I Heed Help With a Shoot...

[Mebits]

OK, who knows what is needed to do a shoot?

I've got a great locale, a really great guy who wants to cater to airgunners if we'll buy some nosh, maybe some air and/or CO2. That works for me. I think he'd like to make it a regular deal and he's totally interested in the sport.

But I have no idea what is needed and I'm really hoping there's somebody who'd like to partner up with me and help set up a shoot here. Locale is a couple miles away from NKyU.

So anybody have guidance?

Anybody near Cincinnati have interest in helping?

M

[daveb50]

I do not have any knowledge of setting up a shoot, but I would be interested in helping out though.

[Mebits]

Great Dave. As soon as I get a bit more, we'll try to firm it up. I just noted my "host" with some ideas and he had a great one, himself.

I'm *THINKING* (from my place of relative ignorance), that a "modified" Hunters Field Target fun shoot would be the way to go. I am, however, open to other inputs.

Mark

[Bullit]

Is this the place decided on from the Indiana Shoot Posts earlier? Or another Shoot you're setting up?

[Mebits]

Is this the place decided on from the Indiana Shoot Posts earlier? Or another Shoot you're setting up?

Same place. I'm thinking a Tri-state shoot. One experiment at a time!

M

[Random Plinker]

I'm guessing first step is locking down date (avoid other holidays), location and ground rules (field target?  other match formats?) for folks to coalesce on ~2 months in advance, then communicate away.  Everyone loves to shoot and shoot the breeze.  Next step is beg for the volunteers to help you set up early!  It's kind of a &^^& shoot, but I don't think you can try to plan around individual schedules.  Lock it down and see what happens.

There are state specific GTA gates - maybe post in all those bordering Cinci with a date set 2 or 3 months hence and your contact information to get the location?  Parallel posts on other forums too might be a good idea.  Takes a wide net to get the word out on a specialized activity in a specialized hobby.

[daveb50]

I found this site about making your own field targets, I'll make one or two to try out. If they work out OK, they should be fairly cheap to produce.  I have a little bit of wood laying around. I also found a couple youtube videos for making paper target holders out of PVC pipe and wire.
http://aafta.org/html/education/education_equipment_targets_build.html


Dave

[Mebits]

Very cool.

I found this one, which is probably a bit ambitious.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/thread/1279242698/Bell+Target+Project

I do have a couple wire sign frames that I found in the basement yesterday, and those are a very logical target holder in a pinch.

Mark