Hi Randy and all;

  It was a fair weekend for me. I got most of the third place wood. The 100 was not to bad but in this crowd, a 250-17X is only good for third.(and a decent post on the TCL) The 200 was a distaster. I shot 6 points below Leroy who got a 242 to win. I was not overly disapointed in the 300 as I got a 245 which was good enough for 3rd and 3rd in the 1-2-3 agg. Al Magoon won ever 2nd place trophy for the weekend.

As a side note, the barrel I am using is a Lilja 3 groove 17 twist that now has 2500 rounds through it. I shoot 118gr Bib moly bullets. The barrel shows a little copper after a yardage and I keep on suspecting that it will die one of these days(the throat looks like the day I chambered it)( before the snipers jump on this one, be it known that it was a pristine chamber job). But every match I have gone to since the 1st of May I have gotten at least one 50-5X in the 100. I do have a new barrel that should be there when I get home from this trip.( Hamilton for the Montana State Match this coming weekend)  I just do not know when I should give up on this barrel; it is like the energizer bunny.

Ron Baldner