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TripleJ Precision, Perth (2026)

09/09/2026

TEAM – Something else wasn’t quite right….

As per my last post, I said I would follow up on the issue I had with my kneeling sights after adjusting them down from 90m to 50m.

Well...I found something interesting.

After shooting the two 40-shot matches at 90m, I was pretty well cooked.

Somehow, in my fatigue, I completely forgot to adjust the sights back down to 50m until I was already in position and ready to start the 50m prone match. Not ideal. 😂

It was only then that I noticed something wasn't quite right.

As I wound the rear sight down, the further the centre post of the sight moved towards the bottom of the sight body, the clicks started to feel really spongy.

Normally, the clicks on these sights are nice and crisp. You know exactly what you've done, click. click. click.

These weren't and the further down I went, the worse they felt. It was by that stage I was already in position, the match was about to start and I didn't have the opportunity to pull everything apart and work out what was happening.

So..I just had to go with it. I shot the match and, with every click down, I became more and more conscious of how the sight was feeling and I'll be honest...It wasn't doing much for my confidence.

Now, before anyone thinks I'm blaming the sights for my score, I'm not. The conditions were absolutely terrible and most of my errors came down to my own lack of concentration.

There were plenty of shots where I simply didn't do what I needed to do, but after what had happened with my prone sights in Adelaide, I was already feeling a little uneasy about the whole situation.

When you lose confidence in your equipment, even if the equipment is actually doing what it's supposed to do, it gets into your head and that's not where you want to be during a 60 shot prone match in horrible conditions.

At the end of the prone match I had to get everything packed up and ready for the bench match, so I didn't have time to investigate the sights properly.

By the end of the day...I was absolutely cooked. It had been a long day and that prone match had taken a fair bit out of me so it wasn't until I eventually got home that I could actually sit down and have a proper look at what was happening.

I wound the rear sight up and as soon as I cleared the lower section of the sight body, the clicks came back. Crisp, positive and exactly how they normally feel.

Hmmmm...Now we had something.

It appeared that when the rear sight was wound right down into that lower part of its adjustment range, something wasn't quite happy.

The question now, how do I fix it?

I didn't want to simply accept that I had to run the sight right at the bottom of its adjustment.

I wanted the sight sitting somewhere around the middle of its adjustment range, where it was operating properly and where I was comfortable with it.

Initially, when I set up my prone sight raisers, I had deliberately set the front and rear sights on the same plane.

That meant I was naturally running the rear sight relatively low in its adjustment.

So...time to change the geometry.

Luckily, I have Grünig + Elmiger AG adjustable sight raisers which I have to say, these things are bloody fantastic and probably the best adjustable sight raisers I've used.

So I pulled out the adjustment kit and made a small change. I added 2mm of height to the front sight raiser.

The theory was pretty simple:
Raise the front sight slightly → bring the rear sight higher in its adjustment range → hopefully get those crisp clicks back. Simple, right?

Well...there's only one way to find out if a theory actually works and that’s putting some rounds down the pipe.

And unfortunately, that's where we're going to have to leave this one. 😂

Did the 2mm adjustment fix the problem? Did the rear sight end up sitting where I wanted it? Did the clicks come back to normal under real shooting conditions? Or did I just create another problem for myself?

We'll have to wait for the next post.

Wish me luck...

Because apparently I enjoy making my life complicated. 😂

TEST. DON'T GUESS.
Because targets don't lie.

07/09/2026

TEAM – apparently I need to get better at this social media thing 😂

Firstly, a quick apology...I know, there are bugger-all photos.

The last couple of posts seem to have struck a bit of a chord and, surprisingly, we have picked up a fair few new followers. So firstly, welcome! 👋

Secondly, I probably need to get a little better at the whole social media thing. The problem is, I don't actually have social media outside this page.

So taking photos of what I'm doing, remembering to take photos while I'm doing it, and then actually remembering that people might want to see them...That's all still a bit foreign to me. 😂

I'm generally more Clark Kent than Louis Lane when it comes to documenting what I'm up to. So moving forward, I'll try to be a little more Louis Lane and a little less Clark Kent. No promises though. 😂

Following on from Adelaide, we went straight into the WASPS Open. For those who aren't familiar with WASPS, it's the Western Australia Precision Smallbore Club and it's a great club here in WA, with a great membership base, and the WASPS Open was an absolutely fantastic event.

