Garrison Petawawa PR Match 1- 11/12 June 2016 - Debrief here!!

Yup, we will gather between 0800 and 0830 across from the Base Fire Hall. Easy to see us in the parking lot. Both days will have the same/identical timing. Keep it simple that way.

Bring on the questions....

Cheers,
Barney
 
Can we shoot Sunday with bayonets fixed?
My guns shoot 10% better with bayonets attached. LOL

Ok; all kidding aside. I'm starting to get a vibe that this is going to be one heck of a good weekend.

Shoot straight - chrisco
 
I was one of those folks showing up needing to sight my rifle past 100m. That isn't going to happen so I plugged my bullet and velocity into the Hornady ballistic calculator that is available on line. I did it in meters and mils. You can print off the results. I went out to friends farm to check the calculator info out to 600m. It definitely gets you on paper. It may be 0.1 mil out on the scope setting on some distances but you are on a Figure 12 no problem past 200m. More like a 8.5x11" sheet. Elevation wise I may have been out 4" high passed 300m. I had more problems and error with the cross wind.
For those who needed the Saturday to sight in, plug your data into the Hornady or other on line ballistic calculator an print off the info. It should get you on the paper first shot. Tune from there. At least you show up with a starting point. I feel a whole lot better now showing up with a new gun.
 
I am working but might drop by then ...I loaded up the barricades , worked on the roof simulator and some gongs today and as well I loaded a bunch of ammo .
No Norinco Plinko for me ..lol and the weather gods are smiling on us this weekend !
 
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Okay, only a couple of sleeps remaining! :)

Who is up for dinner at Kelsey's between 7 PM and 7:30 PM tomorrow , Friday night?
Mmmm steak... fish!

Barney
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Probably won't roll into town until around 8. But if you are up for a beverage we have an open invite for beers at my Airforce friends place. He is doing a ceremonial fly over Ottawa Friday, but expects to be home by 7.
Best of all his place is stumbling (I mean walking distance) back to the hotel by Kelsey's.

Shoot straight - chrisco
 
chrisco said:
Probably won't roll into town until around 8. But if you are up for a beverage we have an open invite for beers at my Airforce friends place. He is doing a ceremonial fly over Ottawa Friday, but expects to be home by 7.
Best of all his place is stumbling (I mean walking distance) back to the hotel by Kelsey's.

Shoot straight - chrisco
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Well, I dunno. I've been suffering from food coma syndrome(s) ever since I've been having dinner(s) in Petawawa! :eek:
 
Truck is packed. Time to grab some lunch before I hit the road.
Also time to read my Ontario Electrical Code Book. How exciting! ha ha ha ha

Then I will target to be at Kelseys for 1900 to see what characters turn up! Yeeee ha! What a great community! :wave:

Otherwise, we will see all of you across from the Base Firehall in the 5 garage door Storage Building called P-141. You will see a gaggle of us in front.
Bring your lunch for the day. We will be at Bravo Range all day long! Bring snacks and lots of fluids. Bring twice as much as you figured! You will understand why!

Cheers, :wave:

Barney
 
Just got everything squared away at campsite, too late for kelseys. Will be at mess hall for breakfast tomorrow 730.
 
Just got in the door. Safe drive even after getting stopped for speeding just outside Algonquin Park West gate by the OPP. HEY Always show respect and everything works out. You all have boosted my karma and tonight's interaction with LEO shows super karma from this past weekend. Too much to type. Will post results after a good night's sleepjust ask Doctor Mo when you see him next time. He saw everything go down at the traffic stop.

I deserved everything I got. Hahahaha!!!

Cheers and goodnight.
Barney
 
Wow! What a weekend. First off, gotta thank Morgan for making the Petawawa facilities available to us and providing all the fun barricades :D.

Big thanks to Barney for still managing to make a fun weekend even though we got bumped off the 600m range. That second day shooting off barricades, moving targets, shooting at steel, was a lot of fun and was excellent practice for PRS matches!

Can't wait until the next one.
 
Folks, if you want to be great; be grateful!

It's a favourite mantra of mine. Still unpacking the truck this morning. Running laundry while cleaning up around the house. 3 weekends on the road and my wife is most understanding. There's a reason we've been married now for 31 years. :)

