ZackJones Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Yesterday I got the paperwork back from USPSA so it's official now. On October 23/24 our range, Palmetto Gun Club (near Charleston, SC) , will host the South Carolina State Steel Challenge Championship. We'll shoot all 8 stages on either Friday or Saturday. We'll shoot 4 in the morning, break for lunch, and then shoot 4 in the afternoon. Additional details to follow but I wanted to get the word out so you all can make your travel plans in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdphotoguy Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Awesome, I'll have to seriously consider this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marine0231 Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Sounds it will be a fun match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted February 18, 2015 Author Share Posted February 18, 2015 Sounds it will be a fun match It'll be just like the Monster match - only with more shooters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9X23Guy Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Any word on when registration will open? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 Any word on when registration will open? July 1st at 10:00. We will be doing registration on the clubs.practiscore.com web site. I'm still working out all of the other details which is why I haven't posted much about the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9X23Guy Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Great, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photoracer Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Can we shoot 2 firearms on the same day? In my case RFPO and RFRO. They let us do that last year at the PA State Tier 2 match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted May 6, 2015 Author Share Posted May 6, 2015 Can we shoot 2 firearms on the same day? In my case RFPO and RFRO. They let us do that last year at the PA State Tier 2 match. Yup. That's how I plan to shoot it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photoracer Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Man if I shoot this I will be shooting somewhere out of my state from the first weekend in Sept to the next to last weekend in Oct. with maybe one or two off. Ok so squads will be by the number of guns not the number of shooters. How many guns/shooters per squad, 10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 Man if I shoot this I will be shooting somewhere out of my state from the first weekend in Sept to the next to last weekend in Oct. with maybe one or two off. Ok so squads will be by the number of guns not the number of shooters. How many guns/shooters per squad, 10? 25 guns per squad. 4 squads per day. The reason for this his we'll shoot 4 have lunch and then shoot 4 more. We only have one bay that can run the two long stages so we have to reset that one. When we ran all 8 stages last October that's how we did it and it worked very well. Of course we didn't have 25 shooters per squad. Our plan is to have plenty of staff so that we can move squads through each stage as fast as possible. I had considered just doing open squadding and let shooters shoot any order they wanted but I'm afraid we may end up with backlogs. I suppose if that happened we could go ahead and reset the stages that are complete and allow the overflow to go back to those stages. If you have any advice for running the match as smoothly as possible I'd love to hear them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photoracer Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Man if I shoot this I will be shooting somewhere out of my state from the first weekend in Sept to the next to last weekend in Oct. with maybe one or two off. Ok so squads will be by the number of guns not the number of shooters. How many guns/shooters per squad, 10? 25 guns per squad. 4 squads per day. The reason for this his we'll shoot 4 have lunch and then shoot 4 more. We only have one bay that can run the two long stages so we have to reset that one. When we ran all 8 stages last October that's how we did it and it worked very well. Of course we didn't have 25 shooters per squad. Our plan is to have plenty of staff so that we can move squads through each stage as fast as possible. I had considered just doing open squadding and let shooters shoot any order they wanted but I'm afraid we may end up with backlogs. I suppose if that happened we could go ahead and reset the stages that are complete and allow the overflow to go back to those stages. If you have any advice for running the match as smoothly as possible I'd love to hear them. What I have seen is some rimfire competitors will opt to shoot faster by not painting between both firearms. It will often times work OK for rimfires as long as they realize they may not get to dispute a hit/miss issue. I suggest allowing only a certain number of 2 gun shooters per squad like say 5-7 at most. Honor squading requests as long as they don't go over those issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onepocket Posted May 22, 2015 Share Posted May 22, 2015 How many guns? Can I shoot both days? Like limited and open center fire on Friday and rimfire pistol and rifle on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted May 22, 2015 Author Share Posted May 22, 2015 How many guns? Can I shoot both days? Like limited and open center fire on Friday and rimfire pistol and rifle on Saturday. Right now 2. If we don't fill the match up then I'll open it up for more guns per competitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 I've created a group on FB for the match: https://www.facebook.com/groups/831003976936876/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted June 30, 2015 Author Share Posted June 30, 2015 Registration for the South Carolina Steel Challenge State Championship opens at 10:00am 1 July 2015. The match fee is $80 for first gun and $20 for second. Match T-shirts are $15.00. Junior price for first gun is $40.00 and $10.00 for second gun. Lunch will be provided for the day you shoot and if you want to buy an extra lunch ticket those are $10.00. Registration is limited to 200 guns. We will run 4 squads of 25 guns per day. Once you register I will email you additional information such as a sample of the shirts as well as sizes available. Payment will be made by check or money order. As soon as payment is received I'll approve your registration and you can squad yourself. https://clubs.practiscore.com/south-carolina-steel-challenge-championship/register Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onepocket Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 (edited) Are you going to have a cash payout like the South Carolina USPSA State Match? $100 bucks is a big nut! Edited July 2, 2015 by Onepocket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZackJones Posted July 2, 2015 Author Share Posted July 2, 2015 Are you going to have a cash payout like the South Carolina USPSA State Match? $100 bucks is a big nut! You wouldn't believe how expensive stuff is. $400 for porta-potty rental, $700+ for tent and chairs for people to have a place to sit and eat. We will see how things stand as we get closer to the match. If I can do a payout I will but I wouldn't expect one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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