Paul and Angie were steering the ship, with a number of other great volunteers helping out behind the scenes, and the whole event ran as smooth as butter. That's not something that happens by accident, a lot of work goes into putting these events on, and the people who volunteer their time to make them happen deserve a massive amount of credit. So thank you to Paul, Angie and everyone else involved.

It was a bloody good event.

90 metres - I'll admit, I was a little apprehensive going into the weekend. After Adelaide, Jason at Lowey Products Australia had confirmed that my normal prone sights were, in technical terms..."Stuffed." 😂 So I had to use the set of sights normally used for the kneeling position and to make things even more interesting, we were starting at 90 metres, excellent.

After making sure everything was sighted in correctly, everything seemed to be working well...Everything except the strong, gusting wind.

I walked away from the 90m prone reasonably happy. The scores weren't spectacular, but given the conditions, I was pretty happy with a 194.2 and 195 for a total of 389.02.

The Carl Walther Competition KK500 actually shot extremely well and I wasn’t too far off the top f-class and bench shooters for the match.

I then jumped onto the Vudoo Gun Works V22 single shot for the 90m bench match. The conditions were still playing games, but the Vudoo performed really well with the ELEY Limited Match with a pair of 197.5’s for a total of 394.10.

Next up was the two 60-shot matches at 50 metres.

I started with the prone match and this is where I discovered another little problem with my temporary sights. After shooting at 90 metres, I had to wind the rear sight down 65 clicks to get back onto 50 metres.

Once I was in position, I noticed that the internal mechanism holding the rear iris was now sitting very low and as I wound the sight down, the clicks became extremely spongy and didn't feel right. Unfortunately, I discovered this after I was already in position and the match had started. So there wasn't exactly much I could do about it and I just had to ride the wave and get into it. I will do a follow up post on this later.

The conditions were terrible, but the Walther handled them really well. I also had a few lapses in concentration that certainly didn't help and I finished with a 614.7. Probably the worst conditions of the day and, interestingly, my prone score was still keeping pace with some of the guys shooting F-Class off a bipod. I'll take that. 😂

By the time we got to the final 60-shot bench match, I was absolutely cooked.

Two 40-shot matches at 90 metres and a 60-shot prone match at 50 metres and now another 60-shot bench match.

But...The show must go on.

Normally when I head to the bench, I take two batches of ammunition with me. Not because I expect one to fail, but because sometimes a batch that shoots well in testing simply doesn't perform on the day, that's why we test.

At 90 metres, the batch I'd been using, provided very generously by Mark, wasn't working particularly well at 50 metres.

So I switched to my second batch and this was actually quite significant for me as this was the first time I'd used that batch in a match which is the natural progression of my batch testing process. Test the batch, confirm it and then eventually put it into competition.

This particular batch had been a bit of a rollercoaster during testing. The Vudoo had been somewhat out of tune, and this ammunition had shown some ups and downs.

But when it mattered, on the day, It performed almost flawlessly. I shot a 106.2 and followed it up with a 106.6 with a final score of 631.2. In those conditions? I'll take that every day of the week.

I think that's probably the biggest thing I took away from the weekend.

Things don't always go exactly how you planned, sometimes you just have to adapt, problem solve and keep shooting.

And, once again, the weekend reinforced something I keep banging on about TEST. DON'T GUESS.

I'll remember to take some bloody photos 🤣

03/09/2026

Team – The second lesson from Adelaide!

I said in my last post that finding the faulty rear sight wasn't the only thing I learnt during my week in Adelaide.

The other lesson came from spending a week watching Jason from Lowey Products Australia work.

Honestly, it was bloody impressive, not him, just his work of course 🤣

Prior to this week, I had two of my own sporters sent to Jason as they weren’t shooting.

An J.G. Anschütz GmbH & Co. KG Match 54 and a Turbo Rim Fire Actions V3.

Both had new barrels, but neither were shooting the way they should to be competitive.

