600 yrd Bench Portland, OR

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Willys46

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I was told that I should post this here.

Tri County Gun Club will be holding its first 600yrd benchrest match.
Date: March 15th
Start time: 9:00am
Would like to have registration finished by 8:30
The Address is:
13050 SW Tonquin Road
Sherwood, OR 97140

This will be our first attempt and if we get enough interest will try and have a match once a quarter. We are even having talks about doing a 2 day event with one day being shot at night with lighted targets. The conditions can be amazing after sunset!

Hope to see some Shooters form the Northwest show up. If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

Cody
 
Willys46 said:
We are even having talks about doing a 2 day event with one day being shot at night with lighted targets. The conditions can be amazing after sunset!
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Cody,

Two words of advice on a night shoot from 600 yards. FORGET IT. Lighting requirements downrange aren't the problem - it's the lighting requirements between the firing lines and targets that will stop you. Wildlife walks across that range all the time - we've held up highpower matches because of deer on the range on several occasions. Oh yeah, deer are active at night, as are other forms of wildlife.

Yes I've studied the idea of shooting at night from 600 yards on that range before.

And FYI, that area is far from dead still at night - gusts of up to 50 MPH at night occur occasionally during the winter. Even on summer evenings, there are breezes.
 
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Willys46

Cody is the match registered with any organization or is it a club match? Also is it on Saturday or was that a typo?
Lynn
 
Night Shoot

Asa,
We have been shooting at night all winter long. It has been working out just great. We are getting about 10-20 shooters. Deer have not been a problem when the proper arrangements are made. The wind drops to almost nothing at night around there.


Lynn, it was not a typo. We will be running all of them on Saturday unless we run a two-day event. The main reason is that we already have reserved the range for Saturdays.

This will be a registered match. We are jumping through the hoops now to get the contract in-place.

Cody
 
Lynn

Yes, this is a NBRSA Registered match. Peter B. at the range Has been working to make this happen. Gary Noble has been there to talk to them and I have worked to make this happen. Don
 
Don Nielson

Don are you going to this match? I think Tillroot1 said he is using it as his warm-up for the Nationals.My father wants to fly in friday evening with only our lightguns.
Lynn
 
Lynn
If you can make the match it would help. We need a good turn out to. This will help shape the program and make it grow. They have/we have talked about what can be done in the future if the turn out is good.
After all if I can shoot good scores at this range you and others should be able to set a few records. The conditions can be that good.
 
Gary Noble

Gary the biggest problem I have is getting the match dates in time to schedule vacation time.If you guys can get the schedules figured out by mid January I'm in if not its a big potluck.
My father is retired and can make all the shoots but for me it means getting out early on friday running home to get the guns and flying in to Portland that evening.After the match is easy because I have sundays off.
If you look further down on this page you'll see Tillroot1 trying to confirm the 1,000 yard national dates.I imagine he wants to shoot but has to do some scheduling first.
I hope the entire Washington contingent will be there as well.
Lynn
 
Lynn
I am sure when Cody see's this he will post the match dates. The only one I am sure about after March is May 24th.
The Saturday matches are scheduled a year in advance. Sundays are taken for high power I think.
 
August 16th 17th

We are looking at August 16 and 17th for a two day event possibly. I understand your guys need to have the dates set in stone early. I will talk with Peter my counter part in putting this together and nail down the rest of the year dates.

Bear with us on this, we are new at this. Quick question, could I run a state 600 yrd championship at the same time as a regular event. Just the people form OR compete separately for state honors?

If I had to guess we will try and hold an event every three months if the demand is there. Nov 15th would be the next.

Also, if you guys have specific large matches that you would want a warm up for let us know. We have the range scheduled for the 3rd sat of the month all year.

If you have any infomation that we will need to run this smoothly, please PM you number so we can talk. The last thing I want is to read is how bad we screwed this match up on Benchrestcentral:D

Thanks for your time and input.
Cody
 
Cody
Give me a call. There are some changes we need to discuss.
thanks
 
Cody or Gary Noble

I broke out my Oregon map and found Portland and then Sherwood.How do I get there from Sherwood? or 99 west or 5?
Found it.Does Sherwood have rooms or do we stay in Portland?
Lynn
 
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Wilsonville

I would stay in Wilsonville. They have hotel rooms and it realy close to the range. (Aproximatly 5 min)

If you stay there you can uses these directions. The Exit in the piciture is the North Wilsonville exit.

http://benchrest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49257

Its the back way into the club with alot less traffic.

If you need directions contact me and I can walk you through it.

Cody
 
Hey Cody, (or Gary)


I talked with Dave and Peter today, Peter gave me good info but I still need some help :) (what's new :eek: )


I've never shot one of these before, I'm a complete newbie but I figure I can cobble together a couple of rifles that qualify, I think. I'll go weigh them on my bathroom scale........Peter indicated that loading at the range is NOT typical??? Can you elaborate? My little problem is that I set up 25 cases ready for any given barrel. I kinda' count on loading/adjusting at the range. Sounds like to compete I need at least 50rds preloaded for light-gun and 75 ready for heavy?


