URSA 3K Match April 18th

[LynnJr]

Shooters
We are holding the inaugural NorCal 3K match Sunday April 18th.
To shoot the match you need to already have qualified with 5/10 hits at an earlier match or you can qualify Saturday April 17th at our monthly match.
Sunday is only for qualified shooters and spotters.
Saturday april 17th we will go hot at 8AM at 2054 yards and it will be a regular monthly match. If you qualify you can then shoot on Sunday.

For the Sunday 3K match only 1 gun per shooter is allowed so pick your favorite rifle and load up some ammo for it.
Bring 60 rounds if you can.
No Fees No pit duty.
Any legal firearm is welcome.
Any safe shooting position is allowed bench prone standing kneeling back of your truck bipod tripod quadpod we don't care bring it.
First focal plane second focal plane iron sights peep sights kentucky windage we don't care.
Square range round range no range free range we don't care.

For those who have friends on typers hide please explain these directions to them.

The Match will be held approximately 3 miles west of the HighGlade lookout above UpperLake California. If you have never been there and want to shoot we do have google coordinates and yes they will get you lost and angry.
Find UpperLake California on your map. We are shooting due north 8 miles up the mountain from there. It is a remote dirt road and nobody gets lost unless they use a GPS navigation system.
It is one dirt road and you drive up it until you see all the shooters.
If you use Google maps and own a D10 caterpillar tractor you might find us eventually but if your 60+ years of age and drive a Prius just take Sam Alley Ridge road to the top of the mountain after shooting your GPS. It will save you alot of frustration and time.
If a Prius can make it monthly and your superduper $350,000 4X4X4X4 is getting its doors ripped off and your 54's are smoking your not on the main road.
I drive a jeep liberty 2 wheel drive up there monthly without issue.

For those without GPS take hwy 101 north until you reach hwy 20 east and make a right. You can't make a left.
Drive 30 minutes and your in UpperLake California. You will know your there when you see the roundabout in the hwy.
Go 1/4 mile and turn left onto Mendenhall road until it ends at Elk Mountain Road.
Take another left on Elk Mountain Road and follow it until you reach Pitney Lane and make a right.
The only road off of Pitney Lane is Sam Alley Ridge road unless you are using a GPS.
Take out your claw hammer at this point and beat your GPS into pulp and your half an hour away.
Use your GPS and search and rescue knows where to find the bodies.
To those experts that rely on GPS a quick look at Google maps shows atleast 6 roads. Those are old fire roads and skid trails and they no longer exist.

[RickyRacer87]

https://goo.gl/maps/TN1QVC6gqShtwvBD9

Follow the instructions from Lynn as the google map may try to take you around to the North and I have never been that direction and am not sure of the road conditions.
But this is where you want to end up for the 2054 match on Saturday.

https://goo.gl/maps/DUktEdrrbfDZoyWe8

[LynnJr]

It won't help but search and rescue need to earn a living.
If you look at the google picture that is Sam alley Ridge Road according to Google.
You won't find anything like that when you actually go up the mountain.
The only useful thing is the final destination point and if you can't see all the vehicles and shooters maybe this isn't the best sport for you.
Our lost shooters all have one thing in common they followed there GPS

[focus]

Best of luck to all 3K shooters. Maybe this satellite view will help someone.


Cheers,

[ELR Researcher]

Best of luck to all 3K shooters. Maybe this satellite view will help someone.

Cheers,

Focus - about time you get back in the game. Get registered for Saturday and join the crew.

[ELR Researcher]

As of 3/30/2021 we have 8 shooters qualified to shoot the event. As Lynn noted, the LAST opportunity to qualify will be the day before the actual 3K, that is, Saturday, April 17. Below are the specifics regarding that LAST qualification opportunity (from the announcement from last November) plus amplifications and clarifications regarding the actual 3K event.

Pre-3K Activities on Saturday, April 17th

Please see below and FAQ 13 for info and Course of Fire/CoF, https://www.unlimitedrange.org/operations.html

The Saturday session will run the same way as a regular NorCal monthly event (again, see FAQ 13), thus mimicking a regular monthly event. Specifically:

Seven (7) rounds “practice” for each shooter, then

Three (3) more rounds “practice” followed immediately by 10 rounds (for each shooter) to qualify to shoot record (qualification round), where the shooter must get at least 3 in 10 during the 10-shot portion to qualify to shoot for record.

Those that qualify to shoot record at 2000 then shoot 10 rounds for record.

Shooters that score at least 4 in 10 during record round will then shoot at 2500, where they will get three (3) “practice” shots at that distance and then, immediately, 10 rounds for record.

