I'm with the TSRA junior bunch.

So far, I just have the P100 and coaching the 6-man teams on my plate.

I'll likely be there for the Garand match.

2010 was the last year I made it.  The "team" decided getting married and having kids was more fun.

Last time we stayed at a motel off base.  Prior to that it was the huts.  How many of those are left?  How hard is getting housing these days?

How does one make it to Camp Perry?

Sign up and pay for the match, its not a special invite or anything

National Matches

Oh, I always figured it was a special invite thing.

I think I have to leave that morning.

 

Good luck, sir.

Nope, and  you don't need to be great.  Register on line, show up, shoot.  Do yourself and everyone else a favor, and try to hit a couple local matches first, to familiarize yourself, and you're set.  If you ask around, you'll find some folks who are going, and you might be able to tag along with them - or at least get all the skinny on details and questions you'll have.  But even that isn't necessary.

here's the write up from the AZ team!

http://arizona-rifleshooting.com/AZ-SR-Perry16.html

Poole

Good write up

That's very good advice.

Several years ago, in the NTI, my relay scored first.  When the first relay was called, a gentleman took his firing point armed with a rifle, several 20-round boxes of ammunition, and a big smile.  I asked him if he'd forgotten anything, like the rest of his equipment.

Nope, he said, this is all of it.  He went on to say that he was an Air Force combat shooter.  All his Air Force combat shooting buddies kept telling him that he should come to Camp Perry with them.  But I don't have a rifle, he told them!  No problem, you can buy one on Commercial Row.  But I don't have ammo, he told them!  No problem, you can buy ammo on Commercial Row.  But I don't have equipment, he told them!  No problem, you can use ours.

And that is, partially, what he did.  He bought the rifle and ammo on Commercial Row the day before, but his buddies never showed up, so he had no gear.  He also had no zeros, so his first shot was also his sighting in shot. Thankfully, the target went down with a hit.  

He shot about how you'd expect but his attitude was great and he had a heck of a good time.  He said he was coming back next year.  

The take-away from all that is, take Lazyengineer's advice about shooting some matches before going and do some research about how this here thang works 'n all, but more importantly, go.  You'll never GET there, unless you GO there.  Ya follow?

The same way you make it to Carnegie Hall...practice, practice, practice.



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FIFY.

Imagine the Olympics but anyone with $35 can run against Hussein Bolt.  That's what Camp Perry is like.

...and if you get squadded with him on the same firing point you get coaching you couldn't buy.  

That's how it works -- you may be squadded on the same mound (4 fellas per firing point) with guys who are total newbs and fellas with the Gold Badge and a dozen President's tabs.