2025 NRL Hunter

[ChrisAU]

Who's ready for Carbon Hill this weekend? I'm so excited that the ultra high humidity will help keep the oppressive heat from catching me on fire. Projected to feel like 100*, but only 99* in the shade, so that's nice.

 

[9.3koolaid]

For those of you going/have been to Alaska, how bad is the bug and mosquito problem? Is it necessary to spray clothes down with permethrin prior to making trip?

Head net is a great back up if it's really bad. I think it's kind of a tolerance thing. I get the 100% deet and spray shirt sleeves, hat, and the backs of my hands. Have to be careful with any rubber or plastic, but that stuff works great.

 

[mj23polaris]

Just looked up the results from the Cody match, looks like @Carl Ross got 2nd in factory, congrats!

What would you guys say were the biggest reason for dropped shots at that match? I feel like i'd struggle with wind calls in terrain like that. Big difference from flat Midwest ranges.

I came in 20th with 2 stages being 1’s

My problem was don’t be dumb look in the right direction of the targets. I for some reason on the elk stage was not looking the right direction and wasted almost all my time doing that.

And build more a more stable position. The foxes stage I had this bounce in my tripod and they were narrow targets. Plus we had some what seemed up draft or miss ranged targets. Bc a bunch of us had issues on RO day with the foxes.

Wind was there but it wasn’t why I was missing shots. Then on my stage both days people where missing from shitty position building not wind calls.

And learning to build positions really comes with experience.


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[T_Widdy]

Just looked up the results from the Cody match, looks like @Carl Ross got 2nd in factory, congrats!

What would you guys say were the biggest reason for dropped shots at that match? I feel like i'd struggle with wind calls in terrain like that. Big difference from flat Midwest ranges.

Diamonds suck at angles, your elevation and ranging had to be pretty spot on, some hard to find targets, and some pretty tough shooting positions “trees and rocks”. The wind was pretty mild, a few tricky gusts but we got lucky with that! It was definitely an awesome shooting venue and match.

 

[ruger35]

Head net is a great back up if it's really bad. I think it's kind of a tolerance thing. I get the 100% deet and spray shirt sleeves, hat, and the backs of my hands. Have to be careful with any rubber or plastic, but that stuff works great.

Thanks, I think that is what we are going to go with. All I have left to treat with permethrin is my shirts for the competition, then once we land in Anchorage grab some deet from somewhere and pray for the best.

 

[Ramem7mm]

for those that have shot on RO days versus normal two day course of fire is there any likes or dislikes or feel you do better in the different environment? I wouldn't imagine there is an advantage in either situation really but more of a headspace or concentration differential. I have contemplated signing up for an RO but shooting on RO day seems like it would be fast paced and probably a little mentally exhausted by end of day.

 

[mj23polaris]

for those that have shot on RO days versus normal two day course of fire is there any likes or dislikes or feel you do better in the different environment? I wouldn't imagine there is an advantage in either situation really but more of a headspace or concentration differential. I have contemplated signing up for an RO but shooting on RO day seems like it would be fast paced and probably a little mentally exhausted by end of day.

It can be fast paced or it can be slow. Just like a match some matches your standing around for 1.5hrs on a stage others like this weekend we were pushing guys through so fast. Fastest paced one I’ve been at out of the 8 I’ve shot.

RO day vs splitting it up over 2 days, for me it doesn’t matter. I’ll get in the mindset either way. It helps shooting around cool people, I was lucky Friday I was with a few good shooters and we had fun talking smack while keeping egos aside and rooting for each other.

Both ways have there pros and cons, weather conditions can go both ways. ROs shoot in shit wind while the rest of the match is calm and vice versa.

I think everyone should RO once or twice to see how people do things and to see that side of things. It’ll make you better shooter overall and you can relate and understand match logistics.


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[id_jon]

I much prefer shooting the whole match in 1 day. make sure all your gear is in order though, if something is amiss it might be harder to catch with the faster pace. I was able to shoot on Thursday in Price, that's even cooler cause there was only 5 of us. We were done shooting by 230 And Friday shooters were done by 3.

 

[Ramem7mm]

10-4. thanks for the input. next season I will try and do one. I would like to RO just to see how everyone else shoots and get ideas for what to do and what not to do.

 

[parshal]

You will learn a bunch by watching others when RO'ing. It's a great learning tool.

 

[Carl Ross]

Just looked up the results from the Cody match, looks like @Carl Ross got 2nd in factory, congrats!

What would you guys say were the biggest reason for dropped shots at that match? I feel like i'd struggle with wind calls in terrain like that. Big difference from flat Midwest ranges.

Thanks! I didn’t feel like I shot well enough to podium this time, but turns out the course got a lot of people, with a few notable exceptions.

Wind COULD be a big factor at this venue but it just wasn’t this past weekend. I held for an 8 mph once, but the vast majority of the time I used a correction of 0-3 mph.

