Perry weather
Except for wind in the standing portion of the Presidents 100, (10 shots standing at 200, 10 shots prone rapid at 300, 10 shots slow-fire prone at 600, possible 300 points), the weather was good. Early relays in the Garand had wind but late ones were fine.
That was early in the week.
On Sunday the M1A match started in the rain. I mean rain like you pray for on your corn crop when you have borrowed against the old home place. In Texas, when it rains, we get under a roof that doesn’t leak. At Perry, you just go on.
I had borrowed an M1A and I asked the owner what he THOUGHT the 300 yard zero was. (whole match shot at 300 yardline) He thought for a minute and said: “Up 24”. For my first of five sighters I clicked up 24 and asked my scorer to watch the bullet trace. At Perry you shoot out over the lake north through the targets. I broke a six-oclock hold that looked good and sent a M852 168 gr Sierra into the Canadian maritime provinces. We are talking low Earth orbit. My scorer said it looked about a target and a half high.
I bet there is a dead fish washing up in Toronto with a 30 cal hole in it. I ended up THREE instead of 24. Shot pretty well from then on.
Turns out the guy had switched the front sight to a low 1000 yard blade and forgotten about it.
Gun shot very well. Very little recoil. It’s an old McMillan-stocked MTU gun. Army reserve team built it. Got wet. I shot a miss standing. Sure wish I had that one back. If it had gone in the nine ring I would have been in third place for some cash.
Instead, we packed up our wet stuff and went to Texas.
August 8th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
How’d ya do in the matches? I felt better about my offhand for the pres match the more I talked to (92-1X), but I screwed it all away on my belly. And I finished three points out from the cut in the NTI. But, I’m new to high power this year, so I was really happy to be disappointed with a 473. (I’d been shooting about 12-15 points higher in practices and matches before the trip)
August 8th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Didn’t see the previous post with your results… Nice shooting. I think I might have made the deputy under-secretary of health and human services 100, but I sure wasn’t any where near the President’s 100. š
August 8th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Congrats on getting up to Perry!! I’m just happy with the new upper and a 396-5x at 200 yards at last Sunday’s club Practice. I guess I’m easily amused or something about low expectations…
August 8th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Thanks for all of the CamP Perry posts.
I would like to go there as a spectator sometime.
Did you sleep in barracks?
August 8th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
The barracks are really cheap and if you sleep upstairs you might have the place to yourself especially this week during the NRA championship. The Barracks problem is that they aren’t air conditoned.
Huts are wired well enough to put in a 110 air conditioner. Four folks to a hut but if you rent one you rent all four beds. I think its ten bucks a night per bed. The modules are more but have their own bathroom and linen service.
We stayed off base at Mar-lu resort over on the other side of Port Clinton. I thought it would be too far but it’s not. Four guys to a cabin, 500 bucks a cabin for the week. Actually it was free. The TSRA picked up the tab.
I stayed in huts 2001, 2002, 2003. Glad to be at Mar-lu. Tempted to try the huts now that you can air condition the things. We had heat and flooding problems plus if they put you in the double letter huts they are too far away and the bathrooms are…..swampy.