Cornfield Brutality Part 5- Stage 1 Long Range Assault
This stage hurt my pride. I am what some people would call “out of practice” with iron sights at distance. My Windham A4 was zeroed for a good old fashioned USMC 36/300 meter zero, but in my excitement i forgot some things.
The stage began with a angled roof shooting position and the shooter was to engage a 400 yard target with five well aimed shots minimum, but could continue until they got a hit if they so chose. moving on after the five shots was a 60 second penalty. Enter my first mistake- not adjusting my rear sight elevation and holding low when i should have held high. 300 meters is about 328 yards. 400 yards is about 365 meters. Neither is too far off, close enough to land a hit with Kentucky windage if I had remembered what I was doing. By shot number 3 I had figured out my problem (with help from the spotters) but still did not manage to land a hit. I decided eating the 60 seconds and moving on was the right call.
Moving to the first hay obstacle, my plan is basically to get the best sight picture I can and wing it based on feedback from the spotters. Further complicating the situation is my sights are still set for 300 meters, my targets are closer, and I am advancing on them between the obstacles. Windage was not much of an issue, the zero was good and while pretty windy at the range it maintained almost no value. The biggest factor with windage was my front sight being wider than the targets, so as you would see on the YouTube video of this stage, I continue to dance around the targets. I did ultimately land the four hits needed to move on to the second obstacle and repeated this process.
I also learned that I should probably practice reloading from an ALICE pouch in the prone before next year. that sapped some time from me and I managed to get my third hit at this obstacle just before the buzzer informed us that my time was up.
Stage one, in simplest terms, kicked my ass. I know i can hit targets that far, ive done it before. (nevermind 9holereviews pointing out that target was the size of a jeep vs the IPSC targets I was shooting at for this match) the principals remain the same. More practice will definitely be needed before next years run of Cornfield Brutality.
I want to thank InRange TV for putting on this and all of the brutality matches, and a very sincere thanks to Brownell’s for hosting the match at their range. It was overall a great time and I cannot wait for Cornfield Brutality 2023.
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