Answer = "What's a Postal?"

[Stanley]

Here is a not-so-quick answer to “What’s a postal tournament?”
For a complete set of rules and entry form go to:
http://www.bench-talk.com/content/ThePostalShoot.aspx

The Postal Tournament is a 100 yd score rifle competition. You send us $65 and we mail you 25 targets (IBS 100 yd). Each target is a match. There are 5 matches per agg. 5 aggs for the tournament. Side note = if you are not sure you want to do the whole tournament, but still want to try it, you can pay 17.50 per agg.

Each agg is due back by a certain date. You can pick when you shoot your targets. The first agg is due back early May, the last one is due in late Sept. The rest are spaced in-between. We will award certificates for the top finishers in each class per agg PLUS pay back money to top finishers in each class per agg, and other prizes.

There are 4 classes. VFS, Hunter/Varmint Hunter(6X), Factory Modified, and Factory. You do not have to have Benchrest type equipment – just shoot what you got. My first year, I shot off of a 3 legged card table through a corn field. Not joking. I had to shoot all my aggs before the corn got to tall.

Steve and I do not keep the money. Well, OK, we might buy a beverage or two at the end of the season, but for 99% of the money - what you pay in goes back out (targets, certificates, prize money, awards, etc)

Benefits of shooting the postal.
1. The “excitement” of competition without having to drive hundreds of miles
2. If you prepay – you could win some awesome prizes
3. Gets you in contact with some of the best shooters in the nation.
4. Chance to win money 5 times per tournament
5. You get to truly find out what you and your rifle can do.
6. It is a great learning “springboard”
7. It’s just plain FUN

Jason Stanley and Steve Grosvenor

 

[Mikem]

This sounds a lot like the e-mail matches on Savage Shooters web site, except there, you only win a 1st place wall certificate, and it doesn't cost anything.
Your post reads a bit like thinly veiled advertising. jmo

 

[FBecigneul]

Mikem;
Bad read on your part. It's anything but that. The postals have been going on for many years and many have used the postal as a springboard to entering registered and even club matches. The original intent of the postal was to afford a shooting platform for those who cannot attend a match or shoot at a club for one reason or another. Distance to a shooting club is one major reason that people don't go to a club. Physical handicap is yet another reason. I know one extremely good shooter who does not shoot benchrest because he is Orthodox Jewish and does not adulterate the Sabbath. The postal has the prizes to entice shooters to enter. If manufacturers and vendors wish to show their wares as inexpensive advertising, good for the merchant but even better for the shooters. One can just sit back and criticize and never shoot if that is what one wishes. I choose to shoot and patrol the websites when I'm not shooting or getting ready to shoot.

 

[AlNyhus]

Mikem: Ditto to what Francis said.

Jason and Steve put a lot of time and work into the Postal shoots. All monies are paid back to the shooters, along with many nice prizes they've solicited from manufacturers. I've shot the Postals for several seasons now and have been the recipient of a set of Kelbly scope rings, a very nice Snap On power screwdriver (courtesy of Steve's own Snap On business) and a nice wad of folding money at years end.

These guys, as well as Francis, are people that give back to the sport....threefold.

I invite you to sign up and shoot the Postals, Mike. It's a hoot!

Hope to see your name on the match reports. -Al

 

[Posit]

"...patrol the websites..." ??

 

[FBecigneul]

"...patrol the websites..." ??

Yes.
Protecting the meek, the workers, the down trodden, those who are preyed upon by those who do that sort of thing.
Well, I felt Mikem had taken a shot at the precept of the postal and I came riding in on my white steed. That sort of thing. Some call it lurking.