Sat. or weekdays are fine for me.

We could try for anytime after the weather warms up a little more. It was cold last Sun. morning when I went out to shoot my Marlin 17VS.

GonHuntin/tommyn (and any other Okies or interested Contender shooters)



I like the idea of having a Contender/Encore/any pistol shoot in the Spring. I have toyed with the idea of having one at Oil Capital myself but since I have only seen a couple of Contender shooters other than me since I joined in 1976 and I didn't want to have 20 or 30 people show up and have to supply all of the ammo myself.



I have a propsition for both of you to consider and give your input.



I would like to post an invitation in our club news letter about the shoot (if we finalize a date) inviting anyone interested in shooting a hand cannon to show up and have some fun. Both of you are welcome to do the same. If they have a Contender to bring for both them and others to shoot, so much the better. I would suggest that we set a limit for the number of non-Contender owners at what ever we can agree on as a manageable group so that the three of us don't end up supplying ammo for 100 people (I may be a little ambitious in this number but I want to cover all my bases). At least this way we would have some idea of how much ammo was required. If you feel that some fee was required to defray the ammo cost, so be it.



I would request that all requests from owner and non-owners be sent in the form of an Email and non-owners will be accepted on a first come first served basis until we reached the agreed upon on max. There wouldn't be a limit on the number of Contender owners that could come with their pistols as long as they bring some extra ammo for the non-owners.



If the first shoot came off well, we might even consider having a yearly match. I don't have any grand ideas of this thing growing to rival Knob Creek, the Wyandotte shoot, or the quarter milers shoot but even they had to start somewhere.



Give it some thought and let me know what you think. If it sounds interesting, we might meet some Sat. or Sun. morning over Breakfast to talk about it.



Dennis

Dennis



Sounds like fun......might be better to keep it small and focus on getting existing speciality pistol shooters together for the first shoot?? I think we could get at least 8 or 10 SP shooters to show up without any problem......I bet Mike H in Norman would probably come and I'm sure I can think of a few others......



I don't mind sharing my stuff with other shooters, but I'm not overly excited about supplying wildcat ammo for a bunch of folks that just want to try something new.......

Dennis I agree with GonHunting about keeping it small. I think it would great with 8 or 10 to start with. I'm all for it. I think we could get that many together and lets go for it. Maybe at a later time more could take part.

If the date set does not interfer with the two IHMSA matches I attend monthly (or anything else unforseen that may pop up) I may be interested in driving up from Norman and making a fool out of myself.



As bad as I hate to agree with Mark I'm also not overly fond of the idea of supplying a bunch of ammo for non single shot handgun folks.....although bringing along enough ammo for each of us to try each others guns is just fine and I'd actually look forward to trying some different calibers and action types.



If this does materialize is anybody against making it a "Single Shot Speciality Handgun Shoot" as opposed to just TC products ?........ie include the XP's, Strikers, Lone Eagles, Competitors, Dominators, Weatherby CFP's, MOA's, BF's, XL's etc



At what distances will we be able to shoot ? Would the handful of us have the range to ourselves ? What type of targets do you have in mind ?



As far as targets go after I get a load worked up I very rarely shoot for groups on paper except to reverify my zero prior to hunting season. I get a much bigger kick out of practiicing and shooting at clay piegons, old golf balls, steel gongs etc



Just my thoughts.



Ike

I see your points about keeping it small and that sounds great to me, it could easily get out of hand and expensive.



GH belongs to Red Castle and they have a 600 yd. range (I think) that is open year round. I am a member at Oil Capital and our max range is 200. I think at one time Red Castle had steel sillywets and I have a spinner with 4 targets on it my brother made me out of some falf inch plate I found. Too bad we can't set some targets that go off with a big kaboom when hit like they shot at the Wyandotte match.



Since this is an informal get together, I see no reason to limit it to any specific brand of pistol (except maybe a cut down 50 BMG)



Be thinking about a date to shoot for and we'll talk



Dennis

Single shot specialty's shoot sounds great to me.

A non-okie here.
Will this be a Saturday shoot for sure?
OKC or TULSA area? Either is about a 4 hour drive. If you don't mind an out-of-state shooter I may be able to come and play.

Sat would be better for me and the more specialty shooters the better. Would love to meet you all and shoot.

It's a saturday (or weekday) only proposition for me....Ernie, you are always welcome! Red Castle normally has both handgun silhouettes and rifle silhouettes available every day, and, the 600 yard range is open except on special occasions. My only concern is that there might be too many that want to attend and, although I don't know of any rules regulating the number, I don't want to get chewed out for having too many guests at one time! However, there may be other Red Castle members that would attend which would help the guest to member ratio.

The 600 yard and 500 meter rifle silhouette range does not have shooting benches, so you would need to bring your own portable bench/table. I'd vote that this should be open to any specialty handgun......I want to see stuff that I don't have and I'm dying to shoot Ernie's XPs!

I should receive the club calendar in the next month, so we could plan around cub activities and conflicts if we decide to shoot at Red Castle.......what general time frame works for you guys???

I think a shoot like this would be great and it would be a hoot to meet all of you that I visit with on here. Pick a day and time and I will try my best to be there. I have several that wuld be available to shot.
Ike, if it was at TCGC, I would try to help in any way I could.
Mark, I'm srue liking the XP in 7BR and the 309JDJ.
Just let me know if you guys decide to do this.

Mike H

Mike I made a post prior to yours about the possibility of holding the get together at Tri-City Gun Club in Norman but it apparently got lost in cyber space when the forum format changed......here it is again.

Being a match dir. and involved in some of the other day to day functions of the club I may (??) be able to get TCGC for the shoot.......but.

#1. TCGC charges us match dir.'s (I run the IHMSA silhouette matches) a fee for shutting down the range for the general membership and holding our matches. I'd have to charge $10.00 per shooter (not per family or car load) and have a minimum of ten shooters. If we did not have ten shooters show up the ones that did show would have to pass the hat to come up with the $100.00.

#2. For our 1st annual "Single Shot Handgun Shoot" we'd have to make it available to anyone that showed up but I'd make it very plain in the club news letter that the shoot was for scoped or iron sighted single shot handguns only....no semi autos or double action revolvers.

The range is 200yds so if everyone is wanting to shoot at longer distances TCGC wouldn't work.

The firing line is completely covered and has probably twenty concrete mounted, very solid wooden shooting benches and numerous moveable target stands for hanging paper targets on down range plus steel gongs at 100-150 and 200yds.

His and hers maintained outhouses are available and there is a Love's and Burger King within a five minute drive from the range......the range has no potable drinking water.

Ponder on it and if I get ten "firm" shooters I'll approach the club about possibly getting a Saturday reserved......no guarantees but I will try.

Ike