Thread: 2013 Hangawera Station Sniper shoot

Man that black dot on your camera must get on your nerves haha

good spottin!and yes it does

Originally Posted by el borracho

Gillie was the first shooter on the blocks and it was wonderful to watch another former winner of this event totally screw up having read his dope incorrectly and with me spotting for him pepper the surrounding area at 500 yards --that was him stuffed .
Gille this time bought his very lovely partner along who I might add does not have a license and under Gillies direction proceeded to fire winning shots to his embarrassment I am sure --after the point are added up to mine also I am sure .

Thanks for the support... it is much appreciated. This would have to be the first time i have ever miss read Norways drop chart format... and as such i never queried the value i had dialed. My mistake, not the dope's, the scope's or the gun's. I am certainly not proud of the very poor shooting on my part but i did come away with a result i am proud of. I equiped, set up and coached my partner to well deserved 6th place overall (from 23 shooters) in her first ever long range event. I was certainly not embarressed that she well and truely beat me, I was embarressed about my own shooting though. She had an awesome time and is mad keen to go back next year.

What, no enfields, mosins or mausers etc sporting mighty 4x fixed power scopes.

Dont worry Gillie there was more than one ego crushed on Saturday LOL Who won the jungle lane?

Matt Ryan won the Jungle lane, after Range officering all but one shooter all day he was the last shooter, with a time of 5.00 minutes and No penalties. Awesome. Course he knew where all the targets were by then.

Originally Posted by pistolero

Matt Ryan won the Jungle lane, after Range officering all but one shooter all day he was the last shooter, with a time of 5.00 minutes and No penalties. Awesome. Course he knew where all the targets were by then.

hhahha the rotter eh!

Haven't heard the Jungle Lane results. The jungle lane was hard though... after 6 or so shooters having gone through there were still targets that hadn't been shot cause nobody (including the RO) even saw them.

It was great catching up with a few people. I discussed a couple of shoots i have coming up with some people there and picked up some really great ideas.

this year there were none of the old bangers

Ah well maybe next time, would be nice to see some WW2 bangers in action. Going to shoot this old girl next weekend hopefully, 1937 vintage.

Some great pics there El B well done guys Wash that lense aye that bloody dot

Shooters in shorts and t-shirts... just doesn't happen here
Three wool sweaters plus down jacket today...

Is it the BORS or IEA ballistic computer? If it works well, my bet is the IEA BC01...

Originally Posted by Norway

Shooters in shorts and t-shirts... just doesn't happen here
Three wool sweaters plus down jacket today...

Is it the BORS or IEA ballistic computer? If it works well, my bet is the IEA BC01...

The BC01 is similar and has the advantage of using G1, G7 BC data, Its windage function allows you to enter windage & direction and it tells you what the windage turrett should be turned too and offsets the elevation for Earth rotational, magnus etc.

Remember all of the calculations are done by the computer software; what is downloaded into the hardened unit is simply multiple drop tables for each firearm and the enviromental variations/pitch angle offset the table you are using at the time. I haven't seen the BC01 software to comment - hopefully it doesn't just come in German?

The Barrett software is good but does not support multiple BCs in the current version; although its data format does allow the droplist to be edited with a Hex Editor before downloading if you want to operate in the post transonic zones. If you are not that geeky then create two gun profiles - I used to use for the little Grendel one up to 800m (BC=.570) and one 800-1200m (BC=520) and just quickly switch between them. The 100m zero is retained for each gun profile, so with a good QD mount (Recknagle) I can move the whole thing quickly to the .338 and select its BORS profile without loss of zero, so no need to buy multiple optics for each gun.

One additional factor to consider, although not even mentioned by Barrett is that the electronics are housed in a double faraday enclosure - so you have good EMP protection (if you worry about those things).

It also says "BARRETT" on it - which is always a good thing...

Couple of pictures of my partner shooting the jungle lane event with a borrowed AR

Thats a mean looking girly rifle