The ONLY 3K qualification opportunities on Saturday will be during the initial 10-shot (7+3) practice, the 10-shot qualification, and the 10-shot record round at 2000 and/or 2500. The minimum 5-in-10 3K qualification shots can be during any of these opportunities."

3K Activities on Sunday, April 18th

In regards the actual 3K, April 18, 2021, please recall (plus amplifications and clarifications):
(1) The beginning distance is approximately 2500 yards. [Shooters must earn the opportunity to shoot at and beyond 3000 yards, thus the event “Challenge”.]
(2) There will be NO shooting in advance of the 3K on that day. And there will be NO other opportunity to qualify for the 3K between now and then. IF a shooter fires a shot in advance of their Match Director/MD-announced direction to engage the target, they will be immediately disqualified.
(3) Since we will be starting as if the shooters have just qualified during record round at approximately 2000 yards, each shooter ONLY gets three (3) practice shots at approximately 2500 – actually they can shoot 0-3 practice shots, shooters choice (if a shooter will be shooting less than the full 3 practice shots, shooter MUST verbally advise the MD AND the MD must verbally confirm and announce how many shoots will be taken).
(4) Each shooter then immediately shoots min 4, max 10 shots (shooter’s choice) for record at that distance. IF they get at least 4 hits, they are then “qualified” to shoot the next distance (approximately 3000 yards). Shooters do NOT need to announce they will be shooting less than 10 shots - they can stop at any point, announce they are done shooting, and their record stands as of their last shot.
(5) IF at least two (2) shooters get at least 4 hits at approximately 2500, those shooters will proceed to shoot the next distance (approximately 3000 yards) – repeating the 0-3 practice followed immediately by min 4, max 10 record shots at that distance.
(6) Competition will proceed to further distances as long as at least two shooters have scored at least 4 hits at the shorter distance.
(7) IF less than two shooters get min 4 hits, there will be a sudden death shoot off of the highest scoring “tied score” shooters to determine the match winner and runner-up – even if none of the shooters made a hit at 2500 during record.
(8) If the IRIS hit indicator light does NOT go off (as verified by the MD), the shot is scored as a miss. The MD’s call is FINAL!

REMINDER

3K-qualified shooters and all shooters intending to shoot on Saturday need to get registered. The link is at the top of the Event Schedule page (https://www.unlimitedrange.org/activ...0schedule.html). Thanks.

[ELR Researcher]

Notice to shooters (old and new) - IF you are unsure about getting up hill, and feel you will need to follow someone familiar with the route (caravan up the hill), please e-mail Lynn at Rd-Southwest at unlimitedrange.org

Looking ahead, specifically for Saturday the 17th, IF you are familiar with the route, and would be willing to be the "guide" (caravan lead vehicle), please let Lynn know so you and he can arrange time and place. Please also let me know that time and place and I'll post it on the various forums. Thanks.
Thanks.

[LynnJr]

Found this post on another forum from a complete idiot who doesn't know squat about shooting and naturally he is on typers hide.

PS the worst are the ELR matches that say something like "We had 7 guns on the line today", yet that usually means fewer shooters like 4 people. When people want to know why some of us seem to call the BS flag on a lot of the ELR chest-pounding, this is why. More often than not they are selling something that is not 100% on the level, just to make things seem bigger than they are.

Jim

When anyone posts shooters on the line that's the number of shooters hence the name.

When anyone posts guns on the line that's the number of rifles used hence the name.

At many types of sanctioned matches you can shoot a lightgun in the heavygun class or a lightgun and a heavygun in the unlimited class.

At our matches you can shoot whatever you bring so we post both shooters on the line and rifles on the line.
Its 2021 and I didn't know anyone was still that ignorant but it appears he still is.
So to answer the question sent to me yes you can shoot multiple guns on Saturday but only one on the Sunday 3K.

[ELR Researcher]

All prospective event shooters and spotters (qualified and not-yet-qualified), we need your registrations in. Links at the top of this page - https://www.unlimitedrange.org/activ...0schedule.html Thanks.

[LynnJr]

Shooters
This is two completely separate events so sign up accordingly.
I will bring some sign-ups with me for those who qualify on Saturday as I will be spending the night and won't have access to my printer.

[Mk.32]

Shooters
This is two completely separate events so sign up accordingly.
I will bring some sign-ups with me for those who qualify on Saturday as I will be spending the night and won't have access to my printer.

Can we get to the shooting locations with a regular car? how much of it is dirt?

[LynnJr]

It's 8 miles of dirt and a Prius works

[ELR Researcher]

Last minute heads-up - as was the drill at the 2020 3K, at the end of the Saturday match, there will be no shooting (i.e., the range will be secured and cold) until the start of the 3K on Sunday morning.

[Hoffer]

Who won?

[LynnJr]

Jogger
It's in another post here. You missed a good match.