Feb 15, 2015 17:57 | #2686 Well, if anyone cares, I was featured in Recoil's "Friday Night Gun Porn" Friday that passed. Kind of huge for me considering I only started taking picture of my firearms because I wanted something to hang in my office.   Time to Clean up by clicksully, on Flickr
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maxblack I feel like I'm in danger  2,019 posts Likes: 300 Joined Sep 2008 Location: NYC Area More info | Been following this thread and Dsully...
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jeffreybehr Senior Member  More info Post edited over 1 year ago by jeffreybehr. (3 edits in all) | Feb 16, 2015 00:29 | #2688 Here's my long-gone 1000-yard 'light' benchrest rifle. Weighed just under 17 pounds.
BAT dual-port single-shot action, 28" (?) barrel, chambered in 6.5-284 Shehane, a mildly improved 6.5-284...
...12-42 Nightforce scope, Shehane stock. This was its original barrel, with muzzlebrake. Barrels 2 and 3 didn't have a MB. Shot this for about 1.5 years; finally ran out of emotional energy. (For instance, the closest 1000-yard range was 2 hours away.) Got hot one day and won best light-rifle group, best heavy-rifle group, and best heavy-rifle aggregate score. That day, I shot a 5-shot group that measured 4-9/16"...from 1000 yards!
It was all downhill from there.  Here...
...are a few 3-shot, 200-yard load-evaluation groups. Lest you think 1000-yard shooting is easy with a jillion dollars of equipment, here's what the target butts looked like. 27mm (35e) lens:
80mm (35e) lens:
136mm (35e) lens:
This was a borrowed rifle and, in fact, everything. One day, with about a half-dozen of us watching and helping, one shooter with a rifle zeroed initially at normal distance (for instance, 200 yards) NEVER got one shot on the target, which are 42 inches square. (Those are target-position numberboards, [about 8 feet square IIRC] in the pics, not targets.) Sony a7R4, Zeiss Batises in 18/2.8, 40/2, and 85/1.8, Metabones-5 adapter for Canon TS-E 50 (gen.3) and small, lite, humble, old, excellent EF 70-200/F4/L/USM/non-IS.. Walkabout lens Sony 24-105/4..
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Hey, thanks Max. I appreciate that.
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BigAl007 Cream of the Crop  8,011 posts Gallery: 543 photos Best ofs: 1 Likes: 1625 Joined Dec 2010 Location: Repps cum Bastwick, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. More info | Feb 18, 2015 14:56 | #2690 Couple more older pictures.  HOSTED PHOTO please log in to view hosted photos in full size. A shot 50m WRABF target viewed through the Sightron SII 36×42 BRD mounted to the above 1813  HOSTED PHOTO please log in to view hosted photos in full size. Alan My Flickr
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BigAl007 Cream of the Crop 8,011 posts Gallery: 543 photos Best ofs: 1 Likes: 1625 Joined Dec 2010 Location: Repps cum Bastwick, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. More info | Feb 18, 2015 18:13 | #2691 As I have been posting pics of the kids shooting I thought that I would throw another one of me shooting. My daughter convinced me to have a go shooting her air rifle in the disabled class at last years British Air Gun championships. Although I used to shoot ISU/UIT 3 Positional years ago I have never shot AR competitively before. Although I cannot qualify for an IPSC Classification, I am able to compete in National comps using a domestic exemption scheme, which puts me effectively in SH1a Class. I had a pretty good shoot in the championship match, but didn't think I had done that well. So I surprised myself by qualifying for the final in 5th place. My daughter did remember to grab at least one shot with my phone, so I do have a record of my achievement. I went on to finish in 6th place. I thought that wasn't bad for a knackerd 49 year old newby to the class.  HOSTED PHOTO please log in to view hosted photos in full size. Alan My Flickr
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Chief_10Beers Didn't get his vaccinations . . .  More info | Feb 18, 2015 19:10 | #2692 A pic of me and my former LEE Press...............  Me_a on FlickrΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
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hammer418 Goldmember  More info | Feb 18, 2015 19:15 | #2693 I've enjoyed seeing the photos of you and your children, BigA.
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BigAl007 Cream of the Crop 8,011 posts Gallery: 543 photos Best ofs: 1 Likes: 1625 Joined Dec 2010 Location: Repps cum Bastwick, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. More info | IS that an earlyish Three Hole turret press with the auto-index? Also it doesn't look like the Lee Auto Powder Thrower, unless it's got the upgrade twin cavity kit added. It's a great pic of you (I guess) but not such a good picture of the press, but then it is not the main subject is it My Flickr
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Chief_10Beers Didn't get his vaccinations . . . More info | Feb 19, 2015 18:41 | #2695 No, It's the newer style. Classic Cast Turret Press, 4 stages and has the Iron Base and Steel Linkages. The Powder Measure is the Pro Auto-Disk Powder Measure. Here's a better view...............  LEE Classic Cast Turret Press on FlickrΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
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BigAl007 Cream of the Crop 8,011 posts Gallery: 543 photos Best ofs: 1 Likes: 1625 Joined Dec 2010 Location: Repps cum Bastwick, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. More info | I have the older one that started life with the three hole turrets. I have upgraded to the four hole, so now have the choice of both if I want them. Have to remember to change the drive rod too, not just swap a three hole turret for a four. I started with the more basic powder thrower, which has the smaller rectangular shaped powder funnel. I added the upgrade kit to bring it up to this standard. It also allows the choice of fitting one or two powder chambers, which is great if you want to use the thing with rifle cartridges. Big hole in the bottom and I actually got the micro adjust slide which then sits in the top. The smaller disk goes in the top so I usually give the thing a tap to make sure that both cavities are correctly filled. It really is very consistent with the powder charge that it throws. usually +-0.1 gr. My Flickr
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smaeda Goldmember  1,300 posts Likes: 2660 Joined Aug 2012 Location: Shawnee, KS More info | Feb 26, 2015 22:39 | #2697  IMG_5873_2 by shintarodesign, on Flickrhttps://instagram.com/shintarodesign
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BigAl007 Cream of the Crop 8,011 posts Gallery: 543 photos Best ofs: 1 Likes: 1625 Joined Dec 2010 Location: Repps cum Bastwick, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. More info | Feb 28, 2015 11:33 | #2699 smaeda wrote in post #17451783 IMG_5873_2 by shintarodesign, on FlickrIs that an actual photograph, or at least a montage of actual photographs, or a digital rendering? I'm finding it quite hard to tell. Also I think I would have put the round of ammo at the breech end. Up front like that it really call for just the bullet. Would I be right in thinking it's a 9mm? My Flickr
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BigAl007 Cream of the Crop 8,011 posts Gallery: 543 photos Best ofs: 1 Likes: 1625 Joined Dec 2010 Location: Repps cum Bastwick, Gt Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. More info | Feb 28, 2015 18:41 | #2700 Here are a couple more from me, not sure if the plain images have been up before, but some experimental processing too. Shot at Bisley during English ISSF 50m Rifle championships. yes Rosie is shooting Tennex, it was the English Championship after all.  HOSTED PHOTO please log in to view hosted photos in full size. Then a close crop  HOSTED PHOTO please log in to view hosted photos in full size. Alan My Flickr
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