The Anschutz - I was pretty convinced there was something wrong with the barrel and in my head, I had pretty much already diagnosed it, "This barrel is no good."

Jason didn't seem quite as convinced.

He went through it, tested it, looked at it, thought about it and kept working at it and eventually...He brought it to life and the thing absolutely smokes now.

Which was a pretty good reminder that sometimes the problem isn't necessarily the thing you've already decided is the problem.

Then there was the Turbo - This one surprised me even more as I actually expected the Turbo to be the easy one, but as always, I was wrong!

It required considerably more work than I expected and there were points where I was honestly thinking, "I need another sporter barrel."

I'd pretty much had enough, but Jason hadn't.

Every time we hit another hurdle, he had another test, another idea, another thing he wanted to try.

There was never really a, "Well, I don't know, buy another barrel”.

It was more, "Okay. Let's try this."

Something I really noticed during the week was Jason wasn't guessing, he was testing and he was always looking at what the rifle was telling him and then making decisions based on that information.

Test. Observe. Adjust. Test again.

Sound familiar? 😂

Eventually we got to the last test with the Turbo.

It started terribly and I was devastated!

Then, after about 20 rounds...It came alive.

The groups started coming together and suddenly we had a completely different rifle.

Jason was shooting a group that was looking damn near perfect...until he shanked the last shot. 😂

But even with that one shot ruining his group, what the rifle was doing was pretty bloody impressive. That’s why gunsmiths should stick to what they do best…….

We then put two different batches of ELEY Limited Match through it, both Jason and I shot groups that I'd happily accept from a heavy gun, and this was a sporter, with no tuner!

That was the moment where I just stood there thinking...Yep. That's why you don't give up too early, and that’s why you choose your gunsmith before you do a build!

It's very easy to look at a rifle that isn't shooting and decide:
"It's the barrel."
"It's the ammunition."
"It's the action."
"It needs replacing."

But until you've actually worked through the problem and proven those things, they're just theories.

Now that's probably the biggest thing I took away from watching Jason work for the week.

He didn't just look for the first thing he could blame, he worked the problem and he kept working it until the rifle told him he was right.

Test. Don't Guess.

Because sometimes the difference between a rifle you write off, and a rifle that absolutely smokes, is simply refusing to give up on it.

Unfortunately, the week disappeared far too quickly and I was soon back on a plane and back to work.

However, I came home with a much better understanding of what was going on with my own equipment and a couple of sporters that are now shooting a hell of a lot better than they were when I arrived.

Targets Don't Lie.
And apparently...neither does a good gunsmith. 😂

02/09/2026

Team – Adelaide - When Everything Makes Absolutely No Sense

Sorry for a bit of radio silence, but there's been a bit going on behind the scenes.

A few weeks ago I headed over to Adelaide for a selection shoot, and to describe the weekend as good, bad, terrible and interesting would probably be an understatement.

The good? I won the selection shoot, not a great score 617.6 as a lot of shots that didn’t make sense.

The bad? I didn't achieve the selection score I was chasing, which was bitterly disappointing. The conditions were good, I was shooting reasonably well, but the rifle simply wasn't doing what it was supposed to do.

Then came Day 2.

The Terrible? I changed absolutely nothing from the previous day, so there was no reason the rifle shouldn't perform at least similarly.

It didn't, the rifle was spraying shots everywhere with absolutely no rhyme or reason.

I'd shoot a group left, put click after click into the sights trying to move it right...Nothing.

Next string I'd be shooting right and trying to click it back left.

Again...Nothing made sense.

It got so bad that I actually started laughing. Not because it was funny, but because I genuinely had no idea what the hell was going on.

Eventually I gave up trying to chase it and simply aimed in the middle and hoped for the best.
It wasn't the best.
It was the worst.

I walked away from that shoot absolutely gutted and, to be honest, pretty embarrassed as I had no idea what was wrong.

I added a printout of the shoot so you can see what was happening.

Fortunately, I was staying with Jason from Lowey Products Australia for the week.

I walked through the door, basically threw the rifle case at him and said, "I have no idea what's going on. Please fix it."

The interesting? After listening to me cry like a complete man baby for a few minutes, Jason calmly walked over to his drawers, pulled out a sight checking tool, mounted my sights and started testing.

