Guy Miner
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- Apr 6, 2006
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Today and tomorrow, our club is hosting our premier rifle match, a two-day PRS competition named after a long-time president and awesome member of our club, and a close personal friend of mine, Jim Findlay. Sadly Jim passed away, far too early, a few years ago. We all miss him terribly. Amazing rifleman, and a mighty fine club president.
So, today we went on with a match that had first been conceived by him. It's updated of course, and in some ways even more challenging.
Rifles have evolved. 15 years ago when I was competing in this match, my Rem 700 Varmint Synthetic with a .308 Win Krieger barrel and a simple 4.5-14x, 1" tube Leupold actually won some stages... These days it's mostly chassis type rifles in 6mm Dasher, 6mm Creedmoor, 6.5 Creedmoor and some amazing BIG scopes. The shooters are hard pressed for time. They have to assume the best position they can create, and shoot the targets (often more than one at very different ranges) under a time limit...
Mostly it's very safe. I only had one very excited competitor point his rifle directly at me while I was behind the firing line. Ooooops! He quickly saw the error of his ways and changed his safety practices. I saw some amazing marksmanship... We had targets out to 600 or so, some were quite tiny targets... Like a 1" metal swinger at 300 yards. Know your limits.
Great contest. Great shooters. Great rifles! Lots of applicability to the hunting field:
Thought I'd post this here, rather than down below in the dusty cobwebbed portion of the site devoted to competition. Everyone at this match was having a blast! I was busy being club president and official photographer of the event.
Regards, Guy
So, today we went on with a match that had first been conceived by him. It's updated of course, and in some ways even more challenging.
Rifles have evolved. 15 years ago when I was competing in this match, my Rem 700 Varmint Synthetic with a .308 Win Krieger barrel and a simple 4.5-14x, 1" tube Leupold actually won some stages... These days it's mostly chassis type rifles in 6mm Dasher, 6mm Creedmoor, 6.5 Creedmoor and some amazing BIG scopes. The shooters are hard pressed for time. They have to assume the best position they can create, and shoot the targets (often more than one at very different ranges) under a time limit...
Mostly it's very safe. I only had one very excited competitor point his rifle directly at me while I was behind the firing line. Ooooops! He quickly saw the error of his ways and changed his safety practices. I saw some amazing marksmanship... We had targets out to 600 or so, some were quite tiny targets... Like a 1" metal swinger at 300 yards. Know your limits.
Great contest. Great shooters. Great rifles! Lots of applicability to the hunting field:
Thought I'd post this here, rather than down below in the dusty cobwebbed portion of the site devoted to competition. Everyone at this match was having a blast! I was busy being club president and official photographer of the event.
Regards, Guy