Guys, our match is only a few weeks out. We still have some spots if your buddies have not yet signed up, better tell them to get with it or they won't get a shirt. I'll need to place the order very soon.
Sunrise is about 7:15 and so let's plan on a shooters meeting at 8 AM and we should be breaking shots by 8:30. I'll be out at the range on Friday afternoon/evening if you want to come out and look around and take care of registration. I probably won't hang around much past 7:30 PM on Friday night.
We will have water and will bring in some world famous Smoking In Style Bar-B-Que for lunch. We should not have any problems shooting the whole match on Saturday. But, officially the match is scheduled to go to Sunday at Noon. So come prepared to shoot it all on Saturday, but if we run long and need to finish on Sunday morning just remember that that is the official match schedule.
Range Officers can begin shooting on Thursday or can shoot the whole match on Friday.
As for squadding, go ahead and pick a squad. But I may have to move some around to make it balance. I will let you know if I do that to you.
You should be able to drive either to each stage, or at least close. There will be a short walk to the far woods stage which is Rifle only.
The prize table has 3 Guns. An AR-15 that I built. It is an AR Stoner 18 in. 223 Wylde barrel and compensator. 4 rail handguard and a polymer lower with a Choate buttstock. Then we have a Mossberg shotgun and an FNH certificate for a shotgun. Bryon has been working hard and has a number of other items on the table as well. Fred Choate has donated $1,000 cash to the purse and I hope to be able to match that from the entry fees. We'll pay cash to the top winners. This won't go very deep to keep the $ good for the top 3. We will draw at random from among all competitors for the prize table items.
I don't see a way to attach a file to this e-mail (I am using the PractiScore system). I will try to do another e-mail with the stages on them. The target count looks like this:
Pistol 61
Rifle 75
Birdshot 59
Slugs 2
On at least one stage the targets are optional on which gun you use. You can decide if you want to shoot the targets once or twice or how many misses you'll have with the rifle.
The longest Rifle shot will probably be around 200 YDs through the woods. I won't know until we get it set up, but I don't think I can get much more than that with how the stages will be arranged.
We talked with The Arlington Hotel about doing a banquet on Saturday night and using it as a match hotel, but decided maybe we'll try that next year. So we don't have a match hotel. There are lots of very nice Hotels/Motels in Hot Springs. The closest Motel to the range is The Knights Inn. You should be able to find it with any of several popular travel websites.
Here is a link to squadding.
https://clubs.practiscore.com/choatemelee/squadding/fpoC
We are looking forward to a fun match. Shoot me an e-mail if you have any questions.
Ted Smethers
Match Director
