Brought the Garand out for the June match at Kimberton. My elevation seems to be a bit low on slow prone which hurt my overall score. However, I felt good with how I handled the Garand so all in all it was a good match for me.
Hopefully this will me my last match without a jacket. I’m going on week 13 of my 10-12 week wait for the
creedmoor hardback I ordered.
As mentioned in the last post my Model 1917 and I haven’t been getting along very well. To try and repair our relationship, I got up early and went out to the range with the 1917, a big box of HXP, and some SR-1s to do a little couples counseling.
80 rounds later I think we have a better understanding. I stuck to prone and did several timed rapid strings which have been a problem for me.
It looks like a big part of my problem was simply having the elevation set too low. A couple clicks up to the 300 yard mark did the trick. I do seem to have a windage issue as you can see many of the shots are trending to the left. For now I am going to hold off with just a bit of black to the left of the front sight.
I also feel better about working the bolt. I have been having trouble with the rear sight folding back and coming dangerously close to having the battle sight crushed by the bolt. I’m trying to get in the habit of watching my “workspace” and the rear sight while I work the bolt. Its hard to “feel”
When this is about to happen due to the force needed to close the cock on closing action .
Sore shoulder aside It was a good day at the range hopefully it will translate to better performance in the next match.
Took my Model of 1917 to Kimberton Fish and Game‘s match this weekend to try to redeem myself after my poor showing last month with the same rifle. While I did “better” I had several misses in slow and rapid prone I shouldn’t have.
Me and this rifle seem to not get along. My working theory is that it’s sight picture related. Anyway more dry fire practice for me and I intend to try and find an afternoon to spend proned out with my rifle and a box of HXP.
I finally ordered a White Oak CMP service rifle upper. In 16-20 weeks I’ll post pictures.
It was a very pleasant ordering experience the women on the phone answered all of my stupid questions and even made some suggestions.
Here’s what i ordered:
CMP Upper Pre-Ban
Front Sight Post (NM-.062)
Rear Sight 1/4 min
Pinned Rear sight
Now to turn that $50 Stripped lower from Palmetto State Armory’s Black Friday sale into a match rifle lower. Of course I will have to learn the sitting position now. That sounds fun.
In my last post I mentioned problems with extraction of reloads. I am happy to report I found the issue and it was not trimming.
Yep that’s a gap between the resizing die and the shell holder at full extension. At some point I must have set this incorrectly and was setting the shoulders of the case too high. I’ve properly cranked it down so the shell holder makes contact with the die and problem solved.
Now I have so many rounds to pull 🙁
UPDATE: I don’t think this was the only problem