VTAC Portable Barricade

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Thinking there must be a few match directors out there who are tired of holding precision matches that are only shot off of a bipod or a bench (yawn!). Well, this might be a good solution. This is a light, portable barricade that can be set up on any range, moved easily, and replicated in numbers. The pattern can be modified to work better with precision guns (this design is more for carbines).

Here is a video of some guys in California using something similar to add realistic field positions to their match:

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California! If lame old California (with gun laws that are worse than ours) does positional shooting in their matches, why the heck don't we? Do we really want to be lamer than California???

If the local club gets the new gong bunkers done this spring, we will be holding a few short range (up to 300 yards) matches with these and several other barricades.
 
illae said:
Awesome - I would love to start seeing more matches that include barricades and obstacles. PRS style stuff.
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You just need to know the right ones Illae! Twisted up urban prone trying to take 6 shots through the bottom three VTAC ports is how I figured out my Lantac Dragon does such a great job of countering muzzle climb.... SHOWERED in mud!
 
Phat Eagle said:
You just need to know the right ones Illae! Twisted up urban prone trying to take 6 shots through the bottom three VTAC ports is how I figured out my Lantac Dragon does such a great job of countering muzzle climb.... SHOWERED in mud!
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I definitely need to find the right matches! You are in the valley- where where where?!
 
I love the vid where the barricade must have been set up for iron sighted rifles cause the shooter put the rifle into the hole and the scope hit the barricade and got stuck.

Good thing that bolt was opened cause there were some heavy heave ho's that followed... Giggle.

Jerry
 
It's good to have a few holes that you can only get the barrel thru. I would keep one that requires you to put the rifle sideways (gangsta style).
 
kombayotch said:
It's good to have a few holes that you can only get the barrel thru. I would keep one that requires you to put the rifle sideways (gangsta style).
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We have shot a "side" prone stage on our match that simulates shooting underneath a car...........very interesting to see your point of impact in relation to point of aim when shooting with your rifle on it's side............ ;)

 
I've seen the pics. It also flips on its side to simulate a rooftop. BC's matches are a lot more advanced than ours, that's for sure.

Yes, there are very legitimate reasons to do side prone. And when you make the shooter do it at different distances, it really puts to the test whether they understand the ballistics and the height over bore relationship or if they just know how to turn a knob to change the rifle's zero. Some shooters have to shot with a setup that amounts to the same situation.

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Sometimes its done for people who have lost vision in one eye. The sniper version of the M1 Garand is also offset, but much less. The ballistics of this are well known... JBM will even create charts with the offset for you. Not a bad idea to have one in your book. ;)
 
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I've seen the pics. It also flips on its side to simulate a rooftop. BC's matches are a lot more advanced than ours, that's for sure.

Yes, there are very legitimate reasons to do side prone. And when you make the shooter do it at different distances, it really puts to the test whether they understand the ballistics and the height over bore relationship or if they just know how to turn a knob to change the rifle's zero. Some shooters have to shot with a setup that amounts to the same situation.

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Sometimes its done for people who have lost vision in one eye. The sniper version of the M1 Garand is also offset, but much less. The ballistics of this are well known... JBM will even create charts with the offset for you. Not a bad idea to have one in your book. ;)
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Dude, I am still trying to wrap my head around having to move for the next shot ;-)

Jerry
 
I would like to build some barricades for our AFRA Precision Rifle in July but I only have one guy registered so far, other than my brother & I, so there isn't much point. There certainly doesn't seem to be much interest in this type of shooting east of the Rookies.
 
Excel said:
I would like to build some barricades for our AFRA Precision Rifle in July but I only have one guy registered so far, other than my brother & I, so there isn't much point. There certainly doesn't seem to be much interest in this type of shooting east of the Rookies.
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Because your date is shared by the poker rally shoot. I am guessing people would rather go to a shoot that has been hosted previously than take a chance on "yours". I have two of these barricades built I use, you are welcome to borrow them.

Don't be fooled, there is a lot of interest this side of the Rockies, just difficult to get the word out.
 
For there to be interest, it needs to be promoted/marketed. With all of the PRS videos out there are now, that is much easier than it was a few years ago.
 
This type of shooting is much more useful than the Canadian version of precision rifle. I hope we can see more of this close by.

Aside from Michigan in September does anyone know of any of practical precision matches within 6-8 hours of the Kitchener area?
 
I will likely be able to hold one/some at TCRC this summer. And it looks like the wheels are turning on gaining access to a range that could host a long range match.

There are several matches in Michigan:

June 27 - Guardian Long Range, Lake City Michigan, also at MTC
Aug 8 - BWSA Precision Rifle Championship Match, Kimball Michigan

Thunder Valley Precision in Ohio does some matches, but I'm not sure if they do a lot of barricade stuff.

The range I belonged to in Indiana (Young's Longshot) usually has a match, but I haven't seen anything announced yet.

If you extend that to 12-13 hours away, there are a few more that I can think of:

June 20-21 - Woody's PRS, Sanford, North Carolina (this got moved due to weather, it was supposed to be last weekend, and was full)
July 11-12 - Heatstroke, Camargo, Oklahoma (hoping to attend this one)
Aug 15-16 - K&M Precision, Finger, Tennessee (hoping to attend this one)

The GAP Grind will also be in Tennessee at K&M either the end of September or October (George told me at SHOT, but I can't remember)

There are lots of other smaller matches. Many of the ones I used to shoot where on private land in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. They aren't always advertized online though.
 
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693 Precision said:
This type of shooting is much more useful than the Canadian version of precision rifle. I hope we can see more of this close by.

Aside from Michigan in September does anyone know of any of practical precision matches within 6-8 hours of the Kitchener area?
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There is no Canadian version of anything which is a big part of the problem regarding competitions across the country.
There is no national direction for rifle matches consisting of anything other than single indicated deliberates.
 
By Canadian version, he is referring to matches being shot on square ranges, one distance at a time. That is pretty common across Canada, is it not? I know of no Canadian long range precision matches that have strings of shots at multiple distances. At least none that are open to civilians. Few of them have any kind of positional shooting. BC is unique in that regard as far as I have seen. Maybe they do it out east. But, we don't hear much about their matches.

Its almost a given that you will be shooting at multiple distances in US matches. Maybe not in Cali or the Northeast, but most other places, a tactical match will involve multiple distance engagements and positional shooting. I've tried for years to get US buddies to come up here and shoot ORA or NSCC PR. They're not interested. It looks like F-Class with different targets to them.

The US PR matches are also all different. Each PRS match is unique and autonomous. But most of them share that commonality: supported and unsupported positions in addition to prone with multiple distance strings.
 
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