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RDavies
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Re: SA Queens 2016

#31 Postby RDavies » Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:52 pm

Tim N wrote:You told me no one over here can shoot so it probably won't make much difference anyway


OK, sledging is now well under way, can we now declare the S.A Queens officially open?

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#32 Postby AlanF » Tue Apr 26, 2016 10:30 pm

Yes and here's one for Mr Fairbairn - we are going to be SQUADDED, through all ranges of both the leadup and Queens, so that all classes are shooting roughly at the same time as their peers. e.g. at the first range F-Open shooters will be squadded 7th of the approx 9 shooters per target. There will even be a break between disciplines so the first shooters of each will start at exactly the same time! And on a range like Lower Light, there will be no excuses about where you are on the mound, because there are no trees and its all dead flat :D .

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#33 Postby Steve N » Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:52 am

RDavies wrote:
Footsore wrote:Is that the Chinese counterfeit N165?

Yes, taken from pulled Chinese pistol ammo.

Could be better than than the stuff they use in the sky rockets or Roman candles.

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#34 Postby Tim N » Wed Apr 27, 2016 9:56 am

Well I've made it to lower light
Got to tell you it looks nothing like the brochure they put out a couple of years back, the full range cover must have blown away and I can't find the swimming pool anywhere!
More like a scene from we of the never never complete with a realistic dust storm near by
Glad I didn't bring the dog because he would have blown off the chain by now
No tears yet but I'm sure they will come
We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. Archilochos 680-645 BC

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#35 Postby AlanF » Wed Apr 27, 2016 11:54 am

We've done the 300, started 500. Warm, overcast. Wind was moderate to strong, consistently from 5 o'clock for 300. Now its tending more to 4 o'clock, and strengthening :shock: .

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#36 Postby Brad Y » Wed Apr 27, 2016 12:13 pm

Looks like your getting the winds that we got the last few days Alan. Hopefully there isnt too much rain to go with it. Though looks like tomorrow will be rough here and it will probably hit you guys over the weekend. Good luck to all.

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#37 Postby Jase PTRC » Wed Apr 27, 2016 12:54 pm

Lower Light is turning on the wind according to the SARA website. gentle gusts of 25mph are being served up at the moment.

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#38 Postby Tim N » Wed Apr 27, 2016 1:19 pm

Did Laurence of Arabia's camel have one lump or two ?
Something I have discovered here is that dust is much easier to read than mirage
Still beats being at work
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Re: SA Queens 2016

#39 Postby Tim N » Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:02 pm

The last range has been postponed till 3pm in the hope conditions will ease up a bit.
We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. Archilochos 680-645 BC

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#40 Postby johnk » Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:13 pm

Wimps!

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#41 Postby RDavies » Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:18 pm

Have they tried moving the event to a time when it is not so windy.




Oops sorry.

They did already. #-o

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#42 Postby Jase PTRC » Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:32 pm

Having been a member at Phoenix Target Rifle club located on that range for the last 2 years i can say the wind will generally not die down in speed but the direction changes may settle a little later in the day.

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#43 Postby RDavies » Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:37 pm

johnk wrote:Wimps!

I'll join John in this one.

You Open class blokes are wimps. Us keyboard class shooters would have scored much higher if we were there. =;

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#44 Postby johnk » Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:56 pm

Apparently that dust does get thick at time.

When I went over in 2009, I was caught in the second big dust storm, but the first was better. Seems this convoy of three trucks was around Yunta heading from Adelaide to Broken Hill when they decided it was getting a tad thick, so they decided that, on the call on the radio, they would run off the road & stop on the count of (?) 20. That worked, & in the clear daylight, the third rig was a couple of clicks down the road & the second less than a metre off the bum of the first.

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Re: SA Queens 2016

#45 Postby AlanF » Wed Apr 27, 2016 4:17 pm

Finally started 600m at 3:15 - wind has dropped to just strong, and squared up a bit from the right.


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