CRC / Beyers Practical Rifle

[Brass]

Hello Cy, thank you, Sandy, and everyone else who organized such a fun match. If you don't mind, I'd like to submit a few suggestions for you to consider. By no means are these complaints, as I have absolutely nothing to complain about. Just a few ideas that I think would help run an even more fun event.

1. Break up into the maximum number of squads allowed by available ROs and scoring tablets. During the last few matches, I got the sense that Sandy prefers to have as few squads as possible even when more ROs are available. On Saturday, we had only 24 shooters, but the match still went on from 9 am to 2:30+ pm. Five and a half hours seems like a really long time for only 24 people to shoot 4 stages. Increasing from 2 to 4 squads would probably cut the match time in half and we would have had a faster, even more fun pace. More shooting, less waiting is good! This will become even more important as the weather turns hot.

2. Start time was listed as 9 am, but first shots were not until a little after 10 (at least on my squad). I think it would be helpful to have a shooters meeting to register, pay, get briefed, and walk through in that order. Instead, there were pauses leaving us to mill around after each pre-match event and then there was yet another meeting to collect the entry fee after the shooters meeting and the walk through.

3. Clarify and make permanent the rule to allow cooling time for rifles before bagging them. This topic seems to always come up for friendly debate at this match. I'd like to scrape the smoking bag goo off my carbine's barrel and keep it off for good.

4. If you're using the tower, don't make the shooter descend or ascend the stairs while carrying a prop such as the ammo can on Saturday. We had both hands occupied with the rifle and can, leaving us ill prepared to grab a railing in case we stumble, trip, or miss a step. A stumbling shooter would have had to dump the can, rifle, or both to grab a railing. It would be good to avoid having a loaded rifle go clanking down a set of stairs.

5. It would be great to use the 200 yard range even more. After all, we're there to shoot RIFLES :-)

Thanks again for all your work, and I'll see you next month!