Time again for another wonderful but frustrating Topstraps Longrange Rimfire Match at my range. I'll be here from Friday thru Sunday (July 9th, 10th and 11th.) from about 9:00 AM till it starts to get dark. Don't wait until evening hoping for calm winds and hope to shoot since there may not be enough time to finish up the ones in line. Looks like a chance of rain on Friday and Saturday but firing line is covered and unless it's blowing like crazy it's a dry place to shoot.
Match will be different this month and everyone can blame Jim Lochary for this months course of fire. He wanted to start at 197 and work his way back to 25 yards, this month he's getting his wish. Everyone must check their zero at 50 yards then dial out to the farthest rack, no preset longrange setting. There will be 85 targets worth 1 point each. Distances will be 25, 37, 50, 62, 76, 87, 100, 112, 125, 137, 150, 162, 175, 187 and 197 yards of varying sizes and shapes. I will allow up 5 sighters the shooter can use at whatever stages they wish. I'll also let each shooter take a couple shots to check their zero before starting. This month the entire match will be shot in REVERSE including shooting from right to left (last target in the rack to the first). I'm betting this will cause some rethinking on where to use those five sighters. Due to ammo availability you can use whatever ammo you have. There may be a bonus stage having probably 3 shots, first time I've had this one so it should be interesting.
There is still a restriction on benchrest type equipment such as no tuners or any of that other Benchrest type stuff allowed and no fancy Benchrest style rests. Only bipods or sandbags to support the gun. Any 22 rimfire gun/scope is allowed. I am still trying to keep this from coming an equipment race with high end custom guns and scopes. There are other local matches the really high end equipment and ammo can compete in against other high end equipment where they can battle it out for being top dog. I try to keep my challenging and fun and so far it's been working out pretty good with most everyone hitting a lot of the targets and a few smaller/harder/gamble ones that separate the top shooters.
A donation of $10.00 per each entry and you can re-enter if you wish but have to get in line again. The match winner will get a free entry at the next shoot and there will be at least 1 $25.00 drawing and usually another based on number of entries. Lately it has been two drawings and might even get to three the way things are going. The range officer/scorer has final say, we tend to favor the shooter if there is a question about a nicker which is counted. When the target is painted I'll check to verify a hit/nick for scoring.
The firing line is covered and there are two benches so two shooters can shoot the course of fire together. I also have a set of 4moa circles, one at each distance for the metallic sight shooters. If there are 5 scoped targets on a stage then the peep sight shooters shoot their target 5 times. They look large until you look at them without magnification, anytime someone thinks the peep sight shooters have an advantage they are more than welcome to sit behind one of our guns and give it a try. They are very doable and add a new challenge to this longrange game and let them compete with the scoped guys with very similiar scores so bring out those metallic sighted rimfires.
100 rounds should be sufficient with 85 targets and some type of special final stage to challenge your skills and also a few checking zero rounds. I really hope this doesn't scare everyone off but I like to keep a match interesting and challenge the shooters without making it too hard for intermediate shooters. We need to encourage them not scare them off.
Any questions my email is [email protected]
Allow about an hour to shoot the course, if that is too long then on the first weekend of the Month Butch McCort has a 50 round match that only takes about 20 minutes to shoot. Personally I like to shoot once I sit down and get my monies worth. If shooters think that 50-100 rounds is getting to be too much let me know and I can cut back so everyone can keep shooting till this craziness is over.
Hope to see everyone.
Topstrap
Match will be different this month and everyone can blame Jim Lochary for this months course of fire. He wanted to start at 197 and work his way back to 25 yards, this month he's getting his wish. Everyone must check their zero at 50 yards then dial out to the farthest rack, no preset longrange setting. There will be 85 targets worth 1 point each. Distances will be 25, 37, 50, 62, 76, 87, 100, 112, 125, 137, 150, 162, 175, 187 and 197 yards of varying sizes and shapes. I will allow up 5 sighters the shooter can use at whatever stages they wish. I'll also let each shooter take a couple shots to check their zero before starting. This month the entire match will be shot in REVERSE including shooting from right to left (last target in the rack to the first). I'm betting this will cause some rethinking on where to use those five sighters. Due to ammo availability you can use whatever ammo you have. There may be a bonus stage having probably 3 shots, first time I've had this one so it should be interesting.
There is still a restriction on benchrest type equipment such as no tuners or any of that other Benchrest type stuff allowed and no fancy Benchrest style rests. Only bipods or sandbags to support the gun. Any 22 rimfire gun/scope is allowed. I am still trying to keep this from coming an equipment race with high end custom guns and scopes. There are other local matches the really high end equipment and ammo can compete in against other high end equipment where they can battle it out for being top dog. I try to keep my challenging and fun and so far it's been working out pretty good with most everyone hitting a lot of the targets and a few smaller/harder/gamble ones that separate the top shooters.
A donation of $10.00 per each entry and you can re-enter if you wish but have to get in line again. The match winner will get a free entry at the next shoot and there will be at least 1 $25.00 drawing and usually another based on number of entries. Lately it has been two drawings and might even get to three the way things are going. The range officer/scorer has final say, we tend to favor the shooter if there is a question about a nicker which is counted. When the target is painted I'll check to verify a hit/nick for scoring.
The firing line is covered and there are two benches so two shooters can shoot the course of fire together. I also have a set of 4moa circles, one at each distance for the metallic sight shooters. If there are 5 scoped targets on a stage then the peep sight shooters shoot their target 5 times. They look large until you look at them without magnification, anytime someone thinks the peep sight shooters have an advantage they are more than welcome to sit behind one of our guns and give it a try. They are very doable and add a new challenge to this longrange game and let them compete with the scoped guys with very similiar scores so bring out those metallic sighted rimfires.
100 rounds should be sufficient with 85 targets and some type of special final stage to challenge your skills and also a few checking zero rounds. I really hope this doesn't scare everyone off but I like to keep a match interesting and challenge the shooters without making it too hard for intermediate shooters. We need to encourage them not scare them off.
Any questions my email is [email protected]
Allow about an hour to shoot the course, if that is too long then on the first weekend of the Month Butch McCort has a 50 round match that only takes about 20 minutes to shoot. Personally I like to shoot once I sit down and get my monies worth. If shooters think that 50-100 rounds is getting to be too much let me know and I can cut back so everyone can keep shooting till this craziness is over.
Hope to see everyone.
Topstrap
