This Week In Shooting And Reloading 3/9-3/15/15

Hello all,

This week I got ready for a Mini-Palma match and did some more load development with the Hodgdon Benchmark Powder.

This week for the Mini-Palma match I practiced shooting prone at 100 yards with my 22 rimfire. Sighted it in a couple weeks ago. The range weather was terrible, the wind was blowing 27-32 MPH left to right and was overcast an sprinkling. My first shot of the day was about 6-8 inches right and good on elevation. So I held the right side duplex cross-hair point center of target and was hitting vertically online with center but about 1/2 inch low, my best 5 shot group could be covered with a quarter, I thought that was pretty good do to the wind and rain. Didn't adjust scope any, I figured if the wind subsides for the match I still want my original zero.

Didn't have time to order match ammo online, so I tried different brands I had, Remington gold, Winchester SuperX, and some Federal. Overall my tightest groups where with the Winchester SuperX.

The next day is the match. So I wake up sunday, pouring down rain. Get gun and gear packed up to head out. Get to the match 30mins early, only the match director and I are there, we wait tell the match start time still nobody shows, just great so back home I head. Now the next match is in May.

This week with the Benchmark powder, I only loaded .222, took my best group powder weight and loaded 1/4 grain lower, 1/4 grain higher and same. 10 rounds each.  Shot all of them, my best group powder weight from last week was still the best this week.


Thanks for reading,
Rex