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Palm Bay KDC April 28/29/2018

Started by PHenry, May 01, 2018, 12:48:06 PM

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PHenry

May 01, 2018, 12:48:06 PM
The Port Malabar Rifle and Pistol Club is an amazing venue and we were very blessed to be able to shoot on their competition line with the electronic scoring system. Old PHenry was fairly rusty after five months off the trail and I apologize for my marginal performance. If my health holds, I promise to step up my game and address the suggestions made by the attendees.

I would like to see more KD Clinics, as I feel they help to dispel the silly notion that Appleseeds is a 25M/22LR shooting club.  :wb:

I'll ask Big Chris to post some of his tasty pics.

Many thanks to all who attended.

In Liberty,
PHenry
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

Para ser Libre, un Hombre debe tener tres cosas. La Tierra, una Educacion, y un Fusil. Siempre, un Fusil!  Emiliano Zapata

B.C.

#1
May 01, 2018, 02:58:34 PM
Many thanks indeed! Great range, great shooters. BSZ was proven this weekend! It works and - it works well! Congratulations to all who scored the glory my friends. Thanks also to Blind Dog for the great pics, links are listed below. There are two video slide shows posted from this event on YouTube:

Video clips and a few pictures here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP1LugZFSeM

Blind Dog's great pictures here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG7_rnZv-DQ
"Speak softly and carry a big boom stick"
"Fortune favors the bold"

PHenry

#2
May 01, 2018, 04:48:12 PM
Agreed on BSZ. Out to 400 on a such a large (D) target, I see zero need for knob twiddlin. TOo easy to get out of whack. While differing rifle / sight configs will produce differing POIs, it is a simple enough matter to learn where you need to hold to git hits in V ring. Even my aging eyes were able to do it with iron sights. I found that 100 and 200 required near punkin on a post. 300 required slightly lower than dead on and 400 was about the same. Easy peasy - the rest is simply adhering to the basics, best practiced during dry fire at home.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

Para ser Libre, un Hombre debe tener tres cosas. La Tierra, una Educacion, y un Fusil. Siempre, un Fusil!  Emiliano Zapata

AJ Gonzales

#3
May 01, 2018, 07:38:20 PM
Great weekend, guys.

PMRPC is an amazing facility. Really liked the efficiency that the electronic target system provided!

Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum

PHenry

#4
May 02, 2018, 05:38:23 PM
Agreed AJ - so much faster than going down range. That is also an advantage to "hits count" scoring, as opposed to numbers. I've run the math several times and it always come out the same either way - faster means more AQTs in less time.

By the way sir, what was the make of that fixed scope you were using again?

Huzaaah!  O0
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

Para ser Libre, un Hombre debe tener tres cosas. La Tierra, una Educacion, y un Fusil. Siempre, un Fusil!  Emiliano Zapata

AJ Gonzales

#5
May 03, 2018, 12:44:09 PM
Hi Trey,

It was a Primary Arms 3x
http://www.primaryarms.com/primary-arms-3x-compact-prism-scope-w-the-patented-acss-5-56-reticle-pac3x-acss-5-56

It seems to be pretty good, the BDC was spot on out to 400yds with 55gr out of my 16" barrel. I came with a 100yd zero per the manufactures recommendation and it worked out real well. Shooting at 25m with it is a little weird as the 300yd point (as opposed to 300m) on the reticle ends up a bit too low at 25m. I sorted that out before the KD and I was glad I did.
Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum

Minutemom

#6
May 03, 2018, 03:17:42 PM
It was epic.  Thanks everyone for a great weekend!  Can't wait to do it again.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains." - Patrick Henry

The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation.  Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter in the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government. - Francis Grund 1837

"In the prevailing political theory of the founding era, the family was considered one of the essential pillars of republican virtue, and it not only needed to be nurtured, but also protected from the tyranny of the government.... American revolutionaries and their descendants understood marriage and the family to be schools of republican virtue. -Mary Lyndon Shanley, Review Essay, 27 Law & Soc. Inq. 923,

TheMenace

#7
May 04, 2018, 10:05:43 AM
A request has been submitted to the Range for a repeat performance March 30-31, 2019.
Sons of Liberty!
Defend the Constitution,
The Law of Our Land
https://youtu.be/w6H12dyS8FI
Joshua 1:9
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."—William Faulkner, American author

B.C.

#8
May 08, 2018, 10:18:06 AM Last Edit: May 08, 2018, 10:24:08 AM by B.C.
Finally, here are the pictures attached below. Thanks Scuzzy for fixing the issue!!
"Speak softly and carry a big boom stick"
"Fortune favors the bold"
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