Practise, practise and more practise

Completed a 40-shot practice session at the range today. I am still being affected by the coldness on range (it was 7 degC), as was shown in the scores achieved. A good (ish) group on the second card showed that my 'natural' sight picture was putting the shots about 10mm high. Adjusted the rearsight by 5 clicks 'H'. This seems to have worked in terms of elevation in the subsequent groups.

STATS
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Session score(s): 73.1 - 84 - 84 - 77
Session total: 318.1 ex 400
Session Average: 79.50
Std. Dev: 4.7

Running Average: 80.0
Running Std. Dev: 6.39

Had hoped to shot my average, but several flyers resulted in the below 80 cards.

Round 10 - the end of the Kent Black Powder winter league

On another very cold morning on the outdoor range, finally managed to shoot round 10 of the Kent winter Black Powder Leagues. Using the standard setup, managed to shoot on the first detail and score an 83.1 with a slightly high grouping.

SET-UP
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Pistol: .36 Mortimer
Powder: 9.1gns of Swiss No.1
Patches: 0.010"
Lubricant: 1:2:12 Lanolin:Beeswax:Neats Foot Oil
Balls: .350" Hornady
Filler: 6.5gns of coarse ground semolina

STATS
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Session score(s): 83.1

Running Average: 79.47
Std. Dev: 2.57

Kent season shot average: 80.0
Kent season Std. Dev: 4.57

Finally, managed to gain my main objective and shoot an 80.0 average for the competition. Hopefully the next seasons competitions will see the running average also climb to over 80.0

10m A/P Hendon round 5

Managed to get some range time to complete a 60-shot course of fire with the Steyr LP10 air pistol. After shooting the 30-shot Hendon round 5 cards, I then shot three 10-shot practise cards. The combined scores were then combined to give a 60-shot score for submission to the 'Targetshooting Canada postal match'.

The six Hendon round 5 cards scored as 46 - 38 - 44 - 40 - 44 - 43 ex 50. The second card was disappointing with 2 shots in the 7-ring. No shots in the white!

This was my best ever ex 300 shoot.

STATS
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Session total: 255.3 ex 300
Session Average: 85.1
Std. Dev: 5.5

For the three 10-shot practise cards, I scored 74.0 - 88.1 - 83.1 ex 100. 

What could have been a very impressive card (possibly a 92.1), was spoiled when I was distracted when at the crucial moment, someone blundered, VERY LOUDLY, on to the range!

STATS
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Session total: 245.2 ex 300
Session Average: 81.7
Std. Dev: 5.8

The first card was again affected by the creeping coldness of the indoor range.

At the end of the session, I entered the stats in to the shooting logbook (spreadsheet) and realised that I had finally improved my running average to 80.0 Next objective is to improve it to 85.0 or better!

STATS
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Session total: 500.5 ex 600
Session Average: 83.4

Running Average: 80.0
Running Std. Dev: 6.44


Graph of shot scores (ex 100) achieved with the Steyr LP10 air pistol:

NSRA/ELEY national Postal Competition - stage 2

Finally got round to shooting stage 2 of the NSRA/ELEY Postal Competition. It is a 40-shot 10m air pistol competition shot over 10 cards, all on the same day.

Of the ten cards, card nine gave the best score with a 38.1 ex 40 (giving 95 ex 100, which beats my best 10-shot card score). 

Worst card was a 32.0 (80).

STATS
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Session total: 346.3 ex 400
Session Average: 90.8
Std. Dev: 4.9

Running Average: 79.7
Running Std. Dev: 6.38

 The session total of 346.3 ex 400 is my best ever ex400 score so far. The session average of 90.8 is also the best ever achieved.

Hopefully the score will me good enough to get me a place in the final that is to be shot at the NSRA Lord Roberts Range at Bisley.