Trees gone on left of Stickledown
Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:05 pm
Afternoon all,
Was down at Bisley for the first shoot of the season to find that much of the tree cover that had grown up on the lefthand side of the range over the past 15-20 years has now been razed. This is going to a) make the range much fairer with Range 0 being much more exposed than it was previously, and b) generally increase the amount of wind across the whole range. Over the past decade or so this has become a bit of a topic of discussion among some shooters (and particularly windcoaches) as it made the Queen's final and some team matches a bit of a lottery. The way that the draw was done was even changed a couple of years ago to make it a bit fairer (i.e. no more 2-0 draws.) Perhaps IWR could comment?
Got to the range at 08:10 to see a massive band of rain come through. Waited for it to pass before (trying!) to put the gazebo up just as the wind started to strengthen. Decided that was probably a bad idea when the guy ropes pulled the eyelets of the cover! Got it down with some help from my fellow shooters (and more offered from a group of F/FTR/Practical shooters a couple of targets over.) It was an entertaining morning with winds from 17 - 23 minutes and very blustery. There were shots where the rifle could have been pointing anywhere on a diagonal from outer at 2:00 to outer at 8:00 because of buffetting, but fortunately seemed to go bang mostly at about the right time. Home for roast beef dinner and a glass of red!
Cheers,
Gaz
Was down at Bisley for the first shoot of the season to find that much of the tree cover that had grown up on the lefthand side of the range over the past 15-20 years has now been razed. This is going to a) make the range much fairer with Range 0 being much more exposed than it was previously, and b) generally increase the amount of wind across the whole range. Over the past decade or so this has become a bit of a topic of discussion among some shooters (and particularly windcoaches) as it made the Queen's final and some team matches a bit of a lottery. The way that the draw was done was even changed a couple of years ago to make it a bit fairer (i.e. no more 2-0 draws.) Perhaps IWR could comment?
Got to the range at 08:10 to see a massive band of rain come through. Waited for it to pass before (trying!) to put the gazebo up just as the wind started to strengthen. Decided that was probably a bad idea when the guy ropes pulled the eyelets of the cover! Got it down with some help from my fellow shooters (and more offered from a group of F/FTR/Practical shooters a couple of targets over.) It was an entertaining morning with winds from 17 - 23 minutes and very blustery. There were shots where the rifle could have been pointing anywhere on a diagonal from outer at 2:00 to outer at 8:00 because of buffetting, but fortunately seemed to go bang mostly at about the right time. Home for roast beef dinner and a glass of red!
Cheers,
Gaz
