Friday in review at Consolidated

Another beautiful day in PA.  Arrived at the range at 9 am and there was already a large team of people setting the animals.  At Consolidated, they have the rather ingenious solution of both storing and transporting animals.  Old converted dual axle horse trailers!  Just drive a along the 5 rails for each animal and toss out the animals. 

The 100m range is set up for both 1/5th and 1/2 scale animals in meters and they can put 5 x 4 or 20 people at a relay so there will be 3 relays.  I guess I put that in for fellow match directors. 

PCCLA will be shot in the AM.  Phil and I are going to shoot rimfire for PCCLA.  You will get a report on that in the next post if that decision was a good one or not.  I simply don't shoot the 44 Rem Mag that much to feel as comfortable with it.  My limitation.

Ron and Phil are both shooting well.  Phil concluded the CCI Velocitor were not going to work for the PCCLA rams so....."Aim High" will be the mantra.  The Browning BPR at 1,435 muzzle will hopefully buy me a few rams.

For CLA, Sierra bullets are working great.  My lead killer Ram load is, well, not giving me full confidence so I am going to plan B.  21g of 4198 and not the 28g of 3031.  Unclear at this point without real paper.  They both seems to take down rams.  Ron and Phil are taking the smart path of jacketed.  And Al was most generous and treated the NH team to a brace of Sierra hats.  We might not hit much but we sure look sharp!  Thanks Al for helping us getting us into the modern world of jacketed bullets.  Pro Hunters work great.

A beautiful sunny day in PA.  Almost hot.  The range has been mowed and rails leveled.  Things look great.  No reason to not shoot a 40.  Hillbilly tonneau worked well last night in the rain.  Got the bugs off the windshield using the morning wet. That was a project.  Nice dinner at the Bullfrog Brewery where we enjoyed BFD IPA.  Aka, Brewer For a Day.  Guess you can come in and shadow the master brewer.  Much needed R&R.  or the new word of the week, "Chillax".

Operation Spring Round Up 2017 in PA

Last year John and I had a blast at the phenomenal match held at Consolidated Sportsman in Lycoming County PA.  The match this year will be PCCLA Sat 60 shots in AM.  SBCR 60 shots in PM Sat.  Then on Sunday, a CLA match of 40 shots.

John is traveling and Phil and Ron did a great job of getting all the logistics figured out and all I had to do was bring a truck to carry all the stuff.  I took the week off and scrambled to get things reloaded.  By scramble I mean SCRAMBLE!  Add to the excitement we had a CLA match on Sunday which burned those precious reloads, 56 of them to be exact!

On Wednesday, when I finally settled down to reload and had a small disaster!  My primers were not
seating so I pressed the arm forward "harder".  Well, as the Dillon tech explained, it likely had a small crack in the "crank" which lead to bigger problems.

The good news, I could work the mechanism without the handle.  Stay tuned for a daily update from PA.  Sorry, I can't rotate but you can see the issue!  My replacement part will arrive Wednesday, a little too late for the match.