Southern Utah Practical Shooters, Inc.

New Competitors Class – Fri @ 5 PM    Ken Nelson leading
Practice                          – Fri @ 5 PM    Brian Nelson leading

Match on Sat morning, 0830 registration.

Note that we won’t be using Bay 1 for the class, we will be down nearer to Bay 15.

RVSP if you can, so I know what to setup for.

I was remiss in not reminding you about the Democratic caucus Tue night.   Sorry.   I’d assumed they were the same night.

Anyway, one of our missions is promoting the 2nd Amendment and gun rights.  And the BEST way you can help us do that is to attend the caucus tonight and make sure you support candidates that are strong on the 2nd Amendment, Concealed Carry and other gun rights issues.

You can find your caucus location at http://utgop.org/

This should be a fun one. Charlie and Adam have put together a fun set of stages. No diagrams…. but the titles should say it all.   They will be out Wed at 0900 to set it up, if you have some time to help.

Staple Targets: 0800 on…
Register:        :  0815
Meet              :  0845

Stage 1 – National Command Authority – 24 Rounds, Virginia, 2 strings.  El Pres + Vice Pres
Stage 2 – Scholtzen Steel – 20 rounds, all steel
Stage 3 – Frankenstein – 24 rounds, if it moves its on this stage.
Stage 4 – Walking Dead -  32 rounds, sprint through zombies, if you dare
Stage 5 – Maverick Madness – 18 rounds, convenience store trip for milk gone bad
Stage 6 – Man the Barricades – 26 rounds

144 rounds yippee!

Adam and Charlie called today saying they would like to build the match and design the stages as well.

I told them – you bet.  I’ll post the round count later in the week, but the stages will be a mystery until you get there.  Their goal… if we got it, use it.    This might be our last match til Area 1, so we want to have a great one!    Charlie and Adam have built great stages in the past and I’m sure we will be in for a fun time.

They will be at the range at 0900 on Wed morning.  If you can assist, they welcome it.  I’ll try to drop by then, my work schedule permitting.

This will let us have a nice solid practice / class on Friday – so we do appreciate them stepping up. 

Jim, who normally sets up the matches, can’t this week.

The last couple matches  we’ve setup on Friday before and that hit our practice / competition classes.  So I’d prefer if this match is setup Wed or Thu.     Setup normally takes 2 to 3 hours, if diligent.   Targets are stapled the morning of the match.

RSVP to me if you are interested.  kn@kennelson.com

Range Master Jim and I have been discussing the safety of shooting down the central road between bays 1-10 over the last couple weeks.

We’ve decided to NOT permit it.

Reasons:

- we have a new access road past Bay 11.
Nothing is there to keep people from entering the shooting area

- it is a 200 yard shot. Short rounds, from 75 to 150 yards, could easily skim/skip over the berm at the other end.

We have built a 100 yard bay out front. Use it for longer shots, or sighting in carbines/rifles.  For longer than that, the R/P venue, or the desert, remain available.

We will be meeting, as a board, to define new rules, and modify existing rules, in light of our new range build. I will post them once decided.

Those of you who shot the match today saw a much different range than at our last match.   We’ve put our NRA Grant money to great use.  And we’ve had some help, big help, but I can’t announce who it was as they prefer to remain anonymous.

Here is a picture of the new range. Click on the picture to see it quite large.  Explanations of the red # annotations follow the picture below.

Summary:

We now have 23 bays + a gully run.  One bay is 100 yards long. Another 75 yards. The rest are roughly 35 to 50 yards of shooting space.

1. The main interior section of the range. Bays 1 – 10 oppose each other making for easy squad transition between stages.

2. A 75 yard by 75 yard bay. The back of it will have a large tent during the area match.  Longer term we will have a 30×60 building where the tent will be.

3. Parking lot.

4. New front bays. 6 80′x80 bays, 2 80×60, and 1 100 yardx60 bay.

5. 100×60 bay

6. Road connecting to Rifle/Pistol Venue.

7. Road connecting to interior bays This makes for easy circuit of squads in larger matches.

8.  3 bays not shown, equipment yard, and gully run.

9.  Chrono bay

Permanent improvements remaining before Area 1 include building a shoot house on #5 (middle of interior bays), pebbling the road and parking area, and erection of a 40×80 pole tent.

Sorry for late notice.  Wolf, Brian, Sam, Shawn and I will be out finishing up stages and doing some shooting.

4PM til… dusk

Drop by and you can check out the new range improvements…