That was a tough shoot by the looks of it. Vera did very well, a .231 aggregate in the 2 gun, wins the lv 100 and has a 215 aggregate in the hv aggregate and still finishes 10th overall, what a heartbreak!
 Congratulations everyone and have a great time tomorrow. Don't forget to have some fun while you are out there!

 Calvin, I am just funnin with you. It does seem to work that way though, once you get a win at smaller shoots, you want to test in the bigger shoots and the next thing you know yer in a foreign country spending more money on travel and supplies than you dreamed possible.

 Hope everyone going to the World Shoot has a safe trip and lots of success, especially Vera. I say this so that she can have a little payback of gloating all the way home and George havin to put up with it for once.
 Whatever happens enjoy your trip!

Congratulations Tony!

Calvin, no not yet. Just wondering as the wife has a sister in Carmen. They keep asking when we are coming down and if we do I will try to schedule it around a match, it would be great to meet some of you guys in western Canada.

Looks like a great place, glad you had fun Calvin. See why they say to test at 200 yds and while the wind is blowing. It is almost never calm at a match and it is usually won at 200 yds.

 I have one, a 40 x 22br with .243 neck in a mc millan blue marble stock pillar bedded and molded in blue marble stock. The barrel is a match grade ss of unknown amount of rounds and has a rem trigger

It actually needs to be 4 team members "4 days" to win. There is a little room to open maybe one group, but not by a lot.

Bill I truly thank you for the offer, but it looks like it will only be a couple bucks more to mail it. I will definitely try to make it to more shoots in this new year if all goes well.

 One of the most profound statements I have heard in benchrest but one of the wisest was " do not try to shoot the smallest groups possible, just shoot the best ones possible for the conditions you have". A small group means nothing in an agg when two blown groups are included because we waited for everything to be perfect(they never are).
 I believe that one of the things that should be practiced is proper set up of equipment and reloading stuff and the practiced steps to make this part of the game flawless. When you are proficient in this area much of the stress of competition should be reduced. Things like forgotten bolt or your rest is not secure or no primers or your relay is called to the line and you still have to seat bullets and it takes you 3 minutes to set everything on your bench the way you like it. Learn to do the minimum things required to get a good solid routine going and practice till it becomes second nature. Even when commence fire is called and you are still walking to the line you still have time to set up and shoot a .299 200 yd group and have your bench cleared before everything else without running or breaking out in a sweat.That one was taught to me by Bill G at Elmira several years ago.