How often do you guys go shoot your rigs? I know some of you (Randall & Ryan) shoot almost every weekend but its mostly matches.

If you had to break it down to rounds fired per month in match and practice whats the ratio? Im trying to determine how much i need to get in to it with out burning out barrels super fast and burning up reloading components. Lately i've had a mentality of saving my rifle for the matches. It seems to be working out... no zero shifts yet, dope is usually spot on with my predictions but i feel the need to spend more time behind the trigger.

I shot my Sako Quad last week out to 200yds and made a bunch of pretend stages for myself inc. hold over stages and even dialing out the knobs as well (7.4mils to 205yds) Did a bunch of positional and some offhand. What i found is that its nothing near as hard to master as my .260. Even though the Sako is heavy for a 22lr (McMillan has sniper fill) is still no comparison to the Premier tank and the truck axle for a barrel i have on the .260.

In short, if we could shoot prone all the time this would be easy

I need to devise a training plan per month thats not going to waste my barrel in 2mos ... what works for you guys?

I just found out Piru is open Wed. I am shooting about 4 days a month.

I shoot 1-2 days a month on average. I shoot more during the summer time though. I want to start shooting the matches at Pala and more pendleton matches. It seems all I ever shoot are WEGC matches and the occasional out of state match. But seriously, if you wanna shoot a barrel burner, buy a lathe and do your own stuff. I have barrels on order constantly because wait times are so long. Luckily Randall is helping people out because if you have to send it out not only will it take forever to get done but the labor is going to cost you half the barrel price on top of the barrel itself. I have 2200 rounds through my .243. I went out shooting in the desert a few weeks ago and blew thru 150 rounds in about 3 hours. I think I could have toasted my barrel it got so hot at times, so wel'l see how things go in the match tomorrow. My cold bores are getting much less consistent and I think im about ready to spin on a new barrel. Unfortunately with the barrel burners, money spent on components and barrels adds up pretty quick.

DirtRacer151 wrote:I shot my Sako Quad last week out to 200yds and made a bunch of pretend stages for myself inc. hold over stages and even dialing out the knobs as well (7.4mils to 205yds) Did a bunch of positional and some offhand. What i found is that its nothing near as hard to master as my .260. Even though the Sako is heavy for a 22lr (McMillan has sniper fill) is still no comparison to the Premier tank and the truck axle for a barrel i have on the .260.

Dry fire your regular gun more.

do you dry fire with snap caps like the ZOOM ones?

H2H wrote:do you dry fire with snap caps like the ZOOM ones?

No snap caps needed on a 700 action.