New range question

[Texas Solo]

Central Alabama Gun Club has finally begun clearing land for a new range. We could go to 800yds.
I'm questioning doing an 800 yard.

Berms are planned at 200, 300 & 600. That will cover F Class midrange & XTC service rifle. But, I think most LONG range shooters would prefer 1000yd over 800yds.
I don't want the expense of adding an 800 distance if it won't be used.

So the question is:
Would you travel to an 800yd match verses a 1000yd match?

 

[Ron Gorski]

Central Alabama Gun Club has finally begun clearing land for a new range. We could go to 800yds.
I'm questioning doing an 800 yard.

Berms are planned at 200, 300 & 600. That will cover F Class midrange & XTC service rifle. But, I think most LONG range shooters would prefer 1000yd over 800yds.
I don't want the expense of adding an 800 distance if it won't be used.

So the question is:
Would you travel to an 800yd match verses a 1000yd match?

Yes but Alabama is too far from Colorado.

 

[JFrank]

the question is:
Would you travel to an 800yd match verses a 1000yd match?

No.

 

[Rick Richard]

No for me too. I don’t see 800 yards being popular. 600 and/or 1000…yes.

 

[jghoghunter]

We have a thousand yard range here in central Pennsylvania. Every hundred yards from 100 yd out to a thousand yards every berm is used hard.

 

[Emmett Dibble]

The odd distance would only be used if you created a local match for it (scaled down?).

 

[F Class John]

First I would probably say ANY new range being built is better than NO range being built so I'm grateful for the efforts to improve the shooting sports. If I lived closer I'd shoot it just because it's a chance to shoot.

However, I'm going to agree that for F Class specifically, 800yds is ofter perceived as too easy, boring, simple and doesn't really mean much because you're shooting a 1000yd target 200yds closer so your scoring rings are effectively larger for the relative distance.

If you look at SWN scores for last year as an example, 99 out of 149 competitors shot a clean target with 39 of them shooting at least 13 or more X's. Meaning 800yds is effective just an X race.

 

[Fuj]

The PRS guys would be all over that extra yardage and they bring
in shooters.. A shorter range VBR could be considered. Ridgway Pa.
has about 30 benches and runs about 5 relays once a month. That
place is always near capacity. Quite a few of the top paper punchers
in our region shoot it.

 

[swd]

How many 1000 yard ranges are within a reasonable driving distance? If your the only range around for a long ways then it might work but like F class John mentioned 800 is a pretty boring distance for F Class since we shoot it on the 1K target.

 

[Walt Schmidlin]

In my opinion 800yds currently makes no sense unless you also have 900 & 1000yds.

May want to consider a 300m firing line. Some sling shooters who want a more challenging target than the MR-1 at 600yds like to compete at the actual 300m International target.

I know of one range that has 300yd and 300m target positions HOWEVER they don’t have pits. With Etargets virtually eliminating the need for pits intermediate distances are limitless .

 

[Steve h]

I really wish you guys were building a 1000 yard range. Several of us in Mississippi drive to Reese Bottom in Linden,AL once a month to shoot 1000 yards. Would probably do the same to your area if not the same day. 800? No.

 

[Texas Solo]

I really wish you guys were building a 1000 yard range. Several of us in Mississippi drive to Reese Bottom in Linden,AL once a month to shoot 1000 yards. Would probably do the same to your area if not the same day. 800? No.

Understood, and the very reason I asked the question. Thanks.

I've been to Linden twice. Good matches & people.

 

[Fuj]

I think you brought this up some time back. Is the problem just
not having enough land to go beyond 800 yards ??

 

[Stumpy1]

We have a thousand yard range here in central Pennsylvania. Every hundred yards from 100 yd out to a thousand yards every berm is used hard.

What range is that, and what disciplines shoot there? Always looking for a new place to shoot!

Frank

 

[Texas Solo]

I think you brought this up some time back. Is the problem just
not having enough land to go beyond 800 yards ??

Yes and no. The topography is such that to go 1000 would be too expensive in dirtwork.

 

[tmwinds]

Near what area is this new range being constructed and when is it planned to open?

 

[Texas Solo]

Near what area is this new range being constructed and when is it planned to open?

Central Alabama Gun Club.
It's in Shorter Alabama. About 12 miles from Montgomery.
Land is still being cleared & all the plans need to be discussed, debated, and made final before actual construction begins. That process should begin as soon as the timber is done being cut. So total time...maybe 1 year.

 

[Steve h]

FYI Texas Solo- As you’re probably aware, Reese Bottom is a one owner private range. I believe the plan is to shut it down in 5 years. If you did decide to go to 1000, and Reese Bottom does shut down, you guys would have the closest 1000 yard range in the area to many of us.

 

[Texas Solo]

FYI Texas Solo- As you’re probably aware, Reese Bottom is a one owner private range. I believe the plan is to shut it down in 5 years. If you did decide to go to 1000, and Reese Bottom does shut down, you guys would have the closest 1000 yard range in the area to many of us.

We can't go to 1000yds without an additional $300K. Membership would not approve that unless we could PROVE that it would generate substantial income.

 

[Steve h]

Maybe all the people shooting mid range and long range at Reese would come to your facility.