Custer Sportsmen’s Club
2007 High Power Prone Match
Match
Summary:
This match is roughly modeled after the 300 meter prone match shot in
international competition. It
is all prone and consists of three twenty shot stages (60 total record
shots) shot at 200 yards. Participants
compete within the classification of the rifle they use.
Classes
of Rifles:
1 - Any rifle/any sight - Any rifle with either open sights or a scope
and a front support, e.g., bi-pods, sand bags, bench rests.
No rear support allowed, e.g., no rear bench rest bags.
2- Any rifle/iron sight - Any rifle with open sights, e.g. match bolt
rifles, space guns (sometimes known as
Palma
rifles.) No front or rear
support. Only use of a
sling.)
3- Service rifle - (M1, M1A, AR, no scopes.
No front or rear support. Only
use of a sling.)
4- F-class - any caliber rifle with a scope and a front support, e.g.
bi-pods, bench rests, sand bags, etc.
Rear support not allowed, i.e., no rear bench rest bags.
5 - Curio and Relic - (Any rifle in use prior to
Korea
with issue sights, i.e., no match sights or scopes. Curio and Relic
rifles may use sand bag front support only.
No rear support.
Course
of fire:
Stage
1: Unlimited sighters and twenty record shots prone, single round load
in 25 minutes.
Stage
2: Two sighters and twenty record shots prone, single round load in 22
minutes.
Stage
3: Two sighers and twenty record shots prone, single round load in 22
minutes.
Match:
Aggregate of stages one through three.
Match Schedule:
First
Saturday of the Month, March through December…March 3rd; April
7th; May 5th; June 2nd; July 7th; Aug 4th; Sept
1st; Oct 6th; Nov 3rd; Dec 1st.
Note:
June 2nd match will be the Third Annual John C. Garand Match
for M-1’s only with three stages; slow prone, standing to prone,
rapid and standing, slow.
Entry fee is $15.00 for Custer members and
$20.00 for non-members and $10.00 for Juniors (under 18 years of age.)
Sign in begins at 0900. Firing
commences at 0930.
For
further information contact
Loston Carter
Lieutenant Colonel USMC (Ret)
(360) 734-2315 or lostoncarter@comcast.net