I'm thankful to Range Control for presenting this challenge to us; it's a practical examination of our attitudes and forces us to adopt the Mindset of a Champion (Lewis Howes)
I'm thankful to Junior37C who drove all the way from Woodstock, ON (two weekends now) to affirm that our community really rocks! :)
I'm thankful to The Duck who laughed at my jokes especially after driving from Port Elgin, ON. Who says Petawawa is not worth the drive? :evil:
I'm thankful to the President of the Petawawa GC who makes all this happen despite all the bumps along the proverbial road. We work together well. Besides, he backs up all my crazy PPCLI battalion antics and stories, he knows the characters I worked with from Currie Barracks and 1 VP.
I'm thankful to our Sentry who sacrificed her weekends to park in the booth by the Range entrance, and tried to keep warm all that while.
I'm thankful to our Montreal shooters who remind me it's worth the 6 to 7 hour drive to be part of our community.
I'm thankful for my PR kit sponsors like JSA Tactical (rear beanbags) and 693Precision for your promo stickers and gear
I'm thankful for support from Wolverine Supplies who lends me a DD Mk18 and AI Ax .308 to teach my clinics with and lend out to clients
I'm thankful to the new PR shooters who continue to teach me new things, lifelong learning for all of us! I would remain stagnant in my thinking without them! :eek:
I'm thankful to the Staff at Danny's Steak House who prove that local institutions rock! Without them, we would never regret our "food coma" experiences.
I'm thankful to our Butts Officers who showed you proper target presentation. No complaints anywhere.
I'm thankful to the OPP Officer who sorted my speeding habits out. I appreciate his great service! :wave:
I'm thankful to my mentors in PR: Keith and Linda at the www dot milcun dot com Marksmanship School who continue to inspire me forward
I'm thankful to TimK my mentor who schooled me in many, many way on how to run a match! I'm forever in your debt!
I'm thankful to Chalkriver and his crew who kindly let us the barricades, the steel targets, the props, the maritime anti-piracy training platform, all helped the PRS effort!
And wherever you are EdK, my first NRA High Power coach, you will be proud of what I delivered at the Petawawa PRS Clinic on shooting standing, snapping in, dry firing, 10 degree offset, and all the M14 skills you left me. It's your legacy! :wave:

I'm thankful for the community we have around the supper table. I just sat back and listened to the litany of jokes and stories as our prime rib was being served.

Life cannot get any better.....

Okay, that's done with. I need to hit the library and carry out Theoretical calculations of Resistive - Inductive circuits in Parallel and in Series.

What are you grateful for ?

Barney
 
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Thank Barney, Morgan and Heather,

Shooting at 200 and 300 in the rain was a different experience (not complaining, as Barney taught us… We just had to think and say that we love shooting in the rain and that changed our whole attitude).

Now the 500 and 600 was just a blast. Thanks to Barney for going the extra step to get both father and son on paper, this just “made” our weekend.
Although we are both very happy with our 600 meters shooting, we realise that we will have to do some homework with wind reading for the next time we show up to this type of event.

Sunday, ohhhh Sunday, who ever said we were served lemons don’t understand Barney’s philosophy. Not only did Barney and Morgan serve us lemonade, they actually served us SWEEEEEEEET lemonade. There was fun for everyone. Didn’t matter if you used rifle or handgun, Barney was there to show you all kinds of tricks and techniques. Morgan came up with a whole bunch of props and steel gongs, he also let anyone who wanted to chrono their load use his LabRadar.


Thanks to everyone for this memorable weekend!
 
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What can I say? It was easily one of the best training weekends I've had. As a developing shooter in the "youtube university" age and those offering edu-trainment services costing several hundred dollars, it is great to find a group of dedicated teachers that offer two days of access to military ranges, equipment and proven match-winning instruction for $50!

I'm thankful to Barney, Morgan, Heather (our tireless sentry) and the Petawawa Gun Club for hosting this event. Although the course of fire and agenda to the weekend did get changed, it still afforded us the chance to shoot under match conditions - rainy, windy, wet conditions with minimal DOPE. Think of how easy its going to be competing under sunny conditions! (actually, everytime I shoot PR with Barney the weather sucks - I think he really has a direct line to the guy upstairs and calls for crappy weather).

I'm thankful for my shooter/spotter partner Schumy who made the days fun and laughs at all my crappy jokes.

I'm thankful for the other shooters both new and experienced who come with open minds, helpful hands and kind words to help elevate our shooting skills.

I'm thankful for the CGN community that allows us to spread the word and get more folks out to these events to get more guys into shooting these and other events.

The two days turned out to really be two separate events -

Day 1 was the Precision Rifle match - shooting at 200, 300, 500 and 600meters. While it was a little challenging to get on paper for those who hadn't been able to sight-in or calculate initial ballistic data, Barney and other teams were trying help each other figure out the DOPE needed to get scoring. Not all succeeded at all distances (I totally blew the 600m) but it provided some pointers on what to work on or info to create that can get you there or get there faster for next events. Shooting and hitting at a V-bull roughly the size of a sheet of paper at 600m consistently is going to take work between man, machine and environment. These events help point out where the weak points are in the first two (my shooting mat setup was a complete mess - too big, too floppy and too slow to move)

Many winners during the day and the CQB (Close Quarter Banana) Holster Training Tool Prize was a hit.











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Congrats to Team Tall for winning the overall match.



Prize raffle winner accepting his multicam pack.





Day 2 was the unexpected surprise day. Barney, Morgan and the Pet Gun Club arranged for a Precision Rifle Series (PRS) Training Day.

For those not familiar with PRS (my apologies for those that do), PRS is precision rifle competition without a set course of fire with both known and unknown distances that can vary from 10-1500 meters. It also combines speed and a precision and usually requires physical activity and physical shooting. Each course has a set time and points per target with the targets usually being small ones and vary between 1-3 MOA in size.






