Took a while to get results from last Sunday’s Action Pistol match, but I was High Match Master in the third round. To sight in a pistol at 50 yards requires a solid rest, and I usually use sandbags. Good shooting bags are made by a lot of companies, and Stoney Point is one of them. The front bag #FSFB-25 should be a staple in everybody’s shooting gear, and is used with any kind of firearm from a rested position. A rear bag helps tremendously when used properly and is squeezed for elevation adjustments. A good sand bag can last …

There are good reasons to use a fixed four power riflescope. Fewer parts means less chances for the scope to fail or lose zero over time. Years ago when variable power scopes first came on the market these were very real concerns. Variable power scopes also commonly had different points of impact throughout their power range. As technology and manufacturing techniques advanced, these problems became less of a concern. Today, there is no reason to expect a quality scope to have different points of impact over their power range, and losing zero is not a real concern, either. That being …

Customer wanted to order a Custom Leupold rifle scope with a bullet drop compensator. He was waiting to take delivery of his Weatherby Mark V and wanted a new 8.5-25 x50 Mark IV scope set up for it. The problem was that he didn’t know what ammo he’d be shooting. The three different weights and types of bullets offered by Weatherby not only have different ballistic coefficients and fly with significantly different trajectories at long distance, but he would also be shooting in the high Montana mountains late in the year in the cold. He didn’t know how his …

Another day dawned beautifully for an outdoor match. I shot a Krebs Custom 1911 for NRA Action Pistol. First stage I cleaned, second stage my gun locked up three times and I dropped seven rounds. I was using Federal Gold Medal Match to shoot the close stages because I didn’t have enough full loads to finish two matches with. My Krebs Custom is set up for full loads and the spring was too strong to cycle the gun with target loads. My fault. Stupid. The rest of the course went well and I finished fine. On my second full …

I blew up a fairly expensive brand name scope on a six inch unported .454 at the worst possible time. On an animal in Africa. Missed the critter, and afterwards saw that the reticle had turned in the scope. My loads were pretty ridiculous, and the scope held up for a couple hundred rounds. Needless to say I have little faith in the brand in that application. The most reliable handgun scopes so far have been the Leupolds and the Bushnell Elites. Regarding the Elites, don’t judge a book by its cover. A lot of people think that Bushnell …