Oh, and an update about the range.
Attended Thunder Valley Precision yesterday. Nice range, but falls short to Rayners for several reasons.
Positives about TVP:
You can shoot from 100-1760 yards in one shooting position.
Negatives about TVP:
1. distances are as follows, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 1000, 1760 (huge gaps after 700 yards).
2. Each distance really only has 1 size option whereas Rayners allows you to start big and then move to smaller targets on the same rack. TVP seems haphazard in their layout.
3. 3/4 of the targets are surrounded by tall grass.. Cant see the misses.
4. Out of (let's say 14) pieces of steel, 2 of them would make an audible report. The rest you had to base on movement/impact "dust".
5. I only saw 1 wind flag (at 1000). I'm used to seeing 2-3 on the way to 1000.
I shot okay for the conditions noted. I was testing out a new projectile (Sierra tipped matchking) rather than the standard matchking so "not seeing" the misses was frustrating. But, when it was on... it was on (at a G).
Got to also look through a couple scopes I always wanted to peep through. Got to look through a Nightforce BEAST.... NOT worth the 4,000 price tag. The owner even told me that my scope blew his away when he looked through both and compared his to mine.
All in all, I'm sticking with Rayners.