New Bedford 2011 Schedule: USPSA, IDPA & Steel Challenge

[MAShooter]

The Rod & Gun Club of New Bedford announces their 2011 Action Shooting schedule.

2011 IDPA Mass State Championship will be held on June 4 & 5, 2011.

Trying something new this year for IDPA by shifting our dates for IDPA matches to be the 1st Saturday of the month. Matches run from April through October. The October match will be a Backup Gun (BUG) match.

USPSA will stay on the 4th Sunday of the month. Matches run from April through November. The April match will actually be on Saturday (to avoid Easter). October will be a Shotgun match and November will be a Rifle match.

Steel Challenge has three dates planned.

Full schedule can be found here: www.rodgun-nb.org/ap/schedules/Schedule_2011.pdf

IDPA 2011 Dates (1st Saturdays):
April 2 (Classifier)
May 7
June 4 & 5 (State Championship)
July 2
August 6
September 3
October 1 (BUG)

USPSA 2011 Dates (4th Sundays):
April 23 (Saturday)
May 22
June 26
July 24
August 28
September 25
October 23 (Shotgun)
November 27 (Rifle)

Steel Challenge 2011 Dates:
July 31 (cancelled due to scheduling conflict)
October 30
December 11

Note: Schedule subject to change. Always check the club's website for the most up-to-date schedule.

Registration starts at 9:00am, shooting starts at 9:30am. The IDPA Mass State Championship requires pre-registration.

Regular monthly matches are typically 5 stages.

New shooters always welcome. Eye & ear protection required by everyone on the range (competitors and spectators).

For more details, please visit the club's website at: www.rodgun-nb.org

 

[Supermoto]

Any chance of a shotgun / rifle match at the start of the year?

 

[Lugnut]

Already looking forward to the NB matches in 2011. I can't wait!

 

[WeedWhacker]

I can't wait!

Are we there yet!!!

 

[BradM]

Can't wait!

 

[FhvnLT4A]

UGG .............. I HAVE NATIONAL GUARDS THE FIRST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH!!!!!!

Im SCREWED ( Theres no way Uncle sam is letting me out of six saturday drills.

 

[jshooter]

Bummer that IDPA is Saturdays, ohh well looks like more USPSA. Looking forward to it already.

 

[38supermatt]

Any chance of a shotgun / rifle match at the start of the year?

that would be fun!

Dave- just a suggestion, why don't you flip the rifle and shotgun months? Doesn't the shotgun match have a lower turnout than rifle? If so, you'd have a lot less time outside in the much colder month if you have the bigger match when it's warmer out.

 

[Chuck Z]

that would be fun!

Dave- just a suggestion, why don't you flip the rifle and shotgun months? Doesn't the shotgun match have a lower turnout than rifle? If so, you'd have a lot less time outside in the much colder month if you have the bigger match when it's warmer out.

We were thinking it would be easier on the shooters to reload the shotguns during the warmer month.

 

[scottb]

We were thinking it would be easier on the shooters to reload the shotguns during the warmer month.

... since the majority of the competitors won't be using mag fed shotguns.

We're also going to address the rifle match length issue next year.

 

[Supermoto]

... since the majority of the competitors won't be using mag fed shotguns.

We're also going to address the rifle match length issue next year.

Do you mean how long the match took or how far we shot?

What about a march long gun match?

 

[38supermatt]

It's not any harder to reload a shotgun in the winter! I shoot shotguns all year round it's no different. Besides, if you're always reloading those tubes, your hands are moving more, so they'll warm up.

And Scott, there wasn't anything wrong with the length of time the rifle match took. You have that many people, and that high a round count, not much you can do about it.
It's not like you had foolish stages with all sorts of resetting targets that would malfunction and you'd need to reshoot the stages all day. It was just big attendance. Everything went along pretty quick all things considered, I'd say. You guys did a really good job with it.

 

[scottb]

You gonna shoot an OU at next years match?

Re: rifle match - Our squad finished at about 3 and we finished well before most, and the last group about 45 minutes later. We'd like to get the sqauds to finish around the same time like the pistol matches.

 

[Supermoto]

You gonna shoot an OU at next years match?

Re: rifle match - Our sqaud finished at about 3 and we finished well before most, and the last group about 45 minutes later. We'd like to get the sqauds to finish around the same time like the pistol matches.

They can't all shoot as fast as us.

 

[Iram]

Does one need to be a member of the Rod & Gun Club of New Bedford to participate in these events?

 

[MAShooter]

Scheduled matches are open to the public (ie, do not need to be a member of the Rod & Gun Club of New Bedford). However, IDPA does require IDPA membership in order to participate in IDPA matches (you are allowed to shoot one IDPA match as a non-IDPA member, after that you need to join IDPA to participate in IDPA matches).

 

[MAShooter]

Please note that our July 31 Steel Challenge match has been cancelled due to a scheduling conflict. Original post updated.

 

[MAShooter]

Just a reminder that our July 31 Steel Challenge match has been cancelled. See you at the John Kelly match.

 

[meth0d]

Got an estimate of the round count for November's rifle match? (Or is it still too far out? )

 

[MAShooter]

Last year's match had a minimum of 186 rounds. While we haven't started stage design yet, I don't think this year will be quite as much as last year but something in the 150+/- range is likely.

 

[meth0d]

Last year's match had a minimum of 186 rounds. While we haven't started stage design yet, I don't think this year will be quite as much as last year but something in the 150+/- range is likely.

Sounds good, I'll plan on bringing 200 to be on the safe side.

 

[ChevyGuy91]

Sounds good, I'll plan on bringing 200 to be on the safe side.

I brought 200 with me last year and had some left over.

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[Dan S]

I brought 200 with me last year and had some left over.

Are you going to show up this year? Or will you be out to sea?

 

[ChevyGuy91]

Are you going to show up this year? Or will you be out to sea?

It has been a rough season for me for sure, as of now I am planning on going.

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[MrMollusk]

Do they ever have introductory clinics or should I just show up at a match and putter around?

 

[meth0d]

Do they ever have introductory clinics or should I just show up at a match and putter around?

If you have safe gun handling skills, you should just go to a match and shoot. Let them know during registration that it's your first Steel Challenge match and they'll squad you with a good group of people that can show you the ropes and answer any questions you might have. That's what I did sunday and ended up winning.