The crew arranged for barricades, swinging martime simulator platform (now dubbed "Deliverance" (ask Greg and Morgan)) and a sloped rooftop platform. The PRS clinic participants were given instructions on positional shooting (offhand, kneeling, sitting, various prone (one or two I'm sure Barney made up that day just to fornicate our minds) positions)




We went through dry fire sessions before switching over to live fire on the various stage props. Some of the veterans were allowed to call out other veterans for some impromptu showdown matches with varying degrees of ego deflation and inflation. Regardless of the results, a great time was had by all. So much that we're hoping that this one-time clinic becomes a regular offering in Tactical Teacher's curriculum.





Again, many thanks to the Barney, Morgan, supporters, participants and Garrison Petawawa for making this all possible.

Full gallery of photos http://s1341.photobucket.com/user/rickster66/library/June%202016%20-%20PR%20Match%20and%20%20PRS%20Skills%20Clinic
 
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Another great weekend in Pet with an awesome group of shooters...and finally some weather that allowed me to try out my new rain pants!

As usual, got to pick some brains on different gear and techniques, and test out some of my new shooting bags and pillows to see what configuration works best.

Last but not least, got a SWEET banana protector that should make me a GM IPSC shooter by next weekend (stand by for some pics of the Tacticool banana)

Look forward to shooting another match later in the season!
 
I'm slowly unpacking and sorting my gear. I had a pleasant 7 hour drive home. The drive goes quicker as I'm not stopping at gun stores. I saw 3 small bear cubs at the side of the road while still on the base, a deer, and a moose west of Bancroft in a swamp. I didn't know they lived that far South.
The weekend was well worth the drive. If you had your 100m zero and your bullet velocity or even an idea of it, the online ballistic calculators easily put you on paper out to 600m. My rifle performed better than I expected, now I have to learn wind reading, or at least get more serious with it.
Training and experience at CQB and SR helped lots with organization on the line and in the butts. I used the same vest and pouches for this PR match as I do for CQB and SR and it worked out. Having my brass hammer that I carry in case I have to knock open the charging handle on the AR came in handy when a dented case jammed up the bolt and I had to knock the bolt open.
The second day was the icing on the cake. Lots of little things to pick up. I've learned there are no great revelations at these events or training sessions, just lots of little things. After learning the basics, you learn the subtleties and the second day was great for that. You also get confirmations of what you are doing correct and confidence builders. Seeing other shooters set ups also is a big help in what to pick up or discard. Seeing how other ranges have things set up and go about things also helps back at the home range.
The LabRadar was the cat's hind quarters. My basic shooting chrony shows way more variation in my loads than the LabRadar did. Both gave about the same average speed but the LabRadar showed my loads are far more consistent as I figured they should be. I use a beam scale and measure OAL to the ogive for each bullet. I shouldn't have a spread of over 150FPS that my chrony gives. I wouldn't have that added confidence but for the second day.
The barricade was an eye opener. I'm too decrepit to get into that type of shooting. My knees are really going on me. Again, well worth the drive.
Thanks Barney, Morgan and Heather.
 
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Was the first time I went to a Tac Teacher clinic. Oh boy, saying it was full packed of information and fun would be an understatement. I want to say a big thank you to Barney and Morgan for putting this kind of setup together. Another big thank you to all the guys who were there to let me shoot their guns. Incredible how the shooter group are always there to help out for anything. And a very special thank you for Jameel (my paired shooting partner) who let me shoot his gun for the 500 and 600m Match. I had some technical difficulties and he offered to just take his rifle to finish the match. Thank you very much buddy. So on the second day I decided to just hang around and listen to Barney going from shooter to shooter explaining what to do, how and for what reason. Teaching us to push push and push a little more outside our comfort zone. Will definitely be back. So now a few pics I took from sunday. I was way too busy saturday with the baptism by fire of a newbie rookie. :)



The 600m range saturday morning with the mist. I thought, man that's god dang far :)

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Morgan plinking at 50m




Rick who is always behind the camera :)



Barney, full loadout with plates



Barney doing this stuff eyes closed..... maybe it was just the shot, but he's that good... lol



Barney explaining sight picture, sight picture, sight picture



Noticing position of foot



This picture is "CLASSIFIED" Barney was never seen close to a war wagon. :) Morgan said he had to dump the kids



Barney explaining it never happened lol



Position of hand on barricade



Morgan using the radarlab to give accurate reading of your reloaded ammo.



Another foot position for more support



Barney says to try every way to find the most stable one for your body type



This dude needs a bigger scope on his 22... lol Thanks for the bag



Adjusting position to be able to shoot



The 2 brothers from another mother. :)



Trying to hit the plates off hand while the "boat" is moving



Barney coaching Dr. Mo how to position himself



More coaching. Never, ever hard on hard. Always Soft on hard



More learning, never go close to the woodstove with rain gear. :)



Morgan's moving target system



I apologize for not remembering the names of all the guys. Don't be shy to identify them and please do not take any comments I made seriously. It was a fun weekend.

Pat
 
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