Shippensburg End of Year Groundhog Match

[sniperjwt]

Last match of the year is this Saturday. Weather man says it's going to be a nice 68 degrees. Over $1,200 in door prizes available and cash pay out for each class. Hunter, Light Factory, Heavy Factory, Varmint, and Unlimited. Check out the rules on the website at:
www.shippensburgfishandgame.com/Groundhog_Shoots.html

Match Sponsers include:
One Shot Gunsmith
Lantz Repair & Hardware
Keystone Outdoors
Kid Magic Game Calls
Midway USA
Peterson Cartridge Co.
Hafer's Gunsmithing
Lucky Buck
Sierra Bullets
Grice Gun Shop
Crosshairs Gunsmith
Lehigh Defense
Applied Ballistics LLC
Lebo's Gunsmithing

Hope to see you Saturday.

 

[Dave Berg]

A few things Jonathan:

1 - The link doesn't work.

2 - In the "rules" there are three sections. General, short range and long range. Looking at the score from previous matches, they're all 100, 200 and 320 yards, aka short range. Are there no long range matches or are the scores not posted? The great thing about the original Shippensburg match was the 200, 300 and 500 yards separated the men from the boys and didn't cater to the IBS point blank crowd.

 

[dreever]

A few things Jonathan:

1 - The link doesn't work.

2 - In the "rules" there are three sections. General, short range and long range. Looking at the score from previous matches, they're all 100, 200 and 320 yards, aka short range. Are there no long range matches or are the scores not posted? The great thing about the original Shippensburg match was the 200, 300 and 500 yards separated the men from the boys and didn't cater to the IBS point blank crowd. So what's up with that?

3 - Your Mom deserves more than just a phone call on Mothers Day.

Dave,

My feelings exactly. If you don't shoot a 30BR you might as well stay home. That's the way IBS Score Matches have gone.
The long range match rules state 10 rounds at 500 and ten rounds at 800. I've never seen any scores for the long range either.

Danny

 

[sniperjwt]

Dave
1 Thanks for pointing out the link didn't work. It has been corrected now.
2 We do shoot the long range match however we have not had a lot of participation in it this year so I have elected to not take up any space on the website or extra time of the guy that updates the website until the matches are over then I will put up the years worth. I would love to have as many shooters shoot the long range as shoot the short range but it's not at that point yet. Personally I would just rather shoot the long range and not the short range. I can tell you that the leader in the custom class at 800 has a 5-7/8" group and at 540 it's 3-3/4" group
3. That's great advice

 

[sniperjwt]

Unfortunately there will not be any food. I tried bringing food a couple times earlier this year and very little was eaten so I decided it's not worth my extra effort.

 

[Steve Ladino]

A few things Jonathan:

1 - The link doesn't work.

2 - In the "rules" there are three sections. General, short range and long range. Looking at the score from previous matches, they're all 100, 200 and 320 yards, aka short range. Are there no long range matches or are the scores not posted? The great thing about the original Shippensburg match was the 200, 300 and 500 yards separated the men from the boys and didn't cater to the IBS point blank crowd.

3 - Your Mom deserves more than just a phone call on Mothers Day.

As to the "Men from the Boys" comment there are no men but for the boys. This is clearly one of the reasons why the short range matches exist. Long range is for the bold and strong who can suffer the pain of being humbled by their lack of skill which we all have had at our beginnings. For the survival of any sport the newbie's usually have to be coaxed to step into new waters, so it is with long range competitive shooting.

 

[Terry Altom]

I'll drive up and visit next year for a long range match if you have them. Do you have any pics of the targets used for the long range?

 

[Steve Ladino]

There's an indoor rimfire range if that's more your speed.....

Those indoor ranges sure did help me to achieve my " Distinguished Pistol Shot" ranking at The National Matches in Camp Perry Ohio some fifteen years ago.

 

[sniperjwt]

I'll drive up and visit next year for a long range match if you have them. Do you have any pics of the targets used for the long range?

Terry I have some pics but they do not really show the size of it real well, nothing to compare it to. I can tell you that the 6 ring on the 540 target is ~5" and at 800 it's ~8".
Hope this helps

 

[Terry Altom]

That would be great. The last and only groundhog shoot I've been to was with targets I had never seen.

 

[sniperjwt]

Here is 100-200-320 targets

 

[Dave Berg]

Pics of the long range and hunter class targets thanks to sniperjwt who runs the match pretty much single handed. Well done Jonathan....