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PostPosted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 4:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Time to shoot some clay targets Reply with quote

Dimitri wrote:
Same prices once you do the AUD to USD conversion.

Never could get into shotguns and skeet myself. Even ended up giving my O/U shotgun to a buddy who's shooting skeet regularly now.

SKEET doesn’t do much at all for me. What I enjoy shooting is 5 Stand Sporting and Sporting Clays. Both emulate real life hunting scenarios (quail, ducks etc). More often than not you don’t know exactly how the Clay will arrive in your shooting arcs, and these disciplines are shot from the “gun down” position. On seeing the target, you mount the gun, decide on the trajectory then destroy the target…maybe. Laughing

A good Sporting layout will have clays coming from any direction, left, right, going away, incoming, overhead from behind, from a high tower, from behind trees over water, from behind and over the top of (and disappearing behind) trees and a second target on “report”, usually from a different direction, springing Teals thrown straight up about 15-20 metres, and “rabbits” (fired from a trap and rolling along the ground very quickly…with natural “lumps and bumps” in the ground causing them to “jump”. Another difficult target I’ve seen was a bateau Clay rolling off a 30m high platform and simply dropping…very difficult to hit. A fun target was “The Rat”. A target was released (no spring pressure) and it rolled down inside an angled poly pipe, about 2m high at one end, for about 3 or 4 metres. You shot it as it left the end of the pipe. Another very difficult target was 3 individual targets fired from rear left on calling, down a gully, with the trap wound right up for max speed. You had only a few seconds of time before the target disappeared into the bush or gully.

I don’t like Trap, or as we call it, Down The Line (DTL)…it’s boring, although Trench (the Olympic Course of Fire) is OK, but you need to be really on your game.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 4:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Time to shoot some clay targets Reply with quote

Heading out to the Rifle Range today. Time I had some recoil therapy. Taking my Stevens 308, SMLE #5 303, Savage 223 and Model 94 30.30 to give them all a run with my grandson. We spent a couple of hours at the reloading bench yesterday teaching him the basics of reloading. The finer points will come with experience. He was very methodical and careful and not missing a thing, including a couple of cases I left in there with split necks.

The “Test of Objectives” comes today when he gets to shoot the 60 or so rounds of 30.30 he assembled. The load isn’t max…half a grain below max at 29.5gr of ADI BM8208 (IMR 8208) with a 160gr Hornady FTX bullet.

With some luck I’ll be able to sort out a load that my Stevens 308 likes. Lots of research and checking out load suggestions online…then comparing them to my reloading manuals and data should set me right. I have about a dozen or so of varying loads over two different powders, so things should come together ok…I hope.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Time to shoot some clay targets Reply with quote

A damn fine day at the range. I believe I’ve worked out a load for my 308, just need some fine tuning.

Had a couple of small ammo problems, but nothing that stopped me achieving my aim…that of selecting a suitable load for the Stevens 308 WIN. I tried loads in two powders AR2206H (H4895) and AR2206 (Varget) and two different bullet weights (Hornady 150gr Interlock and SPEER 165gr HotCor) at 100m and the 150gr bullet, at this time, is the bullet of choice pushed along by 45gr of 2206H (H4895)..although it will need a little fine tuning to tighten up the group.

In the attached pic, the target is approx 6” x 6” and the group is approx 40mm x 50mm at 100m. I expect I can tighten that up significantly with fine tuning.

I haven’t written off the 165gr bullet as yet, but the Hornady offering is easier to get (at this time), so I’ll concentrate on the 150gr bullet.



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