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<blockquote data-quote="uncle money bags" data-source="post: 2565402" data-attributes="member: 8377"><p>While I could just echo everything EK said and leave it at that, there are a couple of points worth adding and expanding on in my case. Since vids are posted on the course I wont bother describing it. There is a lot more going on during the event and the vids are a good indicator. What I really appreciated was the chance to run a challenging course of fire on a 100% hot range under big boy rules.</p><p>I used this event to shake out a couple of gear changes I had made in anticipation of the Pawnee event and to verify my holdovers/dope under stress for longer range engagements.</p><p>First of all is temperature and humidity. The temps during the day were in the low 90's with humidity in the 80% plus range; wind was a breezy 3 to 5 mph, sometimes, calm the rest of the time. In a word, miserable, unless you were doing nothing in the shade, in which case you had to fight off the mosquitoes.. If you have spent time on the south east coast during the early summer like around Ft. Jackson, Gordon, Bragg you know what I am talking about. </p><p>In anticipation of this I spent the week prior hydrating, and drank about 3 gallons of water with electrolytes the day of the event. I had multiple clear and painless urinations all day so I think I had that covered. Where I made my biggest mistake was calorie intake. Ek mentioned this above, but in my case I under consumed. It felt like I was running at a fraction of the pace I am used to geared up. My legs felt like lead weights and it was hard to catch a breath. Very similar to the experience I had at the Tbird summer event.</p><p><strong><u></u></strong></p><p><strong><u>First run</u></strong></p><p>The first run of the day I elected to go heavy. This included everything I mentioned in the Pawnee run n gun thread except I wore my PIG plate carrier with medium ESAPI plates. By the time I exited the shoot house I was already drenched in sweat. Now, I sweat more than the average mammal, but this was ridiculous. Fortunately some of the moisture was soaked up by the ground while going under the simulated obstacle between the shoot house and sniper condo. At the end of the run I removed my dripping ACS, wrung it out and and laid it over the bed of the truck, in the sun and what little wind there was. When I packed it away at about 2300 it was still wet. The rest of the day I ran in my Rudder Rack and same ammo load out. </p><p>My take away is hydration is still king, even if you cant get enough evaporation and eat enough calories. That, and the plate carrier can stay in the kit bag when the temp/humidity is at that level, I might be tempted to run one if it was a jumpable version, but the PIG is just too padded and hot. </p><p>Since the longest shots for this COF were to be 400 yards;( and considering the Pawnee event will have a 500 yard target), and my optic of choice is an unmagnified Aimpoint M4 I had to do some work prior to the shoot working on my holdovers. For everything from 5 to 300 yards, or so, I am able to guesstimate the holdover and get hits. At around 400 and beyond the hold overs become tricky. Because of this I decided to figure out the dope for my round after getting some chrono data on it. Using the Hornady calculator I came up with my bullet drop at 400 and 500 yards, converted that info to clicks of adjustment on the elevation dial and went to the range. Everything worked like a charm. The only real downside is the time necessary to make the adjustments may allow a "real" target the chance to move. I wouldnt consider this method particularly good for engaging those types of threats, but for range/static targets it works.</p><p></p><p><strong><u>second run</u></strong></p><p>Ek didnt mention much on the buddy run, except alluding to my craptastic work with the borrowed DMR. I had not planned to even shoot this event, which had targets from 500 to 1000 yards since I didnt have rifle/scope combo capable of making those hits. Then Mr. Mason steps in the conversation and offers me the use of his DMR. Nice gun, nice glass. The only issues are I am using my hand loads and have no idea what my holdovers will be and that the reticule on the NightForce scope is a minimalistic dot, surrounded by a circle, with a couple of leveling lines outside of the circle. Every shot was going to be a guess. Adding to the problem were the 10 pushups for every missed target. Not being someone to spurn such a generous gift I accepted knowing at least I could spot for EK, and that my arms would be fried by the end. I was correct on both counts. Still, it beat sitting in the air conditioned Q-hut drinking water and being worthless. It was bad enough, that another member of the staff who was running the course ahead of us traded me his rifle with a Trijicon TA11 for the rest of the course after the 1000 yard stage. At least with that scope I had horizontal hash marks to work with for elevation. With that gun, from the rappel tower I did get hits on the 750 yard 18 inch gong using my ammo. Even then, I was holding over beyond the range of the reticule at around what would be the 850 to 950 yard BDC mark.</p><p></p><p><strong><u>third run</u></strong></p><p>The first thing about the night shoot I noticed was the adequacy of 500 lumen for everything from the shoot house out to 200 yards. It was not too bright indoors, and lit up the 200 yard targets well. I would consider it the minimum level of light as long as there is good spill. I used a Surefire Fury on the rifle and a Surefire X300u on my pistol. Both performed flawlessly. As EK mentioned, smoke and ejecta reflecting the light and totally obscuring the target for a couple of seconds in a calm wind. Indoors it was necessary to move out of the clouds line to reacquire targets. Note to self; the wind direction and speed becomes a factor when engaging at night even beyond their effect on the bullet. The night shoot also showed the importance of defogging and acclimating your glass and eye pro. If your gear is inside and cool, it will condense water when you take it outside in the hot and humid air. Use some defogging solution and keep your critical equipment in the same environment you intend to use it before needed so it can adjust to the conditions.