A few minutes later he looked at me and basically said, "It's not you. Your sights are stuffed."

Well...Those weren't his exact words, but they're close enough for Facebook. 😂

It turns out that when I adjusted the sights by one click, they didn't move at all. Sometimes even two clicks wouldn't move them, I was having to move them two or three clicks before they would actually respond in the dial.

And then it got worse, put even a small amount of pressure on the rear iris and the sights would physically move in that direction, sometimes by up to three clicks, and stay there.

They weren't returning and suddenly, the last few months of shooting started to make a hell of a lot more sense.

But Jason wasn't finished, he put a scope on the Carl Walther Competition KK500 in the SE stock and had me shoot it off the bench eith the same batch of ELEY Limited Match, with no wind flags on a windy day, the results, in those conditions, the rifle absolutely smoked! That was the final piece of the puzzle. I have added a pic of the groups, the number of shots per group is written in the corner.

My assumption had been that if the sights were faulty, the rifle would shoot badly all the time.

Clearly...I was wrong, one day it would shoot exceptionally well, the next day it would be all over the place.

The lesson?

Treat everything as broken until you've proven it isn't.

The sights have now been sent back to Centra for servicing, and hopefully I'll have them back soon.

After what happened in Adelaide, I'm very interested to see what happens when I put everything back together.

But that wasn't the only thing I learnt during my week in Adelaide...

Because I also got to spend the week watching Jason work, and that deserves its own post.

08/08/2026

Team – Well...I broke one of my own rules. Did it pay off?

To say I was nervous heading into Day 2 of the 2026 WA Fly State Titles would be an understatement.

For starters, my rimfire system hasn't exactly been behaving itself lately.

After an average day in the centrefire events, I knew I had a mountain to climb if I wanted to drag myself back into contention for the overall Three Gun standings. Hence no photos.

Then came the big decision...do I stick with the batch of ammunition I've tested multiple times? or do I trust the batch that absolutely smoked during practice the afternoon before?

If you read my last post, you'll know exactly what advice I give, never take a batch into a major competition after only testing it once. Yet that's exactly what I did.

Well... almost.

I wasn't reckless enough to put all my eggs in one basket. I had tested it once but I packed the other batch of ELEY Limited Match that had also performed reasonably well, just in case the miracle batch from the day before turned back into a pumpkin overnight.

The warm-up target was going to make the decision for me and to my surprise, it didn't just shoot well, it absolutely smoked. In fact, I honestly think it shot even better than it had the afternoon before and really made the Vudoo Gun Works system sing.

I genuinely can't thank Keiton Puzey enough for saying, "I've got a batch sitting in the back of my safe... give this a go." Without that conversation, the day may have looked very different.

The match finished like this:
🎯 57.01�🎯 57.01 (Screamer Target)�🎯 50.01�🎯 55.02�🎯 56.02
Total: 275 with 7 Flies.

On most weekends, that score would be enough to win, but not this weekend.

Stuart Pethybridge put on an absolute masterclass, shooting a new State and Range Record with a 279 and 5 flies.

Keiton backed it up finishing second with a 277 and 5 flies, including a new National and State Record for the smallest group.

I actually had the best seat in the house because I was spotting for both Stuart and Keiton throughout the match. Watching those two put on that performance was something special but as they say, “A shooter is only as good as their spotter”

Now even though they both beat me, they both finished with only 5 flies, and yet I finished with 7 flies, just saying, isn’t it the Fly State Titles…….😂

At the end of the day I finished:
🥉 3rd in Rimfire
🥉 Equal highest fly count for the day with 7 flies
🥉 3rd Overall in the Two Gun (Rimfire/Centrefire)
🏅 4th Overall in the Three Gun
🎯 16 flies across the three matches — four more than anyone else over the entire weekend.

Now, what did I learn?

Ironically, this weekend both reinforced and challenged my own philosophy. The batch testing absolutely paid off as without spending that afternoon testing every batch I had available, I never would have discovered the ammunition that ultimately carried me through the match.

But I also broke one of my own rules by taking a batch into a State Title after only testing it once, would I recommend that? Probably not.

