HCMLA Spring Shoot
Mar 7, 2011 0:23:14 GMT -5
Post by sabotloader on Mar 7, 2011 0:23:14 GMT -5
It is Spring and Rondy Season begins…
Today was the first opportunity that I had to get some competitive round ball shooting in. Really do not know whether it is the competition or the conversation that really draws me to these things. On thing is for sure the people are really nice and really make me feel at ease even though I am certainly a pilgrim with not a whole lot of authentic looking period stuff.
Anyway todays even was sponsored by the Hells Canyon MLA. It was down on the Snake River just west of Lewiston and Clarkston. Yep! Lewis and Clark country, in fact while we were shooting I thought I might have heard their party on the river below us going by, but when I looked over at the rive it was a large modern jet boat and nobody on board looked like Lewis and Clark.
I go to these events just for the rifle shooting portion so I really am not competing for prizes just the shooting… I do get a little bit of a turned up eye when they ask me my mountain name and I say Sabotloader – and I always say it kinda Frenchy “Sayboloader” hoping they do not figure it out, but today as I am signing up and I write my name down on the entrance form, the guy who has been real nice up to this point looks at the name and says ‘you aint shooten none of them here today!’ I did agree right away no saybo’s today.
Well being the first event of the year I did manage to leave an important item at home – forgot my camera, so I had to use my cell phone trying to get the pictures off now.
It was really a fun event, there was only ten shots on the rifle trail but a couple of them were really a challenge. I was Ok with the thought of only 10 stations because I figured I would go through the course the first time with my good PRB Renegade for score than come back with the new PRB Renegade just to check and see how it shot.
The first shot of the morning is the ‘tie-breaker’. It would seem to be a very easy shot – heck just 10 yard at a small card with a black dot on it. I actually hate that short shot…
Then station #1 – a shot at a 6” horizontal tank about 35 yards out. I hate that one also as I do not like horizontal targets… but all went well and I rang the target.
Station #2 Crows @ 25 yard on a spinning wheel… well the wheel is stationary until you shot a crow and then it spins… It did not spin for me…
Station #3 Vertical Oxy tank gong @ 50 yards… not a problem with vertical… it gonged.
Station #4 Three hanging gongs of different size… 20 yard. Little gong 3 points, mid size 2 points, large gong (4”x4”) – 1 point – I took the middle one – scored two points on this one.
Station #5 12”x12” Metal Part @ 40 yards - gong
Station #6 Vertical Stack 3” wide Springs – White Spring 2 points Black Spring 1 pt. got 2
Station #7 Square Black Gong 2 @ 80 yards – gong
Station #8 Metal White Bear @ 100 yards - Dong
Station #9 Vertical Metal Bar @ 60 yards - gong
Station #10 A large man sized metal plate @ 180 yards – really high uphill angle… I’ll be darned if I didn’t git it.
It was a nice day and it was fun… Next time I will have my camera for some better shots…
After the ML shoot - I drove back up the hill, went to Troy shot trap in the afternoon and then went back and shoot an indoor 22 range - GOOD Day for shooting.....
Today was the first opportunity that I had to get some competitive round ball shooting in. Really do not know whether it is the competition or the conversation that really draws me to these things. On thing is for sure the people are really nice and really make me feel at ease even though I am certainly a pilgrim with not a whole lot of authentic looking period stuff.
Anyway todays even was sponsored by the Hells Canyon MLA. It was down on the Snake River just west of Lewiston and Clarkston. Yep! Lewis and Clark country, in fact while we were shooting I thought I might have heard their party on the river below us going by, but when I looked over at the rive it was a large modern jet boat and nobody on board looked like Lewis and Clark.
I go to these events just for the rifle shooting portion so I really am not competing for prizes just the shooting… I do get a little bit of a turned up eye when they ask me my mountain name and I say Sabotloader – and I always say it kinda Frenchy “Sayboloader” hoping they do not figure it out, but today as I am signing up and I write my name down on the entrance form, the guy who has been real nice up to this point looks at the name and says ‘you aint shooten none of them here today!’ I did agree right away no saybo’s today.
Well being the first event of the year I did manage to leave an important item at home – forgot my camera, so I had to use my cell phone trying to get the pictures off now.
It was really a fun event, there was only ten shots on the rifle trail but a couple of them were really a challenge. I was Ok with the thought of only 10 stations because I figured I would go through the course the first time with my good PRB Renegade for score than come back with the new PRB Renegade just to check and see how it shot.
The first shot of the morning is the ‘tie-breaker’. It would seem to be a very easy shot – heck just 10 yard at a small card with a black dot on it. I actually hate that short shot…
Then station #1 – a shot at a 6” horizontal tank about 35 yards out. I hate that one also as I do not like horizontal targets… but all went well and I rang the target.
Station #2 Crows @ 25 yard on a spinning wheel… well the wheel is stationary until you shot a crow and then it spins… It did not spin for me…
Station #3 Vertical Oxy tank gong @ 50 yards… not a problem with vertical… it gonged.
Station #4 Three hanging gongs of different size… 20 yard. Little gong 3 points, mid size 2 points, large gong (4”x4”) – 1 point – I took the middle one – scored two points on this one.
Station #5 12”x12” Metal Part @ 40 yards - gong
Station #6 Vertical Stack 3” wide Springs – White Spring 2 points Black Spring 1 pt. got 2
Station #7 Square Black Gong 2 @ 80 yards – gong
Station #8 Metal White Bear @ 100 yards - Dong
Station #9 Vertical Metal Bar @ 60 yards - gong
Station #10 A large man sized metal plate @ 180 yards – really high uphill angle… I’ll be darned if I didn’t git it.
It was a nice day and it was fun… Next time I will have my camera for some better shots…
After the ML shoot - I drove back up the hill, went to Troy shot trap in the afternoon and then went back and shoot an indoor 22 range - GOOD Day for shooting.....
