“You’ll be able to use slings that are approved for NRA matches in positions for which slings are approved. ”

Is a Ching Sling acceptable?

Let me know when you shoot. We should try to shoot this together (as I’ve never shot a formal high power competition before and want to steal some of your skills)

Sebastian

The one thing I would mention is that maybe we should also do a “fun compoentent” with different targets.

Thinking – maybe a high power rifle session into a human silhouette target at 100 yards – 10 shots in 70 seconds. And a small game rimfire session at 50 yards – onto squirrel or chipmunk targets or something else.

Whether you change a magazine or not is entirely up to you. As long as you complete your shooting in the time period. Feel free to load up with 10 and shoot the whole string if you want. My club bans more than 5 rounds, for god knows what reason, so I will be changing magazines for my strings.

Is a magazine change required? (2/8 or 5/5) for the rapids? It sounds like no.

Is single loading required for slow fire?

For formal high power, it’s 60s for sitting, 70s for prone. (If you meant to make sitting longer than normal, no complaints from me.)

And a suggestion: maybe add a class using the SR42 and MR31 for the prone stages, if there are enough folks to justify it. I imagine blackfork, and possibly a few others will shoot mid-to-upper 90s standing, a 100-?X sitting, then a 100-10X for both prone stages on the larger SR target.

Thanks for putting this together. It’ll be nice to have another match after Camp Perry.

My only concern about recycling targets is that the tape might make scoring a problem. Center replacements would be fine though. I would have no problem with a recycled target, as long as it doesn’t make scoring difficult.

I’ll have to think about the two sighter shots. I think it’s a good suggestion to help out newbs.

If possible, I would like to reuse my match targets with tape over old holes and replacement centers (I found a place to print them out, and can post links on my blog). Those targets are $0.40 a piece plus shipping, so I would encourage others to do the same. Would this be a problem?

My last recommendation is to let us have two sighters in two minutes per position, and then we can just drop the two lowest scores. Some people who are not used to these positions will benefit greatly from this, as they will not know their zero changes from position to position.

Our rifle range has some problems with positions. For example prone is done on top of the concrete bench rests. We’ve been in litigation with the county for a couple of years. You see, they think we might be a hazard to the local AFB whose flight paths go nearly or directly over us. Even though the ranges are designed, with berms and overhead rock filled barriers, so that it is VERY difficult to see sky from the line. And as a result, we have some safety rules that others may not have to deal with. All weapons must stay cased until you are at the line. You may only shoot at targets that are attached to target stands that are in your lane of fire and said target stands may not be moved from their emplaced positions. So if you want to shoot at 100, 150 & 200 yd targets you will have to move between 3 lanes. And you have to encase/uncase your weapon each time. It encourages economy and neatness at the line. :)

I hope it develops over time, and more classes come to light (bolt action/semi, etc)

Shall reporting be just a total score, individual target scores, and/or photo of targets?