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The thought of free ammo is almost enough to get me to apply for a job at the local cop shop. I hate reloading. The wife and I both compete in NRA highpower rifle. We shoot M1A match guns. Starting to feel like a dinosaur - everybody else went to mouse guns after they got a bullet that would handle the wind at 600 yards. I have an AR15 H-Bar, but just don't like it near as much as the M1A. Given the choice between the AR15 and her M1903 Springfield, my wife will shoot the '03.

Don't know where you are located, but here in the peoples republic of Illinois, there is one 600 yard range, and one 1000 yard range. If there are any military installations near you check out their range policy re police and civilians. I used to go to Camp Atterbury in Indiana for matches. It has four 50 firing point ranges out to 500 yards, and one that goes to 600 and 1000 yards.

Regards

J.R.

I'm about a 45 minute drive from Camp Perry. Some of our guys went there about 2 years ago and because of an 'oversight' they forgot about me. I was not happy. I've been trying to get out there for quite awhile.

I've always wanted an '03, I hear they shoot nice.

You interested in once fired Federal brass?

I've been shooting High Power for about ten years now. I started with the Garand and tried to get this one particular Garand to shoot. No luck. I must have a sign over my head that says, "cheat me and wreck my rifle" to these so called accurizing shops.

I started to shoot the M1A and it wasn't bad but I found out that it takes a lot of maintenance, the mags are way too expensive and would always get stuck in the well.

A friend wanted to get into high power with an AR and I was given a good price because he was a dealer. The first time out I shot a Master score but after, that the scores kept on getting lower and lower. I think my worst was a 455. I went to the Texas State Match and after losing a hundred points[really!] off my average, the range officer told me that the reason I couldn't adjust to the 300 and 600 stages was because the rear sight had 1/3 clicks on the early Eagles. I sent the rear sight back to Armalite and they sent me the correct National Match sight base. 1/2 elevation and 1/4 windage. The next thing that my son mentioned was whether the front sight was correct. I found out that the front sight was reversed. I had the taper facing the wrong way and it was creating a shadow. It was also loose. I locked the sight using a 8/36 set screw on the bottom and I'm knocking on the door of the Master scores again. I know I can shoot, I just didn't know enough to blame the rifle.