AAR Sacramento, CA 200yd rimfire KD Oct 22-23

[NorCal22Gal]

The last event of the 2022 was a 2oo yd Rimfire KD.   

Weather, perfect temps, breezy on Saturday morning and early afternoon.  Then the wind came up.   



We had 8 students attending this event.  Fine tuning skills was the goal of this event as well as the challenge of shooting a .22 to 200 yds, in windy conditions...very windy conditions.  We had everyone zeroed to 150 yds before the wind came up and made a mess of getting zeroed to 200 yds. It was a variable wind both in speed and direction.  Most of the time it was a head wind but then it would switch up.  The wind at the 200 yd was usually different than the wind from 150 yd target.   

At least this time our target backers didn't fall over thanks to the genius of eaglescouter!!  He made a bracket system that staked the H-stands down so the target stand stayed put.

Sunday started out with a calm breeze.  We put backers out to 125 yds and posted the Morgan's Shingle target.  No one hit in the morning.  There were some close hits though. 

After reconfirming the dope info everyone wrote down on Saturday, we started AQT's.  Late in the morning the wind came back, and it was determined to make everyone work hard to get on target.  One of our instructors decided to shoot in between teaching and was the first to hit the KD Rifleman score with a very nice 45!!  Nice work 303Brit!!  Unfortunately, he was the only KD score we got all day.  Lots of folks knocking on the door with 38 or 39 and a few mid 30's.

The wind was probably 20 mph+ sustained and gusting to 30 mph. The wind at the target line was calm most of the time.  We had some surveyor's tape out for wind flags to help see what it was doing at each distance.  It was an interesting afternoon listening to everyone discuss what they adjusted or held over for the wind.  Especially knowing that we had a wind between the shooting line and the 150 yd target, but almost zero wind at the 200 yd target.   

Everyone wanted another go at the Morgan's Shingle target, so we put that back up last thing, 303Brit and Christina joined the ranks of Morgan's Rifleman!!   

Fun fact: Saturday was 10/22...all the rifles on the line were 10/22's. We saluted 10/22 day with 10/22's. 

Great job everyone!!

Thank you for helping us clean up.

Thank you, instructors, for another wonderful event!

Hope to see you all out next year!

 

Instructors:

Laurie                   NorCal22Gal   shoot boss

Joe                         eaglescouter

Darryl                    3 Huzzahs

Chris                      Pathogen

Gareth                   303Brit

[Calisnaps]

Great weekend, had a lot of fun if not so many hits LOL!

I couldn't break out of the 20's despite shooting 50 yds clean all weekend!  Think I am going to try some higher velocity ammunition next time.

Thank you Laurie and team.