Thread: Would you come along to...

Recently I have been approached with some potential opportunities to expand some of the field shooting events I have been involved in. Several ideas have been proposed and I wanted to see if there is any interest out there for them. These are some of the more popular ideas so far:

Medium Range Training Event
1 or 2 days. Covering sighting in, chronographing, point blank range, drop data generation, data validation out to 600 yards or so, effective use of the scope recticle, and maybe wind if there is time. Having a scope that can dial is not a prerequisite. This event is basically to encourage people who want to get the most out of the rifle they have or maybe they want to try longer distance shooting. This will just give people a little bit of guidance to shooting at longer distances.

Hunters Biathlon – Sprint Event
Basically think of this like a jungle lane event if you have been to one before. Probably have more appeal to those people who shoot Service Rifle Competition. I could easily run one using just about all steel targets but the minimum target distance would be about 100 yards. I could also run one using plywood targets at much shorter distances. I also have the setup to run a rim fire event of this nature.

Medium Range Walking Steel Shoot
Steel target shoot out to say 600m. Basically run under the dame format I have used for the Rotorua Long Range event – so competitors supervise themselves. Course length would be no more than about 1km and there would be no score for time.

Orienteering Walking Steel Shoot
Steel shoot at any distance but with a course about 5km in length. Make a full on day of it. Competitors may be required to do some simple cross country navigation. A looped course, stop station in the middle. The location could be set up for anything from a hunters course with targets out to say 300m all the way to a long range event with targets out to 1000m. I don’t think this would be a biathlon event as the difference in time would be huge between the fit guys and the not so fit guys.

Hunting Rifle Target Shooting
Rim fire or center fire. Using pretty much full size animal printed targets. Static targets on flat known distance ranges. This would have the potential to be a postal competition… even and international postal shoot competition.

Of course I intend to continue to be involved in hunters field target shoots including the Ruahine NZDA Hunters Biathlon event that was run in May.

I am well aware most guys are hunters and have little interest in target shooting. As I see it these sort of shoots will improve shooting ability that will in turn improve your shooting while hunting. This thread is to try and generate some ideas and some interest. I know shoot location has a big impact on who turns up but if you had a shoot set up in your region would you go along?