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Ok, I may be getting a little sadistic (or is it Masochistic), But anybody brave enough to shoot a 500 Meter chicken shoot?

I'm all for it, but there isn't anyplace within 800 miles of here that has a 500 meter silhouette range.

nutcase wrote:Ok, I may be getting a little sadistic (or is it Masochistic), But anybody brave enough to shoot a 500 Meter chicken shoot?

In Oklahoma we have shot the 500 many years,"unsactioned then" a few years back there was a tie between Dave Stone and the other shooter I can't remember.Jim Fields said shoot it off.Dave said he didn't have enough ammo,I offered him by 6BR,and he hit 3x5 chickens at 500! That would be a excellent class to add and you wouldn't have to worry about bullet weight.

I would just love to try 500m at anything

I agree with the idea of 500M chickens. Anything that will encourage more activity for IHMSA works for me. However, I would also like to see some give and take for the smaller clubs that don't have access to 500 meters....or yards. IHMSA recently approved 500M Big Bore and I think that's great, but it is very limited by the availability of 500M ranges. Why can't IHMSA approve what many have referred to as "22 Ultra" which is the 3/8 scale Smallbore targets set at traditional Big Bore distances. Rich H made a suggestion in an earlier thread about small struggling clubs with low participation having the ability to use less than a full traditional range setup, namely swinger targets, or paper targets. I believe that without some concessions in regards to sanctioned swinger matches we will continue to lose more and more clubs. And once their gone, it's very hard to get them back. If a small club with low participation is allowed to shoot monthly sanctioned matches on swinger targets, how does it matter in the grand scheme of things.....except for helping to keep IHMSA alive.

high standard 40 wrote:I agree with the idea of 500M chickens. Anything that will encourage more activity for IHMSA works for me. However, I would also like to see some give and take for the smaller clubs that don't have access to 500 meters....or yards. IHMSA recently approved 500M Big Bore and I think that's great, but it is very limited by the availability of 500M ranges. Why can't IHMSA approve what many have referred to as "22 Ultra" which is the 3/8 scale Smallbore targets set at traditional Big Bore distances. Rich H made a suggestion in an earlier thread about small struggling clubs with low participation having the ability to use less than a full traditional range setup, namely swinger targets, or paper targets. I believe that without some concessions in regards to sanctioned swinger matches we will continue to lose more and more clubs. And once their gone, it's very hard to get them back. If a small club with low participation is allowed to shoot monthly sanctioned matches on swinger targets, how does it matter in the grand scheme of things.....except for helping to keep IHMSA alive.

He's right! It should be like High Standard said,there are a lot of club that would and could do the Ultra 22.

Many years ago our club hosted a big bore "all chickens" match. That too was a lot of fun. Maybe using four big bore chicken swinger targets would also be an option for an all chicken match. Of course some people may "accidentally" count more hits but it would be more for fun anyway. Many clubs like OR and LA are down to one or two members to do the set up and tear down. We only have about five members and several volunteers that we can count on for range set up and tear down so we are better than some clubs. The point is, if the set up and tear down was reduced using swingers maybe what happened in OR would not happen to other clubs. I know attendance is down for IHMSA matches but volunteers to help at matches is even more scarce. Hearing some good ideas on this post.

Arcadia, FL held sanctioned matches with 1/2 scale swingers. The setup was explained somewhere on this forum.They only had a few shooters, but they made it work. It only stopped because the match director passed away. Had that not happened, they would probably still be shooting.

260striker's comments hit home with us here in Geneva. Not only are we down to a very few shooters, and only 3-4 IHMSA members, but only a couple of the old guys come out to help set up as well as maintain the range. If we don't A. Get better turnout and B. Get some (younger) help, I don't see how we can justify to the club keeping the range for any kind of silhouette. Having said that, I really like the idea of an "Ultra 22" match of some kind. I may try that when we get going again in January.

high standard 40 wrote:I agree with the idea of 500M chickens. Anything that will encourage more activity for IHMSA works for me. However, I would also like to see some give and take for the smaller clubs that don't have access to 500 meters....or yards. IHMSA recently approved 500M Big Bore and I think that's great, but it is very limited by the availability of 500M ranges. Why can't IHMSA approve what many have referred to as "22 Ultra" which is the 3/8 scale Smallbore targets set at traditional Big Bore distances. Rich H made a suggestion in an earlier thread about small struggling clubs with low participation having the ability to use less than a full traditional range setup, namely swinger targets, or paper targets. I believe that without some concessions in regards to sanctioned swinger matches we will continue to lose more and more clubs. And once their gone, it's very hard to get them back. If a small club with low participation is allowed to shoot monthly sanctioned matches on swinger targets, how does it matter in the grand scheme of things.....except for helping to keep IHMSA alive.

Well, we have talked about this for years -- lets go ahead and schedule one !!