[ARCHIVED THREAD] - PR Night Match Info (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 12/3/2007 8:52:18 AM EDT
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. -Desiderius Erasmus The annual Practical Rifle Night Match is set for Saturday, December 8th. It is a chance to use your battle rifle under realistic low-light conditions, usually including mud, rain and wind. Shooting in limited lighting has special safety considerations. If you don't feel you can safely handle your rifle in low light, please sit this one out. For safety, we will not allow new shooters at this match. A new shooter is someone who has never competed in TCGC Practical Rifle matches before. (No Tyros this month.) This match is for rifle only – no handguns. You may shoot pistol-caliber carbines or rimfire, if you like, but those will be scored separately from Practical Rifles. All you need is a rifle and a light. Heck, the light isn't even absolutely needed. Any other gear is acceptable including lasers, night vision, thermal imagers, etc., as long as it is safe and doesn't annoy the other shooters. Please avoid pointing any lights or lasers at other shooters or range officers. We will have four stages with no more than 16 rounds per stage. Most shots will be close distance as it is generally difficult to identify deadly threats at long distance. We will have a couple mandatory magazine changes and shooting from different positions (knee pads?). Dress for the weather. As usual, we will be handing out blue chem.-lights to designate no-shoots and everyone must wear them. We will have some steel targets so no armor piercing ammo or any bullets with steel content will be allowed in the pit. Please check you ammo with a magnet in advance. If you are found in possession of magnetic bullets you will be disqualified. Sign-up is from 4:00-4:30pm at the stat shack by the action ranges. Safety briefing and walk-through start at 4:30pm, also at the stat shack. If you are late, you will not be shooting. Please don't ask for an exception. The first 30 in line get a free magnet with built in LED and laser. The magnet is to check your bullets for steel. The LED is to check chambers etc without blinding your squad. The laser is to point at the targets when someone else is shooting, if you're brave enough. From noon to 4 PM, we will set up a "practice stage" consisting of several reactive steel targets at medium to long range if you would like to get some practice in before the match. There will be a charge of $1 per ten rounds fired to help Practical Rifle purchase new targets. You can also help set up the stages during this time, if you want. The match fee is $15 but if you are experienced enough to be a stage range officer (running everyone through your assigned stage safely and consistently) then you shoot for free. Check with me before the match. This is a great opportunity to see if your equipment (and your brain) really works in the field. Last year, I felt like I needed a more powerful light on my rifle so I bought a new one right before the match. The bulb broke on the first stage and I was so rattled that I forgot I had a flashlight on my belt that would have helped me finish the stage. Almost every time I buy something new right before a match it screws me over. There is no such thing as darkness, only a failure to see. Malcolm Muggeridge Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Protect your nipples. Blueswarrior   bw |
Problem is I like the people I work with, open bar, free dinner, and its usually pretty fun. Its just that it is also usually on a Friday night. |
Hmmm....open bar, free dinner.......need a date??? 
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My new squire 
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Don't forget the knee pads then. |
NoAim will let ya borrow his if you insist on wearing those tactical pants with the zipper in the back.......... |
I have those pants right now... ETA: Anyone wanna do lunch at rosie's??? Say 230pm |
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Suggestions??? |
WTH man.. like you gonna Need "HASHBROWNS For DINNER?" sheesh!
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Actually there might be another. Damn that barrel's going to get hot. Hopefully I don't melt my case. |
so i guess it's a Ganbang
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Throw in a short asian wearing a pink TuTu and you have maximum kinkage.... Unless you are NoAim and insist on a midget riding a stickhorse...... |
IT's NOT PINK!.. it's SALMON!! |
Rules must have changed? 2 years ago, after the night match, we were told no more 308 as it was too loud for the neighbors... Or do I remember that wrong? |
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We have gone through many changes but I am hoping to stabilize things for awhile. We went back to allowing major calibers when we went into the action pits because we were shooting only cardboard targets. The noise issue was mainly from the sound of major caliber hitting steel targets. Now that we are back in the pit, it's no longer an issue. We still have the issue of the steel wearing out faster from the major calibers, but we're trying to live with it. If we start breaking all the targets then we will just have to move them farther away. bw edited to add: that's why you have to read the emails each month, all the way to the end! |
Please be aware, that we are on ARFCOM and can get distracted by bright shiny things before the end of the email is read.
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Or Boobies. 
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I can barely tie my shoes, poop indoors, or type and you want me to read an e-mail? Much less have a working e-mail account? |
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There's Clancy's in downtown Sherwood also........Excellent Irish Pub!!!! That might be easier for people that are going home in all different directions afterwards. That way you southerners don't have to drive even farther away from home. Might be easier for some of the other shooters to rendezvous since its almost walking distance from TCGC just a thought....It could work for before AND after 
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Now this I like. Pint of Guiness after some shooting? Reminds me of my days in the IRA with me Armalite... |