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Off Topic / Humour - I want to be a sniper!

« on: December 14, 2010, 09:22:28 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRgZWWfpXG4&feature=related

Here is another about reloading.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiavoHy9Zgw&feature=related

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: HELLO Everyone...NEWBIE with questions

« on: December 14, 2010, 07:17:36 AM »

Brian,

either of those scopes will work. You see more Weavers than Sightrons, probably because the Weaver has been around longer.

One of the key ingredients in the success of the PPC is the Lapua 220 Russian brass. It is very uniform, resists work hardening, can take lots of pressure, not sure what we would do without it.

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: HELLO Everyone...NEWBIE with questions

« on: December 12, 2010, 04:05:39 PM »

Brian,

We will likely hold a introductory BR clinic at Rosebud this coming year. This would be a one day affair in May. The idea would be to cover the basics of of equipment, shooting a match, scoring, wind reading and anything else we can come up with. The Rosebud Club is west of Calgary about 80km http://www.benchrest.ca/Clubs.html if you can swing a trip West I am certain it would be well worth the drive.

Rick

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: HELLO Everyone...NEWBIE with questions

« on: December 12, 2010, 02:09:59 PM »

Hi Brian, welcome to the forum. You are in good company here as we have a number of BR shooters from Sask, not to mention quite a few coyote callers as well!

Any of those rifles will work to attend a shoot with, and get your feet wet. In time your equipment will evolve into the BR specific cartridges and platforms. Don't be in a hurry to make a bunch of changes in your equipment until you attend a few shoots and get a feel for what people are using.

I don't know what Regina has planned for shoots in 2011, we will likely find out in the Spring.

Where in Sask are you?

Rick

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: What's wrong with Teflon ?

« on: December 01, 2010, 03:14:01 PM »

I don't see an issue with you are doing. Any oil or PTFE residue will be gone after the first shot.

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: What's wrong with Teflon ?

« on: December 01, 2010, 09:29:00 AM »

i think there is also an issue as to how to apply a layer of teflon and keep it uniform the length of the bore. Once you start shooting I think it would get stripped away pretty quick.

I suppose you could apply teflon to the bullets, just not sure anyone has figured out a way to do that. The various tumbled coatings we have now are pretty easy to apply. Have you tried moly or danzac?

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BRSC - Benchrest Shooters Canada / Re: BRSC scope raffle thoughts...................

« on: October 26, 2010, 09:49:15 PM »

For sure you can advertise it here. 200 tickets sounds good to me, you may end up selling more than that though.

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: Why Don’t More Shooters Use H322?

« on: October 09, 2010, 04:47:57 PM »

Lawrence,

Lots of shooting and records were set over the years with 322. The problem is we are sheep to some degree. If some of the top 20 guys were advocating H322 we would all have it by the truckload! Over the last few years the powder of the day seems to be N133. XBR8208 didn't find favour. The old 8208 is still being shot by quite a few guys. Going to be pretty hard to knock N133 off the perch.

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BRSC - Benchrest Shooters Canada / Re: Gaillard sets NEW BRSC HV 100 RECORD

« on: October 08, 2010, 01:51:02 PM »

Congratulations Ted! Very impressive to say the least!

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Centerfire Discussions / Robertson Composites

« on: September 30, 2010, 05:16:21 PM »

FYI new website:

http://robertsoncomposites.com/

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: NBRSA Nats - Kansas City 2010

« on: September 24, 2010, 08:34:31 PM »

Here are the results of Friday's action:

LV200
1st. Tim Oltersdorf
2nd Bill Symons
3rd Chris Harris
George 61
Rob 76
Rick 78

LV Grand
Chris Harris
Tony Boyer
Bob Scarbourgh
Rob 55
George 56
Rick 86

HV200
1st Tim O.
2nd Jack Neville
3rd Ralph Milton
Rob 26
Rick 58
George 75

HV Grand
Jack Neary
Jay Gore
Tim Courtney
George 47
Rick 54
Rob 113

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: NBRSA Nats - Kansas City 2010

« on: September 23, 2010, 05:06:01 PM »

Thursday was HV 100 only, with the NBRSA members meeting and a BBQ in the afternoon.

It was so windy even the Midland shooters were finding it rough...

1st. Jack Neary .2196
2nd. Don Creach .2272
3rd. Jay Gore .2300

Big day for Calvin as he figured the range out the best amongst the Canucks
32 Calvin
38 George
71 Rick

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: NBRSA Nats - Kansas City 2010

« on: September 23, 2010, 05:02:40 PM »

Wed was windy again:

160 shooters

Sporter 100
1st. Hottenstein
2nd. T Boyer
3rd. Buettgen

Canucks
51st. Rick
66th. Vera
91st Jeff

LV 100
1st. Scarbourgh
2nd. Hall
3rd. Andrews

Canucks
45 Rob
57 George
96 Rick

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: NBRSA Nats - Kansas City 2010

« on: September 21, 2010, 08:27:57 PM »

I am shooting a 6PPC, inability to stick a 10 rd group together is the main problem.

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: NBRSA Nats - Kansas City 2010

« on: September 21, 2010, 04:30:35 AM »

Hey I resemble that remark! 104th is nothing to write home bout...

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Centerfire Discussions / Re: NBRSA Nats - Kansas City 2010

« on: September 19, 2010, 08:41:19 PM »

Here are some pictures. Rail guns run Monday and Tuesday, so I took a few pictures of those. Hot and humid again today. George and Vera arrived today. 6 Canadians have made the trip.

Rail

Loading Pavilion

New Seb Rest

Firing Line

Pavillion

Firing Line

Rail

Wasp

Rail

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Centerfire Discussions / NBRSA Nats - Kansas City 2010

« on: September 18, 2010, 08:41:02 PM »

2500 kms later and I am here!

Got here at noon and went straight to the range. jeff, Calvin, Rob were here already.

Insane heat and humidity. Everything and everyone was sweating with humidity. Over 90F and close to 80-90% humidity.

Looks to be about 160 registered.

Boyers. Murdica. Ratigan. Buckys. etc etc. All the heavy hitters.

More practice tomorrow, then the fun begins on Monday.

Pictures to follow tomorrow.

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