We will be running 3 full distance AQT's tomorrow morning out at Douglas Ridge Rifle Club. Safety brief and target line setup at 8. See you out there :---
Oh how I love KD Qualification Day! :---
We opened with our traditional 8" gong at 250 yards. Okay, a white gong on a yellow backdrop might not have been 'fair' but who says you will always have a nice, high contrast target?
12 shooters stepped up to the line. 4 new KD Riflemen - Sam, Kate, Adam & Chris. Bernie, David, Mike & Jane all showed that they still got KD chops and re-qualified. There were some equipment issues that held our other riflemen back but a rifleman persists.
We finished our 2nd AQT by lunch so we got to play a little in the early afternoon. 9" red balloon posted at 300 yards. 4 loose rounds on the mat. 'Safeties on stand! Ground your rifles - shooters were slightly confused but did as instructed. Shooters - fall back to the 400 yard line. 2 minutes turned out too be too much time to run from 400 to 300, sling up, single load your rifle (in the tradition of our forefathers) and engage a 3 MOA target. About half got it so maybe the time wasn't the constraint :cool2:
All but 4 shooters left after our planned 3rd AQT. 4 hearty souls marched back to the 500 and 600 yard line. You know that 8" gong is still up there. 5 rounds each at the gong and darned if it wasn't hit 3 times ..:..
A little whining about the 88* day but all in all a whole lot of fun. Cant wait for KD in October in Coeur d'Alene.
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Huzzah!
This was my first KD shoot, first time shooting at 400 yards, and second time shooting at 200 or 300. Also my first time at Douglas Ridge, which is a fantastic facility. Big thanks to Ben for suggesting I do this, for running the event, and for letting me crash at his house the night before!
My ballistics table was 16" off at 400 yards and I had a weird misfeed in stage two, so my first AQT kind of…sucked. My second AQT was a 234, with all but one in the black. I bailed halfway through the third AQT, but not after hitting my balloon on the first shot :). Wish I could have gotten some 500 and 600-yard dope, but I was no longer feeling sharp behind the trigger. My old nemesis "heat exhaustion" kicked in, in spite of drinking a gallon or so of water, and I had a five-hour drive back to Port Angeles.