Back home safe now . Well Pinjar is a beautiful range and Perth is just full of Beautiful, decent and kind People! I want to thank all of the dedicated Wara Members who gave up the Holiday time to put on a great event . Thanks to the MDRA President for loaning me his Cart . And to Wayne and the 2 Daves and other volunteers for Great Ro and Range Fairying . They were on the range way before us shooters were and I was there 6:45 am . You all should be proud of the rifle range that you have !
Now the hardest rifle range award !!!! Ok this is purely my opinion and that how it should be taken !
So of the rifle ranges that I have shot on so far in my career is ..... Drum roll !!!
1 . trentham NZ
2. Pinjar WA ( well done Pinjar )
3. Belmont when she’s cranky !!
4. Bendigo
5.Dalby / Tara
6. Muckadilla
( Short Range category up to 600 yds )
7. Definitely Northarm!!
8. Crowsnest 600 yds shooting across a valley!
9. When she wants to be , Warwick .
And I’m sure there are plenty more !
Ok with Pinjar it’s very much a mirage range that also relies on the flags that sometimes tell the truth . I’ve never seen 3 lots of mirage scissor against each other . The only way to see it was through a backed focus spotting scope . As if you just relied on the target mirage and the mirage as Mr Waites was talking about was not stable about 2-300 m in front of the targets. Eg was usually going right to left and then it would boil . Then the target mirage that everyone saw through their scope would lie to you .
I have never seen it I didn’t understand what I was seeing till the 1 st 900 m stage , where I nearly jagged a 60! I wish I could have a play around at 900 and 600 yds . When I cracked the condition on very rare occasions , it was a lot of fun ! At times I had zero wind on when the flags were saying 2.5 minutes correction , because of that unseen mirage . A spotting scope backed focused is a must . However Albert and others provesd it can be done without one .
And what about my Former team mate !! Albert was pretty much walking on water !! Was just a sweet sight to see !! Just plain WOW !
I hope I can make it again some day . Perth itself was just beautiful place with all of its natural beauty and turquoise Indian Ocean!
I’ll freely admit that Pinjar beat me up pretty good . But it’s usually a few days after that I realise that, “Hey I really enjoyed the difficulty!”
Best of all was all of the Mate ship and gasbagging that was going on . Judging on the amount of talking and laughing going around during the Queens , one would have to call it a Success!
Well Done WARA !
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Ps , I’m sure lower light would be no 2 or take the Crown . But I’m yet to shoot there. Also if you do go to Pinjar, make sure you have a cart .