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2013 Steel City Precision Rifle Challenge - Birmingham, AL
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I'm shooting a 308, but that's essentially a sling shot for the matches these days.
I'm bringing rat-shot for the 9mm.
I'm bringing rat-shot for the 9mm.
I'm bringing my fiveseven if that's the case. It makes me look like I can shoot.
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I'm bringing my fiveseven if that's the case. It makes me look like I can shoot.
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NOPE!!!! The 5.7 is not allowed, unless your Mike or Scott. They have to shoot the entire match, rifle targets included, with just the 5.7. Everyone else is exempt.
Ha. It wouldn't help me much anyways if we could use them. I know when I had mine it would jack some Ar500 up though.. I'm down to glocks and 1911s at the moment for pistols.
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hey Todd, poison, ryan, busby or any of you other heathens want to get an early dinner tomorrow after the zero range closes?
DT, instead of taking the red dot off my pistol, can i just wear one of those jedi training helmets instead?
DT, instead of taking the red dot off my pistol, can i just wear one of those jedi training helmets instead?
It's gearing up to be a good one. Some of the stages we tested on Wednesday were downright fun. Wear comfortable boots with some deems tread, pine straw is slick as shit
Guys,
It really gets too dark to see much after 4:30pm so we'll close down the zero range and Friday registration then. Stages and par times are all set. Every shooting area will have a little different challenge and flavor. It's gonna be fun!
See you soon.
It really gets too dark to see much after 4:30pm so we'll close down the zero range and Friday registration then. Stages and par times are all set. Every shooting area will have a little different challenge and flavor. It's gonna be fun!
See you soon.
yeah me too, what does the 0 stand for?? oh my god it is early!
how many shooters do we have?
how many shooters do we have?
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Any of you guys that want to zero I will be on H range and opening it up for zeroing. I'll be there until we run out of light.
I need to come check my zero. Something is off on my setup after verifing last weekend. Nothing has been touched so I may be up there in a few. I had to leave earlier to work for a few mins.
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Great time today. Thanks to everyone who got the match together. Saw lots of good. Shooters today as well while RO'ing or assisting at stage 4. Seeing some of the people truck it up the hill was great, also the fellows who walked up it seemed to have a much better first hit ratio on the off hand shot. Nice to meet everyone I spoke to. I have no clue what your names are but everyone I met were first class people for sure! See you guys next year!
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Were you the one who I had the 175gn smk for but we could find change?
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What an awesome match!!!!!! Thanks Dave, Jim, Richard , and John y'all really had it all together!! Can't wait to shoot this again! Congrats to Jason Green on the win. And thanks to the RO's for helping!
Keith H
Keith H
Just returned from the match.....I want to thank Dave, the RO's, and everyone involved in making this match happen !!!
That being said.....FOR SALE: custom SSC .260, w/ an XRS sitting in a McRee Chasis....$20 (maybe I'll have better luck with tennis)
That being said.....FOR SALE: custom SSC .260, w/ an XRS sitting in a McRee Chasis....$20 (maybe I'll have better luck with tennis)
I could use a 260 and a spare xrs would be fine with me.
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My hats off to Dave, Jim, John, and all the crew members at Steel City. Outstanding course of fire. It was defiantly a unique setup, of which I've never experienced. In my honest opion, the uniqueness sets this match apart from all others. I sure hopeyou guys make this a yearly match, and if so count me in. Keep up the awesome work.
To all the RO's, thank you x1000. Without you guys, the match wouldn't have ran smooth. You all had to take time out of your schedule, Cost for hotels, fuel, food, etc and for that I thank you.
Big thanks to Jim for getting up one hell of a prize table. To all the sponsors, which over half of them were there in person, thank you. Sponsors are what keeps this sport alive, and if you were there to see the prize table, you would understand what I'm talking about. I'm talking over $30,000 in prizes. That is very impressive. A special thanks to Tod Litt from NF for putting an F1 scope on the prize table for me to scoop up.
It was pleasure meeting all the new faces and getting to see the usuals ones. Congrats to Jason Greene on the win, you earned it brother.
To all the RO's, thank you x1000. Without you guys, the match wouldn't have ran smooth. You all had to take time out of your schedule, Cost for hotels, fuel, food, etc and for that I thank you.
Big thanks to Jim for getting up one hell of a prize table. To all the sponsors, which over half of them were there in person, thank you. Sponsors are what keeps this sport alive, and if you were there to see the prize table, you would understand what I'm talking about. I'm talking over $30,000 in prizes. That is very impressive. A special thanks to Tod Litt from NF for putting an F1 scope on the prize table for me to scoop up.
It was pleasure meeting all the new faces and getting to see the usuals ones. Congrats to Jason Greene on the win, you earned it brother.
