Excuse Library for CMP & Highpower

[HuckleberryFun]

I ran across this on the Garand Thumb blog and laughed. I thought you'd enjoy it too.
Excuse Library

Excuses for messing up in a CMP Service Rifle match (works for Highpower too):

1. Bad ammo.
2. Someone must have cross fired.
3. Wallet in wrong pocket for sitting position.
4. Line officer telling distracting stories during slow fire.
5. Brass in butt crack.
6. Too much sun.
7. Too dark.
8. Neighbors playing loud music.
9. Firing position wrong number.
10. Wrong boots.
11. Had to poo.
12. No bolt pressure compensator.
13. Tornado watch.
14. Keys in pocket during prone.
15. Junky Nightforce.
16. Gun too clean.
17. Shooting coat too big.
18. Wrong twist direction for northern hemisphere.

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[41mag]

"I just washed my gun & can't do a thing with it"

 

[etrain16]

Mine, from service rifle match:

1. Inexperienced shooter
2. 95 degrees and sweating like crazy
3. Bullet weight too light for 600 yards
4. Rear sight won't hold dialed elevation or windage correction

I guess not that funny, but all 4 did happen to me in a single match.

On the rear sight, turns out it had previously been disassembled and reassembled improperly (not by me), so it needed a proper reassembly by a smith.

 

[Stomper]

I ran across this on the Garand Thumb blog and laughed. I thought you'd enjoy it too.
Excuse Library

Excuses for messing up in a CMP Service Rifle match (works for Highpower too):

1. Bad ammo.
2. Someone must have cross fired.
3. Wallet in wrong pocket for sitting position.
4. Line officer telling distracting stories during slow fire.
5. Brass in butt crack.
6. Too much sun.
7. Too dark.
8. Neighbors playing loud music.
9. Firing position wrong number.
10. Wrong boots.
11. Had to poo.
12. No bolt pressure compensator.
13. Tornado watch.
14. Keys in pocket during prone.
15. Junky Nightforce.
16. Gun too clean.
17. Shooting coat too big.
18. Wrong twist direction for northern hemisphere.

OK, excuse #2 is legit. How else do you get 6 more hits than the amount of rounds fired?


I remember one time qual-ing on the 1911 in Germany and scoring 56 out of a possible 50.....

 

[308]

I'm going to use #18 at the next rimfire challenge

 

[teflon6string]

F_ing Russians.

 

[41mag]

perhaps I can find an old list of what the old cowboy Stealth Bullet Shooting Society managed to conjure up....if so will post a thread.

 

[rick benjamin]

Dog ate my dope card

 

[Mygrainman]

I'm going to use #18 at the next rimfire challenge

I think it's legit... Like when you flush a toilet down under, the water swirls the other way... It's a fung shway thing, all about balance.

 

[Joe13]

I'm going to hang on to the Brass in my butt crack line.

 

[ron]

No. 18 is great. Some of my Ah $hit
1. At 600 yards spotting scope lined up on target 8 but you are shooting
target 18.
2. Rapid fire with 2 and 2. Instead of 2 and 8.
3. I love it when you are supposed to give it right windage and you give it left. You
figure it out a couple shots latter.
4. Crossfire Crossfire Crossfire. I have done it so many times.

 

[415DET]

TOO HOT!!! It reached 100 at Douglas Ridge for both days at the Oregon Open Highpower Championship this weekend. Missed the master score cutoff by 14 points. I shot a 1490 out of 1600....damn heat....

 

[HuckleberryFun]

TOO HOT!!! It reached 100 at Douglas Ridge for both days at the Oregon Open Highpower Championship this weekend. Missed the master score cutoff by 14 points. I shot a 1490 out of 1600....damn heat....

I had planned to go for both days. But when I saw it was going to hit triple digits I wimped out and spent the day hugging the A/C. My hardy pioneer forebears would be ashamed.

 

[etrain16]

I had planned to go for both days. But when I saw it was going to hit triple digits I wimped out and spent the day hugging the A/C. My hardy pioneer forebears would be ashamed.

I did Service Rifle last year at 95 degrees - it really was miserable. By the end of the day I was questioning my decision to attend. Yeah, I'm a wimp when it comes to heat, but I grew up without it in homes or cars until my mid-20's - I'm not going to forsake it now!

 

[crossbow5]

I was there at Douglas Ridge both Saturday and Sunday. It was really difficult to shot offhand late in the afternoon. My arms felt like limp noodles. The match director provided lots of water and encouraged everybody to drink up. That helped, but it was still a couple of long, hot days. Surprisingly my last 300 yard rapid prone score was a 95 and 1 X.

 

[Joe13]

Poor kids that play lacrosse had their regional matches this weekend at a few different fields in Clark county.

I sat in the AC after 12pm.

 

[ron]

415DET tough shooting in high temps. I personaly do this
"for the fun" and those high temps take the fun out of it.
Next 2 upcoming matches. I will be there if it is not boiling HOT.
Hope to see you 415DET at Frank's match on Saturday July 1?
TCGC Vintage Rifle and Pistol
Vintage Military Rifle and Pistol Competition
Also July 8 DRRC Service Rifle ( mostly G-rans)
Douglas Ridge Rifle Club - Service Rifle Program

 

[415DET]

Ron,

I hope to. Packing up the shooting gear for Camp Perry on that following Monday to get it transported to Ohio. Lets hope it is under 90 on Saturday

Ted

 

[415DET]

Crossbow,

Were you the guy on 13 or 14 shooting with a scope?

Ted

 

[crossbow5]

Hi Ted, I was on target 8 both days. See you on Saturday at Franks match.

Allen