200 yard Offhand Shoots
The Old Colony Sportsmen's Association in Pembroke, MA hosts a series of 200 yard Rifle Offhand Shoots starting in mid-November from a heated shooting house. The last shoot of the season will be March 29, 2005. The course of fire allows for unlimited sighting shots and 20 shots for record on the NRA 200 yard High Power Rifle target in 30 minutes. $2 per entry, no re-entries. Shooting starts at 10:00 am with breakfast and lunch available until 2:00 pm.
There are different classes including:
- Iron - any rifle with iron sights, no restrictions on shooting jacket
- Scope - any rifle with an optical sight, no restrictions on shooting jacket
- Howes - NRA Match Rifle with flat butt, no palm rest, 2 lbs. trigger pull
- Winsor - single shot rifle, any caliber, firing plain base cast lead bullets, no shooting coats
- 40+ - any rifle .40 caliber or above, no restrictions as to sights or shooting jacket
- .22 Rim Fire - any .22 rim fire rifle with no restrictions as to sights or shooting jacket
The inside of the heated shooting house with some portals open.
Another shot of the inside of the shooting house waiting for the match to start.
Notice the spotting scopes on stands or clamped to the wall.
Shooting or scoping through the shooting portals.
The portal that you shoot through. No, you can't rest the rifle on the sill.
Looking back at the outside of the shooting house from downrange.
Looking downrange while standing just to the left of the shooting house.
Ray Carter shooting standing with his Browning 1885 .38-55 in the Winsor Class.
Another shot of Ray Carter shooting standing in the Winsor Class.
Ray's 200 yard standing target shot in the Winsor category
(single shot rifle, lead cast bullet, iron sights, no shooting coats)
with an 12 inch ruler on it to show scale.
Ray's standing target shot in the Iron Sight category. A tighter group, but only one point higher.
Maybe a click or two to the right would have helped?
For directions and additional information visit : Old Colony Sportsmen's Association Website
Major Waldron Sportsmen's Association
Ray Carter - Match Director
Route 9 (1.1 miles east of Route 125)
Barrington, NH 03825
Match Director's Cell Phone: 603-957-0377
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