Savage Team with impressive showing

[milanuk]

Shooter's view of Stickledown range @ Bisley:

Shooter's view of the Coach & Plotter (and a relatively rare glimpse of sunshine!):

View up the firing line (literally, it was terraced and stepped about every 5 firing points,
rising 20-25ft from one side to the other). Mike Miller (Team USA F/TR) in the foreground,
Shiraz Barolia (Team USA F/Open Vice Captain) behind him:

And the reward for two long weeks...

 

[bwaites]

Monte,

Thanks! Great pics, too, it helps to have the info from someone there with the pics!

I've seen plenty of pics, but, without the info, they didn't make sense.

Bill

BTW, why didn't you show us that medal at the last match? Seriously Cool!

 

[milanuk]

Someone (not sure if it was here or elsewhere) was wondering about the glass used... if you look at that picture of the scope, you can see there are 8 hashes between the numbers and only 5 moa per revolution (on the elevation turret). These were a special run done solely for the U.S. team. Someone let the cat out of the bag early on, and Nightforce got flooded with calls from people wanting to know if they could buy one like that, or get theirs modified the same way. Oddly for a scope company, NF was not happy about it and will not do this work on any other scopes at this time. Does not compute to me - but thats Nightforce for ya.

The other 'goody' on there is the windage turret. Somewhere along the way, NF changed the windage turrets from the old 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 to 0-1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1-0 because 'everyone' had been asking for the change. Didn't even keep the old turrets as an option. Not too handy for shooting F/TR, where wind correction can sometimes be metered in revolutions, not just moa or clicks, and keeping track of whether I'm on '2' or '7' can be a rather big deal. Apparently at least one fellow (John Knight) in England agrees... he makes special knobs for NF NXS and Weaver T-series scopes that go 0-9 both ways so as long as you can remember which way you turned the knob last, you should be able to figure out where your windage is. Not cheap over there, and I think shipping to stateside would be atrocious, but well worth it in a match for me.

 

[bwaites]

Someone (not sure if it was here or elsewhere) was wondering about the glass used... if you look at that picture of the scope, you can see there are 8 hashes between the numbers and only 5 moa per revolution (on the elevation turret). These were a special run done solely for the U.S. team. Someone let the cat out of the bag early on, and Nightforce got flooded with calls from people wanting to know if they could buy one like that, or get theirs modified the same way. Oddly for a scope company, NF was not happy about it and will not do this work on any other scopes at this time. Does not compute to me - but thats Nightforce for ya.

The other 'goody' on there is the windage turret. Somewhere along the way, NF changed the windage turrets from the old 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 to 0-1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1-0 because 'everyone' had been asking for the change. Didn't even keep the old turrets as an option. Not too handy for shooting F/TR, where wind correction can sometimes be metered in revolutions, not just moa or clicks, and keeping track of whether I'm on '2' or '7' can be a rather big deal. Apparently at least one fellow (John Knight) in England agrees... he makes special knobs for NF NXS and Weaver T-series scopes that go 0-9 both ways so as long as you can remember which way you turned the knob last, you should be able to figure out where your windage is. Not cheap over there, and I think shipping to stateside would be atrocious, but well worth it in a match for me.

I remembered that about the scopes, but didn't know if it was acceptable to let that out into "the wild". I knew that Nightforce wasn't happy about people finding out about them!

Bill