The twenty hearty shooters who turned up, used their time wisely and switched their iron sights for the scopes. I have never seen so many screw drivers spinning. It looked like a tool shop at the cleaning tables.
. With the dark overcast skies, the largest front apertures would not gather enough light. Steve Christiansen managed a 27 with his irons, but complained (bitched) all day that he didn’t bring his scope. Speaking of scopes, some of us had equipment problems along the way. On pigs, my spotter kept giving me vertical adjustments and I faithfully obeyed, but nothing was happening. We were checking for loose mounts, etc., but to no avail. I finally discovered the elevation tension (?) nut came loose, but it was too late. My spotter also mentioned I had other loose screws.
Gazaway had his problem at the ram line and it probably cost him the match. I forgot to ask him what it was, because it was out of character for him.All in all, it was a fun match, but at times I was envious of the shooters who woke up to the rain and just rolled over in bed.
...............................Jim