Qualified for the National final!
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Topic: Qualified for the National final!
Posted By: Zed
Subject: Qualified for the National final!
Date Posted: May 18 2025 at 9:36am
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I got a call from our club competition secretary yesterday. He informed me that I have qualified for the Match Training rifles class, and just scraped through the cut with the No4 rifle in the standard bolt action class. The event is late June at the Centre National Tir Sportive in Chateauroux. Luckily it's only about two and a half hour drive. The ranges are where the Olympic shooting was held. So now I need to get practicing. ------------- It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice! |
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Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: May 18 2025 at 10:24am
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Congratulations, Zed! Bonne chance! ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: britrifles
Date Posted: May 18 2025 at 11:20am
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Excellent Shaun! I’ll make a humble suggestion, if you can’t get the time for doing live fire practice at least once a week, set up an area in your house, or outside, to do dry fire practice. Make up a small target with a black aiming mark with the diameter scaled to the distance for dry fire so that it appears the same size as the targets you shoot at in competition. 15 to 20 mins of dry fire every night will improve your scores, this really helps reduce rifle movement during striker release by concentrating on follow thru. |
Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: May 18 2025 at 4:37pm
| excellent advice and congrats ZED on making the cut , good luck |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: May 18 2025 at 8:49pm
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Well done Zed! Following on Britrifles comment I can highly recommend the Strikeman laser training system. I mainly use mine for pistol practice but they make a laser cartridge in .303 British. https://www.strikeman.io/products/strikeman-laser-firearm-training-system?variant=42312241512621" rel="nofollow - https://www.strikeman.io/products/strikeman-laser-firearm-training-system?variant=42312241512621 |
Posted By: Zed
Date Posted: May 18 2025 at 10:26pm
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Thanks for the support! Sapper, I have the Laser Hit system for my .45 pistol. It's a good system, but I don't use it enough at the moment. I expect the Strikeman .303 laser would work with my system. For the.22, I can remove the little firing pin from the bolt head, for dry fire. ------------- It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice! |
Posted By: Bear43
Date Posted: May 19 2025 at 8:44am
| Excellent news, Zed! I hope you are able to get plenty of practice in. |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: May 19 2025 at 12:40pm
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Great news, Congratulations! Now like they said on the commercial, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall"? Practice, practice, practice.  ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |