UK: BERGARA ROUND HOUSE RIFLE CHALLENGE
UK: BERGARA ROUND HOUSE RIFLE CHALLENGE
Tiff Dew from www.rifleshootermagazine.co.uk bring news from round one of the PRL, sponsored by Bergara rifles in UK. Also, he updates us on the events we can look forward to this summer.
By Tiff Dew. Published in the Rifle Shooter Magazine. June issue.
Despite Bergara sponsoring the event, the Spanish sunshine eluded us on Saturday and, in keeping with an apparent long-established tradition, this Roundhouse Rifle Challenge (RRC) was not entirely dry. Within a second or two of giving the command to commence zeroing, the heavens opened! Competitors dressed in shorts and t-shirts dived for kitbags, and a pre-8am Monty Python-esque struggle for waterproofs soon unfolded across the 100m zeroing line.
Thankfully, this almost biblical downpour was short-lived, a teasing exposure of what might have laid in wait. Instead crisp, dry and occasionally fishtailing winds developed into bright blue skies as the weekend unfolded. This settled weather came as a relief to everyone – especially the sentries, who were positioned on the high craggy tors overlooking the whole area. The electronic ShotMarker system made short work of zeroing, and the 36 shooters were soon positioned across the six morning stages. The competitors remained in their squads of six for the entire day, rotating through the stages and rotating their position within their squad.
This cyclical movement within the squad ensures that everyone has the somewhat unenvious honour of verifying the wind call first for a stage. Additionally, those with spotting scopes or binoculars then take the opportunity to try and glean some useful information on the atmospherics, before committing to the stage themselves. At 600m, the wind whistled down the far side of the valley from the left, offering little visual indication to the one mil of windage required. Unfortunately for many, the 600m ‘no shoot’ target to the right took one too many hits, resulting in a scoring of zero for the entire stage. Throughout the morning, the multitude of bewildered looks from competitors leaving the stage, and those approaching, steadily increased, as they were unaware of the strong breeze downrange. Even those familiar with the Roundhouse felt betrayed by the usual wind direction and vowed to improve by the afternoon.
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