My dilemma is that while I've got two barrels with 25rds each, I have one barrel coming in this week (hopefully) for which I have NO brass yet, do I need to fireform up 100rds?


I also have another friend who might be coming.........neither of us are NBRSA members. Is this all going to create a hassle @ 8:30AM?



And, the 600yd night shoot on Tuesday of that same week.......... I'd like to have the option of us coming down Tuesday nite to check it out if I can, maybe have to fireform some cases....... can I reload at the night shoot?


Also, where do you clean the bores? I don't find a description of the course of fire. If I understood Peter he said 7-8min, then 10min for the record....... then 7-8min prep and 10min record.......... Do you plan to clean on the line?



Please reply here as it'll save time passing on the info to my friend and maybe help someone else out.


thanx


al
 
Alinwa

Here is how we do it in Caleeeefornia.
Get there early and sign your life away.
You will need to Join the NBRSA and can do that over the phone,make sure you get your identification number.If you shoot a record and didn't join your out of luck.Most clubs are NRA insured so bring your NRA number as well.

The match director will give you your relay so your either downrange or on the line.They give a safety chat as well as any range specific rules like no speeding on the roads etc etc etc.

You then bring all of your gear to the line and set up your rests.Your guns can only have bolts in them when the match director says bolts in.

You get 6 minutes to sight in and then there is a 1 minute time when targets are changed or taped up.You then get 10 minutes to fire your record targets.When your done pull your bolt out.If you want to clean do so but don't go in the front of the bench.

When the pits gets the new targets in place they radio the line.

You now get 3 mintes to sight in 1 minute to work the targets and 10 minutes to shoot your second target.

The same thing for your third target.

We then swap out whatever you need for heavygun and it starts all over again but you shoot 10 shots(right Bolo?)

You need 15 shots for lightgun plus sighters so 25 rounds is kind of light.

In heavygun you need 30 rounds plus sighters so 25 rounds is out of the question.If you plan on using one gun bring 85-100 rounds minimum

Unless you are using a March scope you won't be seeing your bullet holes everything is done with a spotter disk.

Dial your gun in then raise the scope setting 12 inches from your 100 yard setting and you'll be just fine.
Lynn
 
Lynn,


Thanks.

So each relay is only three groups, not a 5-group agg?

You're saying that a March will give you 6MM bullet holes @ 600yds???



questions about working the target crew.

I've never pulled targets............how does the person in the pits know that his guy has fired?

---Let's say the shooter misses the frame, how do you know to pull the target?

---What do you do about crossfires? How does the guy in the pit know when to pull the target?


thanx


al
 
Alinwa

Al you will shoot 3 targets lightgun and 3 targets heavygun per relay or 45 record shots.

The March scope allows you to clearly see 6mm bullet holes at 600 yards.If your shooting a March score champion should be your nickname.

I don't know if Portland has pits but if they do you stand/sit on the catwalk and the Match Director can be heard over the radio.You will staple your target onto a cardboard backer on the frame and the pit boss will walk the line.They will make sure you have a shooter and his/her name is correct on the target.The Match Director will say we have targets bolt up which means quit talking in the pits and get ready.He then says you ave 6 minutes for sight in and your time starts now.Once he/she says now somebody is going to fire immediately.You will see the impact in the berm below your target number pull the target and put a spotter disk in it and run it up.On the next shot pull te disk and put it in the next hole then patch the first hole with a white or blue patch depending on were the hit was on the target.Blue on blue white on white.

If your shooter completely misses the target you can either tell the pit boss he/she is high low right left or you can stab your spotter disk into the carboard backer way to the side of the miss and run the target back up.

After the sight in period is over you either put up a new target or patch the existing target and backer if needed.You then watch the 5 or 10 shots on the record target without doing anything.If nothing goes wrong the pit boss will have you pull that target and give it to the scorer and the process repeats itself.

If your target has less than the required number of shots its kind of tough twinkies(right Bolo)If it has more you tell the pit boss and they handle it.

While your watching the record target keep an eye out for high shots.Some unscrupulous shooters will sometimes(Vary Rarely) try and shoot at a rock or bush on the berm as a sighter.If you see a errant shot and all the targets have the correct number of hits somebody isn't playing the game correctly and you report that to the pit boss as well.
Lynn
 
Al
There isn't a place to reload at the range. Also the time/course of fire don't give you enough time, unless your very fast.
Rule of thumb fifteen rounds for record thirty rounds made ready to go. Thirty rounds you may need sixty rounds ready. All depends on how many sighters and any emergency that might come up.
They do have pits.
Not all shooters take the full ten minutes to fire there record shots so there is time to run a patch or two down the bore. If you do, remember you only have three minutes for sighters.
The night shoot will give you an idea on what is there and what you need.
Remember to join the NBRSA. We hope to make this work and keep it going.
 
Gary,

I think that Al (and myself) need to know if we can join the NBRSA at the time of the shoot..........................In the past when I first started shooting 2100 and 200 yard varmint class, we could join when we registered for the shoot and drew a bench. I assume it's still the same?

Mark Van Beek
 
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