Iowa 1000 Yard range shut down for this year

Gordy Gritters

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We are letting everyone know that we have had to shut down and move from our range after the landowner passed away since the family does not want to rent the property out any more. We are thankful they let us stay and run our matches through the June 2010 Iowa State Championship match, but we were unable to get them to extend us any more time.

We are still in the process of trying to get a new range put together in partnership with Brownells, but this is taking much longer than anticipated. So right now it does not look like we will be holding any more matches in 2010 since Brownells has not been able to get started on their range yet.

If things change, we will let everyone know, but for now we have notified IBS to pull the remainder of the Iowa 2010 matches off the IBS schedule.

Hopefully we will be able to continue with the range at Brownells as planned, but we’re not sure if and when that will be ready since this is quite an undertaking and much planning and funding needs to be figured out yet to do it the way it needs to be done.

But if everything does go through as planned, this has the potential to be a superb range layout to shoot on and hold matches for a number of shooting disciplines at. We’ll keep you informed once we know more.

Thanks!
Gordy Gritters & Lee Fischer
www.Iowa1000YdBenchrest.com
 
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Gordy & Lee,

Very sorry to hear that the club is running in to problems such as this. The Iowa Club did a great job hosting Nationals a few years ago, it was a nice place to shoot and you ran a very smooth operation.

Hope you get back on track soon with Brownells.

Jeff in OH
 
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