I would say the positions cost people the most points, followed by not finding targets OR not re-finding targets. Your landmarking game needed to be on point. Both resulted in a lot of timing out.

Personally, I approached two stages with the wrong strategy regarding how I built a position, and I had a .2 mil shift that took me a couple stages to embrace but cost me plenty first.

The venue is phenomenal.

 

[11Justin22]

Who's ready for Carbon Hill this weekend? I'm so excited that the ultra high humidity will help keep the oppressive heat from catching me on fire. Projected to feel like 100*, but only 99* in the shade, so that's nice.

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I’ll be there….. and not looking forward to the heat

 

[wpeach1912]

Just looked up the results from the Cody match, looks like @Carl Ross got 2nd in factory, congrats!

What would you guys say were the biggest reason for dropped shots at that match? I feel like i'd struggle with wind calls in terrain like that. Big difference from flat Midwest ranges.

The wind wasn’t too bad and the targets were all reasonable sizes. I would say the finding of some then the positions were the challenge

 

[wpeach1912]

for those that have shot on RO days versus normal two day course of fire is there any likes or dislikes or feel you do better in the different environment? I wouldn't imagine there is an advantage in either situation really but more of a headspace or concentration differential. I have contemplated signing up for an RO but shooting on RO day seems like it would be fast paced and probably a little mentally exhausted by end of day.

I prefer the shooting on RO day to stay in the zone and usually not have long breaks. This is highly match dependent though. Like the Blue Mountain Hunter match the ROs were shooting until like 7pm whereas the Idaho match we were done at like 3

 

[Ramem7mm]

I prefer the shooting on RO day to stay in the zone and usually not have long breaks. This is highly match dependent though. Like the Blue Mountain Hunter match the ROs were shooting until like 7pm whereas the Idaho match we were done at like 3

Thanks for the response. I would want to do it to keep a decent pace as well and keep my head in it but like you said it match dependent and tough to tell how it would go. Sort of a gamble

 

[Juan_ID]

What would you guys say were the biggest reason for dropped shots at that match? I feel like i'd struggle with wind calls in terrain like that. Big difference from flat Midwest ranges.

Like has already been stated wind wasn’t bad at that match at all. Only held off plate I think on one stage and doing so cost me at least 1 point. But for me the tripod positions cost me the most. I tried making crappy positions work for too long, I found every target but of the 17 dropped points I timed out at least half of them. I’d say if I was a “clipped in” tripod shooter I feel I’d have been much better off on time and ultimately dropped less points. Looking fwd to hopefully going back next year. Was my first time at that match and I feel once you’ve shot a venue you have a much better understanding of what to expect the next time.

I need to practice shooting clipped in more, tried it at a 1 day match and absolutely hated it but this last match it was evident. I need to try and add that trick to my bag…

 

[Justin Crossley]

Like has already been stated wind wasn’t bad at that match at all. Only held off plate I think on one stage and doing so cost me at least 1 point. But for me the tripod positions cost me the most. I tried making crappy positions work for too long, I found every target but of the 17 dropped points I timed out at least half of them. I’d say if I was a “clipped in” tripod shooter I feel I’d have been much better off on time and ultimately dropped less points. Looking fwd to hopefully going back next year. Was my first time at that match and I feel once you’ve shot a venue you have a much better understanding of what to expect the next time.

I need to practice shooting clipped in more, tried it at a 1 day match and absolutely hated it but this last match it was evident. I need to try and add that trick to my bag…

You did awesome man!

I made every rookie mistake in the book and just couldn't get myself going. Not sure why I haven't been focused the last couple of matches but it's been really bad.

 

[Carl Ross]

Like has already been stated wind wasn’t bad at that match at all. Only held off plate I think on one stage and doing so cost me at least 1 point. But for me the tripod positions cost me the most. I tried making crappy positions work for too long, I found every target but of the 17 dropped points I timed out at least half of them. I’d say if I was a “clipped in” tripod shooter I feel I’d have been much better off on time and ultimately dropped less points. Looking fwd to hopefully going back next year. Was my first time at that match and I feel once you’ve shot a venue you have a much better understanding of what to expect the next time.

I need to practice shooting clipped in more, tried it at a 1 day match and absolutely hated it but this last match it was evident. I need to try and add that trick to my bag…

Good shooting Juan, and I always appreciate having experienced shooters RO. It was a pretty tripod heavy match in my opinion. My positional mistakes boil down to being too slow to go to my tripod. The Seekins I used isn’t an NRL version, so I don’t have a full length rail on it, which doesn’t increase options in the tripod game.

 

[9.3koolaid]

For the Alaska match, they're alluding to needing to know the hunting regs. I've never shot an NRL match before. How do they usually integrate hunting regs into target selection? Or is this a novel thing?

 

[wpeach1912]

For the Alaska match, they're alluding to needing to know the hunting regs. I've never shot an NRL match before. How do they usually integrate hunting regs into target selection? Or is this a novel thing?

I think they may mean the NRL Rules which are available on the NRL Hunter website