The first competition in the lead up to the Triple Crown at Chickenfoot range has been run and won today
I will post the scores as soon as my computer starts working again, its all good for Australia

We are having a terrific time over here but our internet connection is fairly ordinary in Hotel 6 where we are staying especially at night.
Today is the Triple Crown competition its 4.30 in the morning over here and someones alarm is just ring and ringing next door
I would advise anyone that loves rimfire Benchrest that this is an event that should be on your bucket list

So many really nice people involved in this sport and you are made to feel very welcome
These guys are so good that I can't describe it but you have to see for yourself.
Yesterday was a ARA club championship with 97 people competing
The was simply dreadful and the range being enclosed by a mountain range and large trees becomes a whirlpool.

But the top guys somehow shot through it all and posted some really high scores
There were a couple of targets that I was honestly completely stumped on trying to work out how to hit the dot.
With ARA it is scored worst edge scoring and you go from a hundred to a fifty if you go anymore than a millimetre from the dot
These boys hit the dot most times its just unreal to witness

The PSL that I shot the day before you had to hit the dot to get a hundred that is one hard target as well but the conditions were better than yesterday

What I really love about how the competitions over here though is that you put your hand in a bag and pick a detail first, then you put your hand in another bag and pick a bench.
So it is totally a random draw, if you are sharing flags with someone they go on your draw and the details are reversed the next day.
This happens for every competition that you shoot and if you are on a crap bench and detail then you have no crumbling as its a totally random draw.

We all hang are own targets every detail as part of the change and the scoring team collect them ahead of us so that saves a lot of time
But what is really different is we shoot six cards in a day and only move benches after three cards.
Actually with ARA we didn't change benches at all so your stuck with whatever you draw for the competition
Cant believe how much this speeds up the details and fuss
We actually sot nine cards one day whilst at Chickenfoot range and were finished by four o'clock

I am just trying to let you know how they run things over here
Our rules, I know are rules are different with the detail changes so please don't get offended by this post

Think of us seven Aussie shooters today and I will try to post up results of day one tonight

It was a long day and felt like death by a thousand cuts, I just couldn't get the bullets to go in the center but wasn't the only one
Richard had a great day shooting one of the best rifles in the USA what a terrific experience for him
Greg the bloke that owned it even supplied the ammo but Richard still had to point it and it was a hard day at the office so Congratulations on his terrific performance.

Clinton worked the conditions out on the PSL section of the Triple crown and scored the highest target on the last target of the day which was a great accomplishment indeed,
It is a very tricky range to shoot at yet many of the USA blokes didn't seem to be phased a all shooting some incredibly high scores in these conditions

Both the targets shot yesterday basically you had to hit the dot to get 100 if you didn't you got fifty and then if you were say in a nine you got 25 so it is really a tough game
Today we shoot IR 50-50 which is basically the IRB target so hope we all do well on a familiar target.
This has been a terrific experience for all of us over here and I will try to post final scores but our internet is really crappy

The range was dead still the first two cards then the wind came in with a rush

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Hopefully you will see what we were trying to hit a dot in if the link works

https://www.facebook.com/john.carper.10/videos/2648799105147439/

Have to hit dot for four points or wipe dot out for six points or a perfect Yeah Baby for ten points on a IRB target

Think this one was ARA type target with worst edge basically hit the dot for 100 etc