Author: RI Red

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April Showers Bring . . .

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Aspirin Shoots! In the rain! 39 degrees! North wind 13 gusting 29! But ya do what ya gotta do.

If you squint real hard, you can just barely see the Know Your Limits steel at 150, just to the right of the yellowish 200 yard target board.

Only 4 brave shooters today, but it does help the odds.

Of taking the W.

And 26 MOA rings steel at 200.
But it is a little embarrassing. Two years ago I took a first with 32 out of 40. Today, a 23. I’ll still take the win and the .50 BMG brass first prize.

Problem resolved . . .

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It (the problem) really is the first thing to check. I’ll fess up at the bottom.
So I went to the range. Got on paper and zeroed at 25 yards. Then went to 100. No. 1 below are the first two, No. 2 is dialed down 4 MOA.

The circle at the lower right is first suppressed shots. I dialed up 2 MOA and shot the orange splatter target on the far left. .432”. I’ll take it. I then locked that in as my zero and did first round hits on the dueling tree paddles at 200 and 300. And went home, where I reinstalled the zero stop shims:

The shims give you a little bit of a fudge factor if you need to dial down your zero on a high DA day. You can see that the actual stop is down about 1.75 MOA.

I just sent thank you notes to Vortex and Ruger. Oh, the problem? Well, wind, temperature, ammo, rifle and scope were perfect. The only remaining variable was the operator. I suspect I started chasing the windage with the dial and got lost. Lesson – do not chase the windage with the dial. Use your scope hash marks to offset. D’oh.

But at least the exercise gave me a positive reality check on the scope and rifle. Life is all about experiencing it, I guess. 🤡

Viva Vortex!

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They said it would be here today. And they were right. All cleaned up and tested, plus another cool decal for my range box.

Listen to me on this one – if you are going to work on scopes, you need these tools, both by Wheeler: FAT wrench for torque in inch-pounds, and scope level set.

I’ll demonstrate with pix:

Now, off to the range.

Mo’ Practice

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And the range was busy today. A Tuesday. Some people airing out their .22s in preparation for Sunday’s match. A couple of guys with two guests were airing out their ARs. Probably went through 4-5 hundred bucks of ammo. I think the drought is officially over.