LVR Part Deux

[Charlie-2-6]

Remember a few months back when I posted a small thread about an emerging trend overhere: Low Velocity Rifle matches.
Well it seems these days everybody wants to host a match.
Last weekend I attended my second one. August has another one, but alass, due to familyholiday, I can not attend that one.

Anyway, this one was in the French speaking part of our country of (real) beer, chocolate and eurocrates and to my great surprise was held in an old ammo depot.

The host club has access to 3 bunkers (approx 30 x 20 meters, I'd say) of which due are converted to indoor ranges. And here comes to part you guys are gonna like: there are NO, I repeat, absolutely NO bullettraps or whatever on the walls, ceiling or floor. Just bare concrete and as the pics show, the ceiling is arched. You don't want to think of any scenario in which a guy misses one of the mobile bullettraps and has his bullet ricochet of the ceiling.

Ventilation sucked big time, but as one the RO's said "we'd rather take the lead(fumes) than not be able to shoot at all". I think that would I've taken a blood test last Saturday, I'd score big time on lead and other shooting related toxics.

But, hey, we had a metric sh#tload of fun.

Here's the brief rundown on the match + some pics to give y'all the general idea

Weapon(s) used: again I had to borrow from my friends, so it was a 9mm AR (Oly Arms upper on Colt lower) with Mepro reflexsight on stage 1 and HK clone (MKE) with Cmore on stages 2-5
As with the previous match, the AR went belly up after stage one. When upper & lower were seperated, the boltcarrier would ride forward, put them together and somehow the boltcarrier would no longer ride forward. As time was limited we didn't look to long for the problem and I borrowed another buddies MKE. Shootingbuddy nr 1 is going to take his AR to the armorer to have the problem diagnosed & fixed.

Targets: IPSC 60% targets & 5 steel pepper poppers

5 stages with distances varying from 2 till 20 meters max

STAGE 1: 18 rds, 9 IPSC targets total
STAGE 2: 24 rds, 12 IPSC targets
STAGE 3: 9 rounds, 9 IPSC targets - shot from a kneeling position
STAGE 4: 21 rounds, 5 peppers, 8 IPSC targets
STAGE 5: 25 rounds, 5 peppers, 10 IPSC targets (starting position: seated on a chair, loaded weapon on the floor, on the beep pick up rifle and engage 5 peppers from a seated position, next stand up & engage the IPSC targets)

All in all a fun match and again kudos to the guy(s) who set up the stages. I'm still amazed how creative someone can be with such a limited space.
Learning points for me: work on speed. On 4 out of 5 stages I beat the top 3 shooters when it came to shooting A's, but that could not make up for the extra time it took me, e.g. on stage 3 I shot a maximum score (all A's) but it took me 25.90 sec, whereas the first one slipped in some charlies but did it in 13.64 sec.

You just wait, till I have my own low velocity rifle :dance:

"The Scenery"
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STAGES:
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[jtischauser]

Wow!!! That is some crazy stuff.

I feel very very very fortunate to have shot the last two days out in the dust next to a beautiful mountain and tonight and tomorrow night I get to do it all again at night.

 

[Charlie-2-6]

Well my home club is outdoors too (we lease military ranges during the weekend) and though the base CO has come up with some crappy rules (no more steel plates, silhouttes, caliber limitations etc) it is still great fun to be just out in the open having a blast (pun intended).
Get out there around noon, on a windy day with a chance on rain and you have the entire range to yourself (many armchair-fair weather shooters).

 

[dennishoddy]

That's really interesting. Like you said, your lead levels in your system must have really been high.

 

[madders]

Hi

This sounds very much like the LBF - Long Barrelled Firearms matches that we get to do in the UK under IPSC rules through the UKPSA (united Kingdom Practical Association ) .

Are there any plans to advertise matches for shooters outside of Belgium ?

MD

 

[Charlie-2-6]

@madders

Well currently there's some Dutch guys taking part in some of the matches. For Belgian shooters, the prerequisite is to have a Belgian Sport shooters Licence, for foreign contestants I think a European Firearms permit and all the other legal paperwork to take your firearm cross border are required.
Tell me some more about those LBF matches. Can you use e.g. a semi-auto AR15, as I was under the impression that anything semi-auto was not allowed in the UK, hence the LA-30 from www.southern-gun.co.uk/

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There's a Dutch guy competing in the DSR (Dynamic Service Rifle matches) in the "bolt operated" class and he's almost as fast as us semi-auto shooters.