Ashburton opening day

It was the opening day for the season at the Ashburton range today.

Interesting to see electronic scoring in action. It certainly makes for quicker shooting as targets don't have to be lowered and raised between shots.

Below is the first detail from a Savage 223 firing 80grain Amax projectiles with 24 grain of 2208 in new norma cases at 300 yards.
This was the first full detail on the mound for this rifle. Score 49.6 (the first 3 was not counted).

The latest shot is marked in red.

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Another ashburton person. Good to see

would have loved to had made it down to this but urgent work got in the way. maybe next week.

Where is the range and how can you get info? Cheers

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Originally Posted by blair993

Where is the range and how can you get info? Cheers

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Contact details can be found on the NRA NZ website
NRA NZ Member Clubs
Ashburton Rifle Range Club

Cheers hopefully make it to one soon. Would be first time on a range.

Second weekend at Ashburton, shooting at 500 yards. Warmer and windier than last weekend.
A good result for the first detail, a better result for the second which scored 50.5 .

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solid shoot there, with john away im missing my weekly update email. good crowd of shooters there?

Only our second weekend at Ashburton so I don't know what constitutes a good crowd.
Lots of shooters, including new shooters, coached juniors and old(er) hands.
Took about 2 hours for everyone to complete their first detail on our target.

A nice day, sunny, 13 degrees, gusty wind from right to left.

Only 4th full detail fired on the rifle, shooter and rifle settling in well.

Same Silver Mountain target system in action in H Bay a few months back.

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You don't need to shoot heavies to get reasonable results at 300- these were Sierra 52gr HPBTs out of a slow twist 700VS. 600yds in wind would be very different though..

Good shooting, 9 shots shown, what was the 10th?

youll have a hot barrel after that shoot.

The screen must have been zoomed up- the other wasn't a three :)

That's one danger with electronic targets- you can shoot as fast as you like and if you get into a good patch, you could get the whole lot off in less than 2mins. Not too bad for a heavy barrel .223 but my 6x47L is pretty hard on barrels..

for the people who have been running the electronic targets on a tablet, do you need to download any apps to get it running or does it take care of itself through wifi?

It just runs in a web brower Stuart, you just need to hook the tablet into the wifi connection, open the address in a browser and away you go

you guys down south start the season pretty early, we open this coming saturday

ashburtons a bit different than others, christchurch wont open till mid to late october.

In fact any device that can display a webpage will work, your smart phone, a laptop, iPad, windows or android tablet.

As long as you can connect to the network and display the page.

I've used an windows ultrabook so I can take a screenshot at the end of each detail.

The best screens for the job are in fact book readers like the Kindle Paperwhite. That have massive contrast in bright sunlight. Your average tablet is more than hard work in bright sunlight. My iPad Mini is damn near useless unless you build some sort of shelter for it and you can do without extra crap. The Kindles are at max $200 and you can prob get them for less if you look round.

There's a guy in one of the Wgtn NRA clubs (?Petone) that puts a patch into the Kindles so the screens don't blank after a while, not that it's a biggie

Another good day at the range, 300 yards shooting.
2nd detail was particularly good.
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good shoot. the little wind that there was was changing quite often.