Gopher Rifle and Revolver Club board election -- Nov 16

Highpower shooters who are members of GRRC should plan on attending the next membership mtg at Kraus Hartig. Nov.16.  Board members will be elected, and it is important for us all to have Highpower representation on the Board.  While the governing group at GRRC has always been the most fair group of governing folks that I have seen in any of the rifle clubs I have belonged to for the last 20 years, it is important to have discipline representation to ensure that it stays that way.  We need to have a HP person on the board in order to secure and coordinate match dates and such.  See you there?

Shooters News -- The Week Ahead - Oct 12th

Shooters News for the MN area  -- Oct 11th 

The Week Ahead -

Unfortunately, guys and gals, I am forced to report that there are no rifle matches, that I know of, coming up this weekend. It looks like the Rifle Match season is actually finally over for the year with the exception for the monthly 300 meter matches at Mpls. Rifle Club.  Arrrg!!   Here it is a beautiful fall weekend coming up and no rifle matches go to.  There is (I'm told) a Practical Pistol match at GRRC for those who just can't, stand to think of spending a Saturday without pulling some triggers.   
 

Last Weekend 

300 meter match at Mpls Rifle Club

This in from Brian Shiffman:

"What a glorious day for a match.  Bright sky, little wind and comfortable temperature; just a great day. 

 So, what happened??  Without the weather we had to get creative with excuses for less than stellar performances.  For me, I had not shot such a low score since the second prone match I shot back in March.  I can't blame anything except me.  The last two 20 shot strings had shots all over from 6's to 10's.  Each of the 20 shot string average, as shown by the little + sign on the target screen, was dead center X, meaning that on average I had all X's.  Ha.

   I heard other complaints of poor shooting/scores with just mumbling and grumbling.

   The highlight for me was to watch young Eric Halzelton shoot offhand with his .223 bolt rifle.  The concentration in his eyes, his consistent position, good follow through and cool head was great to watch.  He's going to be one fine shooter..

   This was the first match in which there were NO 3-position shooters.  We had Prone, Offhand and F-Class shooters.  It was good to see Ali Reda and Robert Young at the 300 meter range, again.  One "New to me" shooter was Mike Anderson who had not shot a match for about 8 years.  Well, he must have been shooting somewhere.  He was shooting an AR-15 with stock battle sights in Prone class and ended with a 529.  As you look at his score you will notice that he shot a 172 followed by a 174 and finishing up with a 183.  He shoots Black Hills blue box ammo and the last group was fired with a heavier weight bullet, 77gr I believe, while the first two were with 60-something gr.  Heavier is better.

    Steve Morehead was shooting a new Remington rifle in .243 with a Barska scope.  It's a left hand model.  Up to this time he had been shooting a 30-96 hunting rifle that would shoot inconsistently once the barrel had about 10 shots through it.  Heat problems.  The new Remington has a heavier, target, barrel and held steady.

    Poor Robert Smith; for a guy that usually shoots 595+ his 582 was awful; but he still won F-Class.  Inconsistent ammo.  Second loading of the Lapua brass, same load that has produced in the upper 590s.  Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted.  One was offered by a fellow shooter was that the area was sprinkled with pixie dust to throw us all off.  (Note: the free pistol match held on Saturday also had exceptionally fine weather and the scores were down for all shooters.)

    The house was infested with box elder bugs.  The white walls were covered with them.  They came into the building sometime early last week; we did not have any for Workday or the following Sunday match.  I cannot remember so many of the things in the building.  One year it was the biting variety of lady bugs; this year it is box elder bugs.

    The full results of the October match can be found at http://www.edfpages.com/mgfc/results.php?match=10 .  If you click on any of the months at the top of the table you will see the results of prior club matches.  We did not have a club match in Feb or April because those days were given over to other match events.

   The next match will be November 14.  Hope to see you then."

 Brian D. Shiffman    shiff004@umn.edu   

 Service Rifle 
Offical Leg Match Results from the Sept. 25th GRRC Leg match

Official Results are now posted at the CMP web page

    Over all Results:  Click Here 

    Non Distinguished Results  --  Click Here 

The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals went to Phill Klanderude, Dean Gilliette, and Larry Weidel in that order. 

The coveted Leg Points went to Phill Klanderude, Dean Gillette, Tim Thole, and Tim Boyle. As reported earlier, and worth mentioning again--- This 10 point Leg that Phill K. earned has put him over the top and he has now earned his Distinguished Rifleman's Badge.  Congratulations to Phill.       

