First range date: April 18 at Camp Borden, Amiens range.
The ORA has booked the range for a training day for new shooters. That group attended a class room training session at the Burlington club, last week. Next week they will start the day in a classroom at the range and then move onto the range, at 11:00 to shoot at 300 yards.
My plan is to invite Gun Nutz onto the range at 8:30 in the morning, so we can start shooting at 200 yards. We will zero our rifles (I have a new SKS to zero) and then shoot a deliberate course of fire (at the 4 foot target) and maybe a rapid fire, if we have time.
Sometime around 11:00 the class will move to the range to shoot at 300 yards. We will have to move back to join them. At 300 we can shoot a deliberate, a rapid fire and a snap match. All great fun.
At noon, while the Newbies are off to lunch, we will move down to 100 yards to shoot a moving target and a snap match, from the standing position.
COST: $40.00
The “Match fee” is waived for this event, and you are all invited as my “guest”. Members of the ORA are allowed to bring guests who are considering joining the ORA. Members can shoot most weekends. The guests pay $40 per weekend towards their membership (which I think is around $120/yr). If this was a regular mach, ORA members would pay about $25 to cover the hard costs of the event.
Here is what you will do –learn.
• Zero your rifle for 200 yards. If it is a military rifle, you will then be able to raise or lower your sight to the 100 and 300 yards and be pretty close to zero.
• Learn how to mark targets.
• Learn how to manipulate targets for snap shooting and rapid fire matches.
• Learn (practice) how to shoot snap and rapid fire.
• Discover some new things that can go wrong.
• Hear some new lame excuses for a miss.
Here is a list of things to bring:
• 1 rifle
• 60 rounds of ammo (minimum)
• Money (for range fee and lunch)
• Optics to see the target spotters (spotting scope, binoculars or the telescopic sight on the rifle) If you don’t have optics I will have loaners.
• Mat or ground sheet to lay on. If you don’t have one, a 3x6 piece of carpet sold at Crappy Tire or Walmart works very well.
• Something to rest the rifle on when prone. Could be an ammo can, tool kit, block of wood or your shooting bag. But not a real shooting rest. The rule is you can use an “improvised “rest. A 40 pound cast iron benchrest is hardly “improvised”. You shoot in the normal prone position with the back of your front hand resting on something.
• A hard hat, if you have one. We are required to wear them when marking targets and we are short.
• Try to bring a buddy to shoot with. It is more fun marking targets if you know the guy shooting. Bring your wife of kid (15 or older).
• Notepaper and pen.
• Hat, sunglasses, ear muffs.
• Pack a lunch or plan on Tim Horton’s
Please respond and let me know if you are coming.
Jim Bullock
The ORA has booked the range for a training day for new shooters. That group attended a class room training session at the Burlington club, last week. Next week they will start the day in a classroom at the range and then move onto the range, at 11:00 to shoot at 300 yards.
My plan is to invite Gun Nutz onto the range at 8:30 in the morning, so we can start shooting at 200 yards. We will zero our rifles (I have a new SKS to zero) and then shoot a deliberate course of fire (at the 4 foot target) and maybe a rapid fire, if we have time.
Sometime around 11:00 the class will move to the range to shoot at 300 yards. We will have to move back to join them. At 300 we can shoot a deliberate, a rapid fire and a snap match. All great fun.
At noon, while the Newbies are off to lunch, we will move down to 100 yards to shoot a moving target and a snap match, from the standing position.
COST: $40.00
The “Match fee” is waived for this event, and you are all invited as my “guest”. Members of the ORA are allowed to bring guests who are considering joining the ORA. Members can shoot most weekends. The guests pay $40 per weekend towards their membership (which I think is around $120/yr). If this was a regular mach, ORA members would pay about $25 to cover the hard costs of the event.
Here is what you will do –learn.
• Zero your rifle for 200 yards. If it is a military rifle, you will then be able to raise or lower your sight to the 100 and 300 yards and be pretty close to zero.
• Learn how to mark targets.
• Learn how to manipulate targets for snap shooting and rapid fire matches.
• Learn (practice) how to shoot snap and rapid fire.
• Discover some new things that can go wrong.
• Hear some new lame excuses for a miss.
Here is a list of things to bring:
• 1 rifle
• 60 rounds of ammo (minimum)
• Money (for range fee and lunch)
• Optics to see the target spotters (spotting scope, binoculars or the telescopic sight on the rifle) If you don’t have optics I will have loaners.
• Mat or ground sheet to lay on. If you don’t have one, a 3x6 piece of carpet sold at Crappy Tire or Walmart works very well.
• Something to rest the rifle on when prone. Could be an ammo can, tool kit, block of wood or your shooting bag. But not a real shooting rest. The rule is you can use an “improvised “rest. A 40 pound cast iron benchrest is hardly “improvised”. You shoot in the normal prone position with the back of your front hand resting on something.
• A hard hat, if you have one. We are required to wear them when marking targets and we are short.
• Try to bring a buddy to shoot with. It is more fun marking targets if you know the guy shooting. Bring your wife of kid (15 or older).
• Notepaper and pen.
• Hat, sunglasses, ear muffs.
• Pack a lunch or plan on Tim Horton’s
Please respond and let me know if you are coming.
Jim Bullock
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Since I can't attend the SR zeroing clinic it gives me a change to very my zero's.
