Shooting for Score, a different animal....

Animals that don't fall down and tell you where you are in your progress toward completing 20 shots!  I was terrified of shooting on the wrong target.  6 targets numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.  And I had to be on #5 for every shot.  5th target out of 6 would be the penultimate target but in this case, it was 3rd from the right.  Just to keep you thinking if the snow blowing in your face, my carefully prepped 30-30 brass dropping on the concrete, snow melting on the barrel and going who knows where when it hit the forearm.  FOCUS!

Well, first there was the chaotic reload.  I have spent hours, days prepping brass, like 400 RP cases are all now 2.030".  Thanks John for use of your trimmer and equal effort turning all these cases.  I was having some rounds last year that would not chamber and having identical brass length is a good place to start.  Why not deburr the flash hole and weight sort them too in the winter months.  Then, plat with seating depth only to find that a depth just shy of the lands has the bullet too far out to crimp.  All this put me in a quandry as to what was the right thing to do.  Then the match came so I just them in without a crimp and loaded them one by one.

The circle is 6 3/8" so......I might have lot a pig or two.  The high shot I called.  the others were not bad breaks, or bad enough a break to have me look through the spotting scope.  On a whole, it is a good performance with the 30-30 hand loads, hand cast.  My issue is too much input from pulling and not squeezing the trigger causing the shot to go low or high.

My bullets were cast a few years back when I first got into loading but were never shot.  They have a bit of oxidation but I think that is only objectionable to the human and it makes absolutely no difference accuracy wise.  interesting that the shinny sized areas don't show any oxidation.

Next effort is to create a "pound cast" which I am learning is a trickier project in a lever gun than a bolt gun.