Glenn,
The next day is an open practice for the 2 day long range regional match held on Saturday and Sunday.
ACC Thursday, Practice Friday, NRA Regional Saturday + Sunday.
Frank M.

Vbull

For Schuetzen offhand matches I gave up on personal wind flags. My experence was too much time worrying about them, how they are set etc.  It detracted from my focus. 

I think it's more important to watch the weather match day carefully.  What's it doing, switching direction, increasing and falling off whatever.  Best way is to observe natural conditions.  Trees, clouds, smoke rising, the conditons around the range. Most places There are only a couple of normal weather conditons to see. Here it's stong NE backing off ligher and going back strong, direction changing little. S/E light and varable with major changes in direction. Storms and squalls are another thing. They present a real oppotunity to improve your match standing if not personal score. Waiting out the gust is the way to go there, and watch other shooters get angry or give up. The primary thing to watch if shooting a 3 day match is what each day is likely to present. Sometimes It's best to wait a day out or get going and shoot the whole match in the best conditon.

When sighting in I shoot a few in the most adverse conditon held center to see what the strike is. That gives me the paramaters of what I can expect. Lets say center to 3 Moa right in the major conditon. and of course if sighted for the major conditon thats 3 moa left if the wind goes flat. That gives me the spread I can expect a well held shot to strike.

When shooting you need to watch something.  I may try to get a mirage read while waiting out a conditon or cease fire.  Dust from the backstop is a real good indicator. And I look at other shooters wind flags, certanly plenty of them out there. However once the match begins I am fairly sure what the wind will do to my bullet and only have to watch for signifigant shifts. and pay attention to my sight settings.  Most of the valaditon of sight adjustment choices is spotting each shot compared to call. If puzzled by something there is always the sighter to go back to

Thats what I do anyway

Boats

boats wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2006 at 8:24am:


Sorta depends on what sort of match you are shooting of course.  

A lot of matches do not allow a return to the sighter - and some may not even allow an initial sighter.   Generally, elk, deer, etc also have a habit of not allowing sighters.

Brent

Hi Glenn,
Yup. That is the schedule. This NO Coaching format match was added to the front of the South West Regional LR this year to see if there was much interest in this kind of match. 

As you know, in the BPCR silhouette, mid-range and long-range matches with coaching, it is a team event. Winners’ coaches get little official notice. More, if you don’t have your regular spotter with you at a match far from home, the going can be tough. 

I was talking this over with Mr. Steve Rhoades last summer in Raton after the LR Nationals and he offered to find a spot for this “No Coaching” match in AZ to see how it would be received.  I welcome BPCR matches where a single rifleman, as in most other shooting disciplines can come by them self to do there best. So hopefully we will have some takers from far away places, as this is also the Regional. His match is well attended anyway as most western stated are represented. He runs a very good match!

To stay on topic I should say I have found that some days are wind flag days and other days are more of a mirage day. I just have to see what is working best each time I get to the line or behind a scope. Most days I use a blend of both but there are times when one or the other will lie to you. I like to use mirage if I can as I fine it is easiest for me to make accurate corrections. Errr… that is when I do make accurate corrections.

I can mail entry’s for the ACC….
Michael Rix

"At this time I have just have one more request from all of you. Does anyone have what they would consider a must have book that covers “Reading Mirages”. "

The Accurate Rifle by Warren Page.   The BEST      as far as I am concerned.   4227