Those of us that were there at Alliance were highly excited for Patrick. I was working the Pits during that relay and on the opposite end scoring another shooters target. My shooter was keeping me busy with his 35"+ group, but the hubdub in the pits was what was happening on target 3. After seeing the group, I called the line for a dial caliper to measure the group. I believe I heard a roar of excitement of all shooters on the Line after that announcement. Patrick and others showed up in a car with caliper. Due to threat of rain, I had target removed from frame and replaced with a new target. The Record target was set such that if rain occurred it could be placed inside easily. After the initial measurement was completed, I pushed Patrick and Randy, our Alliance Match Directors, to hurry up to complete before it rained. We did complete about 1 hour before heavy rains occurred that would have destroyed the Targets.
I gave the 8GB SDHD chip from my camera to Patrick so he could write up his version of the Match Report, which is his FCSA Match Directors responsibility. Randy is a contributing writer to this document which will be published in our FCSA VHP magazine.
By the way, I won the Unlimited Class for both Score and Aggregate Group. I was using an AR-50 action which I rebarreled to a 34" Feddersen barrel and uses an A-max Match Chamber (???) and 808 grain brass Lehigh bore-riders with 244 grains of 20N29.
Note to all about Patrick, he is a very nice guy who has EARNED all the honors he receives for this accomplishment. In another Class he was shooting, one of his turret knobs fell off his scope. He finished that Class of competition by holding the internals of the scope in place using his off-hand index finger. He still did well.
Dave, if possible, quit using the State Arms muzzle brake and use the Armalite muzzle brake instead. Availability will be an issue, I have tested both on my State Arms rifle and the Armalite brake is best by a wide margin. (Patrick was shooting a highly specialized bullet - he will need to divulge the secrets of that design and material.)