3 Position Rifle

I haven’t shot 3 position rifle lately so I thought that I would break out my Anschtz and give it a try.  Boy, did I shoot terrible!  The rifle was heavy and it was hard to hold it on the targets.  When I finished shooting 60 shots (20 standing, 20 prone and 20 sitting I was tired.

I must be getting old. 

I did try my Remington 597 today.  For the first couple of magazines it jammed on the second round but then it started working flawlessly.  I hope that it shoots good next Sunday.

KISA action pistol and rimfire rifle match

I went and shot in the KISA rifle and pistol steel plate match today.  Boy, did I do a nose dive straight into the ground.

First off my rifle wouldn't shoot.  I cleaned it today and when I put it back together I used the Remington instructions.  They said to use 11 ft in of torque.  When I used that much the bolt would hardly move.  I backed it off some and went to the match.

I could never get it to shoot 5 rounds without missing.  I went to the rimfire shooting web page http://rimfireshooting.com and asked for advice.  The people said to use no pressure on the guide rails.  I have changed the pressure on my guide rails and I will go see if it works better this week.  It does seem to cycle a lot better than it used to.

Next stop was rimfire pistol.  I pulled out my trusty High Standard Victor and went to the line.  I have been having a lot of trouble with misfires in it.  I sent it back to be cleaned but it was still misfiring.  It looked like the fire pin was hitting the cases hard enough, they just weren't going off. 

I switched to CCI standard velocity.  Not one misfire.  I can live with that.

Nest stop - centerfire pistol.  My .45 acp would always go off, I just couldn't hit anything.  I changed my load and haven't checked it on paper yet.  I am going to make it a point to do so.

3 position rifle

I practiced 3 position rifle last Tuesday at the indoor range.  I forgot how hard smallbore rifle standing is.  I have been shooting a pellet rifle in my garage a lot but I still had a hard time with my .22.

The winter season is starting

It is snowing hard today and my mind is drifting away from hunting and back towards shooting.

I want to spend some time shooting 3 position rifle in preperation for next years HP Rifle season.  I think that shooting 3 position rifle is great pratice for HP Rifle.  You must have a better hold in 3 position than you do in HP.

I went to the Inland Empire Rifle and Pistol Associaiton web site and noticed that KISA didn't have any teams entered in last years postal match.  That is really too bad.  It is nice to see how you do competing against people from other areas.

But back to the point - next week I am going to try and shoot 3 or 4 position rifle at the indoor range at least once a week.

Nosler Club Program

Recently I learned about Noslers club program.  This program looks like it could be fantastic.  22 caliber 77 grain HPBT match bullets are $11 per hundred and .308 caliber 168 grain HPBT match bullets are $15 per 100.  This is less than half price.

You just don't get prices on bullets like this very often.  I am going to contact the KISA board and see if they will get us into this program.

Some clubs place an order quarterly, I would be happy to do it annually.  We could just put the order form in a newsletter and give people 30 days or so to place their order.

They have a lot of different bullets on their list, including many pistol bullets.

Changes at KISA

I went to the indoor range a couple of days ago and I can see how the club is changing.  The club used to hold a lot of bowling pin matches which I really enjoyed.  When I went to the range I could see were they took the steel table tops and after cutting them up they put them on the walls of the indoor range.

I don't know if this is because people don't like to shoot in matches where it takes a pistol a little stronger than a 9mm to win or they just aren't in to shooting in matches anymore.

Last winter some of the club board members threw away our high power rifle targets.  We pretty much got a new board three years ago.  In the last three years we have not had one board member shoot in a high power rifle match.

The club used to also hold charging bear matches this time of year and it doesn't look like it is going to happen this year.

The club has two sets of HP silhouettes and two sets of rimfire silhouettes but we havn't had a silhouette match in three years.

I guess that people aren't into shooting in matches any more.

Accident at Monashka Bay Range

Several weeks ago the Kodiak Police Department was firing at the Monaska Bay outdoor range.when two of their rounds left the range.  The bullets went into the landfill and hit one worker in the helmet and one in the neck.  Neither worker was hurt. What I have heard is that the police were firing thousands of rounds and some of them richoted into the landfill.

Thank goodness they were firing 9mm so nobody got hurt.

The reason I like a .45 is that shooting something twice is silly.

Sean from the AML/JIA came down and looked at both the Monashka Bay Range and the Salonie Creek Range today.  The Salonie Creek Range is a very safe range.  The only thing that needs to happen on an ongoing basis it making sure that the range boundry flags are in place.  They need to be checked reguarily.

The Monashka Bay outdoor range needs to be improved.  It would be best, in my opinion, if they changed the line of fire about 15 degrees to the left.  Jim Grahm drew up the planes for this many years ago and I think that they are still valid.

I am going to run these plans by some people that are into range development.