Thread: Tarata Medium Range and 22LR Field Shoot

Originally Posted by kimjon

What a great day, many thanks Simon for all your hard work, plus thanks to all others who helped out both before during and afterwards to make this happen...a lot of work, but very appreciated.

Getting sunburnt wasn't an issue this year, and when you have ginger hair and pasty skin...any day out without getting toasted by the sun is a good day! I had a fun crew to shoot with and enjoyed their company, plus got to witness some impressive shooting! My own shooting was less than impressive, but we all have our good and bad days, that's just life. I tried a few new things and they didn't quite pay off, but that's the price of education

I would encourage anyone to come to these days, even non competitors, as the knowledge from the more experienced guys was freely shared and you only stand to learn from such people. But shooting is even more fun if you can.

Once again, many thanks to all involved.

Kim

Absolutely, as a first timer, I'd recommend this shoot as not too demanding or intimidating.

My big fcuk up was not checking my EL binos, they were set on yards, (and I forgot how to change them )so guesstimating TBR using my yards displayed and Simons ranges in meters did my head in......PPPP,..... preparation prevents piss poor performance.

Huge thankyou to the organizers and hosts from me.

Enjoyed your company too Kim, Cheers,

Bevan

Originally Posted by shift14

Absolutely, as a first timer, I'd recommend this shoot as not too demanding or intimidating.

My big fcuk up was not checking my EL binos, they were set on yards, (and I forgot how to change them )so guesstimating TBR using my yards displayed and Simons ranges in meters did my head in......PPPP,..... preparation prevents piss poor performance.

Ouch, this would have had me questioning everything I did. You should have asked me when I was walking around, if you had queried the distance discrepancy I might have been able to help.

Oh and due to timing with the stage setups the swinger target distance given was definitely out!

Originally Posted by Gillie

Ouch, this would have had me questioning everything I did. You should have asked me when I was walking around, if you had queried the distance discrepancy I might have been able to help.

Oh and due to timing with the stage setups the swinger target distance given was definitely out!

All good, the display in the EL's gave me line of sight and TBR in yards. At most stations there was only a yard or two in it.

I either used your ranges in metres or mentally converted TBR in yards to metres, for every 100 yards displayed, I took 9 off to get metres, or part thereof....

I really enjoyed the day, many thanks.

B