We were stocked up before hand.
As Dakota stated seen the shit coming and stocked up, as even now looking for componets on a regular basis to add to the supply, If things do not change and soon it will only get worse. For instance made a phone call yesterday about rifle powder, guy told me he had one lb. left of what I was looking for went and got it, he told me that 15 lbs had arrived two days ago and this was the last lb. left and did not know when the next shipment would show up. Also the price went way up.
Additional honesty… Gun dorks (other than myself, of course lol), range rats, and wannabe Rambos at best annoy me, and at worst, frighten me.
my sentiments exactly.
Agreed. What most hunters are doing is not training though. Shooting your rifle at the bench or prone is not training, and that’s what most guys, including myself up until a few years ago, do.
I agree wholeheartedly in concept, but I think you nailed it with the "may be regionally specific". If you have a range within a reasonable drive where you can practice and shoot a local match without investing multiple days of time, it is a totally different animal compared to a location where there is literally no accessible place to shoot at longer ranges within a several-hour+ drive, often much longer. In my experience most of the eastern seaboard simply doesnt have accessible ranges that are even close to long-enough for practicing for this type of match, which means there ARE no local club matches, and that both practicing and shooting any match takes exponentially more time and costs exponentially more. Literally, outside of one military facility that isnt open to the public, if I want to even true my dope I have NOWHERE to legally shoot more than 300yds within a 4+ hour drive, and even then that facility isnt open most of the time, isnt accessible in winter, and isnt accepting new members. That means I'm pretty much always showing up to a match without having had the opportunity to even check my data, which can get frustrating when you are paying to check data on the clock and dont get to re-shoot. There are a few private ranges I can get on occasionally, but they still require a long drive plus a lot of coordinating with other people and being at the whim of their schedules. I can practice locally with a 22 which is great in some ways but also doesnt help in others (anything in relation to recoil management, etc). I'm not sure this is something the match "industry" can change except in the very long term, but accessibility to any range that is sufficient for the most basic longer-range shooting is definitely a primary limiting factor that prevents a great many people in my neck of the woods from taking part, and manifests across cost, time, etc.
I understand where you are coming from. Today I am conveniently located to matches and places to shoot at distance, but before I moved it was a 3 hour drive to get beyond 100 yards or to a centerfire match.
