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First Place Scope Division Master Class Bill Huxtable
13 hours to drive to Big Timber,
Montana. It’s even a little more
time to make it out to Forsyth
for the Quigley. When I head
south to Phoenix to shoot in the
Desert International that’s a two
day drive for me. I’ve found that
I can’t drive 18 or 20 hours like
I used to when I was younger.
Now if I hit 12 to 13 hours, I’m
about toast and I’m happy to
stop for the night. Thus, the
Phoenix match is worth it to me
because my four days of driving
gets rewarded by eight days of
shooting. It’s even more shooting if I show up earlier and hit a
few of the local ranges to check
my sight settings and my no
wind zero prior to the match. In
my mind, I like to see at least
two days of shooting for every
day of driving that I’m willing to
do.
The Big Whiskey silhouette match follows the NRA
God Bless Black Powder!
BPCR silhouette rules with one
noticeable caveat. Competitors
had Big Whiskey are allowed to
use a bench. This is due to the
fact that many of the compet-
itors are of advanced age and
many have medical problems
and back issues associated
with long-term careers in the
military, construction, law-enforcement, or any other trade
that tends to wear down the
human body. The decision at
Big Whiskey was taken to allow
bench shooting so that several
of the longtime competitors
could remain shooting and not
be forced out of the sport. It
is also noted that after careful
study and thought on this, there
is no advantage whatsoever to
the bench shooter. They are not
allowed to ground the butt of
the ri昀氀e on the bench, and thus,
have no advantage over the
prone shooter. If anything, the
bench shooter is at the disadvantage.
The standard course of 昀椀re has
four banks of animals. There are
chickens at 200 yards, pigs at
300 yards, turkeys at 385 yards,
and Rams at 500 yards. There
2nd Place Scope Division Master Class Del Neimeier
(53 points)
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