I am personal friends w/ the President of North State Shooting Club that shoots at Camp Butner, NC National Guard 600/ 1000yd range. The F Class Nationals were held here this year last month. Here is what I am able to set up if anyone has any interest. Around the weekend of April 11-12 We have a 600yd. long range match and a bbq (Eastern NC style- Vinegar based, hush puppies, slaw, beans, etc.) catered in one of the best local places in the area. I could not get a "Savage- Brotherhood of the Barrel Nut" only shoot as every weekend is booked for the year, However, heres what I can work out: Saturday 600yd Match- 3 relays, 22 shots each. 2 sighters and 20 for score in 22 min. 2 individual matches and 1 4 man team match. BBQ after that. If you guys would want to set up pop up outdoor tents and tables ( I have a few 6' tables that I could bring, we could do a swap meet, a meet and greet, and hang out and talk savage and lie about our scores and our shots of the day! I am open for ideas here. This is a pretty laid back club- safety is very strictly enforced- however, prob. about 1/3 of the rifles on a typical match are Savages (with us there it will be like 80%!) and its a real "shoot wha cha brung" type atmosphere. Everyone is happy to have you there learning the sport.
Here is what I am thinking:
- The Match- including the BBQ is $35.00- (It was $35 last year and my friend says it should be close to that this year)
- We could all throw in a little $ and do our own Savage Guys Award and if I got motivated, I could have something made up for us to take home to remember the event by and have the winner, 2nd and 3rd. take home something.
- I have a connection with an inexpensive hotel ( Red Roof Inn- 5 min away from Camp Butner. There are several hotels at that exit off I85 just north of Durham, NC and south of Oxford, NC.) Rooms ends up being $58 w/ taxes or so. We usually get a 2 bed room and split a room, go up the nite b4 (Friday nite) as registration is at 7am Sat. in the pits. I could post that and a room code so the owner gives you the "Savageboy deal".
- If we wanted to do a swap meet, show off our other Savage Builds, buy, sell swap all manner of firearms related items, I have that worked out with NSSC so that we could do that w/ tents and tables.
This is outdoors and there is no shelter other than in the pits from the weather. We can all believe for and pray for great weather- I cannot control that although I can do what I said earlier and do my part w/ who controls the weather.
We can accomodate alot of shooters, so I don't anticipate running out of room. April is a beautiful time of year in NC. The mirage shouldn't be too bad like it is in July / Aug. Butner is a fun range to shoot.
Below is the link to our shooting club. The pic on the home page shows Charles Ballard (Kneeling on the right front- won F class nationals this year) then my shooting buddy Norm (older guy right behind Charles standing w/ his hearing protection still on- lol- he's core man! He got me doing this about 1 year ago and I love it)
So, E-MAIL (don't IM) me if you would be interested in doing this AND with any ideas that you might have to make this a great event. I will plan it and work out all the details with NSSC. I can only ask for stuff with the club, but I am open to suggestions. So this is a feeler to see about how many guys would be interested. If you mail, I could start a mailing list and group e-mail you any details as well as on this thread. My e-mail is:
barto1@ltdkate.comNSSC Shooting Club Website- Calander (2010 will be up soon), directions, F-Class rules, etc:
http://www.northstateshootingclub.com/newindex.htm
