"They" strike again (not really)
Buckshot: ".........Now watch since I've put in for my vacation in the 3rd week of May they'll move it back to the 1st week :-)"
Weeeeeeeellll, now.
Bein' as "I" is the "they" who schedule this event, "I" can state with perfect truth that "they" WILL NOT CHANGE the date from the already-announced weekend.
THE 2007 NEVADA CAST BULLET SHOOT WILL BE HELD ON THE WEEKEND OF MAY 18-19-20, AND NO-REPEAT-NO-MISTAKE ABOUT IT.
To meet this schedule, I have to use up 36 vacation hours, but I figure it's worth it. The weather is more likely to be pleasant than earlier dates, and Mothers' Day and Memorial Day do not conflict. OKAY, y'all?????
There may well be a good bit more effort required to set up this time, due to lack of berms, target holders, etc. All offers of steel targets etc already detailed are gratefully accepted. Bring anything you think may be useful and/or fun.
I have a bunch of old railway ties here which we can use for bases for silhouettes etc, but we might have to set them up a bit above-ground so lines of sight will clear the brush etc on site. If anyone has a chainsaw, or post-hole digger, or pick-axes, spades etc....they may all be useful. If we use short ties(4-feet?) as posts, perhaps standing two feet or so above ground level, we should be able to use full-length horizontal 8-foot ties between posts as bases for steel. The rebar/cardboard setups for paper targets should work just as well on the open desert as they did on the range (maybe even better, with softer ground to drive them into.). Might have to go to taller rebar, again to get sight lines above the brush.
We HAVE to leave the absolute minimum "footprint" on the land. No litter, no garbage, minimal tracks etc. I am not going to be asking permission to shoot on public land, but neither will we tolerate leaving it looking abused. Just common sense and common courtesy, right?
Anyone who stays overnight out there is gonna miss all the after-dark festivities, and it's a bit of a drive if one has a libation or two "too many". Keep this in mind. I still think we should pick up the tables and chairs each evening, since they are a generous no-cost loan from Brown's Hardware. If all that's left out there is target supports, not much harm should occur overnight. We can stash the porta-john somewhere close by.
Gonna be fun! Some longer-range targets will add a lot to the enjoyment. I was thinking that, for the team rifle match, we could send each team to the line in turn, and they could fire at a "dicey" steel target in rotation...maybe ten rounds each, rotating shooters for each shot, and EVERYONE counting impacts? THAT would put some pressure on the shooter! What...24" target at 200 yards from standing????
Put the ol' thinking caps on.
getting better at each asking
Grand idea for team shooten,Bruce: and I am especially looking forward to firing on NVWALT's official silhouette's,as I've yet to miss one of the proper size for the recognized range.[smilie=1: ------------Onceabull [smilie=1: !!