I compete in Sportsman's Team Challenge and I'm just trying to get new faces out to the matches. Read on and thank you for your time!
Remember the 90's when you saw teams shooting steel targets with rifles and pistols out to 90yds on the clock? No support slings or jackets or vertical grips on the rifles. Just good .22lr rifles and steady hands. Well the Chevy Truck Challenge is known as Sportsman's team challenge and has been the same event since its inception in the 80's. We just wrapped up the 2014 National Championship match in Marble Falls, Texas at the amazing Copperhead Creek Gun Club.
Sponsored by Smith and Wesson, Vortex, Browning, Eley, XS Sights, C More, Sierra Bullets, Hogdon Powder, Sun Optics, Lapua, Ruger, Midland Radio, Dillon Precision, and many more companies, the prize table this year was worth close to $30,000.
Here's the run down on the event:
Rifle Event:
-4 banks of 10 targets at 45, 60,75 and 90 yards
-1 inch star and diamond target apertures at 75 and 90
-other target apertures are 2-4 inch circles, squares, triangles, ovals and hexagons of different point values
-all steel targets
-6 "frog eye" 1 inch targets at 40 yards that are 2 points each
-teams get 1:30 to 2:30 based on classification to shoot 46 targets
-2 and 3 man teams compete so strategy is key
-3 x 10 round magazines each, no speedloaders
Combo Event:
-one rifle shooter, 2 pistol shooters, one of which becomes the magazine loader for the other two
-there are three horizontal plate racks with 3 and 4 inch target apetures at 15 and 20 yards
-2 green uprights at 45 and 50 yards with five 4 inch apetures that must be shot to open up the windows for five 2 inch plates to be shot for 3 points each
-one blue upright at 60 yards, same layout as the green listed above, but it is woth more points per target
-one red upright at 75 yards with five 3 inch target apetures worth 3 points each
-The rifle starts with 3 x 10 round magazines, 2 x 10 round magazines for the pistols
-one pistol shooter will load empty magazines for the other two shooters after expending their ammo on target
-1:30 to 2:30 based on class to shoot the targets
Pistol Event:
-three stages, one .22lr and two centerfire
-.22lr consists of 24 targets, twelve four inch target apetures at 25 yards and twelve 6 inch target apetures at 30 yards
-Action plates are 12 Steel Challenge style targets to be shot with a centerfire pistol
-No more than 6 rounds in .22lr and centerfire magazines
-Final stage is precision centerfire plates are 4 inch squares without apetures at 25 and 35 yards
-competitors start from a box behind the event and run to their stage, complete it, then run back before the next shooter starts.
-no FMJ
-1:30 to 2:45 based on class to complete
Now for the shotgun events!
Flurry:
This is pure adrenaline, imagine 5 birds coming at once over your heads at 40 mph frrom 30 yards away. There is a wall in front of the traps so you cant see the birds until they are already flying at you. 5 clays are thrown at once for the initial, then every second to 1.75 seconds after that, 50 total clays
Flush:
Similar to Flurry, but the layout is different. There are two crossers from the left, a teal in the middle and two crossers from the right. Same rules apply! Five at once, then another is thrown every second to 1.75
Mixed Bag:
-This is 5 stand
-All true pairs
-all targets are setup in a 5 stand manner, crossers, teals, chandel rabbits, and so on
All shotgun events are 50 targets each, with each target worth 2 points.
Doug Koenig, Jerry Miculek, Kay Miculek, Lena Miculek, Michael Plaxco, Jim Clark, Bruce Piatt, Doug Fuller, Lones Wigger, Larry Nelson, and many more compete every year! So the question is, are you ready to grab two friends and compete in the most entertaining and challenging match around? can you shoot a rifle steady as a smallbore shooter yet run a pistol as fast as Doug Koenig and shoot sporting clays as well as Doug Fuller all in the same day? Test your skills and come out! There's a classification level for everyone!
