200 yard problem . . .
I don't know of any standard course of fire for 150 yards. Outdoors it's 25, 50, 100. 200. 300, 500. 600 and 1000 yards. One exception would be Centerfire metallic silhouette when the shot at 200, 300, 485 & 500 meters.
We just finished building a 200 yard range at our club last year. Last week our members put up 6 new concrete benches. Looks good, but getting our rimfire shooters interested seems to be a problem. Last year we scheduled some bechrest rimfire metallic silhouette matches: Chickens at 60, Pigs at 100, Turkeys at 125 and Rams at 200 yards.
We had very poor turnouts. We have about 25 local rimfire nuts in our club and we never got more than 9 out to shot those 200 yard Rams. Seems the problem was, and still is, that we scheduled the matches on Saturdays before our 25-50 yard USBR matches, on Sunday. The club members did not want to move their elevation adjustments up for 200 yards, then try to get a 25/50 yard zero the next day.
We shot the last two matches with all the animals at 100 yards, and still were not able to round up 10 shooters.
Our first match this year will be on July 10th. and we will try something different. Rather than the standard 40 shot match, we will have a 20 shot match for Sporters and Semi-Autos. Chickens at 60 yards and Pigs at 100 yards. And, an open class for Unlimited rifles: Turkeys at 125 yards and Rams at 200. If that don't attract them, we'll try something else next year.
Getting people out to shoot with us in a match ain't easy, is it.
Joe Haller