A good old fashioned shooting match.

[ChewyChewbacca]

I looked at all the forums and figured this one might be the place to ask my questions. If not I will ask a mod to put me in the right spot. Any who, here goes.
I was at our last club meeting and asked if we could have a shooting match for the guys who have rifles since the pistol boys have their IPSIC and we have nothing. Most in attendance thought was a great idea. Next thing was who’s going to organize it? Since it was my idea, guess what’s? I’m now in charge of putting on a rifle shooting match and really don’t have much of a clue of what to do.
There are multitudes of variables and where does a guy start. Here’s what I was thinking to start with.
Our range rifle range is 25,50 and 100 yards.
Most guys here are hunters, so a hunting rifle class. Now the variables kick in. Factory barrels. Bull, sporter contour in one class or separate?
Then there’s benched, field positions.
Run what you bring wether it’s .338 or .223 in same class or have certain calibers like magnums and smaller calibers separate? One fellow that I talked to said that a .223 would be an unfair advantage over a heavier caliber recoil wise.
How many shots per round? My rifle is warm after three and don’t really want to get it hot. Not everyone reloads so would like to keep it down so those that shoot factory ammo can play to. Looking at the expense of factory. 3,4,5 ?
Scope power? Up to a certain power. Say 9 power max. Higher power dial it down to that.
I would say that iron sights is self explanatory, but then someone may have target peep sites. So then what?
Then there’s the fellows with the black rifles.
And the guys that like to shoot target.
I would like to make it so all can play and do it in one day or do it limit it to a few the first time.
I would like to keep it simple for the first time out the gate.
I’m not even sure what the interest is over the whole so maybe sending an email out to the membership to see how many would be interested and what they would bring to shoot would be a starting point?
Entry fee for each class to cover targets and a percentage to the winner or bragging rights for the first shoot and make adjustments later.
Maybe I’m over thinking things? I can do that at times.
Any suggestions would be helpful. Once I get the first one behind me I’ll have a better idea of what expect.

 

[adamg]

Our local club had a similar idea about 3 years ago. The idea was to have a rifle match that would bring out the members that usually don't enter competitions / matches, which of course is like 90% of our membership. We had one event in 2017 and one in 2018. We called it the Varmint Shoot. I think we used this target:
http://www.bmrpa.org/shooting-disci...qSVcp0F1AukIti-JLvwPW6K8bwyZueoFm9jFQm2twaPcY

You show up any time between range opening and about 2pm, pay your $10 per class (can shoot multiple classes, and even re-shoot same class) (might have been a different dollar amount), get a ticket for a smokey and drink at lunch, and wander off to shoot your target at your leisure, then return it before 2pm.

I recall these being the divisions:
-50m rimfire 22lr
-50m rimfire (other)
-100m centerfire semi-auto
-100m centerfire bolt
-200m centerfire bolt

The target is I think 10 shots. We had club members acting as Range Officers stationed at the various distance bays, so you just show up to a bay, wait for a new line to run, pick a spot on bench or ground, hang your target along with rest of the line. Then the RO would call a 'make ready' type command, and then make some noise to start the time. Everyone shoots, you have like 5 minutes or something, RO calls Stop when it expires, everyone goes down and retrieves targets, and turns them in.

Our only rules / restrictions was no gun sleds.

Sadly I think it was mostly unsuccessful in its goal of getting out a different bunch of members to a shooting event. It was the same active 10% group who are at all the events with just a few people we rarely see. And of course the active 10% group of folk dominated the scores - I don't think there's any getting around this outcome.

 

[ChewyChewbacca]

Our local club had a similar idea about 3 years ago. The idea was to have a rifle match that would bring out the members that usually don't enter competitions / matches, which of course is like 90% of our membership. We had one event in 2017 and one in 2018. We called it the Varmint Shoot. I think we used this target:
http://www.bmrpa.org/shooting-disci...qSVcp0F1AukIti-JLvwPW6K8bwyZueoFm9jFQm2twaPcY
You show up any time between range opening and about 2pm, pay your $10 per class (can shoot multiple classes, and even re-shoot same class) (might have been a different dollar amount), get a ticket for a smokey and drink at lunch, and wander off to shoot your target at your leisure, then return it before 2pm.

I recall these being the divisions:
-50m rimfire 22lr
-50m rimfire (other)
-100m centerfire semi-auto
-100m centerfire bolt
-200m centerfire bolt

The target is I think 10 shots. We had club members acting as Range Officers stationed at the various distance bays, so you just show up to a bay, wait for a new line to run, pick a spot on bench or ground, hang your target along with rest of the line. Then the RO would call a 'make ready' type command, and then make some noise to start the time. Everyone shoots, you have like 5 minutes or something, RO calls Stop when it expires, everyone goes down and retrieves targets, and turns them in.

Our only rules / restrictions was no gun sleds.

Sadly I think it was mostly unsuccessful in its goal of getting out a different bunch of members to a shooting event. It was the same active 10% group who are at all the events with just a few people we rarely see. And of course the active 10% group of folk dominated the scores - I don't think there's any getting around this outcome.

This looks like a fairly simple way to do it.
I’m hoping that some interest is shown but also the reality can be as you say, just the regular guys that you see all of the time.
For most life is to busy to have fun.
I was thinking of having a .22 class for the kids, make it a family affair.

 

[emerson]

Try making the shooting all standing without a rest. Then it’s shooters, not so much rifles. Optic class (any), and an iron sight class. Rimfire, below 30 cal, above 30 cal. Maybe broken into a hunter and and “expert” class so the guys who can really run up the score can self select “expert” so they aren’t beating the hell out of some new shooters.