" Broken Sights ": 521 out of 600 points with vintage JGA rifle model 1400 at 50 meters

This Saturday, Oct. 9th, 2010, competing along 47 shooters, I managed to score 521 / 600 points, and to reach 13th place (2nd best along my fellow Club shooters) on the Portuguese Shooting Federation Standard 50 meter (55 yards) rifle national match. The match was held at the 50 meter Shooting Range of Jamor's National Sports Complex (CNDJ - "Complexo Desportivo Nacional do Jamor") at Oeiras, Lisboa, Portugal and was held under overcast weather with occasional rain drops.

This was my first at this particular precision rifle shooting competition (60 shoot, standing, open iron sights, standard rifles, ISSF pistol target 25 meters held at 50 meters) - and with only one single training session before, with a mere 60 shoots, 35 of them for sights adjustment). Thereby I'm very satisfied with this result, with an average score of 8,68 points per shoot (on a 60 series) - when on the previous Sunday training my best average out of 25 shoot series was lower, 8,24 .

My 60 shoot match score, with 5 shoot per match target and unlimited essays on 2 targets had the following partial 10 shoot series: 85, 87, 92, 86, 83, 88. According to my match notes, my best 5 shoot series was the 5 th with the partials 10, 10, 10, 9, 9 (48) and the worst was the 10th the the partials 9, 9, 8, 6, 6 (38) - this two 6 (successive!) due to "rookie" errors on the pistol grip handling.

Overall scores - 47 national competitors
I score 521/600 and reached the 13th place

I competed on line # 25 on the first morning entry

I competed with my "vintage" (late 1970s) J.G. ANSCHÜTZ Model 1400 .22 LR rifle using Lapua "Training" (so called "tin can grade ammo") standard 40 grains ammo. Along with my shooting kit were Peltor light protective sound ear mufflers, italian made "Smart Reloader" .22 LR plastic carry boxes and a large non slip accessories mat. Along the bench is my Bushnell Spacemaster 15x-45x spotting scope, collapsible and angled, model 787345.