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How about a Big Lebowski themed match?

New location for the pics; http://s1146.photobucket.com/albums/o524/ctcmarketing/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ16

http://straubcolaberative.com/crimsontrace/Straub_Selects_Crimson_Trace_Midnight_3_Gun/ Dunno if you guys knew, but we brought in some professional snappers to document the event for the shooters & sponsors. Pics from the match can be viewed here - use them any way you see fit. Iain

Final results are dependent on bribes, so there's still room for negotiation... Prize table will be walked in finish order & there's a pretty decent amount of gear headed to Bend over the next couple of days. What we wanted to avoid was a situation whereby everyone below the fold was SOL so we decided to do things a little differently this time around. While the table may not be as deep as say, Superstition, every shooter gets about $400 worth of kit in their goody bag at registration, just for showing up. Is this the right way to award sponsor donations? I dunno, but I await feedback and if it doesn't work out we can change it for next year. Iain

Yessir, you're most definitely in.

Hey folks, Just a friendly reminder that if you have an invite to the match, you might want to think about doing the whole registration thing sooner rather than later. If we have any slots left on May 15th, we'll open it up to anyone on the Enos forum and once they're gone, you're SOL. Regards, Iain

Hi guys, glad to see the response so far to the match. We're going out on a limb with this event and trying something new, so bear with us if it seems overly cautious in its first year. I'd much rather we did a bang-up job with a small number of shooters, than expand the match and risk disappointing those who put in the effort to travel to central Oregon. Next year, assuming all goes well, it'll be even better (and a bit bigger). Those of you who've done live fire at night at taxpayers expense know how difficult the easiest task becomes when our primary sense is degraded, which is why the NW Multigun Challenge serves as the left hand bookend for the event. Doug and Scott kindly agreed to move their competition over the mountains so that all the stages could be proven in the daytime before we took them over for the night match. The first batch of invites went out last week and I know we left some folks off the list either through oversight or something as simple as not having a current address for you - if you feel you were omitted in error, let me know. Of course, it might not have been an error at all I'll be driving things from Crimson Trace's end and Chuck has the thankless task of making the match actually happen. One of my objectives is to grow the sport that we all love, so I'll be riding herd over a fairly sizable contingent of writers & broadcasters, trying to ensure that 1. they don't screw up the match for everyone else and, 2. we spread the word to the 98% of gun owners who don't shoot competitively. A lot of the manufacturers that live in the PNW are behind this event and are jazzed about hosting it in their back yard. If you've never engaged targets using FLIR kit, you're in for a treat, and if there's a chance we can avoid burning down the range, I have a line on some M72 LAW rockets for a side match. If you want gear, let me know. Crimson Trace will have a ton of loaner equipment available for installation in the 3 hours between sitting down for BBQ at the range and dropping the hammer, and there'll be a zero range to go sight in. Cheers, Iain

Never got to see the Bushnell 1-6, but this SHOT show was kinda like that. I could have used another week just to check out interesting stuff that other people told me about; as it was, I owe Dave Neth the credit for showing me the Leupy. The Vortex 1-6 is killer. At the price point, it's going to be tough to beat. Just a personal opinion, but the Leupold offers a better reticle for doping wind and the dot at 1X is scary bright - at least against the stadium lights inside the Sands expo center. Bottom line, this is going to be a great year for 3 gun optics. Iain