TargetTalk

Here's my observations from this year to help anyone out next year. This year, there were around 80 conventional prone & F class shooters, with the Brits making up about 30 of that number. The 3P The range is about a 10 minute drive from the gate and/or lodging. Technically, we were on 2 adjacen...

Dan, The range cover is large enough so everyone can remain under it. The parking area is a higher elevation than the range, and last year the walk down from the car to the range level was treacherous for more that a few. Consider wet grass in the morning and sloping hillside. Maybe they've added s...

Dan, -Parking is behind the range structure so you will not have to walk very far. -No vendors in the past -The firing points are nice, flat concrete with an overhead roof / last year the firing line was pulled back by one yard protecting shooters from rain /runoff coming off the roof line which is...

I'm headed to Atterbury for conventional and metric prone after a 5 year break from any major competitions. Does anyone have any insight into the venue? I'm hooked up for lodging on base and have seen some pictures of the firing line, but otherwise, I'm going in pretty blind. Any vendors? Any tips o...

I shoot the bottom sighter, top sighter, top middle and then work my way around counter clockwise, ending with the top right. If shooting two targets at once, I start the second target at the top left (just to the right of the last shot on the first target) and go around counter clockwise again, end...

About 20 years ago, I was shooting an 1807 and for a few years somehow jerry rigged an 1813 style buttplate (with the hook taken off) onto it, flipped upside down. Eventually, I decided to go back to shooting a free rifle, with the buttplate in the correct orientation. I was mostly shooting USAS mat...

I think it is a combination of all of the things that you mentioned. Scores have always been going up. It wasn't all that long ago that the scores on the international stage got so high that they needed to go to decimal scoring so that they didn't need to do mass tie breakers at 598ish for the finals.

As the communism in this country grows the sport is slowly dying out, the opposite goes for the countries where communism is slowly dying out, the sport is growing rapidly. Look at India, South Korea, EU countries, China etc. Too much politics in the sport! I see it on our own club. We used to have...

I have a shooter on LIberty's team and I agree that Liberty University would be the perfect college to join forces with. They already have a handful of shooting teams (and growing), have the space, and have the facilities to house the athletes. There is a lot to do in that part of VA, easy to get t...

It's been a about 3 years since I had to ship a rifle, but I used both FedEx and UPS when I had to ship my rifle to test ranges and a gunsmith (I might have only received through FedEx, though). For UPS, I had to go to a specific location (the major distribution center for the are). Places like the ...

Orion's equivalent of the A-17 is their "12 Bull Gallery League Target". It has been out about 2 years. I see it now. I can't tell if it has the white rings or not. Or does that matter since it's computer scored? Their site says that it can do decimal scoring for the A-17. However, there ...

Hopefully someone can get them to change their minds. There is no need for decimal scoring in 3P. Looking at all the ties in junior standing AR, I guess I can kind of see it, but they need to develop a better phase in plan if they want to do it. Sectional participation isn't that great to begin with...

HQ Moody announced his retirement this year effective November 1 2016 per a FB post from Joe Graf. National Manager of Collegiate and School Programs Tori Croft is reported as his replacement from other sources I hear. HQ announced it at the 3P banquet and handed the podium over to Tori. He only sa...

rbs--lots of good suggestions. I definitely agree on the wind flags. Not only are most of them too heavy, but they are inconsistent. There were a few that were one strip, and some of those were ripped. That can explain why you would only see a few flags moving while the rest were still (and the wind...

I shoot with Piasa in Alton. http://piasaclub.com/ It is an indoor 50 ft range. Smallbore rifle is usually on Tuesday nights in the winter, but I've heard that a few people keep doing it through the summer. Once you join, you have 24/7 access to the range. We hosted a 4P sectional in March. The only...

"Metric Position Indoor" has been around for a while. My current classification dates back to 2000. However, I pull up my classifications online and saw a new one listed--"INTL POSITION SBR INDOOR" based on a 3-P match I shot on the USA50 target a couple of months ago. I'm not en...

Yes, you can change sights. It's pretty common for people to throw the iron sites on for standing.

Normally it is prone, standing, sitting, kneeling.

I'm a maybe simply because I don't know what my availability is going to look like next July. In a way, this is a plus for me since I can shoot both metric and conventional nationals in less time than in past years. I'll miss commercial row and space on the range might be at a premium (depending on ...