Hotbed of International Shooting ......

[Bill Poole]

in a reply to Warren's Post apologizing about not being near his phone.... http://www.targettalk.org/viewtopic.php?t=9730

Bob L of OREGON asked:

What brings you to the Northwest? Its not a hotbed of International shooting.

well......

MAKE IT SO

generate more interest at you local club! start a weekly league, run some PTO's!

The bullseye pistol group might be open to standard, sport, rapid, centerfire, even 50m, especially if you let them shoot it at the club level with their bullseye guns... the junior smallbore program should be willing to set aside their 50' targets and try 50m! Highpower Prone guys might try 300m.... the NRA prone smallbore guys might.... well.... who knows....

Here in Phoenix, which is a hotbed of Palma, High Power, IPSC and Cowboy today... (might have been a hotbed of Int'l activity in 1970)... we are seeing a rise in interest! several newly converted int'l shooters this year (I'm one of them), Our monthy Pistol PTO at PRGC continues, we've added a thursday evening airgun league and we are adding a monthy 50m/10m rifle/pistol PTO at Ben Avery in 2005. we have occasional 300m prone matches.

so, whoever is reading this from whereever, instead of complaining about lack of activity, START SOME

Have fun!

Poole
http://arizona.rifleshooting.com/

[Don]

I don't know so much about pistol, although I do know that there are several USAS pistol matches every year in Oregon, there is quite a lot of ISSF/USAS rifle in the Northwest. The Northwest has produced several people that are on or have been on the US Shooting Team for all sorts of int'l events/comps.
Don in Oregon

[Jose Rossy]

Bill, is there any interest in formalizing (getting NRA and/or USAS sanction) 300 meter prone and 3P matches (they can run concurrently) in the Phoenix area?

I'm trying to stir interest in that discipline among the HP shooters in my club and would welcome any ideas and suggestions on how to overcome the inertia.

[jackh]

in a reply to Warren's Post apologizing about not being near his phone.... http://www.targettalk.org/viewtopic.php?t=9730

Bob L of OREGON asked:

What brings you to the Northwest? Its not a hotbed of International shooting.

well......

MAKE IT SO

generate more interest at you local club! start a weekly league, run some PTO's!

The bullseye pistol group might be open to standard, sport, rapid, centerfire, even 50m, ...................



In my area population base is around 200000. Out of that I can only name maybe a dozen bullseye shooters. 3-4 of us are regular shooters, 3-4 semi regular, and the rest who knows. Our club overall is aging. The club is a multi discipline but precious few do formal matches like you speak of at all. There are several small cliques in the club that do their own small matches. Not much to work with here. Eugene-Springfield, OR

[Bill Poole]

There is a group of retired guys who shoot 300m (reduced to 300yds) prone at Avery on thursdays or fridays about once every month or two. 14-jan, 15-Apr, are the next ones

I asked the acting range director to put fill dirt in at 300m so we can REBUILD the firing line that was levelled about 8 years ago.

In the mean time, 300m reduced to 300yd targets are available.

All 3 local ranges run prone 500yd/600yd matches. and they tend to be popular, typically 10 F-class (sniper wannabes) 10 service rifle shooters looking for trigger time and 2 palma rifle shooters.

Despite being able to cause 120 shooters appear for a Palma match, I doubt we'd get more than a handful of regulars at a 300m 3P match. We might get a few more for a prone only match, especially if we allowed F-class. but if the range goes out to 1000yds, why shoot at 300m they'd ask.

Another problem is finding someone to do it. I am specializing in other things that do not include 300m (but do include 10m, 25m and 50m). I WILL be running PTO's at Avery in 50m and 10m rifle and pistol on the 4th sunday, starting in Feb. We can add 300m reduced to 100yd and allow centerfire rifle without adding a new range request. But getting RANGE time is a problem! Although getting 300yd at Avery would be a little easier since we don't have to lock the gate and I think the new berms allow the adjacent ranges to operate so we don't shut as much other facilities down as say a palma match (before the berm) would have.

Lets plan it for fall of 2008, I'll use my award money from winning a medal at Beijing to buy a nice G&E 300m rifle and be enthusiastic about 300m! (that's my Lanny Bassham-style positive mental attitude showing thru)

later

Poole
http://arizona.rifleshooting.com/

[Bill Poole]

Let me restate the above question:

HOW MANY of you all international style shooters would come to PHOENIX if I were to run a 300m match here? (manually operated target pits with competitors pulling on alternate relays.)

We could run a 2 day match with practice on wed, thurs & friday maybe.

Prone & 3P, men & women

I know we can do 300yd reduced, might get 300m by then but can't count on it.

I can probably get a cool month, november to april, without bumping any other matches, I can certainly get a hot month if you'd prefer may-october!

BUT, I need to put in the request by August for the following calender year (earlier actually since i need to coordinate with the other HP guys) so 2006 is do-able.

and of course I could run it as a USAS match (PTO?) (not NRA, they do US shooting and we have LOTS of that already).

HOW many of you would come?

Poole
http://arizona.rifleshooting.com/

[Jose Rossy]

Bill, I'd definitely be there for a 300 meter weekend if I didn't live in Ohio.... :-(