Hey guys.  I don't know anything about formal planning but I have been doing some prop work.  Thus far I have a bunch of steel targets for shot gun and I think we can have some really fast paced exciting shot gun courses next time we get together which can also be right in the mix hopefully upping the number of strange positions we can get into and lowering the amount of run from a to b type stuff.  As much of a bad ass as catfish is I would hate for him to win all the time just because he is a stellar athlete and stuff.  I have been super busy with having my son up for the summer and work of course but at the end of july he will be heading home to momma which will leave me with lots of steam to let off.  So I will start showing off some ideas for multigun courses.

Some stuff that I wanna do.
1. Precision/long range get together with the big guy septic.  He is always putting together fancy stuff that makes my giblets jiggle a little bit.  Last go was a hell of a lot of fun but I would love to see a mixed bag event that had some steel spaced at hundred meter increments or so and then maybe a side challenge that could include some movement, out of position work and just basic hard ass cool kid shooting.  

-I worry with this because some guys didn't bother to get dope for a rifle from 7-100 meters so god knows what happened if we were on time and had some longer shots.  This will be on the other fellas south but I will gladly drive down for one because I like hugs and stuff.

2.  Multigun.  that could mean 3 gun but it could  mean steel challenge or something too.  I love wiping up the field on the shot gun stages because Im awesome and don't need some damn comm block gun to prove it.  Steel challenge shoots can be just stupid amounts of fun with some great move and shoot action.  We would need much more participation for the range safety functions as there is no way Im gonna run all day long.  

3.  Get together fun shit.  I don't like mixing the build day/machine gun/meet and greet/3 gun light.  You get too little of everything and that just sucks.  If we wanna get together and build/talk guns all day and bs while shooting some for fun I might make a trip down.  If we try and do everything at once I probably wont.

4.  Night vision all night long.  As cool as mixing things is I would love to see a night shoot only get together.  I was dead after 3 gun in the spring and sadly my demons decided to start barking and wouldn't let me have a good time at the night shoot when ryan brought all kinds of good stuff.  Maybe I won't count the chicks before they hatch on this because I am thinking ryan will probably have some cool stuff ahead.

If anyone is further up north and wants to get together in my neck of the woods I am game.  I like hitting up the spring run complex and staking out a claim and just shooting a bunch.  Doesn't have to be any set up work involved I will gladly come out and shoot with anyone in the northwest but none of you guys care about the northern one man alliance.

I am the same way I shoot on pubby land now and it works for me.

Some issues that shooting in baxter has is the limitation of rifle range at 100 ish meters and angles that are able to be shot.  There is almost no way we can shoot more than one person at a time there.

I would really love to do a AR or 2 gun shoot as this is fucking ar15.com last time I checked.  I would love to see rifles run hard as well as a bit of pistol action.  If we were doing shooting out past 100 steel all day would be fine but I would have no issue working with lots of cardboard up close.  I have target frame work that can be used to build quick access walls so if the brownells range would be an option we could definitely do it there possibly running more than a stage at a time.  

Remember that there are shooting clubs in Iowa.  It is awesome to get ar15.com guys together to bs with but I wasn't too happy last time as our community spirit was really lacking.  If you want to shoot organized 3 gun I guess there are plenty of people who are hosting those events.  I think it is awesome that michael let us come out and put holes in his dirt and I hope to get down every time he has that type of deal going on.  I will gladly put a bunch of work into one but we need to make sure it is known that we are not a paid club.  You aren't paying dues and coming out for a good time everyone has to chip in and make things right.  That might mean putting up targets, being a range safety, running water out to the range safeties and what seems to have been missed last time anteing up in the jar to donate to someone other than the people working asses off and putting personal steel and props out to be ravaged.  If someone is gonna show up and not help in any way I would prefer they just didn't show up.  Any of the people who set the last one up could have done it just for a smaller group and had just as much fun.

Understand that one of the biggest problems with doing this kind of stuff is you are having folks drop the rifle into a sling.  Slings fail.  If we get a bunch of people together and someone has a cheapo sling it can be a bad deal.  Mix cheap slings or people rushing because they want to go fast and you get a dropped rifle or unsafe crap.  I am a huge fan of this kind of stuff and I will do it on my own regularly but I don't particularly care to be in a group of people that I don't know doing it around me.

I like where your head is at.  the urban sniper shoot is structured closely to what you described the sniper as...as far as I know.  Out at septics though we are limited to about 80-120 meters.  The field we shot long range last year was able to do 800ish but that requires the field to be harvested...we could set dates but that is fall time.  I would be game for trying for brownells 500meter range and doing reduced size stuff there to work out some frustration as well as the 100 meter next door for rifle/pistol but my understanding is that they can be more strict with use of RSO and what can and cannot be done.

Good info.   I like the range there.   What did you have to do to become an rso?