Re: Asc competition
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: .257</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
1.Practice milling targets.
2.Bring more water than you think you will need.
3.Angle cosign indicator is your friend
4.RAIN GEAR (Even if it is sunny, sheep shit is slippery in the morning and you will be laying in it)
5.Be preppared for the best beef tenderloin you will ever eat on Sat night
6.Give Rod a hard time every chance you get!!!!!!!!!
I do
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Actually, I usually find that I've packed way more water than I actually need. And water isn't light. It comes down to personal habits and conditioning, I guess.
Definitely bring rain gear, no matter what the weather says. Also put some cold/cool weather gear in your car, no matter what the weather says. A couple years ago it was snowing on May 9, it had been 85* two days earlier.
Bring something to take notes and keep score with, it's up to every competitor to keep track of his/her own scorecard. I've personally found it easier to keep score in my databook and then later transfer that to the 8x11 scoresheet than it is to keep pulling that folded paper out and try to keep it from blowing off between stages.
Bring ballistics data for out to at least 1400 yds.
Wear boots with ankle support. A lot of the hiking will be cross country and the country here is as much vertical as anything else.
Find someone to shoot with the entire time. Stay with them and work with them. Switch off shooting wind bitch for each other and spotting impacts. It will greatly increase your success rate and also helps keep your head in the game. Trying to solo it, especially the first time, there's a good chance you will be a bit overwhelmed at times and make mental errors. There is a lot going on at any one location on the mountain and there is very little hand holding by the ROs. They have enough to worry about. This isn't a "because you're a new guy thing," it's just the best way to do well against the mountain.
Plan on carrying 75-100 rounds per day. At any one time you should only need to have at most about 10 rounds readily available, though. A ton of magazines aren't needed.
Not much point in carting a shooting mat around all day, you won't generally stay in one place long enough to justify unpacking/packing it.
Show up zero'd and ready to go. Your first shot of the match may very well be 750yds across a canyon during a minor hurricane.
In general knee/elbow pads don't see much use. Most folks, as I've observed, don't bother packing them.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: tmpohuski7</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Pack light and be prepared to walk.</div></div>
That is only hilarious because its you.