Would I do it again under exactly the same circumstances? Maybe.
Because every decision in shooting comes down to the quality of the information you have available at the time.

The advice I share on this page isn't a list of rules that everyone must follow, it's simply what my own testing, successes and failures have taught me over the years.

Please, take what helps, but question everything.

Then go and test it for yourself.

Because that's how we all become better shooters.

TEST. DON'T GUESS.
BATCHES WIN MATCHES.

06/08/2026

Team - firstly I have to apologise for the radio silence lately.

Work has been flat out and every spare minute has been spent preparing for an upcoming competition, so social media has taken a back seat.

A couple of weeks ago we had the WA Fly State Championships for both Centrefire and Rimfire, and while the results weren't what I was chasing, the weekend taught me one of the biggest lessons I've had in a long time.

The weekend started with the Centrefire Light Rifle. Things looked promising early, but like fly shooting always seems to do, a couple of targets came along and reminded me who's really in charge.

When you're restricted to running 90-grain projectiles, you're already starting with one hand tied behind your back. That’s not a reflection on the fantastic Curtis Custom Valor QC but thankfully, there might be a solution to that problem in the pipeline.

I finished 6th with a 217 and 3 flies, not terrible, but not good enough.

The Heavy Rifle wasn't much kinder, a few good targets mixed with a few that absolutely punched me in the mouth.

Another 6th place, this time with 224 and 6 flies.

Some weekends you're the hammer, some weekends you're the nail, this was definitely the latter.

Fortunately, after the day's shooting the range was opened for practice, and that's when the entire weekend changed.

Because the range is hours away, and thanks to WA's new fi****ms legislation making range access even more difficult, I haven't had the opportunity to properly test ammunition at 200 metres.

As a result, like many shooters, I'd fallen into a trap and convinced myself that because several batches produced fantastic targets, velocity numbers and tiny SDs at 50 metres, they'd naturally perform at 200 metres.

That assumption got absolutely destroyed. I laid out seven proven batches of ELEY Limited Match, along with RWS Sportmunition R50 and RWS Special Match.

These weren't random boxes, these were batches that had already proven themselves at 50 metres on paper and over the chronograph they looked fantastic, however, at 200 metres...

Most of them were rubbish and that's exactly why I keep saying...
* velocity numbers don't win matches.
* Price tags don't win matches.
* Brand names don't win matches.
* BATCHES WIN MATCHES.

Only one batch of Eley Match looked remotely competitive.

Then the weekend took another turn. The reigning 2026 Fly National Champion, KP Puzey, wandered over and said, "I've got an old batch of Eley Match sitting in the back of the safe if you want to try it."

At that stage I had absolutely nothing to lose. The result was….

Wow! This batch absolutely hammered everything I'd brought with me.

Here's the funny part...It wasn't the batch with the best velocity numbers, it wasn't Tenex, it wasn't the most expensive ammunition, it was simply the batch my rifle wanted to shoot.

Once again...The target didn't care what was written on the box, they only care how that ammunition performed in my system, on that day, in that barrel.

Now I had a problem. The State Titles were the very next morning, I'd only tested this batch once.

Every fibre of my being was telling me to use it...but it completely contradicted one of the biggest principles I've spoken about over the last few months.

Never trust a batch after a single test.

I've always said if you're serious about winning, a batch should prove itself on at least two separate occasions before taking it to a major competition.

So what do you do? Stick with ammunition you already know isn't performing...or throw your own rule out the window because one batch looked sensational?

Sometimes the hardest advice to follow...is your own.

You'll have to wait until the next post to find out what decision I made.

23/07/2026

Team - Here's a harsh truth...

Buying the most expensive ammunition on the shelf doesn't make you more likely to win. It just puts a bigger dent in your bank balance.

One thing I've seen countless times over the years is shooters arriving at a competition, registered match or State Championships proudly saying,

"I bought the most expensive ammunition the shop had because I really want to do well this weekend."

I completely understand the thinking.

"If it's the most expensive, it must be the best... right?"

Wrong. That's not how rimfire works, buying expensive ammunition that you've never batch tested is no different to buying a lottery ticket, you're just gambling and hoping.

