End of the Hendon Leagues for the winter 2014-2015 season

Finally got round to shooting round 7 of the Hendon Air Pistol Winter Leagues. On a slightly warmer range, started out badly, but rallied by card 4 to end up with a reasonable 243.2

STATS
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Session score(s): 38 + 34 + 43 + 42 + 42.1 + 44.1
Session total: 243.2 ex 300
Session Average: 81.1
Std. Dev: 7.0

Running Average: 79.6
Running Std. Dev: 6.64
BC: 1390

The normal set-up is:

Pistol: Steyr LP10 [single-shot pre-charged]
Pellets: 4.49mm H&N Finale Match

Kent Summer rounds 3 & 4 with a new load

On the outdoor range with the air temperature initially at 14degC, shot round 3 of the Kent summer season with a slightly different loading setup:

Pistol: .36 Mortimer
Powder: 10.1gns of Swiss No.1
Patches: 0.015"  Ox-Yoke prelubed
Balls: .350" Hornady
Filler: 6.5gns of coarse ground semolina

Using an increased powder load, with the tighter fitting 0.015 patches. A low centered group resulted in a 75.1 score after a very heavy cloud-burst half way through:

As the temperature dropped, shot round 4. Although the card had several very wild flyers, managed to recover the card with 6 shots in the 9-ring for an 80.0 score:

STATS
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Session score(s): 75.1 + 80

Overall Running Average: 79.34
Overall Running Std. Dev: 0.47
Cards: 75
BC: 948
PB: 92.1

Kent summer season - shot average: 77.1
Kent summer season - Std. Dev: 3.69

Start of the Kent Black Powder summer season

Started off the summer black powder season with the following setup:

Pistol: .36 Mortimer
Powder: 9.1gns of Swiss No.1
Patches: 0.010" 
Percussion caps: Number 11 - Dynamit Nobel
Lubricant: 1:2:12 Lanolin:Beeswax:Neats Foot Oil
Balls: .350" Hornady
Filler: 6.5gns of coarse ground semolina

On a day when the range temperature was around 13degC, the first card produced too many flyers to give a good score:

Overall the card scored as a 72 ex 100 with none in the 10-ring.

For the round 2 card I decided to change the patch to a thicker 0.015 Ox-Yoke prelubed. I went with the prelubed as I didn't have any of the plain 0.015 J.T. Tanner patches with me.

Patches: 0.015"  Ox-Yoke prelubed

This resulted in a tighter group with the 10 scoring shots all touching or inside the black.

With the thicker patch, and slightly harder loading, the final card score was an 81.1

STATS
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Session score(s): 72 - 81.1
Session Average: 76.60

Kent season Average: 76.60
Kent season Std. Dev: 4.55

Running Average: 79.39
Barrel count: 922

For round 3 I will stay with the thicker patch set up.

A/P practise

Did some 10m air pistol practise by shooting round 6 of the Hendon Leagues. Again I made the mistake of shooting on a very cold indoor range. At only 4degC I quickly lost most of the sensation in my fingers. The result was a very poor session.

STATS
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Session total: 216.1 ex 300
Std. Dev: 6.62

Running Average: 79.5
Running Std. Dev: 6.62
BC: 1330

It was bad enough to drop my average below 80 once more!