Notes: 

Mark Havlik adds to the AR-15 Service Rifle discussion on the need for a hooded Rear sight:

From Mark: 

To add to your discussion on AR Service Rifle sights, I would agree a 
hooded aperture isn't a necessity. However, a hooded aperture does 
allow you the flexibility to change aperture sizes (.038, .042 or .
046") without an annoying POI change. For example, my rifle started 
life as a DPMS DCM model. It came with a flip type rear sight that I 
don't remember the sizes of, but one was small and the other smaller. 
The problem was flipping from one size to another would result in a 6 
moa POI change.
   As to front sights, I started with a .072" wide post. As my eyes have 
gotten older I started running into horizontal stringing. I've since 
switched to a narrower .052" Post and now I'm fighting vertical 
stringing. (LOL)
   Like you, I have my vision correction in my Knobloch shooting 
glasses. I increased my magnification this year from .5 to .75 as I 
was having trouble straining my eye to focus on the front sight." 
Mark Havlik 

Thanks Mark.   I'm not sure how one changes the aperture sizes in a hooded rear sight as I don't have one, but even without one, I can change my aperture size just by screwing out the threaded-in aperture and screwing in a different sized one.  I have a rear sight (1/2 min adjustment) made by Albert Turner who also makes some of the best leather Service Rifle slings.      

From Larry Weidel

 Is any one interested in some 30-40 Krags blank cartridges? 

Later,  Larry    weidell@aol.com 
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Hawkeye

I found a nugget -- German Salazar prone shooting style

Shooters News - The Week Ahead-- MN Area --Oct 7th

The Week Ahead for MN area Shooters   

300 meter

 I hope you all haven't put away the shooting equipment for the season yet.  There is a Rifle match in the Mpls. area this Sunday.

Mpls Rifle Club is holding their monthly 300 meter match on Sunday, Oct 10th, starting at 10am.   This will be both a prone match or a 3 position match -- Take your pick.  You can shoot either or both.  These matches are shot from the 300 meter house, which is climate controlled, and fired on electronic targets which show your hits on a computer screen next to your firing position.  This is really neat-- you get instant feed back on your wind calls and don't even have to pull targets for the other shooters.     
 
About the match from Brian Shiffman:

"Yep, it comes rolling around again.  The MRC Club 300 Meter Match for October will be this Sunday, the 10^th at the MRC 300 meter house.  Shooting begins at 10AM.  Fee is $15, including state taxes.

 This seems to be pretty early considering I just finished cleaning my rifle from the September match.

 I have to make a correction to the email that was sent out after the September match.  I mentioned that Mike Marzitelli was NOT shooting a Schmidt Rubin.   At that match, the rifles used by Mike and Tom were Schultz & Larsen.

 See you on Sunday."

 Brian D. Shiffman      shiff004@umn.edu

These 300 Meter matches continue monthly.   See Schedule:  Click here      

Small Bore

Subject: Draft 2011 MN Outdoor Smallbore Schedule  from George Minerich  MRRA Pres.

" Hi Guys:

 Please find attached the DRAFT 2011 Outdoor Smallbore schedule.  You are getting this since the majority of you represent clubs with smallbore programs.  Right now we are looking at 11 matches.  Please take a look at it and let me know if there any changes needed.  Chris if ERSC wants to run another match MRC can give up a prone date or we can squeeze something in.

 Kurt and Mark please forward it to your clubs and see if anyone has plans to run an NRA Authorized match next year.  Bob B. I included the State Championship bid dates for Hibbing – any other NRA authorized matches planned? 

 Please send me any info on other matches ASAP so I can add them to 2011 Schedule

Thanks!  George"

Click Here    for Draft 2011 outdoor Sm Bore Schedule   

Service Rifle

FYI--  Larry Weidel, Kurt Borlaug and I have had been having a short discussion about the worth of having a hooded rear sight on an AR-15 Service Rifle.  Many new shooters purchase this attachment, not knowing weather they need it or not, after seeing other shooters using one.  Larry W. and I don't use one and see no real need for a hooded rear sight as our hat bill shades the sight well enough.  Kurt has been using one but after some testing with a non hooded rear sight thinks he may be able to focus the front sight and target better without one.  None of us use a diopter lens in the rear sight--- ( even though I have a .675 diopter glasses prescription).

Larry uses a .042 dia rear aperture, for good light days, and a .048" on darker days, while I use a .046" all the time.  I have a .052" screw-in rear aperture, but I am too lazy to change it out.  I use a .042" width front sight blade which has been bent a little to the left for the last 15 years. .

If anyone has more to say on this subject---send it in. 
 
Long Range
Minn. area long range shooter, Stacey Tamulinas has traveled this week to Australia to participate in 10 days of competition with the US Development Team. He has promised us a rpt when back back from the trip. Thanks mate.
 

Starting next week, I am taking a short time off from blogging and newsletters to prepare for Fall migration. 

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Hawkeye