Yes his contact info is on the Graham Flags site now. Here it is...

Matt Spradlin
(253) 279-2699
GrahamWindFlags@Outlook.com

Sorry to hear this. Never met him but we talked by email now and then. Good guy and very enthusiastic about BR.

Joe, I will pass along your note to the guys down here. Thanks

I have been having some problems with my computer and sorry to say have lost some stuff along the way. I need to get in touch with Keith Slater. I have his flag order about done and no longer have his contact info, so if someone knows Keith or how to get in touch with him I'd appreciate you either PM me the info or let him know to contact me.  Thanks,  Rick

Great Job Rob! It’s true, Tacoma is a tricky place to shoot at times, especially since they increased the height of the berms behind the targets at 50 and 100 yds. And, the 3 gun can be tough because you rotate 3 times so you have to shoot the whole range and your chances of sitting down in a trouble spot increase. Rob shot well all weekend, and hung in there to get the win. Always great to see the Canadian guys make it down to shoot with us! (although after this I think we are going to have to close the border!)   

BobR, before you load up that new brass try it in your chamber to be sure you can close the bolt. Sometime you must run it through your sizing die to push the shoulder back a bit in order for it to be usable in your chamber. As LE said it is good to have a slight crush fit for fireforming, so don't push the shoulder back too far.

Congratulations Tony and Wayne!!!

Rick Graham

Congrats Tony! Guess that long weekend at Tacoma got you warmed up!

Rick Graham

I always used Weavers and was very happy with them, but had one start to go bad on me after several years. So I had it frozen and used the Buckys mount with it for a while. It seemed to hold poi very well, no problem there, and that is the main thing. But, it was a pain in the butt to adjust and get it to where I wanted it to be exactly. It finally got to be more than I liked to deal with so I sold it (and a rifle ) and bought a used March. So far it has been a good scope. (of course the Weavers always seemed to be good scopes too)   

Well, maybe I can contribute something here… Tony is right that the regular design has worked well for a long time and is still going strong.  Both designs are easy to read the angles, due to the shape of the vane and the bi colored ball for direction. Both have the same sq inches of the Hi-vis material. The main advantage to the flat tops is to be able to stack more flags in your scope. Guys using the raised reticle scopes like them for this reason. The ball is at the top of the flag so even if you overlap them half way you can still see the ball at the top of the flag. Guys with regular reticles can usually get one or maybe two more flags than usual in their scope at 200 yds depending on the situation. If you have your new March turned up on 80X forget it!)    You gain about 1.5” per flag. So what that means is if you put your furthest flag right under the target, each successive flag you gain 1.5” over where you could set the regular design flags. So if you use say 6 flags at 200, you gain 9” in height for you flag closest to you. I other words the flags can be up closer to where the bullet is. If you overlap them it would be more. On very low ranges, you can get away with less offsetting of the flags (for visibility) because of this. Another thing, the FTs stack nice around berms or other trouble spots. (You can come up closer to the front and back side of the berm due to their shorter height.)

There are some disadvantages to the FTs. They are a little more awkward to handle due to everything being down from the pivot. Storage is a little trickier… with the regular flags guys often just put a 2x2 block in the bottom of their storage box with .75” holes drilled to set their pivots in. It works well. The FTs you can’t easily do that because the vane is down from the pivot. You can use finger adjustable pivots and turn the vane over when you store them (a little more hassle) or you need to put the block up high in your box from side to side so that the vanes will hang down when the pivots are in the holes of the block. With the XL FTs, the pivot is closer to the vane, and can create clearance problems if you have large knobs sticking out on your stands in some situations. (the FT vane travels around the stand)  Another thing with the FTs is you lose a little tail length. (with the vane being down instead of up) In situations where you need a very short flag set up this can leave you with not much tail. I try to help with this by putting two anchor points on the FTs. One at the bottom, and one close to the top. That way if you have a short flag situation you can use the top tail anchor point. (I prefer the bottom anchor point in all other situations)

You might also consider your shooting style also. If you like to stay on that scope a lot like a lot of guys do these days, maybe the FTs might help with that. I am a heads up shooter, so either works just fine for me. I am more likely to be concerned with having enough of the XLs out there so my tired old eyes can see them!