1903 Springfield 30-06
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CZ93X62
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Roger that--humidity is oppressive, heat is tolerable if you have shade and a slight breeze. Even 110*-115* isn't too bad in the shade, if you stay hydrated and a slight breeze is blowing. MANY dove hunts and canal fishing days (sometimes at the same time!) in such conditions, as well as shooting trips with an "E-Z Up" sunshade covering my folding tables.
The desert does not always cooperate with dry humidities, though. The Coachella and Imperial Valleys near the Salton Sea and the Palo Verde Valley near the Colorado River will happily and capably exceed 120*+ and are heavily irrigated farmland. 70% humidities are not uncommon with 110*+ temps. You haven't LIVED until you work there in a uniform with wool pants and body armor. A True Slice Of Heaven, indeed. Been there/done that/got the T-shirt.
The desert does not always cooperate with dry humidities, though. The Coachella and Imperial Valleys near the Salton Sea and the Palo Verde Valley near the Colorado River will happily and capably exceed 120*+ and are heavily irrigated farmland. 70% humidities are not uncommon with 110*+ temps. You haven't LIVED until you work there in a uniform with wool pants and body armor. A True Slice Of Heaven, indeed. Been there/done that/got the T-shirt.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
We get that 90F/90% humidity up here too. Generally those are the days you have to work your butt off to get a field of hay done before the thunderheads ont he horizon let loose on you. I figured 'Bama would be 105 and 100%! I was in Meridian, Ms for a while in summer and that was brutal.
Charles Graff
Moderator Emeritus
The northern boy in me spotted the fan running on the bench, in the shade, and figured out right then Alabama is just too hot for me!
You should never ever come down here to Deep South Texas "On The Border By The Sea" in the summer. The sweat can run down your face making if hard to see the sights, unless you wipe it off before shooting the group.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
And I thought Iowa in the summer was bad!
Ian
Notorious member
It's nearly that bad here, but not quite. The difference is that here, moving under some good shade=instant relief wheras in the RGV it is just as miserable anywhere you go outside in the summer.
Humidity may be 90-85% in the morning with 85⁰ temps, but by 4PM when the temps are 105⁰ the humidity falls to 30-40%. We don't see over 100⁰ with over 70% humidity very often in the Hill Country.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I have a humidity meter thingy on the wall here. In winter with the woodstove going it rarely gets above 40%. In the summer with the windows open it can bury the needle up past 100%. I don't know how it can go past 100%, but I suppose it's "relative humidity" or something. In the summer, when it's "muggy", that thing will bury itself up there and the thermometer will be up over 100 somedays. You knock hay down and it takes 4 days for it to dry. That is tough sledding for sure. Other days, it the wind is right, it will be down in the high 20's/low 30's and 100F and you knock hay down one day and bale it the next. I like those days!
RBHarter
West Central AR
I took a load of oak out west once and the trailer dropped 500# from Groom TX to Kingman Az . It was 114° when I went through Las Vegas . I had the truck bed just level with wood , and 6'×12'×3' on the trailer , the air swirling over the split wood and around the aluminum tool box resulted in cold Lone Star and Shiner available when I stopped at Desert Springs . That is a lot of water of water exchange .
Down here you start cutting firewood for next year last spring .
Down here you start cutting firewood for next year last spring .
35 shooter
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That Jason is a fine iron sight shooter. Fine rifle and load too.
Wish I could see irons like that again.
Wish I could see irons like that again.
Snakeoil
Well-Known Member
17.5 or 18 of 2400 is the magic load behind a 180 gr 315. We shoot ours out to 500 yds. I have a photo from a member of a gong at 500 yds with five rounds in about a 1.7 MOA group. Load was 19.5 2400 under an NOE 230gr Blackout with a hardness around 11-12 Bn. Sights were a 20x Unertl.
Regards,
Rob
Regards,
Rob
Snakeoil
Well-Known Member
I'm pretty sure that the rifle is not a real National Match. I think it is a NM replica. I'm no expert, but from what I understand a real NM when so equipped, should have a Lyman 48S rear sight with a much longer staff for longer yardages and the bolt should be polished and numbered with the rifle serial number clearly in view on top.
Not that that is not a damn fine 03 and I'd be happy to have it in my rack.
Not that that is not a damn fine 03 and I'd be happy to have it in my rack.