M1 & Vintage miltary bolt action match @ Burns Range, Bouge Chitto MS 04/11/09

[dzelenka]

You are going to like it when it comes. They are really cool guns.

 

[MoMallard]

Ahemm....I believe that 86th is my true ranking!!! Now we just have to all work on getting on the "other" list, highly populated by folks from Columbus, GA.

 

[sgt z]

About this match, the link to the club doesn't work. Where is more info on the range.

Thanks

 

[Saw]

At the risk of being slightly off topic, but I'm going to the CMP South store to pick up my forst M1 and a couple tins of 30.06 tomorrow. Should be fun, I'm stoked.

 

[dzelenka]

Ahemm....I believe that 86th is my true ranking!!! Now we just have to all work on getting on the "other" list, highly populated by folks from Columbus, GA.

I stand corrected. Sorry.

 

[dzelenka]

Not a bad showing considering that something in the neighborhood of 1500 competitors shoot at the Nationals alone. I don't have an estimate of the number of competitors shoot these matches nationally, but I am sure it is many thousands. 4 locals in the top 100 is pretty good.

 

[jdhunt3]

And so i restate my question...Would I have to remove the scope from my bolt action FR8?

Yes, you would have to remove your scope.

 

[dzelenka]

Ahemm....I believe that 86th is my true ranking!!! Now we just have to all work on getting on the "other" list, highly populated by folks from Columbus, GA.

The only list I need to get on is the President's 100.

 

[dzelenka]

Not a bad showing considering that something in the neighborhood of 1500 competitors shoot at the Nationals alone. I don't have an estimate of the number of competitors shoot these matches nationally, but I am sure it is many thousands. 4 locals in the top 100 is pretty good.

It would be a lot better if Mr. Hunt could learn to shoot a Garand.

 

[jdhunt3]

It would be a lot better if Mr. Hunt could learn to shoot a Garand.

Garand? I don't need no stinking Garand! I can sure make that 03 sing!

I finished 22nd overall in the National Springfield Match the first year it was held at Perry. I consistently win Gold or Silver with it.

The 03 is a light, beautiful feather in my hands, whereas the Garand is a fence post. Plus, hell, even a one armed man could shoot a Garand if he had to, but he'd only get one round off in the 03.

 

[Doug Bowser]

Location of match

I am the Secretary of the Southwest Gun Club. The range is located 15 miles North of McComb, MS near I-55. If you need a program, email me at saman1@telepak.net

We ought to have a great time.

Doug Bowser

 

[Doug Bowser]

after action report

We had 12 shooters fire the M1 Garand Match and 10 shooters fire the Vintage Bolt Action Military Rifle Match.

The weather was perfect and it was good to see that many of the older rifles at the range.

Doug Bowser

 

[flamatrix99]

I would like to come to the next one. By then I should have my Garand from CMP(hopefully only another month wait on CMP). I also have a Mossin 91/30. My father-in-law is SUPPOSED to send me his M1 Carbine also.

 

[dzelenka]

Garand? I don't need no stinking Garand! I can sure make that 03 sing!

I finished 22nd overall in the National Springfield Match the first year it was held at Perry. I consistently win Gold or Silver with it.

The 03 is a light, beautiful feather in my hands, whereas the Garand is a fence post. Plus, hell, even a one armed man could shoot a Garand if he had to, but he'd only get one round off in the 03.

22nd huh? Where was it that I finished in the 2007 National Vintage Military Rifle Match with that K-31? Shooting a 1903 is like wrestling an alligator - all that twisting trying to get the shell out. A K-31 is a work of art by comparison. And that GP-11 ammo is the finest ball ever made.

 

[smith625]

popcorn

 

[jdhunt3]

22nd huh? Where was it that I finished in the 2007 National Vintage Military Rifle Match with that K-31? Shooting a 1903 is like wrestling an alligator - all that twisting trying to get the shell out. A K-31 is a work of art by comparison. And that GP-11 ammo is the finest ball ever made.

Okay, okay. I admit. You definitley are loved by the K-31. BUT, it takes a real man to shoot the 03. Especially with that crappy ammo the CMP has issued since they ran out of LC Ball. I long for the days when you didn't need a hammer to get the spent cases out of the Springfield.

 

[dzelenka]

Your prayers are answered. Hornady is making ammo for the National Games Matches this year. I am willing to bet it has more consistent pressure than the HXP. Should be pretty accurate too.

Speaking of the Hornady ammo, I wonder if they are doing this because they are running out of HXP. Remember a couple of years ago they were saying there was a 10 year supply? How things change.

 

[jdhunt3]

The couple of years they used the white box ammo was fantastic (actually, the first year it was too hot). CMP said the white box ammo was too expensive, but I guess in light of the shortage we are now experiencing, something has to be done. I guess the "10-year supply" was as long as we had a government that actually liked the Bill of Rights instead of the current government we have that thinks that it should best be used as toilet paper.

 

[dzelenka]

I still have an unopened case of the Federal to which you are referring. I guess I am saving it for a rainy day although I think I have several lifetimes of .30-06 at my current rate of usage. I am not even going to buy any more HXP even though it is available and relatively inexpensive. It is pretty accurate too (albeit hot) - Bob J. used it in his .30-06 Ackley Improved to shoot a 197 at 300 yards on a 600 yard reduced for 300 yard target a few months ago.