Nationals after Raton

[spclark]

This year they used white facing targets vs. the tan

Indeed they did. And what a difference they make!

Earl brought one LR face back to WGC, put it on display a couple weeks back. Here’s a pic I snagged thru my spotting scope of it vs. what we been using all these years:



I shot on it late Saturday afternoon, after the sun’d moved behind the targets & I usually have to use a frame hold. I could actually close my front iris down & shoot ‘ring of white’ as I coud see the black well enough to center up!

 

[BT1]

OMG! I know tradition and all, but wouldn't we all like to shoot the white?

Steve

 

[Brian H]

The FCNC schedule gets set for about 4 or 5 yrs at a time, the club/range that will host it has to request that it be held at their facility. The current schedule 19, 20, 21, and I think 22, was agreed to about a yr or so ago.

Camp Perry - nobody has stepped up to run it, and if you have shot there (I have) do you really want the FCNC run there? I shot the F class matches that were held there in '12 and in '14. If it is run the samw way I don't. It is convenient to the shooters in the east, but it is the slowest match I've ever in which participated, and the format of the NRA National matches it totally different than the FCNC. The range facilities are certainly capable of handling the match. If there was an organization that wanted to run it there and put their hat in the ring for something past '22 it could happen, but who is going to step up and run it?

Atterbury - Camp Atterbury came in to prominence in sling shooting last yr when the NRA and the CMP got into a pissing match and decided to get a divorce and the NRA moved all the NRA National Matches from Camp Perry to Atterbury.

I understand that the IN ANG has stepped up and made some improvements at the range to support the NRA Nationals there. If the range has 100 firing points and can handle 400 participants (I have never shot there) and the club at Atterbury could certainly put Atterbury in the mix in the future, but when the current schedule was established it wasn't ready for it and was far as I know it was not proposed.

@johnnyi where would you park everyone, and how long would it take for 16 relays?

I have shot at Perry 1 time at a regional match for the national guard. I thought it was well ran, but we were essentially running the ranges ourselves. Atterbury does have 12 SMT's so for a nationals we'd use manual targets. Range 6, which is what the NRA uses has 50 firing points.

 

[Down South]

I have shot at Perry 1 time at a regional match for the national guard. I thought it was well ran, but we were essentially running the ranges ourselves. Atterbury does have 12 SMT's so for a nationals we'd use manual targets. Range 6, which is what the NRA uses has 50 firing points.

That would be fine by me, i prefer manual targets anyway, especially for a national match.

 

[Warren Dean]

Yeah, at that point I'll be shooting Grand Senior or stuff out of my nose and ears.

Phoenix, eh? Back on the griddle. Maybe they'll have portable air conditioner units for November.

No whining, Denys.

 

[Turbulent Turtle]

No whining, Denys.

When you get to be my age, you'll understand.

I've earned the right to whine, and I will exercise it. So to speak,