2010 Bay Area Rifle Championship

[George]

The 2010 Bay Area Rifle Championship is now open for registration.Match entry is limited to 60 competitors so get your entry in ASAP.

Date: August 29th, 2010

Location: Richmond Rod & Gun Club, Richmond, CA

Stages: 7

Rounds: 200+

Max Distance: 210 yards

Rules: USPSA Rifle

Match is USPSA Level 1

Divisions: Open, Tactical, Standard, Manual Open, Manual Standard

Categories: Sr, SSr, Lady, Junior, LEO, Military & Sporting Rifle

Match Fee: $80 (match T-shirt, hat and much more included in match fee)

Info - Rules - Application

Hope to see you and your favorite smokepole there!

[George]

Sponsor list has been posted 2010 BARC Sponsors

Irvington Arms has stepped up to be our main match sponsor. Frank Chan will be providing a seriously generous amount of high end products for the prize table.Additional sponsorship will be provided by BrianEnos.com, GlockWorx, Grams Engineering, Tabors Shooting Supplies and Axial Video Systems.

Irvington Arms will have their armorer there on match day with plenty of help and parts available for anyone who needs it.

Frank will also have .223 ammo available at the match. Please Contact him directly if you will need any specific ammo supplies.

At this point we have 40 of the 60 match slots spoken for so if you are thinking about shooting this match, get your Application in soon, it's gonna' be a good one.

[guns_and_labs]

Application in, though I'm still trying to figure out the manual action rules.

[George]

Application in, though I'm still trying to figure out the manual action rules.

Manual Action Standard & Open generally follow USPSA 2009 Rifle Rules

No more than 6 rounds loaded at any one time for manual standard (we are borrowing this from IPSC Rifle Rules), no ammo limit in manual open, one shot only required per paper target in all manual action divisions.

[George]

We are getting more sponsorship offers coming in and it looks like the prize table is going to be pretty darned good this year.No matter where you finish we plan to make sure you go away with something from the prize table. Place in the top 25% and you will get a very decent prize value for your efforts :-)We are over 40 competitors confirmed as of now so get your apps in if you want to make sure you get a slot as we have a 60 shooter cutoff.

[George]

Registration is now at 52 of 60 available slots filled as of yesterday.

We now have 3 of 7 stage diagrams posted. 2010 BARC Stage Diagrams

The rest will get posted as we get them finished up.

Here is a general description of stages for the match.

Stage 1 will be on Bay 1 and will be a medium/long field course with just under 30 rounds required.

Stage 2 & 3 are on Bay 2 and are both Virginia Count standards with 16 and 20 rounds required respectively.

Stage 4 is on Bay 3 and is a long field course with 36 rounds required.

Stage 5 is on Bay 4 and will be a long field course with over 40 rounds required.

Stage 6 will be on Bay 5 and will be a long field course with over 30 rounds required.

Stage 7 will be on the 200 yard rifle bay and will be a long field course with over 30 rounds required.

This makes the approximate round count for the match right around 200 rounds minimum (just over half that number will be required for manual rifle).

[George]

Late Breaking News: BARC hits the big time!

The American Trigger Sports Network has just confirmed that they will be filming the 2010 BARC for TV coverage later this year.

They will be bringing a full production truck to the match and be doing competitor interviews, following shooters through stages and placing point of view cameras downrange for dramatic coverage of competitor runs.

If anyone does not want to be filmed all you have to do is let them know during the competitor orientation and they will make sure no video is taken of you during the match.

[George]

OK, it looks like we are at capacity now and registration will be closed.

If you mailed your application in anytime last week you are good to go. If you haven't sent your application in yet and have not sent me a personal message to hold a slot then you are probably not going to get a slot in the 2010 BARC.

I will verify final competitor count and post a revised registered competitor list this evening.

[George]

Congratulations to Chris S. on his win. He edged Keith G. by under 2%. These two guys really messed up the scoring curve. The 1st open shooter barely got into the top 5 in combined division results.

Results have been uploaded to the USPSA website and can be viewed at the following link.

2010 BARC Results

I will post combined division results (stage & overall) within the next couple of days.

Thanks again to all our sponsors, my hardworking match crew and last but not least, to all the competitors who came out and made this an excellent match :-)

BTW. the 2011 BARC is tentatively scheduled for the last weekend in August.

[grywlfbg]

Hear hear! It was a fantastic match. Thanks to Geoff, Vince, Mike, and the rest of the match staff and to the sponsors for their support.

This year was a great mix of accuracy and run and gun. I love shooting clay birds w/ a rifle and using IPSC Classic targets makes you think a little more when no-shoots are involved.

I'll be there next year.

Edited August 31, 2010 by grywlfbg

[Trail3]

Great match. You guys at Richmond did a great job. Great hats too. Love the retro style!

Thanks for all your hard work.

Good tune up for the Nationals.