2019 Highpower Rifles matches.

50 round National Match Course

Kodiak Island Sportsmen’s Association

Date:               Sunday, June 9, July 14, and August 11

Location:        Salonie Creek Rifle Range

Rules:             Current NRA High Power rules will apply.

Eligibility:       Open

Registration & Fees:  Entries limited to range capacity of 24.  Advance registration is encouraged but not required.  Entries accepted the day of the match until 9:00 AM.  Match fee is $20.00 for adult non-club members, $15.00 for club members & $10 for all juniors (through age 18).  This is an official NRA Approved competition.

Awards:         Honors only.  These matches are for the purpose of competitors working toward an NRA High Power classification and qualifying to purchase firearms and other equipment from the Civilian Marksmanship program.  You will have fun while exercising your 2^nd Amendment rights.

Start time:      Competitors should be on site before 9:00 for sign-up and a range/safety briefing.   First shot to be fired at 9:30 AM. 

Rifles:             NRA rules 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.3.2 Service rifles are M1 Garand, M1A, AR15.  A Match Rifle is a rifle that holds at least 5 rounds in the magazine and is safe.

Sights:             Service Rifle maximum of 4.5 power. 

Ammunition: Competitors to furnish their own ammunition.

Course of Fire: 50 shot National Match Course.

Match 1:  Standing, 200 yards, two sighting shots and ten rounds for record on an SR-1 target in a time limit of twelve minutes. 

Match 2:  Sitting, 200 yards, two sighting shots in two minutes followed by one string of ten record rounds on an SR-1 target in a time limit of 60 seconds.  Required reload during the string.

Match 3:  Prone, 300 yards, two sighting shots in two minutes followed by one string of ten record rounds on an SR-21 target in a time limit of 70 seconds.  Required reload during the string.

Match 4:  Prone, 500 yards, two sighting shots and twenty rounds for record on an SR-31 target in a time limit of twenty-two minutes.

Match 5:  Aggregate of the first four matches to determine the overall winner.

Facilities:        Bring your own food and drinks.  No alcohol is allowed on our range!  There are primitive toilets at the range.

Contact:         For more information contact the match director:  Karl Short, 907-942-7737 kshort@alaskan.com.

Next match

The next High Power Rifle match is Sunday, June 28, 2015.  Registration is at 8:00 with shooting starting at 8:30.

It is a 80 shot match with the following stages
20 shots standing slowfire at 200 yards
2 x 10 shots sitting rapid fire at 200 yards
2 x 10 shots prone rapid fire at 300 yards
20 shots prone rapid fire at 500 yards.

Salonie Creek Range in Kodiak, AK.

Rim Fire Rifle Cleaning

I just ran into a really good article on rim fire rifle cleaning.

http://www.rrdvegas.com/rimfire-cleaning.html

Let me know if you try any of it.

Washington Shooting

I wanted to put a link in here to the Washington State Shooting Associations web page.  These guys are really into shooting.

http://www.wsrpa.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1

Here is a link to their HP Rifle page:
http://www.wsrpa.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=28

I forget to mention, even though the tri cities range is very nice it is built on top of a hill and it is very windy in Eastern Washington..

Looks like I will be able to shoot in another Tri Cities, Washington,  HP rifle match.  They have by far the nicest HP range I have ever shot at.  I will try and post some pictures when I get back.

Here is a link to the match program:  http://www.wsrpa.net/images/stories/HighPower/High%20Power%202014/Match%20Programs-14/P_14-02-15.16_TCSA_RMC80-NMC50-Korean%20War%20Memorial.pdf

There are a couple of interesting things.

Sighting shoots on day 1 not day 2.  CMP rules.

And you get a key chain just for shooting.

I shot 22 silhouettes at paper targets again tonight.  On one page I got 18 out of 20.  The other 4 targets sucked.  I think that this means I have to practice.

The club really needs to clean out the smoke eater.  I was pretty much the only one shooting (Jim D shot off a couple of rounds but not many) and I just shot a 22 rifle.  After a while there was a lot of smoke on the firing line. 

After a while it made me cough and I got a sore throat.

Indoor shooting fun

Some of us are doing a series of informal paper silhouette matches.  We are doing them on Tuesday nights at the indoor range.  A person just shoots at 2 targets that each have 20 silhouettes on them.  For a total of 40 shots.

The targets we use are 50 foot reductions of the actual silhouettes.  And we shoot them 50 feet away.

You can use any 22 rifle with any sights.  You shoot standing and with no support.

You only get 2 "match" targets.  When you start on one you can't start over.  You just have to shoot your 40 shots between 7 and 9.  If you want to shoot "practice" targets before and after your "match" targets.

This is not a KISA match.  Just a bunch of old guys having fun.  No entry fee - no prizes.