas. I think on days like that you just have to accept that the scores ain't going to be pretty do your best and just enjoy the day and the fine folks your around.

I don't shoot competition but have been trying to get the best out of my FX500. I have been trying different holds and trigger hand placement. I'm sorting by weight and found that the the barrel likes .251" resized Heavies. Still need to try some groups at different velocities and see if there are any gains there. I'm also shooting a bipod and a sandbag on the rear. May have to try a bag on the front too. The biggest deal here is finding a calm day every now and then .
Thanks again
jimmy

 

[Percula]

What SRGTO04 isn't saying to his humble credit... On our home range is the wacky nature of the wind, its not that it just blows and gusts, it "dances" here. The day SRGTO04 shot that group I seen the wind flags... first one showing ~90° with a lite wind, second showing moderate wind from 180°, the third show lite wind at ~270° and the forth flag showing no wind. Wait 30 seconds and see completely different wind...