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Doug Scott was our club match winner with 3.985" for 10 shots. He was shooting his favorite Turtle Rifle. It is a flintlock with a 50 caliber Paul Griffith barrel, 1:66" twist with 110 grains of 3Fg Swiss. The sights are post front sight with a square notch rear sight. Excelent shooting Doug.
It was a bright day with the wind mostly calm or gusting into our face. We finished before the sun moved to shine directly on the target. --- The rest of us don't care to post the results.
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Walter,
Your "rest of us" sounds like the regular state of affairs for most of us. Sounds like everyone had a good time.
Mark
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the gimmer range is definately unfriendly to chunk shooters for low scores.doug is 73 and was going to give up shooting several years ago found out had cateracts had surgery and can see like a teen ager again.
way to go doug. even though you took the range record away from me, he also won every round .all 10 of the side bets pot,the funny part was he shot like paul used to .not one 4 legger. just kept shootiong rubbers .doug said he only had 1 shot ovewr.500 a 5/8 my mistake doug told me he is 75
dag
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Sounds right to me. Consistancy pays off every time.
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It was a great day, fun and I learned something. But we kind of gave up on winning the side bets after the first few shots. Hope sprung up when the Turtle Rifle misfired on shots 9 & 10, but when the shot went off, they were only ~1/2 a ball-width further out.
Proves to me that you don't need underhammer ignition or special sights. We would do better with good eyesight and to follow-through on the hold, every shot.
My temperment, wind, changing light, clouds, barrel, crown, load, loading consistently, etc, etc, etc. . . . Still trying to fit all the pieces together.
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