Hi!

I have been shooting regularly at my local club for 9 years now and I love every minute of it! But in the last two year some of the older shots have given up due to failing eye sight or ill health. I have tried to convince them to try bench rest as an alternative but no takers, I suspect that they feel it's a bit of a cop out after years of prone shooting (two brothers at our club have 40 years membership a piece at our club!).
Now this got me thinking, most of the members at our club have scoped sporting rifles. How about one evening a month having a sporting rifle evening. That way every one still gets to meet up, we can still have some friendly competition, the people that founded our club can continue to be an active part of it and it's an excuse to spend another evening a month shooting!
Then I started thinking some more (I know, don't worry, I'll go for a lay down in a minute ).......
How about if our club offered a restricted membership for people who don't want to shoot prone rifle at 25 yards but DO have a sporting rifle that they would like to Zero and practise with in a nice dry range, for say £20 a year plus normal range fee's, perhaps they would take part in a bit of friendly shoulder to shoulder in house competitions. They might even come along and think about giving proper target shooting a go!

Any how, My idea for the competition would be:-

1) Sporting rifle, scoped (No, not a FWB or Anschutz target rifle with a scope)
2) Can be shot standing, prone, kneeling, or bench rest, but all card shot and entered must be shot from the same position.
3) A 'start' score must be entered from an average of three cards shot before the competition, this 'start' score is then your target score for each card shot, scoring your 'start' score would earn you 100 points. shooting above or below this score would result in points being deducted from your possible 100, e.g. if your target score is 90 and you shoot a 91 your actual score would be 100-1=99.
4)Sighting shots allowed, then 10 shots fired for scoring, 5 at each of the 2 bull targets
5)The winner would be the the person with the higest score after submission of five cards


If anyone has any other sugestions, tips, hints or advice it would be much apreciated.

BG1