Re: BHTC Sniper Challenge Sept 24 2011 Lewistown PA
Scores are up!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?...amp;output=html
Let's thank the club, MCSA, and our sponsors first, for a really nice prize table that I know all of you appreciated very much. Bohem - please help me out here.
AZ Precision Rifles
Europtic
Long Range Accuracy
Impact Data Books
Hornady
Sierra
Berger Bullets
Benchmark Barrels
Short Action Customs
Manners Stocks
Vortex Optics
Wells Custom Gunmakers
LA Precision Rifles
Camera Land
Thanks to the shooters who came out to play. The weather turned out to be GREAT. We were prepared for the worst.
Congratulations to Tony on a fine victory! It's nice to see a sponsor come out and shoot, but it's really cool to see one actually win the match. No, he did not take one of the impact data books off the table when his number was called. LOL
As far as the CoF goes, I intended to raise the difficulty level, and it seems I succeeded in doing so.
Some highlights for those that couldn't make it. I shot most but not all of these myself to see how they felt and shook out.
The CBS was a 3 target rapid bolt on a mortar team and spotter which were hidden in brush at about 745Y. First shot was on a 10wx24h skinny, and if a 1st round hit, the stage was full score. If the CBS missed, you went down to half points.
5 rounds at the paintball - only this time it was at <span style="font-weight: bold">200Y. </span>
The holdover stage was much harder this time and only five shooters completed it. One of the targets was nearly invisible.... tucked deeply into the woods/brush.
Stress Fire - Run back, do a pushup, roll over on the ground, grab a round, go back to the gun and fire. Only a couple guys got four out of ten hits, and most didn't even get 4 rounds off in :90.
The long range stages were a lot of fun. Monkey Time had the shooters working off a dog house built by Evil One Construction (Miker, the match director from the Reade Range Sniper Challenge), a steep hill, and shooting NRA prone.
A sniper team was spotted in the treeline at 845Y, and had to be reduced.
A new mortar team surfaced at 1006Y, since they found the baseplate from the previous team. The baseplate had to be hit first, then the team reduced.
Abseil had the competitors tying a swiss seat and shooting at a 505Y target while hanging in it. I think this was a crowd favorite. I tried it myself and I did not hit the target so I give props to all that did. Thanks to James Bailey formerly of 10th Mtn Div. For checking people's swiss seat rigs out, and for assisting me after his trigger decided to go apoplectic.
The barricade (also by E1C) was great. Great job Ed J, a new match shooter who was the only one who cleaned it.
Now onto the hellbender stage. Named after the inventor here on the hide, it was as Tony put it: <span style="font-weight: bold">"Some crazy-fucked up box drill that the match director came up with that had all kinds of math and conversions and shit in it that made our heads hurt." </span>
I couldn't have said it better. Shooters had to convert measuring units, and deliver shots in precise locations by scope knob reference alone. Measurements were given in inches, feet, Cm, and mm, and were either built off each other consecutively, or off the first target which was a 1" circle. The scoring areas were 3/4".
If you didn't do as well as you hoped, remember that BHTC is a training company! We had 6 shooters scoring in the top ten this time, and I humbly submit that's no accident.
Post your pics guys!
We will have a survey going out soon to the competitors to help us improve the product. I still have a boatload of steel to load back into the shed.
I am going to start working on a more advanced two day match that will have all the silliness you have come to expect on day 1, plus night fire stages, and a fieldcraft day on day 2.
Contemplated:
Competitors doing TD on BHTC staff hiding up on the mountain..
Shooting from a hide that they construct...
Conducting a stalk under observation...
--Fargo007
