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Alaska Long Range State Championships and F Class Point Series Qualifier

CBTobias

President of the Kahiltna Flats HOA
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Capacity: Maximum competitors: 35

Dates: Saturday July 12, 2025 and Sunday July 13, 2025

Location: Snowshoe Gun Club Rifle Range, Kenai, AK 99611

Contact: Alaska Rifle Club, PO Box 672197, Chugiak, AK 99567-2197

Christopher Tobias 907-521-2927 or by e-mail, chris@roehard.net

Rules: Current NRA High Power rules and NRA F-Class Ruleswill govern. Open Bolt Indicator, Hearing and Eye Protection are required!

Eligibility:Open to any ARC member. Non-ARC members must pay $5 one-day membership fee.

Pre-Register: ALL competitors are required to pre-register prior to the match, utilizing the club’s website: https://akrifleclub.com/schedule/. Walk-on participants may register on a space available, first come, first served basis

Fees:Tournament Fee - $60. Non-ARC members pay $70. (Shooters under 18 are free but must pay $5 daily ARC membership fee if not members).

Entries Due: 08:45 AM – 9:15 AM. Sign in at the rifle range.

Start Time: 09:30 AM

Squadding: Squadding assignment for individual matches will be issued during registration.

Classification: The NRA LR classification system will be used. Unclassified competitors will compete in the Master Class. Assigned Classification (Rule 19.6), or Temporary Classification (Rule 19.2), may be used. Scores shot in this League match will be submitted to the NRA at the end of the season.

Targets: 1000 yard LR (Prone) and LR-FC (F-Class) targets. Shotmarker electronic target systems will be used (Rule 10.17). Club provides tablets for shooters and scorers or participants may use their own devices. Ammunition must remain supersonic (minimum of 1200fps residual velocity at 1000yards) to ensure the Shotmarker sensor microphones can hear the shot properly to locate it on target.

Rifles: Prone: Service Rifle (Rule 3.1), Any Rifle (Rule 3.2), NRA Match Rifle (Rule 3.3) Palma Rifle (Rule 3.3.1).

F-Class: F-Class Open Rifle (F-O) (Rule 3.4(a)), F-Class Target Rifle (F-TR) (Rule 3.4(b)).

F-Club: Rifles using muzzle brakes or suppressors or otherwise not compliant with NRA F-Class rifle rule. Scores not submitted to NRA but still eligible for awards if fired from prone position.

Course of Fire: Saturday July 12, 2025

Sighters: There will be a 2 minute blowoff period at the beginning of each relay. 2 convertible sighters will be allowed for each match, and shooters must either verbally take no sighters for record, both sighters for record, or the second sighter for record. Shooters can not pick the first sighter for record and discard the second sighter for record.

Pair Fire: pair firing will be used - two competitors on the firing point. Competitor A is on the right and Competitor B is on the left. Competitors have 45 seconds to fire a shot after the previous competitor has shot. After competitor A fires a shot, competitor B verbally scores the shot. Competitor A must verbally acknowledge the score before competitor B fires. Competitor B then fires a shot within 45 seconds. Competitor A then verbally scores for Competitor B. Competitor B must verbally acknowledge the score before competitor A fires again. This alternating will continue until each competitor has completed the required number of shots in that string or match. If one any competitor cannot be paired, they may not fire faster than a paired competitor adjacent to their firing point.




Match A: two convertible sighting shots and 20 shots for record prone pair fire at 1000 yards.
Match B: two convertible sighting shots and 20 shots for record prone pair fire at 1000 yards.
Match C: two convertible sighting shots and 20 shots for record prone pair fire at 1000 yards.
Match D: Will consist of an aggregate of the three matches above.

Course of Fire: Sunday July 13, 2025

Sighters:There will be a 2 minute blowoff period at the beginning of each relay. 2 convertible sighters will be allowed for each match, and shooters must either verbally take no sighters for record, both sighters for record, or the second sighter for record. Shooters can not pick the first sighter for record and discard the second sighter for record.

Pair Fire: pair firing will be used - two competitors on the firing point. Competitor A is on the right and Competitor B is on the left. Competitors have 45 seconds to fire a shot after the previous competitor has shot. After competitor A fires a shot, competitor B verbally scores the shot. Competitor A must verbally acknowledge the score before competitor B fires. Competitor B then fires a shot within 45 seconds. Competitor A then verbally scores for Competitor B. Competitor B must verbally acknowledge the score before competitor A fires again. This alternating will continue until each competitor has completed the required number of shots in that string or match. If one any competitor cannot be paired, they may not fire faster than a paired competitor adjacent to their firing point.

Match E: two convertible sighting shots and 20 shots for record in 30 minutes prone pair fire at 1000 yards.
Match F: two convertible sighting shots and 20 shots for record in 30 minutes prone pair fire at 1000 yards.
Match G: Will consist of an aggregate of from match D and the two matches above.


Note: F-Class shooters will fire the same course as the Prone Long-Range shooters, only they will use the F-Class targets and will fire either F-TR, F-Open or F-Club with a Long-Range classification against other F-Class shooters only.


Open Awards: Awards will be presented after the match per the NRA minimum award schedule for registered tournaments for 4 categories: Prone Match Rifle, Prone Service Rifle, F-Open (includes F-Club), and F-TR.

Match G overall aggregate determines the Winner, 2nd and 3rd place in those categories.
 
This will be our 2nd State LR Championship. Last year it was held in Talkeetna. This year being held in Kenai so for any shooter who might come up can fish the famed Kenai river for sockeye salmon. Also this match is open to anyone regardless of your state of residence. Here is your chance to hoist the Alaska state championship trophy.
 

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Chris, I will be up there during this time but already have the trip all planned. Maybe next year!
Next year it will more than likely be held at upper susitna 1000yd range in Talkeetna around the same time frame. With it being held in Talkeetna on Friday we can do a 600yd match on Fort Richardson on Pedenau range. Below picture of the 600yd range we use courtesy of the U.S Army.
 

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Next year it will more than likely be held at upper susitna 1000yd range in Talkeetna around the same time frame. With it being held in Talkeetna on Friday we can do a 600yd match on Fort Richardson on Pedenau range. Below picture of the 600yd range we use courtesy of the U.S Army.
I know it well. The final leg points for my distinguished badge were earned at Pedenau Range...
 
I know it well. The final leg points for my distinguished badge were earned at Pedenau Range...
They built us a pad on Grezelka to put our targets on for our 1000 yard matches when we can get on that range. Shooting there is fun with the wind coming out of the mountains and the numerous deep cuts on that range.
 
1000yd Grezelka range on Fort Richardson/JBER. As Chris said hard range to get because of availability. We did hold 2 matches last year on it.
 

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1000yd Colorado range on Fort Greely up in Delta Jct. Last time we shot there was 2022, another one that’s hard to get because of range control short staffing at the time in 2023. Bring 10 cans of bug spray mosquitoes are horrible lol.
 

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This match is next weekend! Next year’s state championship match will be held in Talkeetna. A world record could be set at Talkeetna that range is that good far as no wind. You do not have to be a state resident to win the state championship.
 

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