BACK AFTER A SHORT RELOCATION-INDUCED HIATUS

BIGGER, BETTER, UNMATCHED ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE STATE


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NJ BLAST XII

Yes folks, I have overcome my recent geographical upheaval to once again bring you our humble little event.  And, our THIRD campout!  Needless to say I cannot wait to see everyone again and meet even more new faces.

Some details about the shoot:

When:  Saturday 6/4/05 CHANGED TO 6/11 from 9:00 am until whenever
Where:  Ft Dix Range 14 (see directions below)
What:  Fun, Guns, Food and Friends!
Range Fees: $3 per hour, as long as you want to shoot

Camping details:

When:  After the shoot
Where:  Buckeye Gun Club
What:  Good company with good friends
Cost:  $10 per person for the night  (all money goes to the club)

Like last time, those who are camping will caravan over and stop for dinner along the way.

Of course, we will have our door prize raffle and 50/50 at the shoot.  In addition, there will be a special door prize drawing in the evening for those who are camping!

Well, let’s start talking it up!

Here are some links to the last shoot and some picture galleries from shoots past:

Thread from BLAST XI

A few BLST VIII pics

BLAST VII Pics

BLAST VI Pics (SNOWBALL SHOOT!)

Directions to the range from the Turnpike.  If you need directions from somewhere else, post here and someone will definitely provide.

I know they are long but, I was very descriptive with them. The whole trip is really very simple.

•Take NJ Turnpike to Exit 7

•After paying toll, take Rt. 206 South

•After a short distance, make a LEFT onto Rt. 68. This is a very well marked intersection with signs for Fort Dix. Also, you can only turn left or go straight at this light, there is no right turn. Rt. 68 is larger highway divided in the middle by a grass median.

•After several miles, you will turn LEFT onto Rt. 537/Monmouth Rd. If you go too far, you will run into the entrance to Ft Dix and the MPs will tell you so. Just turn around and go back a couple of roads.

•After a couple of miles, you will come to an intersection with a WAWA on the far left corner, a diner on the far right corner, a motel on the near left and a gas station on the near right. The WAWA is a good landmark and the last/best place to stop for supplies before getting to the range… Continue straight through the light and on 537.

•A couple of miles past the WAWA you will go through a traffic light. Soon after that you will pass a farm market on your left (with the farm on both sides of the road) and then come to a flashing yellow light. Turn RIGHT at the flashing light onto Jacobstown Cookstown Rd. Note – one of the signs on the corner only says Jacobstown Rd but, that’s the one you want. Just look for the flashing yellow light; that is the best landmark.

•Follow this road to the end, it is a couple of miles. When you get to the end/stop sign, turn RIGHT onto the little main street of Cookstown. I do not believe there are any street signs here.

•Once you go through town you will pass a farm field and then cross over onto the military reservation. (Ft Dix) There is one little white sign that you might miss but, as soon as the field ends and the woods begin, you are on base. Continue straight, this is now Range Rd. You will pass some Bivouac sites on the right and a range or two on the left and the ‘urban’ range on the right. Look for ‘Messina Range’ on your left and the urban/MOUT looking range on your right (they are directly across from each other). These are good landmarks and Range 14 is the next left up the road. You will see a small brown sign on the left that says ‘Ft Dix Rod & Gun Club – Range 14’. Turn LEFT here.

•Go down the short road and cross the tank trail and go through the gate. (you will see the red ‘range hot’ flag flying) Go straight down the long ‘driveway’. You will pass the skeet/trap range on your left, the small archery courses on your right and will eventually come to the rifle range. (You have to turn left)

•We generally have two or three tables all the way down on the right side of the firing line. (These would be the first two you will see when you pull in) Look for a BRIGHT YELLOW F-150 parked on the line. You can pull right up to the line to unload.

People Camping:

FMJunkie
DWFAN
Bobby_the_Hun
sjauch
M1_Matt

(I went with 6/4 instead of 6/11 to avoid the Mohawk shoot weekend...)

If you camp, you'll be that much closer to Maguire the next morning...

Tent poles?  Who said tent poles?

Heh, we won't be having a fire quite as big as the last one this time...  Fire danger in June is a bit higher than a rainy November day!

Absolutely it would be!  I really hope you come on out, it will be great time.

pathfinder, if you want to come just come "magless" and we'll hook you up for the day!

Its definitely best not to risk trying to enter the state with the verbotten...

The range is not exclusively reserved for us, we usually consume about a third of it though!  The range rules are very easy to deal with.  Be safe but there is no one shot per 5 second rule or anything silly like that.

Also, you can shoot anything you want there.  We shoot on what is considered the "rifle range" but I think its really a general purpose ~220 yard range.  Rifles, shotguns, pistols, things in-between are all cool on the range.  They also have a 25 yard dedicated outdoor pistol range and ~15 station skeet/trap range.

Quoted: IS any one capable of doing IDs this time??? "Keeping Forum names and "real names" is difficult to manage", said an unnamed old man. Give a bruther some help!!! I feel for this old timer... how about you? B_T_H, I am not referring to you this time. Sometime I make myself LAUGH!!!

I'll make some up!!!  I actually printed name tags once before but forgot to bring the damn things!  

Here's the deal - I bring 'em, you're responsible for giving them out.  Deal?