Board Stipends

I was talking with Bob Tucker a couple of days ago and he mentioned something that the KISA board is doing now.  Since I got off the board they started letting the board members have free memberships.  I wish we would have done that while I was on the board.  That would have saved me more than a couple of hundred bucks over the years.

Colorado Match

A couple of weeks ago I went to see my mother in Colorado so I took along my AR15 and shot in a match there.  I did terrible.  The front sight was blurry and so was the target.

On the sitting rapid fire I had a misfire and instead of claiming an alibi I thought that I would just hurry up and get 10 shots off.  I got off ten shots, but I did it much too quickly, and shot a bad score.  I did ok in the prone rapid fire - but not great - with a 94.

Got to the slowfire prone and my sight picture was really bad.

A couple of days later I went to an outdoor match with my frien Van and I forgot my glasses.  Everything was a lot better.

Then I went to Dr. Shank yesterday.  My vision has gotten better since last year and he told me not to wear glasses.  Duh - why didn't I check this before I shot.

Another note - I was eating a lot of sugary junk food for a couple of days before the match.  I don't think that eating sugar helps your vision at all.

Anyway, I am going to start this year not wearing glasses - we will see what happens.

Suggestions to Military Riflemen by Townsend Whelen.

This is a very good book that was written in 1909.

http://books.google.com/books?id=TphJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

A lot of it is still relevant today

2012 Highpower Rifle Matches

Dave Ostlund is taking over the Highpower Rifle Matches this summer.  He held a class in it yesterday and I heard that he got a pretty good turnout.

It may be a really good HP season.

I am looking forward to shooting without having to worry about running the matches.

Action Pistol/Rifle Match

I went and shot in another one of KISA's steel challenge matches today.  I didn't do that good.  My High Standard pistol kept jamming.  On the last round I thought that I would try the other magazine.  It worked perfectly.  Duh!

My Remington 597 jammed a couple of times but it is starting to settle down pretty good.  I just need to learn how to shoot faster.

While I was there I heard that the club had cleared the snow from the road to the Salonie Creek Range.  He said that the club paid $4,500 to clear the snow.   That is a lot of money for snow removal.

I guess that it is necessary to keep the road to the Salonie Creek Range open since the Monashka Bay outdoor range is still closed.  I haven't heard of any effort by the club to get it reopened.  I guess that they are waiting for summer.

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.