Vintage match results

[madsenshooter]

Here's a link to the results page of the Vintage Match at Camp Perry. I came in #325 out of 421, with 4 Krag scores below mine. OMG! Even the guy with the type 99 Arisaka beat me (several of them)! Now I am embarrassed! Top Krag position was 24th. I didn't see the Madsen listed, must be one of the blank spaces or "other rifle". It's going to be a long crawl just to get to the top half. Gotta shoot, and shoot, then shoot some more. Good thing the CMP sells new barrels, the 20% nitroglycerin of Blue Dot is a little hot for the original barrel steel, the throat is growing fast!

http://clubs.odcmp.com/cgi-bin/report_eventAward.cgi?matchID=5690&eventID=14&awardID=1

[jon_norstog]

Madsen,

Thanks for posting that. Revenge of the Swedes! Are those guys all using standard military sights or are they getting the diopters? Also interesting to see so many P-17s and hardly any '03s.

jn

[Art]

It's no disgrace to be beaten by an Arisaka. The 6.5mm ones especially can be very, very accurate rifles.

[Griff Murphey]

Anyone who can crank that horrible '17 in rapid fire deserves to win!

[madsenshooter]

Madsen,

Thanks for posting that. Revenge of the Swedes! Are those guys all using standard military sights or are they getting the diopters? Also interesting to see so many P-17s and hardly any '03s.

jn

You have to use as issued military sights Jon, except for the mods allowed for us old guys shooting Krags! The '03s have their own match. Actually they shoot right along side us, just scored as Springfield match. I have 3 of the 6.5 Arisakas, 4 counting the Italian made one, they are accurate, even with the oversized bores most of them have. But the Arisakas don't even have any windage adjustment, other than drifting the front sight, and darned poor elevation, so those guys are using Kentucky windage! Practice practice, practice, I guess!

[jon_norstog]

Thanks Madsen. That clarifies a lot. I should have known the '03s had their own match.. AND it looks like rather than being the year of the Krag, it's the year of the Swede. Speaking as a Norwegian, mutter, mutter, mutter, ##@%%**

jn

[mhb]

Thanks for the link - those are some very impressive scores!
I was tickled to see that the high Krag shooter was Lee McKinney, who is an old friend and a sho-nuff hardholder - I've built and/or barreled some rifles for him: the oddest was a cast-bullet rifle on a Martini shotgun action, a .30 caliber for a unique cartridge designed by Lee and his pal Terry Sires, for which I made, fitted and chambered the barrel. The chamber was essentially a shortened .30-06, achieved by reaming to the point at which the chamber mouth diameter was the same as the head diameter of the .303 British case, which was then shortened and altered to fit the chamber. Lee made a powered breech seater out of an electric screwdriver, and did quite well in matches in Phoenix with it. I wanted to name the cartridge (so as to credit the co-designers) as the .30 S&M, but realized that might cause some misunderstanding, and so the rifle is actually engraved as '.30 M&S'.
mhb - Mike