Turning up to a major competition with untested ammunition simply because it was the most expensive box on the shelf gives you a better chance of finishing near the bottom of the leaderboard than standing on the podium.

I've batch tested at ELEY Limited on three separate occasions and I've seen both ends of the spectrum. I've had batches of Tenex that absolutely smoked! I've also had batches of Tenex that shot terribly, in that system. Does that make it bad ammunition?

Absolutely not.

It simply wasn't the right batch for that system at that point in the barrel's life.

Those exact same batches could have been phenomenal in another one of my systems...or in yours.

Here's something many shooters don't want to hear, “The target doesn't care what you paid for your ammunition.” It only cares how that batch shoots in your system.

Turning up to a competition with untested ammunition because it was the most expensive box on the shelf isn't confidence, it's hope and hope isn't a shooting strategy.

The shooters consistently standing on the podium aren't guessing. They're testing, they're gathering evidence and they're removing variables.

They're turning up to the competition already knowing what their system is capable of.

Every major improvement I've made in shooting has come from replacing assumptions with evidence because the targets done lie.

That's why I've become so passionate about two simple philosophies:
BATCHES WIN MATCHES.
TEST. DON'T GUESS.

20/07/2026

Team – Well... I thought I'd found it.

Following on from my last post, the first thing I did was pull the barrelled action out of the stock.

While I had it apart, I cleaned the underside of the action and the inside of the stock before putting everything back together.

Then something caught my attention. As I began torquing the front action screw, it felt... odd, not rough, not tight, just... wrong.

The feeling instantly reminded me of what I'd experienced in Sydney on checking the action screws after flying.

So I backed the screw out and tried again with exactly the same feeling but on the second attempt...the threads let go.

That was the first clue and after measuring everything again, I realised I'd made a mistake right back at the beginning.

When I originally measured the action screw protrusion against the depth of the threaded holes in the action, I hadn't noticed that the front threaded hole is recessed before the threads actually begin.

The result? The front action screw was only engaging around 1–2 mm of thread... if that. No wonder it stripped. No wonder I was having issues, the threads had obviously stretched.

I remeasured everything properly, fitted the correct length screws and headed to the range thinking..."Surely that's the problem solved." And to be fair...for a while...It looked like it was.

My final 10-shot string in sighters was a 105.5. The first competition string, another 105.5, then came...10.7, 10.5, 10.5, 10.8 and everything felt fantastic. The rifle was behaving exactly as it should.

Then...9.6 way low, followed by...9.9 high then another 9.9 high again and immediately I knew something still wasn't right. Those weren't shots that matched either the way I was shooting or the way the rifle had been behaving only moments earlier.

The remainder of the match became another battle with unexplained elevation changes. The final score was 623.3 (594), a score I'd normally be happy with...But not this time, because the score didn't reflect how well the rifle had been shooting.

Once I got home, I pulled the rifle apart again and that's when I discovered...I'd managed to make two mistakes.

Firstly, despite all my measuring, I'd either measured the front action screw or the action incorrectly because the replacement screw was actually too long and was bottoming out.

Secondly, and this one's completely on me, I had accidentally fitted a pair of longer spare action screws into the rear. So in the end...EVERY action screw was bottoming out.

Sometimes the problem isn't a faulty component. Sometimes...

The bloke holding the 3mm Allen key is the problem. 😂

Thankfully, I've now corrected all of the screw lengths, checked the engagement properly and everything is torqued exactly as it should be. Now it's simply a matter of getting back to the range this week and seeing whether we've finally found the culprit.

Hopefully the weather plays its part...because I'm running out of theories to test.

Fortunately...I'm not running out of determination, one thing this whole process has reinforced is that precision shooting is exactly that...Precision.

Sometimes a couple of millimetres of thread engagement is all it takes to turn a rifle from a laser into a mystery.

As frustrating as this journey has been, I hope it's helping others understand the importance of methodically working through a problem instead of simply replacing parts and hoping for the best. That's exactly why I document the process.

Not because I always get it right...but because every mistake teaches you something and if sharing my mistakes helps someone else avoid making the same ones, then they're worth sharing.

Until next time...

TEST. DON'T GUESS.
Because...
TARGETS DON'T LIE.

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