Somewhat better today

A 48-5 in The Duke of Cambridge. A 50 was definitely there as I was reading the wind very well.

A bit tougher in the Alexandra (600yds). There too I had a 1 minute elevation. Lost one for wind, and one for a mystery low shot after starting VVV.

Finally finished with a decent (almost very good) 72-6 in the Daily MAIL (500yds). Wind coming from 11 o'clock and moving to 6 o,clock. So a good 2 minute spread. Lost one on either side, both only out by 1/4 minute. Put the 15th shot low, just barely out at 6 o'clock, the worst thing being that I had brought the sights down 1/4 minute in the bright early evening light. Less than 1/4 minute out. Challenged to no avail.

Feeling optimistic, in spite of giving up four more points than I should of. But my elevations are getting better and better with my last match having all but 2 shots in a 1/4 minute elevation.

This is very good ammo (though a bit dirty) but everyone seems to be agreeing with me that it is very temperature sensitive. I'm seeing about a 1 minute elevation change in the shorts and almost 2 minutes in the longs. Frustrating as I'm used to starting with my sighters converted. I think it's a bit of local knowledge advantage for the GB shooters as we are the only ones who didn't seem to expect this behavior. LOL.

Parenthetically, for those who are not shooters, some notes:

• One minute is approximately one inch at one hundred yards, and ten inches at one thousand yards.
• In shooting in Commonwealth nations (essentially everywhere other than the US) your two sighting shots may be converted to scoring shots at your discretion. This can be a big advantage in difficult wind conditiond as frewer shots fired means less variation in the winds through which you must shoot.

  The best shooters in the world are here, which means the top 50-90 lost no points today. Every point lost equates to about 30 places in the Grand Aggregate.

More explannations in future posts.