Big Bore Shoot Saturday Morning

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12 September 2008, 07:38

ForrestB

Big Bore Shoot Saturday Morning

We're having a big bore shoot this Saturday morning at the Bayou Rifles Gun Club in Houston. All the AR group is invited and you're welcome to bring friends.

We'll get started about 8 AM and have BBQ and soft drinks for lunch. I promise it will be a howling good time.

There's no charge for AR participants but it would be nice if everyone would bring ice, duct tape and plywood.

SEE YA'LL THERE!

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12 September 2008, 07:44

Dan416

Hey Forrest,
It seems like big bore shoots are becoming a bit popular. I am always looking for new ideas on courses of fire, targets and such for the matches I run. I like to add new stuff. Can you post your course of fire? thanks, Dan

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12 September 2008, 08:19

Dan416

Guess I need to watch the Weather Channel.

So you're afraid of a little rain?

I had a Big Bore shoot last winter: 10 degrees and 20mph wind. Only one guy showed up so he had to shoot all by hiself. But he Won.

12 September 2008, 08:43

Hog Killer

Dan, the rain is not problem. The 'cane strengh winds are 115 miles each side of the center. TS winds are 245 miles each side.

Forrest, are we shooting into the wind, across it, or down wind. How much windage is needed for a 85 mph cross wind. with a 500gr @ 2250fps?

I hope we are not going to shoot into the wind, as it will be tough enough to stand up and take some heavy recoil, too. Not to mention velocity loss.

See you there, lol

Keith

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12 September 2008, 17:52

jeffeosso

heck, i'll be there... 550 express and all... after all, how many times can you REALLY check the impact a real wind has on a bullet?

opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club

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12 September 2008, 17:57

tiggertate

After the shoot we can all swing by my house for drinks. We will have finished remodeling by then in the classic "rubble" style. BYOB, chair, roof, et al.

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12 September 2008, 18:53

jeffeosso

Harry,
Glad you chose the rumble style, as it will compliment the subdivision, which will have been reworked into the classic "debris field" sometime this weekend.

12 September 2008, 18:59

GeorgeS

You'll certainly be able to get real world data on wind drift of 535gr. bullets.

Keep safe, gentlemen!

George

12 September 2008, 19:12

MJines

Forrest,

Thanks for arranging this. I may be a few minutes late since a headwind is expected to slow down my progress. I will be in the gray truck with the red flag with a black square in the center on my radio aerial.

12 September 2008, 19:46

fla3006

quote:
ForrestB: I promise it will be a howling good time.

Ha! I'm afraid so. I can still hear Carla.

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12 September 2008, 20:42

Fjold

Oh sure, You could have given me more notice. Since I can't get a plane ticket into Houston for Saturday, I'll have to drive.

Frank

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19 September 2008, 20:29

Rodney H.{500Jeffery}

So how did the shoot go? Were the windage tests successful? Got power here last night and then found out the pump for the water well burned up. Need any firewood anyone? Hope everyone is OK. Rodney.

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19 September 2008, 21:09

Rodney H.{500Jeffery}

Now is that 14" adjustment for 85mph cross wind at 50yards, 100yards? This is good data. Rodney.

24 September 2008, 13:38

Rusty

Finally got power back on last Thursday 9/18 evening. Glad my little 6500 Onan kept the refrigerators and freezer going. Only sustained limb damage and a fence blown down.
By next year, we will have a standby NG fueled generator at the house!

There are still parts of Houston without power today. Galveston is allowing some residents back on the island to stay starting this morning. The Boliver area looks like most of the homes were just washed away. Pilings and all!

Hope all of you survived!

27 September 2008, 11:05

x2mosg

Haven't been on here in a couple weeks, but have been wondering about you Texas boys. Met several of you in Dallas this year. Hope all is well with ya'll. Anybody heard from HogKiller? Good luck with the clean-up boys.

David Walker