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    Precision Rifle Series

    in Other Shooting Sports

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    Following, just curious if this will get enough attention on this forum since I come here for other shooting sports.

     Shot my first PRS last year with an AR308 we built in our shop for a customer that is still saving money for a good scope. I asked him if I could put my Nightforce ATACR on it to see how its shoots and he was all for it. My nephew made some match ammo, we got it sighted in, doped and a free ballistics app on my phone. Came in 47th place out of 110 shooters, took 3rd place on one stage and only saw two of us "Gas Guns" competiting.

     Witnessed several bolt guns running out of par time, several bolt guns malfunctioning, struggling with cocking or (Savage's not staying cocked?) etc. I hit everything out to the farthest target 745 yards. I had trouble because I didnt have enough bags for support, didnt have experience on how to shoot off of some of the platforms or a pair of binoculars to help find targets!

     We now have two clubs running a series of matches, my own AR308 and cant wait to go back! Not scared of any bolt guns either, ours 3rd from the bottom 

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    IPSC & USPSA differences for major matches?

    in USPSA/IPSC Shooting

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    I'm considering shooting an overseas IPSC match sometime in the future, perhaps a World shoot or some type of championship high level big match. I shoot mostly Single Stack (classic?) Just looking for info on rules, my USPSA classification, registration being open or a spot needed, etc. Some advice besides reading thru the rule book to get started. Most importantly the pistol rules difference would be a great start

    Thanks

    NRA World Shooting Championship - Sept. 15-17, 2016 - Glengary, W.V.

    in NRA & AP Match Announcements

    Posted · Edited by BuckeyeBoys
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    I can only judge this by last years match,

    Pros got the cash and pick from pro prize tables. Amateurs got to pick from amatuer prize table. Now bring your own guns class? Are they also wining cash, prizes? Not in line with the original match at all. I'm still going but this might be my last time. Also i thought everyone was scored the same? When i compared the pro numbers with the amatuers an amatuer had the highest score overall and got 1st pick on the prize table but after the highest pro got the $25k.

    This year also has a mulligan card? Everything was clear as mud last year also.  Maybe i need to change to Pro and go for that big check? I was 5th amateur btw. :-)

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    The Early Days of IPSC

    in Hell, I Was There

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    Not like the Viking Spear episode. On the back range, on the BCBC (the shotgun slug event) you had to master a strange skillset: you had to mow down falling steel plates out to 90 yards with slugs. Ten plates. Then run to the over-under shotgun, launch the two clay birds and blast them (bonus time off your run) and then run to the table where your handgun was waiting. There, you had a dummy grenade you tossed into the port for more time off. Finally, pick up your handgun and shoot the last falling pins and stop plate.

    Don't remember the spear, might have been after my 15 minutes of fame by winning the BCBC. That was my last year of going there and I had heard they changed the match after I almost beat it. <bragging> I had shot it several times but kept doing one thing wrong, missing the bird, missing with the grenade, missing a tank target, etc.. Then finally nailed it and almost beat the clock altogether with an under one second time. Hey the timer girls where pretty excited about it! Probably glad to see me and my short shorts finally leave the back range. Remember reading Ayoobs write up about the match and all he said was "bonuses are nice"

    I do remember Big Al's scrap book, railroad tracks too and the pic of the gal who used like six steak knifes to commit suicide, she tried to stab herself in the heart and those cheap steak knifes kept bending off her breast bone! Finally she managed to get one in between the ribs. (the stories were better than the pics)

    The PEE event was great fun and just as I was getting close to the top ten I ran out of money and gave up. I liked the slower firing rate guns, you could pretty much count those bursts.

    I had always heard those propane explosions were NATO nuclear blast simulators!

    Always camped there, some friends had rented nearby cabins, compete all day, party most of the night, free food and BEER at night, all week. Great memories and recently uncovered a couple hundred pin loads, my label reads 6.1grns of 231 with Speer 200grn jacketed hollow points. They did the job if I was doing mine.

    I remember the black plastic water tower shower so the campers could bathe. So early June up there the water in it was 40 degrees? One day Ken Tapp see's me going in with towel and shower kit and tells me he coming back at night with a couple blocks of ice to put in there.

    The Early Days of IPSC

    in Hell, I Was There

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    OK, however many pages back it was, where I described my epiphany, stepeing away from .30, to embrace dinky black rifles? That's where I got my butt handed to me, usign my M1 Garand, by a club member shooting his unversal M1 Carbine.

    Second Chance story opp here....My shooting bud and good friend Joe wants to shoot the Rifle match one year at Second Chance. The only rifle he has is a M1 Garand. Ok so he's not going to be competitive but he's gonna shoot right? He starts off pretty good, hitting those pin plates and just burying them into the ground. Everyone's .223's just knock the plates over but his '06 is just slamming those plates down! Next thing we know theres a grass fire behind the plates and they have to call a ceasefire so the timer kids could go out there and stomp the grass out. We teased him relentlessly about damaging the range, etc.....

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