Precision Tactical Rifle Challenge - Stage nine: FAIR GAME
Today was competition day for the PTRC that I have been organising with a couple of mates for the last couple of months. I'm a long range practical rifle competitor and an IPSC pistol competitor as well but both sports can be very costly and convoluted to break into as a new shooter. The rifle competitions are shot all over Australia meaning costly travel and rifle systems are around $12,000-$15,000 set-ups usually.
For this reason we wanted to put together a competition for shooters who want to join the sport, but cannot do so just yet, or who can't afford to shoot centrefire guns at that level.
Here's a few of the 60 competitors who enjoyed the day.
The day was too huge to summarise in one post so I will do so over a few but I wanted to give you an idea of what a typical stage was like. This one is called "Fair Game" and was designed around some moving targets and more rapid target acquisition and shooting. Remember, we are not allowed to have semi-auto's (rifles) here in Australia so our practical competitions for rifle revolve around pump or bolt action. This particular competition was for .22 rifles only. It's an introduction shoot only.
So, take a look at the video if you like. The voice-over is me describing the stage and how we set it up. I hate the sound of my own voice but this was the easiest way of describing it.
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Nice course design. Thanks for the Tony Greig coverage. Just missing the key into the turf. 😉
Bwahaha...He was a classic! :)
That looks like a nice little course. The .22 is a nice little rifle. My Dad had an old winchester .22 rim-fire bolt action with a v sight. He had it from when he was just a boy on the farm. I had some fun shooting all kinds of crap with it from time to time, but mainly shot cans and things with our .177 air rifle.
Agreed. I never shot as a kid. My mum hated guns and banned them. The .22 is a great “trainer” and was put to good use today by the competitors. The stage here was a fun little one but we had 8 other more complex and challenging stages as well.
Judging by the feedback on th FB group page tonight the 60 shooters had a great time. That’s what we had planned around. This introduction to this style of shooting has snared a lot of interest from th competitors and we are already planning the next.
Looks like fun. Was hoping to hit the range for the first time ever with my pops today actually.. but I guess that fell thru.
Watched the vid mate.. gotta say, classic Aussie voice. Don't hate it man, embrace it. Like you said the world loves aussies for some unconditional reason... that's gotta be a reason.
Nice set of weapons.. those all .22s?
Haha, thanks man. Embrace my Aussieness huh?
Yeah, the whole comp was .22. The shooters were mainly new-ish. 60 of them. I don’t mean new to shooting though, just new to this style of shooting. The most expensive of the guns was $7,000 including scope. That was a second hand Anschutz with a Nightforce ATACR scope.
Awesome to see!
Thanks mate, I’ll add a few more posts here and there with some of the other target arrays eventually. Wanted to show the “Fair Game” stage though as we worked hard on it. We fact the shooters 30 seconds to complete that stage. Was just enough time (if they worked hard)
Long range practical competitions tend to be hard. Guys from my club went to the mountains for preparation, and single run could take up to 30 minutes with running and shooting. Centerfire of course. That was a bit military-ish competition, but shooting 600+m after 15 mins run uphill was tough task.
For now i Can't wait for your upcoming posts from your IPSC career as i start with production division in IPSC Level1 here and going to start in 3 gun. I'm starting in shooting so completing gear and so on made me choose one or another, and I let Long range go :(
You inspired me though to document my 3Gun journey, check out if you want to :)
https://steemit.com/guns/@martwykotek/3-gun-sport-i-fell-in-love-with-plans-for-2018-and-2019
Can't wait for your posts, keep going with good work, and check out my blog if you want to. Cheers!
Wow amazing guns :) Thanks for sharing with us :):);)
Damn, that's a better set-up than we have here in Montana, and we're in real gun country. Moving targets on a rail? That's a great little .22 LR course. The contraption for raising the target made with wood and pvc pipe is interesting. It looks like the target has to be manually lifted though. Is that done before the course of fire or during?
Thanks. The bobber has to be reset after each shooter. There’s a plastic (pvc) weight that rolls off the target contraption that drops the target back down after it has bobbed up. It’s all pretty ingenious. After the shooter completes the course the rabbit “runner” and bobber thing is reset manually.
Very good stage design, I would have liked to see the rabbit shot on the run, did guys do well on moving targets?
Some did. The rabbit started running at the same time as the bobber to the back left came up and went down to shooters had to be pretty quick. We put a lot of work into making sure the timing was quick, but shootable.
Would have been awesome to watch.