#24 Postby RDavies » Mon Aug 07, 2017 1:21 pm
Some may be wondering why the lack of news back from the coal face, but most of us have been pretty busy here.
Due to baggage limitations, we could only bring over bare necessities, so for many of us, our first stop once we got here was clothes shopping, then some food shopping. We have also been shopping in Cabelas for shooting related bits, cleaning gear, wet weather gear etc . We were then kept busy unpacking all of our gear and reassembling rifles, rests etc. Since rear bags were emptied out before we left, we had to get sand to fill rear bags. We had a sight in session at 50yds to check wind zeroes and velocities. A few found the powder which was waiting for us over here was quite a bit faster than the lots we had at home so there was some quick load adjusting and for some who were able to get back in time, a quick retest over the crony.
The weather forecast shows that we will be getting wet at some stage early in the competition and they don't stop for wet weather, so many of us were looking around for wet weather gear, covers, ground sheets etc. Many could not fit their shooting mats in their luggage so we went looking around for marine carpet to use.
Now most of us have all the gear we need and so have been busy priming cases and loading up enough to test in tomorrows practice day or enough for the first few days of competition so they can verify it is working with new powder lots, in new conditions etc.
That is about it for now, so hopefully someone else will chip in with some news once we have shot on the main range.