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Prize table was definitely pretty dang awesome! Great job Jim for getting that all together.
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I'm not sure I would change anything about this match. I had 7 in my squad and I didn't even have time to make a sandwich. That's exactly the way I like it. I'm used to taking my iPad to bide my time time between shooting. There was no time for that. Thanks to Dave and Jim and the other guys that worked the match. I would love to shoot a match without something on my rifle going wrong but maybe next time. Thanks to Short Action Customs for my gift cert. Congrats to Greene. This value in this match at 100 bucks is incomparable.
Thanks again,
T
Thanks again,
T
I had a great time, I'll be back.
I need to work on a lot of things, and learned ALOT. I found all my weak points, and equipment problems as well. Thanks to all involved!
I need to work on a lot of things, and learned ALOT. I found all my weak points, and equipment problems as well. Thanks to all involved!
It was a great match. My first. Thanks to David, Richard, John and the other guys who made this match possible. I wish i would shot better but maybe next time.
Thanks to RO,s they ran this a smooth as possible.
Thanks to RO,s they ran this a smooth as possible.
It was great meeting some new people in area 4!
I was happy to hear that only one person fell on the trek up the hill (sorry ron). I wanna thank the ro's that helped us proof stages, and assist with set up.
I really want the thank Austin Cook, Zak Smith, Dave Horn, Mark Kuczka and Brandon. You guys did an excellent job helping things move smoothly! Your time and dedication to the sport is much appreciated.
Thanks to all the shooters, you all did a great job navigating the courses of fire safely and efficiently.
Thanks to the sponsors for supporting this match...We cannot put an event on like this without you all.
Till next time.....
I was happy to hear that only one person fell on the trek up the hill (sorry ron). I wanna thank the ro's that helped us proof stages, and assist with set up.
I really want the thank Austin Cook, Zak Smith, Dave Horn, Mark Kuczka and Brandon. You guys did an excellent job helping things move smoothly! Your time and dedication to the sport is much appreciated.
Thanks to all the shooters, you all did a great job navigating the courses of fire safely and efficiently.
Thanks to the sponsors for supporting this match...We cannot put an event on like this without you all.
Till next time.....
Almost forgot, i want to thank mike goebel from southern sports photography. He got some great pics from this match. Please visit his site to check them out.
I thoroughly enjoyed being able to help on Area 4. What a great crew!
Thanks to the match organizers and all the staff who helped. Thanks to all the shooters who came out with positive attitudes to have a safe, fun experience. I didn't hear or see anyone complain about anything. That says a lot about how this was organized and run.
Speaking of attitudes... Gotta give a shout out to David Martin and Jason Greene. What superb gentlemen and professional sportsmen. I was happy to see these guys on top of the leader board. On Area 4, stage 4B, David came through with an amazing run. He cleaned the stage with first round hits on all but two targets. The two he barely missed he quickly picked up with follow up shots. Then on the surprise "4C" stage he drew down on the third target array by mistake (an easy thing to do and something LOTS of guys did) and called a target. He noticed his error, corrected to the second array and started getting hits. Two 3-point hits was pretty darn good. SOLID performance by a humble guy. That was the best score of the day by far on this stage.
Two shooters later here comes Jason up the hill. The first guy cheering Jason on was David. Jason made an almost identical run with eight first round hits and two targets picked up on the second shots. So, it came down to the 4C stage. Jason did the same thing (great minds think alike!) and drew down on array three. But he noticed the mistake in time to adjust to array two and call the small plate (7 point value). I looked over at David and we waited until that first shot rang out and... Impact! David's face lit up and he started laughing.
David was the first guy to congratulate Jason on the faster run. And Jason was just the most humble guy about it.
It was an experience I'll never forget.
I didn't get too many opportunities to take pictures, but did snap a few on 4B.
Marcus smacking the first plate off-hand after running up the hill. First round hit. Give up the cigarettes brother and you won't have to stand in the damn box catching your breathe so long. LOL.
Walt Sailers on position 3. Kept his cool. Always happy. Laughs at opportunities to do better (aka problems!). What an awesome guy and gentleman.
Sean, tryin' to get away from his comfort zone of the AI chassis. You look very different not running a chassis brother. Ha, ha.
My buddy Ron was the guy to bust his butt up the hill. He shook it off, sucked down 17 Tylenol and rocked on.
My buddy Chris rockin' out "Jeffrey, the Tactical Giraffe" rifle. This is the surprise stage 4C "sling" stage.
Thomas running the stage...
Tod Litt, my friend from Nightforce. He had a solid enough performance to earn him a #4 finish position. Proud of ya, bro. That BEAST sure helped I know.
