Tactical Rifle Match

Nomad

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Sep 25, 2010
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Tactical Rifle Match

New Years Day

The Chosen Frozen Shoot

To get to the shoot take Highway 93 south of twin Falls. The turn off of Highway is 93 between mile 31 and 32. At the junction of 2900 Turn West. Go straight for 1 mile on 2900 the pavement ends continue straight west on the dirt road through a few cattle guards. The shoot is exactly 6 miles from HY 93 and is easy to find. Saturday night after the shoot we will be serving Alaska Caribou stew to all shooters.

Safety briefing is at 9:30 AM.

This is a small pack of local shooters just getting together for some fun with the following goals

1 Safety Is First; Safety is every ones responsibility we all need to be aware of this.

2 Learn, have fun, become better shooters and meet other local shooters.

3 Have some friendly competition



Please No Alcohol during the shooting day

No (FMJ) full metal Jacket rifle ammo or tracers as they are a fire hazard and are hard on our targets. Shooting glasses or safety glasses are required to shoot at our targets.

Also please bring 1 garbage bag with you, we want to leave the place cleaner than we find it and encourage everyone to pick up any trash that they find around the shooting area.

Long range rifle shooting

Recommend 50 rounds rifle ammo. This is not a team event but we encourage people to spot for each other so bring a spotting scope and tripod if you can.

We use steel reactive targets made from AR 500 steel for the rifle course. Targets range in size from 6" disks to 24"x28". Targets set at distances of 200 - 950 yards. Rangefinders are OK for all stages on this shoot. All long range shooting will be from prone so bring a mat or ground cloth if you want to stay out of the dirt mud or snow.

For more info email Jerry at Flyspotteddog@aol.com





Jay Seaquist

Tooling Manager

Tooling Express Inc.

680 S, Main St

P.O. Box 1128

Bellevue, ID 83313

208-788-3242 EX 15

Fax: 208-788-4602

Cell: 208-720-6995

molds@toolingexpressinc.com
 
Sounds fun. A great way to spend a day that would be otherwise wasted.
 
I've shot in a number of "tactical/practical" rifle matches over the years. Most were a lot of fun, and very challenging.

Twin Falls is a little far for me to make it to a match, but it's good to see that you're holding one. Bundle up!

Guy
 
Sounds like a lot of fun. Wish I was a little closer.

JD338
 
Nosler ought to consider hosting a world-class match of this type...

I'd urge for it to be tailored to hunters w/hunting rifles, rather than "tactical" type rifles.

Guy
 
Guy,

It would be worth a 20 hour drive to attend something like that.
 
Guy Miner":2e4smobm said:
Nosler ought to consider hosting a world-class match of this type...

I'd urge for it to be tailored to hunters w/hunting rifles, rather than "tactical" type rifles.

Guy

That would be pretty cool. I remember reading about Finn Aagard doing something like that way back when he was writing for the American Rifleman I think. I think he used a 243 for the shoot. Kinda like a 3-D tournament for rifles, with more walking/hiking! Scotty
 
Yup - Aagaard's match was called something like the Kenyathalon - I've probably mis-spelled it. Seemed like quite a good idea.

I could see such a match being easily set up with reactive steel targets, set in a canyon in one of the many dry canyons out in Eastern Oregon. It would be pretty close to Nosler's facility too. The basic idea is to walk along a trail, and try to spot, then shoot, various targets in the array.

I think we've thoroughly stolen Nomad's post though... Ooops. Sorry! :oops:

Guy
 
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