4570sharpshooter wrote on Jun 18^th, 2007 at 7:06pm:


Anybody out there in gun land ever hear of Ansel Adams? The famous photographer? I didn't think so. Anyway, this old boy used large format cameras. They ain't small. He did all of his work out doors and in rough terrain. He had to have a stable, vibration free (as possible) tripod for the big old cameras that shot vary slow film. To make a long story short his favorite tripod was the Tiltall.

A little know fact about the use of spotting scope for sheep hunting is that, some people take two scopes out to the field. One scope and stand for base camp (BIG SCOPE) and big tripod. Then they got that fly weight scope they carry up the mountain (with or without) lite
weight tripod.

So if you need a tripod that takes it, get a Tiltall. 

Pictures professor please. Might as well make it complete disclosure.

I see, "it's as if a fog has lifted from mine eye's". Neat!

Hey, I got my five hours, woke up at 3 am.

You never did tell us how your Borchardt is shooting? What did you chamber to?

It must be a superbly accurate barrel, to be able to shoot that well when adding the pressure of the front support to the barrel. I find it interesting how you fellows use that barrel rest as a barrel tuner to control the barrel whip.

I wonder what would happen to your groups if the barrel was shot at the same temperature for each shot?

I guess with all the time it takes to breech seat a bullet, load the case and close the action then prepare for the next shot, you don't lose the condition from the last shot for the group.

Skill levels I've never had ( I do the machine gun act) I pick a condition with sighters, and then get off five as fast as I can before a switch. 

I'm looking forward to learning new bench skills.

Yup, wiping between every shot.  Tried several different methods to no effect.  It would take a religious conversion to convince me of lube purging.  But thanks for the ideas.  More shooting, more experimenting in order....

Brent