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Excellent weather (basically no wind), small crew, good time, and an amazing pic.
The regulars stood out today as Tu was the winner with 4 in 10 consecutive shots at 2080 yards and his buddy, TJ, who won the April shoot, was runner-up. Tu was shooting 375 gr Cutting Edge Lazers in his Desert Tech HTI chambered in .375 CT.
Interesting stuff - Tu, who in all matches up to now had been shooting out of the back of his SUV, tried shooting off the top of his SUV. When that didn't cut it, he came down to earth and shot from the ground. Results - zero hits up high and 7 hits down low (3 for qualification and 4 for record). Our second-time shooter, Sasha, had a very interesting setup - he had the back of his pick-up looking like a golf putting green with an Astro-turf-like "grass" floor extending from the rear of the cab to roughly 8 inches beyond the end of his tail gate. Bottom line, it flexed - back to the drawing board.
The amazing pic - a .375 caliber, Cutting Edge Lazer "stuck" in one of the GongShot target brackets (the red corner pieces that tie the pipe sections together). A direct hit (at approx 1600 ft. lbs. of energy at this distance, per JBM) - which did not take the stand down and did not even go through both sides of the bracket and pipe - see pic (thanks to Tu - twice), in the Gallery (Gallery). Old Timex ad, "takes a licking and keeps on ticking."
Hopefully we'll have more shooters on October 16th, our next SoCal shoot.
The regulars stood out today as Tu was the winner with 4 in 10 consecutive shots at 2080 yards and his buddy, TJ, who won the April shoot, was runner-up. Tu was shooting 375 gr Cutting Edge Lazers in his Desert Tech HTI chambered in .375 CT.
Interesting stuff - Tu, who in all matches up to now had been shooting out of the back of his SUV, tried shooting off the top of his SUV. When that didn't cut it, he came down to earth and shot from the ground. Results - zero hits up high and 7 hits down low (3 for qualification and 4 for record). Our second-time shooter, Sasha, had a very interesting setup - he had the back of his pick-up looking like a golf putting green with an Astro-turf-like "grass" floor extending from the rear of the cab to roughly 8 inches beyond the end of his tail gate. Bottom line, it flexed - back to the drawing board.
The amazing pic - a .375 caliber, Cutting Edge Lazer "stuck" in one of the GongShot target brackets (the red corner pieces that tie the pipe sections together). A direct hit (at approx 1600 ft. lbs. of energy at this distance, per JBM) - which did not take the stand down and did not even go through both sides of the bracket and pipe - see pic (thanks to Tu - twice), in the Gallery (Gallery). Old Timex ad, "takes a licking and keeps on ticking."
Hopefully we'll have more shooters on October 16th, our next SoCal shoot.
