sharpshooter
10-31-2012, 12:21 AM
Good job Fred! Glad to see another person doing well with a Savage in the BR sports; it gives me hope for my .30 BR I have in the works ;)
Question for ya... one of the commonly cited 'problems' with using a Savage in formal BR is that the action, even after truing & timing, isn't as light or as smooth as a full custom action which supposedly makes it difficult to 'run' the conditions as fast as those actions. Did you run a given condition, or did you read/adjust for the conditions changes as you went?
I've never had a problem running in conditions that were steady, I commonly can get 5 shots off in less than 30 seconds. I do that all the time in long range. This situation was different for the fact it was so switchy the conditions would not hold over 5 seconds at times. Plenty of times I got 2 shots off with holes touching, then the condition would do an about face and I had to wait it out. After the first 3 targets I came to the conclusion that in the 7 minute firing period it seemed like you would get 6 golden opportunities to get 5 bullets down range in the same condition. So you did not want to waste any opportunities, nor think too long. On the last 2 targets the opportunities dropped to about 4, so I had to hold for the "not quite there" conditions and hope for the best. That actually worked well, until the last target when I got confused and impatient and held in the opposite direction. That turned a .500 group into a 1.129, which was still smaller than most shot on that relay.
On a few of the targets, I went back to the sighter to see results of the second most prominent condition, and by the time I got back to the record target, it would change back, so then on I would not gamble a sighter shot because of the loss in time and opportunity.
Question for ya... one of the commonly cited 'problems' with using a Savage in formal BR is that the action, even after truing & timing, isn't as light or as smooth as a full custom action which supposedly makes it difficult to 'run' the conditions as fast as those actions. Did you run a given condition, or did you read/adjust for the conditions changes as you went?
I've never had a problem running in conditions that were steady, I commonly can get 5 shots off in less than 30 seconds. I do that all the time in long range. This situation was different for the fact it was so switchy the conditions would not hold over 5 seconds at times. Plenty of times I got 2 shots off with holes touching, then the condition would do an about face and I had to wait it out. After the first 3 targets I came to the conclusion that in the 7 minute firing period it seemed like you would get 6 golden opportunities to get 5 bullets down range in the same condition. So you did not want to waste any opportunities, nor think too long. On the last 2 targets the opportunities dropped to about 4, so I had to hold for the "not quite there" conditions and hope for the best. That actually worked well, until the last target when I got confused and impatient and held in the opposite direction. That turned a .500 group into a 1.129, which was still smaller than most shot on that relay.
On a few of the targets, I went back to the sighter to see results of the second most prominent condition, and by the time I got back to the record target, it would change back, so then on I would not gamble a sighter shot because of the loss in time and opportunity.