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I've heard that when you get older your eyes get more.....I don't know how to say it....worn out sort of. Which is why a red dot wont appear as a solid small dot anymore at a certain age. It's worse for me indoors, I get small lines going out from the center of the dot. If I'm outside or just watching the dot in a brighter light it's just a small round dot as it should be. I'm 43, so I'm starting to get really old now
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Zeiss V8 is the big thing in Europe these days.....sweet scope
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I spend everything, except food and beer expenses.
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Yep, could be. I've barely seen one, but heard good things about them.
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One of the recent developments in open guns that have actually gotten more people into shooting open in Norway recently is the CZ Czechmate. A complete race ready open gun out of the box that actually doesn't need gunsmithing before you start using it. All the seasoned veterans are saying that well, it's not as good as a 2011....you'll end up with a 2011 eventually.
Well, maybe, but this gun works, you can take it straight to the range or match and start shooting, and it's cheaper than most common 2011s. You don't have to break it in, change extractors or whatever to make it run. They're getting increasingly common around here lately.
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In the manual for the Czechmate (which is basically a 9 major TS) it says to replace the slide stop every 3k rounds, and a spare is included when you buy the gun.
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Why on earth would you want to allow people to walk around with rifles slung across their chest?
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I'm an IPSC rifle shooter mainly, so just going to give a few pointers.
First of all, delays because of unbagging/bagging........In IPSC rifle we use rifle racks right at the stage, if you have a buddy you can even have him fetch the rifle for you and hold it while your making final prep for the stage, unbagging at the stage is generally not allowed unless required by the stage because of space limitations or other matters, in that case it will be mentioned in the stage briefing.
Load and make ready takes no more time on a rifle than a pistol (I shoot IPSC pistol matches as well). Also, people shooting PCC are going to be shooting at open pistol speeds and are probably going to pick up a few seconds on every stage through the match compared to the slower divisions. Might not amount to much, but there's no way in general I can see that adding PCC to a pistol match would delay things.
Pointing the rifle at someone outside of cof in IPSC rifle is instant match DQ. You unbag at the safety area closest to the stage you shoot, then carry the rifle muzzle up to the rifle rack. Rifles are always flagged until load and make ready, and are flagged immediately following unload and show clear. Then carried muzzle up either back to the rack or to the safety and bagged there.
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You're not qualified to answer!
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At 2-300 I almost always use 6, some of my buddies that have the new Zeiss V8 use 8 at that distance, but it depends a bit on the target as well, generally I try to use as little magnification as I can. At 100 I might typically be around 3-4, but also depending on the target, if it's a small, partial I might go to 5, but I don't think I've ever been at 6 on a 100 meter target.
I'm also in the habit of using 1x as long as I can because of the added FOV and everything you get from shooting both eyes open, something I can't do as soon as I just turn the magnification slightly.
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Yep, unless you have a bipod it's certainly a better option than a bad sitting position. But going prone with a bipod is very often a better option than sitting supported, once you get down you can engage much faster than any other position. But this again depends on the distance of the targets, if we're talking about 10" plates at 100yards then I would just stand up and clamp the rifle against a barricade like in the above picture if possible, which in that case would be faster than going prone. Wether you want to go prone at a certain distance or shoot standing or sitting supported is something you just figure out yourself based on your own shooting skills.
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8.1grs 3n38
Frontier 124grs
29mm / 1.141 oal
Havent chronoed yet but should be around 165pf based on everything I've read.
3 shot group at 25 yards:
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Hopefully the OP has worked out his problem by now. It would be great to know what worked for him.
Yes, I have and thank you for all of your thoughtful responses. Here is what has worked for me.
1) I went from standing and resting my rifle off of the rifle staging box to the reverse kneeling position. I rest my right elbow on my right knee and rest the forearm on the side of the rifle staging box. Its much more secure and has eliminated 95% of the movement and unsteadiness that I had with standing.
That would have been my advice had you not said the thing you had to rest your rifle on was 40" inch, which I figured was too high.
But, you should clamp your rifle to whatever you're resting against with your hand like this:
you can do that on either side of walls and on horizontal edges. You will be a lot more stable than by just resting your arm against something in a semi-offhand shooting position, and then if you're low enough to rest your right elbow on your knee as well that's a very stable shooting position.
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Shoot prone and monopod your rifle on your magazine.
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I've been working on a Glock .40 open gun for the last year, but was never quite happy with it. So santa brought me this a couple days ago instead.
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IPSC rifle use comstock scoring, minor or major, exactly the same as uspsa/ipsc pistol. Also, recommended range is 0-300, the most I've ever shot was 350.
I think it's very cool that you're running rifle matches though. I hope it's popular
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Mental training has its merits......I learned alot drinking beer and watching forums/youtube, but when it comes to timing your wobble I think you actually have to go shoot
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I read one thing where it talked about coming up from the bottom of the target and breaking the shot as your sights get on the target? Is that the same to this approach method?
I definitely have this habit. And I don't like it, I think it slows me down, especially on steel challenge type courses. I think it comes from my years shooting competitive skeet and trap. I often wish I could just transition straight onto the target instead of under and then raise to it.
There's a point where you go from transitioning directly to the target to this technique, if shooting 10" plates at 50 yards for instance, I would transition directly to the targets because that's not really a hard target to shoot. I use the "approach" method on targets that are difficult enough that you sort of have to stand still and start thinking about precision shooting instead. Like Kelley said, You can't hold still on a target, but you can control your approach to a certain degree, which is better than trying to hold still on a target and wobbling without control.
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The reason off hand shooting is difficult is because the earth is round...obviously, standing on a flat surface would be a lot better.
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I can say that in Norway, because of the laws here, only a limited selection of manufacturers have been available. One of the most popular brands here, even among top level shooters have been Bushmaster. A brand most people will regards as crap. So why is that? because, when you build a competition gun, you remove most parts and exchange for "competition parts"....trigger, carrier, stock, handguard, comp etc. etc. You're basically left with the lower and upper. The brand of upper and lower have absolutely no importance in regard to precision and the old chrome lined bushmaster barrels were actually very good. No problems getting at least MOA accuracy with most ammo, and they last forever. The only thing you get for choosing premium brand upper and lowers is good looks and a cool name. Like TS said, the only thing that's important is a good trigger, barrel and comp, and then tune your gas system to your load.
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There was a concern that you had to turn over your guns to the hosting club, because that's how it usually works when foreigners are going to Russia to compete, but apparently this have been solved by temporary firearms licenses being issued to the competitors, also, there's going to be police staff at the airport dedicated to help when people arrive. Other than that I don't know much yet.
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No of course not, it's just like any IPSC world shoot, probably going to be some sort of system with slots for countries.
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So there's been alot of ruckus on facebook and everywhere after the news broke that the rifle WS is deferred to 2017.
This is the site for the match:
55°33′57.5″N 36°42′56″E
It's inside some sort of huge military theme park, which is also under construction:
Official dates:
May 28 IROA Level II Seminar
May 29 First Aid Seminar - Officials arrive
May 30 Officials at the range
May 31 Final inspection
June 1-3 Pre match
June 4 Opening ceremony
June 5-9 Main match
June 10 Shoot Off and AwardsSo......who's going?
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I approach the target from below, break the shot when the dot is where I want to hit, and go down and come up from below again.
Here's shooting a 12" target at 100 yards. 6 shots in 4.25 seconds using this technique. The reason I'm looking back is to check my hits on the electronic screen...You'll just have to take my word that they were all hits
If the target is smaller or further away I will just do the same, but slower.
1x optic for 3 gun
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I always thought amount of magnification corresponded with the size of your....you know!