I'll try to dig through some more pics later. I am beat. Was a LONG day driving over.
Before I go, special shout out to my buddy Joey. This was hist first match ever and he has only had his precision rifle for about a month. This was his second time ever shooting past 200 yards! And he did VERY well. I told him just go slow enough to get your hits. Use this as a learning opportunity and don't be worried about the time. He did just that and it worked great for him. He stayed calm and focused on the targets. He didn't miss many either. Well, except when his shot the "2" marker on 4B! He mistakenly thought THAT was the target and center punched it. We all got a laugh about that. I guess technically it wasn't a miss. ;-)
Great seeing everyone. Hopefully we can take David and Jim into doing this more than once a year!
Mark
Thanks to the match organizers and all the staff who helped. Thanks to all the shooters who came out with positive attitudes to have a safe, fun experience. I didn't hear or see anyone complain about anything. That says a lot about how this was organized and run.
Speaking of attitudes... Gotta give a shout out to David Martin and Jason Greene. What superb gentlemen and professional sportsmen. I was happy to see these guys on top of the leader board. On Area 4, stage 4B, David came through with an amazing run. He cleaned the stage with first round hits on all but two targets. The two he barely missed he quickly picked up with follow up shots. Then on the surprise "4C" stage he drew down on the third target array by mistake (an easy thing to do and something LOTS of guys did) and called a target. He noticed his error, corrected to the second array and started getting hits. Two 3-point hits was pretty darn good. SOLID performance by a humble guy. That was the best score of the day by far on this stage.
Two shooters later here comes Jason up the hill. The first guy cheering Jason on was David. Jason made an almost identical run with eight first round hits and two targets picked up on the second shots. So, it came down to the 4C stage. Jason did the same thing (great minds think alike!) and drew down on array three. But he noticed the mistake in time to adjust to array two and call the small plate (7 point value). I looked over at David and we waited until that first shot rang out and... Impact! David's face lit up and he started laughing.
David was the first guy to congratulate Jason on the faster run. And Jason was just the most humble guy about it.
It was an experience I'll never forget.
I didn't get too many opportunities to take pictures, but did snap a few on 4B.
Marcus smacking the first plate off-hand after running up the hill. First round hit. Give up the cigarettes brother and you won't have to stand in the damn box catching your breathe so long. LOL.
Walt Sailers on position 3. Kept his cool. Always happy. Laughs at opportunities to do better (aka problems!). What an awesome guy and gentleman.
Sean, tryin' to get away from his comfort zone of the AI chassis. You look very different not running a chassis brother. Ha, ha.
My buddy Ron was the guy to bust his butt up the hill. He shook it off, sucked down 17 Tylenol and rocked on.
My buddy Chris rockin' out "Jeffrey, the Tactical Giraffe" rifle. This is the surprise stage 4C "sling" stage.
Thomas running the stage...
Tod Litt, my friend from Nightforce. He had a solid enough performance to earn him a #4 finish position. Proud of ya, bro. That BEAST sure helped I know.
I'll try to dig through some more pics later. I am beat. Was a LONG day driving over.
Before I go, special shout out to my buddy Joey. This was hist first match ever and he has only had his precision rifle for about a month. This was his second time ever shooting past 200 yards! And he did VERY well. I told him just go slow enough to get your hits. Use this as a learning opportunity and don't be worried about the time. He did just that and it worked great for him. He stayed calm and focused on the targets. He didn't miss many either. Well, except when his shot the "2" marker on 4B! He mistakenly thought THAT was the target and center punched it. We all got a laugh about that. I guess technically it wasn't a miss. ;-)
Great seeing everyone. Hopefully we can take David and Jim into doing this more than once a year!
Mark
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It was center also. I didn't know he actually hit the sign at first just though it was about 5' away from the first target. Every shot after that was dead nuts center. I'm bringing a seat belt for the front of the four wheeler next time.
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I had a blast. Thanks to David Tapp, John Cuckler, Richard Crouse, and Jim Saunders. You guys put on a hell of a match that I was happy to be apart of helping out. The prize table was nuts and thanks to all the sponsors. It was a fun match that seemed to be challenging but not overly hard. My favorite part of Saturday was watching some of the shooters faces up on 4B when John said "bolt back magazine in, your next stage starts now", the looks were priceless. To all the shooters, up on 4 you guys shot well that I saw, we tried to make it difficult but not overly hard to were no one enjoyed it.
To all the guys I met, Mark, Brandon, Zac, and old friends, you guys are the reason I show up at these things is to hang out with good friends and have a good time.
Austin
To all the guys I met, Mark, Brandon, Zac, and old friends, you guys are the reason I show up at these things is to hang out with good friends and have a good time.
Austin
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