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Next to Kelblys spread, I think this would just about have to be one of the best homes a BR competitor could wish for. If I only had an unlimited trust fund.

PS JUNE, 2008 pg 5;

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I shot on this range several years ago during the IBS Nationals. Without berating the range at all due to its history, I was surprised and somewhat disappointed in the range. To say there is a shale pit on the property is true: the entire range is shale. In fact, some of the competitors drilled holes into the shale w/carbide drill bits to put out their flags. The range slopes upward from the benches to the targets.

I'm not taking anything away from the range's place in benchrest history. Perhaps I was expecting too much having read about it for years.

I saw Doc Palmisano at the Super Shoot and he has become much more frail in the past 8 years (haven't we all who are nearing or past 70). Personally, I would enjoy living there. I like that part of the country but I suppose I'm living out my days right here in Alabama.

As for nice ranges, I would have to say that St. Louis is the nicest benchrest range I've ever seen. It's almost perfect but still lacks the mystique of the old Council Cup Range.
 
Don said:
Next to Kelblys spread, I think this would just about have to be one of the best homes a BR competitor could wish for. If I only had an unlimited trust fund.

PS JUNE, 2008 pg 5;
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Another nice feature about the old Council Cup range is that from the 200 yard line you can look directly at a nuclear power plant across the valley (or is a coal fired plant?) anyway it looks like a nuke plant.

Mickey is correct about the shale. On benches 30 and up, the bullet path was about 12" above the black shale at about 150 yards. Talk about mirage!!

Doc does have a nice, rustic, old house that goes with it. Looks like a 1920's Canadian hunting lodge.
 
MColeman said:
I shot on this range several years ago during the IBS Nationals. Without berating the range at all due to its history, I was surprised and somewhat disappointed in the range. To say there is a shale pit on the property is true: the entire range is shale. In fact, some of the competitors drilled holes into the shale w/carbide drill bits to put out their flags.
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Mickey, I thought you would have found all that shale most appealling....................I thought you hated cutting grass/weeds in order to maintain a clean shooting field...................Don
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At St. Louis in a hot/dry summer, you have to drill your holes too... A sledge and a spike doesn't always work.

But you can more or less pick up your flag at Bench 1, and move down to Bench 60, and not have to change stuff a lot.
 
Don said:
MColeman said:
I shot on this range several years ago during the IBS Nationals. Without berating the range at all due to its history, I was surprised and somewhat disappointed in the range. To say there is a shale pit on the property is true: the entire range is shale. In fact, some of the competitors drilled holes into the shale w/carbide drill bits to put out their flags.
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Mickey, I thought you would have found all that shale most appealling....................I thought you hated cutting grass/weeds in order to maintain a clean shooting field...................Don
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Don,
Have you ever tried to sharpen mower blades after you've mowed a shale mountain? ;)
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JerrySharrett said:
Another nice feature about the old Council Cup range is that from the 200 yard line you can look directly at a nuclear power plant across the valley (or is a coal fired plant?) anyway it looks like a nuke plant.

Mickey is correct about the shale. On benches 30 and up, the bullet path was about 12" above the black shale at about 150 yards. Talk about mirage!!

Doc does have a nice, rustic, old house that goes with it. Looks like a 1920's Canadian hunting lodge.
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It's a nuclear plant, Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, I worked there for 26 years. I've driven past those ranges and Hart's in Nescopeck a bazillion times. Shale...this whole area is nothing but shale!
 
I have shot this range numerous times and always liked it, but to call it the "Crown Jewel of the IBS circuit" sounds like something a Madison avenue ad man would say and really wouldn't be my description.

BTW you do not have to be on the 200yd line to see the twin cooling towers of the Nuclear plant they are clearly visible from most places on the range and so big as to be impossible to miss.

But I sure would love to see it as an active BR range again.
 
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