Google Sportsman's Team Challenge to find out more!
Remember the 90's when you saw teams shooting steel targets with rifles and pistols out to 90yds on the clock? No support slings or jackets or vertical grips on the rifles. Just good .22lr rifles and steady hands. Well the Chevy Truck Challenge is known as Sportsman's team challenge and has been the same event since its inception in the 80's. We just wrapped up the 2014 National Championship match in Marble Falls, Texas at the amazing Copperhead Creek Gun Club.
Sponsored by Smith and Wesson, Vortex, Browning, Eley, XS Sights, C More, Sierra Bullets, Hogdon Powder, Sun Optics, Lapua, Ruger, Midland Radio, Dillon Precision, and many more companies, the prize table this year was worth close to $30,000.
Here's the run down on the event:
Rifle Event:
-4 banks of 10 targets at 45, 60,75 and 90 yards
-1 inch star and diamond target apertures at 75 and 90
-other target apertures are 2-4 inch circles, squares, triangles, ovals and hexagons of different point values
-all steel targets
-6 "frog eye" 1 inch targets at 40 yards that are 2 points each
-teams get 1:30 to 2:30 based on classification to shoot 46 targets
-2 and 3 man teams compete so strategy is key
-3 x 10 round magazines each, no speedloaders
Combo Event:
-one rifle shooter, 2 pistol shooters, one of which becomes the magazine loader for the other two
-there are three horizontal plate racks with 3 and 4 inch target apetures at 15 and 20 yards
-2 green uprights at 45 and 50 yards with five 4 inch apetures that must be shot to open up the windows for five 2 inch plates to be shot for 3 points each
-one blue upright at 60 yards, same layout as the green listed above, but it is woth more points per target
-one red upright at 75 yards with five 3 inch target apetures worth 3 points each
-The rifle starts with 3 x 10 round magazines, 2 x 10 round magazines for the pistols
-one pistol shooter will load empty magazines for the other two shooters after expending their ammo on target
-1:30 to 2:30 based on class to shoot the targets
Pistol Event:
-three stages, one .22lr and two centerfire
-.22lr consists of 24 targets, twelve four inch target apetures at 25 yards and twelve 6 inch target apetures at 30 yards
-Action plates are 12 Steel Challenge style targets to be shot with a centerfire pistol
-No more than 6 rounds in .22lr and centerfire magazines
-Final stage is precision centerfire plates are 4 inch squares without apetures at 25 and 35 yards
-competitors start from a box behind the event and run to their stage, complete it, then run back before the next shooter starts.
-no FMJ
-1:30 to 2:45 based on class to complete
Now for the shotgun events!
Flurry:
This is pure adrenaline, imagine 5 birds coming at once over your heads at 40 mph frrom 30 yards away. There is a wall in front of the traps so you cant see the birds until they are already flying at you. 5 clays are thrown at once for the initial, then every second to 1.75 seconds after that, 50 total clays
Flush:
Similar to Flurry, but the layout is different. There are two crossers from the left, a teal in the middle and two crossers from the right. Same rules apply! Five at once, then another is thrown every second to 1.75
Mixed Bag:
-This is 5 stand
-All true pairs
-all targets are setup in a 5 stand manner, crossers, teals, chandel rabbits, and so on
All shotgun events are 50 targets each, with each target worth 2 points.
Doug Koenig, Jerry Miculek, Kay Miculek, Lena Miculek, Michael Plaxco, Jim Clark, Bruce Piatt, Doug Fuller, Lones Wigger, Larry Nelson, and many more compete every year! So the question is, are you ready to grab two friends and compete in the most entertaining and challenging match around? can you shoot a rifle steady as a smallbore shooter yet run a pistol as fast as Doug Koenig and shoot sporting clays as well as Doug Fuller all in the same day? Test your skills and come out! There's a classification level for everyone!
Google Sportsman's Team Challenge to find out more!
