Last year I found a small match held in a nearby town. They shot a game they called Long Range .22 Varmint if I recall.
Was fairly simple. They shoot 10rnds per relay in 5min relays.
Each shooter gets one steel target per relay at a single distance. The distances are 140yds, 160yds, 185yds and 205yds.
The target is approximately 12" square with an engraved 8" circle and a flapper plate in the shape of a gopher.
The target(s) is scored and painted in between relays.
Gophers - 5pts
8" Circle - 3pts
12" Plate - 1pt
8 of the 10 shots are scored. So your best 8 for score. Reason being the novice level shooters get basically two chances to shoot sighters for wind and boy do we have wind here typically.
So 8 hits all on gopher means a perfect score is 160 points (40pts x 4 relays).
Obviously, you can always ramp up the difficulty. Either giving no points outside of the 8" ring or all shots are scored or reducing the time to shoot the relay.
They shot from benches but it could be done prone. Was pretty laid back. And the scoring was very easy looking at impacts on fresh paint. Line breakers were scored best line scoring and nobody scored their own plates.
They charged a very nominal fee to come play. And it was for bragging rights. I was happily surprised with how well it ran. The whole event took 1hr 45min.
No classes or divisions that I recall. Just come and shoot. These pics were taken last year in April. I had a job that made it impossible to make the late afternoon weekday matches so I don't have anymore pics sadly.
Thought maybe you guys would like to try the format out yourselves with your own steel.
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