Topic: 1000 yard shooting match in Red Bluff, Ca saturday

[kneedownnate]

Anybody going?  My friend and I are headed down to check it out.  It'll be neat to see people shoot at that distance in person, but more than anything I'm looking forward to checking out the various setups being utilized.  I'm also really curious to see how the range is set up.

So is anybody else planning to go?

[abnormaltoy]

Obviously...I'm not going, just a little too far. I would be interested in hearing what the hot setups are.

[kneedownnate [OP]]

Well, I'm back.  It was pretty cool, but it would have been cooler if they'd had a sign up and we hadn't gone 10 miles past, then stopped two places in bfe to get directions   

Hot setups... an older gentleman came up and started talking to us just after we got there and said most people were using 6mm in one variant or another.  He went over a lot of the calibers people used, and I can tell you most of them ended in "ackley"    He said they no longer allowed the .416 higby... rigby... whichever one is a necked down 50bmg.  They use a solid copper bullet, and there are guys in bunkers behind the targets and they can get showered with hot little copper bits 

I was kinda stoked that there was a guy there who has some remington 788's set up with bull barrels, but I couldn't remember who he said it was, and I didn't know where he got off to when we were ready to leave.

I got some pics, lemme see what I can do...

[Duffil]

why are there guys in bunkers and how do I get that job?

[kneedownnate [OP]]

  I'm workin on it man!  It's just so much easier to resize the pics for pirate since they can be a lot bigger.  Here you go.

First pic is the guy with a .338 lapua, loudest frickin cannon I've ever heard 

Second pic is of the 3 year old girl who was walking around behind him, then to the left of the cone there was a tree that she just kept circling singing "la la la la la la" the whole time, and not once did she so much as flinch when he shot that thing    I couldn't help but chuckle when she just kept singing, seemingly oblivious to the shooting! 

Third pic was a guy to his left, and if you look in the distance you can barely see the 1000 yard targets.  Next pic is of his gun, but he was busy talking to friends so I didn't get to find out what it was.  We ended up talking to the two guys in hoodies in the third pic.  The one on the left was the little girl's dad, and when I mentioned that she hadn't flinched once and that she seemed to have a very good understanding of staying behind the line, he just kinda chuckled about the no flinching and said she was just very well mannered and did what she was told.  It showed, the whole time we sat there talking she just sat right next to him watching the guys shooting, and she only said anything when he asked her a question.

Fourth pic is standing by the bench looking down range toward the 600 and 1000 yard berms.  The small white dot by the little yellow wind sock is the 600 yard berm, and the small series of several white dots toward the ridgeline are the 1000 yard targets.  The next pic is from the same spot but zoomed out.  I've long said I can't judge yardage well at all, which was totally evident when the guy told us the closer berm was only 600 yards, cause I woulda guessed it to be between 300-400 yards!  I guess I really DO need to buy a rangefinder before I go pronghorn antelope hunting!

[Duffil]

I just looked on pirate.I want a job in the bunker. resize to 640*480 and you should be golden. that's what I do. what program do you use?

[kneedownnate [OP]]

Kodak.  Gives me small, medium or large, but if I click custom it expands the window and gives me a larger option, or I can change the size in the custom option to whatever I want, plus there's another to make them thumbnail size.  I usually just look at the pic size as it comes from the camera and click whatever option I think will give me the largest pic to post, and if there's a big gap between them I customize to get it as close to 100mb as possible.

[Duffil]

you know, I like shooting comps but I think being clamped in a vise don't really mean crap.try shooting 1KYDS in the prone position using a 30-.06 or something and I'll give you props.

you want a copy of Macromedia FireWorks? It's like paint but super powerful. PM me if you want it.

[kneedownnate [OP]]

Thanks for the offer, but I'll pass for now.  My computer is so loaded up with programs that I finally had to stop loading any new programs. 

Try shooting a 30-06 from ANY position and I'll give you mad props    Here's the last pic I had of the metric range.  From where they were shooting there was a range off to the right that used meters instead of yards, the furthest being 500 meters.

[abnormaltoy]

I like the little man targets. I can't make up my mind if they're Yosemite Sam or the Hamburglar.

Looks like it would've been a good way to kill an afternoon...I need to hit one down here someday.

[mudguts]

SWEET!!! We have a thousand yard range here in Coalinga. I've been to some matches and seen some really awesome shooting. The guys behind the bunkers here, set the silhouettes back up after being hit and spray paint the hit marks black. The black paint makes target aquisition much easier against the tan dirt background   8)