A couple of Raptor Match modifications:

[Danny Creasy]

1. If you want to try your open sighted skills at long range, please bring your O Class sporter to the Raptor Match this weekend (Saturday, March 31st). The O Class rules will be the same as the regular match save for the fact that the targets will be rams instead of little chickens. You can shoot both classes if you want to.

2. Let's simply roll the steel silhouette racks over to the rifle range and set them up at the original 85 yard distance. This will allow for the targets to be visible from the 85 yard low spot and still give us a large drop zone for the critters while creating a little more challenge. I am using Karen's picture of a silhouette rack to help you visualize the set up:



Here is how the five chickens will be positioned:

1 where the far left ram is.
2 where the second turkey from the left is.
3 between the middle two pigs.
4 where the second turkey from the right is.
5 where the far right ram is.

No handling of the old steel pipes. We can put a different colored paper square in the middle of the bottom rail to help our shooters stay on their rack.

[robert]

It's still march so shooting starting at 9am?

Robert

[Danny Creasy]

Mar 29, 2012 13:12:04 GMT -6 robert said:

It's still march so shooting starting at 9am?

Robert

No, the temps have been rising quickly and the turnouts have been big. So, I had posted in the header, on the calendar, and in the newsletter that we would start setting up at 7:30.

[Danny Creasy]

Peary Willard and I did some 85 yard open sight shooting this morning. The O Class will be challenging but it is doable if you get a good zero and concentrate on sight picture while shooting.

I wanted to use high velocity .22 LR ammo for a change. Thought the flatter trajectory and increased energy might help me on the heavy rams at 85 yards. I still have four bricks left from a case of CCI Blazer that I purchased several years ago. I decided to use it in my scoped class rifle as well, a CZ 452 Varmint.

I spent some time first over on the 50 yard bench trying to get a decent windage zero. This can be a bit tedious process with the CZ rear sight. The loosening and tightening of the rear sight windage adjustment screws is a guessing game to some extent. The arrows below track my groups. I ended up thinking that the circled group would be about right when I moved over to rifle range and the 85 yard targets. Same for the Varmint's left group. I was actually surprised how well the two CZs were grouping with the economy class ammunition.



I had mounted the bi-pod on the UL at home and simply left them folded up for the benchrest shooting but swung them down and shot from prone after moving over to the rifle range for the 85 yard shooting. My first few shots with the UltraLux indicated that my tangent rear sight elevation setting was too high. I started hitting the spinners and rams with a six o'clock hold after sliding the rear sight leaf down to its 75 meter marking. The Weaver scoped Varmint needed to be lowered about 2 inches as well and have the elevation adjusted about half an inch to the left. I simply shot the Varmint from one of the rifle range benchrests using my Caldwell rest. Hopefully, it will need little if any adjustments after having the UL's bi-pod transferred to it on Saturday.

Peary and I had fun tweaking our twenty-twos for an hour or so. Man, I wish I was retired. This has been a fun week.

By the way Robert, I experimented with shooting at the Raptor chickens with open sights. Painted brightly, I finally hit five of them with less than ten shots but as you surmised, it took me longer than a minute.

[jessejames]

Danny
Would a peep sight be in the O class or open ? Maybe a class for peeps, just light open sights, maybe shooting at pigs ?

James

[Danny Creasy]

I know that I would not want to shoot against aperture sights with open sights but if anyone wants to come shoot at pigs with peep sights it is fine with me. That is a neat idea James.

3. An aperture sighted rifle, can be fired in A Class with steel pigs as the targets.