Its that time again!  Lots of fun, friends, sun (hopefully) and BBQ lunch!  I'll be doing the grilling this time...  I just hope you all can lower your standards to my level after experiencing the Helldog Hospitality Center!

When:  Saturday 8/28,  9:00 am until whenever (usually around 2:30 or so)
Where:  Ft Dix Range 14
What: Fun, Food and Friends!
Cost:  $3/hour for shooting, based on when you show up and leave, and $4 for lunch

I really hope everyone can make it out, its been a while since we've gotten together.  I also truly hope that we see more new faces again!  Please don't hesitate to join us, this is truly the nicest bunch of guys you'll ever meet!

Lunch menu:  Burgers, dogs, chips, drinks, etc.

Door prizes:  (TBD)

As usual, we'll do a 50/50 also to help fund the next shoot's door prizes.

Pics from other shoots:

Thread from the last shoot

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 black F-150 parked on the line. You can pull right up to the line to unload.

Quoted: Good News. I can make it to this one. I thought that we were going to try for a camping trip like you guys had last time. Either way,me and the new Mrs. will be there! DW(Mike)

Since some of the crew plans on camping down at the VA shoot soon after this one, I decided to push the camping trip to end of Sep...

Quoted: but you made it on my sabbath.  Jesus!!!!! :-)

Um.....does anybody else see the humor in that particular juxtaposition?

Chapper, can't you go to Friday Night Schul like Catholics go to Saturday night Mass?

Heh, I'd pay for their hotel rooms for the weekend if some IDF ladies wanted to join us!

Quoted: funny thing is the two best schools i got into are fordham jesuit) and seton hall (catholic). the heathens love me!

Nah....the mackeral snappers Catholics just need a token Jew to be anti-Semitic towards.....

Hell yeah you should bring it!  This is what I love about these shoots, people get to see and fire things that they probably never would have otherwise.