Spirit of America



We shot 300, 500, 600, and 900 yards on day 1. At each yard line we shot 10 shots. We were pair-firing, so I would shoot a shot, then the person that I was shooting with would write down my shot, then take a shot. I would write down his shot, then take a shot, this would continue until we had shot all of our shots. At 300 yards I had a 100-6x. At 500 yards I had a 90-8x. At 600 yards I had a 98-2x. I dropped 10 points at 500 yards because of my rifle malfunction. My shot counted as a miss because it didn't hit the target. I closed the bolt, and that's when it fired. Since my trigger was set at 1  1/2 pounds, I thought that I might have closed it too hard, and that's what set it off. It happened again in the team match the following day. Trudie Fay, a GREAT shooter, took my gun home that night. Her husband made my trigger heavier to solve the problem. It was a little bit heaver than I wanted it, so Michelle Gallagher took me to Mid Tompkins to lighten it a little bit. Also, when I closed the bolt, it was hitting the stock. He cut it a little bit to reduce random weird shots. I was really happy! But, in the last team match, it broke again! It was a lot to deal with!