ORSA Shoot May-3-4

[JDoucette]

Well today is the first day of Spring!. It's a good  time to pull out your benchrest gear, dust it off, screw on a new barrel, and get ready for the 2025 season.
ORSA's first shoot of the season is scheduled for May-3-4 at Elmira Rod and Gun Club. 6533 Reid Woods Drive, Elmira, ON N3B 2Z6.
Please check this website for any changes.
Even if you don't have a bench gun, come out and try for 1 or both days, but please leave your muzzle breaks at home!  Saturday we shoot 100 yards x 5 matches, then on Sunday we shoot 200 yards for 5 matches. Saturday we usually have a steak dinner, or pizza, wings and salads. That is a good time to ask the season veterans any question that you have about this great sport.
If you have any questions, you can reach out to Brian Shoemaker at brian.shoemaker@wightman.ca, or Jeff Doucette at xfmrdude@gmail.com
Hope to see you soon!!

[Rundltrain]

Great note Jeff. It will be great to get back to our favorite shooting sport! Not to mention warmer weather and an absence of copious dumps of heavy snow.
   It would be great to see one or more new shooters attend a shoot. And even better if they persevered. It is a challenging type of shooting but the pursuit of the small group can be very addictive.  I remember my first days which really weren't that long ago; and I'd like to share a few things I wish I'd known in advance. A guy or girl needs a rifle that can shoot and has done; a fairly small group. That little target we must hit on Saturday morning is 3.5 inches wide by 4.75 inches tall. So I'd try to have my rifle shooting close to the center. Having that first shot in the sighter ( lower target), settles the nerves and the game is on. We have 10 minutes for that first group. I remember also, the anxiety on Sunday when I had no idea how far up my scope need to be adjusted to hit that proportionately small target at 200 yds. If one has that knowledge in advance, that's very reassuring. I remember holding up the proceedings due to my mistakes and feeling quite bad. However; the patience of everyone there was very much a appreciated. I watched the routine and learned what to do and that occurred pretty quickly. Incidentally; for a 36X Leupold and now my other scopes too....it was 7 clicks up and I was in the box at 200 yds.j