</p><p></p><p>As I think of more I will add on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="uncle money bags, post: 2565402, member: 8377"] While I could just echo everything EK said and leave it at that, there are a couple of points worth adding and expanding on in my case. Since vids are posted on the course I wont bother describing it. There is a lot more going on during the event and the vids are a good indicator. What I really appreciated was the chance to run a challenging course of fire on a 100% hot range under big boy rules. I used this event to shake out a couple of gear changes I had made in anticipation of the Pawnee event and to verify my holdovers/dope under stress for longer range engagements. First of all is temperature and humidity. The temps during the day were in the low 90's with humidity in the 80% plus range; wind was a breezy 3 to 5 mph, sometimes, calm the rest of the time. In a word, miserable, unless you were doing nothing in the shade, in which case you had to fight off the mosquitoes.. If you have spent time on the south east coast during the early summer like around Ft. Jackson, Gordon, Bragg you know what I am talking about. In anticipation of this I spent the week prior hydrating, and drank about 3 gallons of water with electrolytes the day of the event. I had multiple clear and painless urinations all day so I think I had that covered. Where I made my biggest mistake was calorie intake. Ek mentioned this above, but in my case I under consumed. It felt like I was running at a fraction of the pace I am used to geared up. My legs felt like lead weights and it was hard to catch a breath. Very similar to the experience I had at the Tbird summer event. [B][U] First run[/U][/B] The first run of the day I elected to go heavy. This included everything I mentioned in the Pawnee run n gun thread except I wore my PIG plate carrier with medium ESAPI plates. By the time I exited the shoot house I was already drenched in sweat. Now, I sweat more than the average mammal, but this was ridiculous. Fortunately some of the moisture was soaked up by the ground while going under the simulated obstacle between the shoot house and sniper condo. At the end of the run I removed my dripping ACS, wrung it out and and laid it over the bed of the truck, in the sun and what little wind there was. When I packed it away at about 2300 it was still wet. The rest of the day I ran in my Rudder Rack and same ammo load out. My take away is hydration is still king, even if you cant get enough evaporation and eat enough calories. That, and the plate carrier can stay in the kit bag when the temp/humidity is at that level, I might be tempted to run one if it was a jumpable version, but the PIG is just too padded and hot. Since the longest shots for this COF were to be 400 yards;( and considering the Pawnee event will have a 500 yard target), and my optic of choice is an unmagnified Aimpoint M4 I had to do some work prior to the shoot working on my holdovers. For everything from 5 to 300 yards, or so, I am able to guesstimate the holdover and get hits. At around 400 and beyond the hold overs become tricky. Because of this I decided to figure out the dope for my round after getting some chrono data on it. Using the Hornady calculator I came up with my bullet drop at 400 and 500 yards, converted that info to clicks of adjustment on the elevation dial and went to the range. Everything worked like a charm. The only real downside is the time necessary to make the adjustments may allow a "real" target the chance to move. I wouldnt consider this method particularly good for engaging those types of threats, but for range/static targets it works. [B][U]second run[/U][/B] Ek didnt mention much on the buddy run, except alluding to my craptastic work with the borrowed DMR. I had not planned to even shoot this event, which had targets from 500 to 1000 yards since I didnt have rifle/scope combo capable of making those hits. Then Mr. Mason steps in the conversation and offers me the use of his DMR. Nice gun, nice glass. The only issues are I am using my hand loads and have no idea what my holdovers will be and that the reticule on the NightForce scope is a minimalistic dot, surrounded by a circle, with a couple of leveling lines outside of the circle. Every shot was going to be a guess. Adding to the problem were the 10 pushups for every missed target. Not being someone to spurn such a generous gift I accepted knowing at least I could spot for EK, and that my arms would be fried by the end. I was correct on both counts. Still, it beat sitting in the air conditioned Q-hut drinking water and being worthless. It was bad enough, that another member of the staff who was running the course ahead of us traded me his rifle with a Trijicon TA11 for the rest of the course after the 1000 yard stage. At least with that scope I had horizontal hash marks to work with for elevation. With that gun, from the rappel tower I did get hits on the 750 yard 18 inch gong using my ammo. Even then, I was holding over beyond the range of the reticule at around what would be the 850 to 950 yard BDC mark. [B][U]third run[/U][/B] The first thing about the night shoot I noticed was the adequacy of 500 lumen for everything from the shoot house out to 200 yards. It was not too bright indoors, and lit up the 200 yard targets well. I would consider it the minimum level of light as long as there is good spill. I used a Surefire Fury on the rifle and a Surefire X300u on my pistol. Both performed flawlessly. As EK mentioned, smoke and ejecta reflecting the light and totally obscuring the target for a couple of seconds in a calm wind. Indoors it was necessary to move out of the clouds line to reacquire targets. Note to self; the wind direction and speed becomes a factor when engaging at night even beyond their effect on the bullet. The night shoot also showed the importance of defogging and acclimating your glass and eye pro. If your gear is inside and cool, it will condense water when you take it outside in the hot and humid air. Use some defogging solution and keep your critical equipment in the same environment you intend to use it before needed so it can adjust to the conditions. As I think of more I will add on. [/QUOTE]
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