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Elm Fork Tuesday Night Classes
New Registration Process
Tiger
Valley's Tuesday night classes at Elm Fork will resume on January 12th
with Tactical Carbine & Pistol. Develop and fine-tune your
skills in employing both weapons in dynamic and violent situations.
Bring your carbine, sling, pistol, holster, and safety gear. Ammunition count is 125 carbine and 75 pistol. The
cost is $65 and the event runs at Elm Fork from 6:30 PM until 9 PM.
Please notify us via email or phone if you are planning to attend.
Students
interested in attending this class are requested to contact Tiger Valley
by phone at 972-977-9512 or email at tjpilling@tigervalley.com.
Please provide your name, phone number and email address.
You can register up to and including the day of the class.
This
process will enable us to properly staff these events as well as
provide notification if weather causes us to cancel a particular class.
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January Team Sniper Open for Registration
Tiger
Valley's January 2010 Team Sniper match is available for registration. Details on the match can be found here.
These matches sell out and space is limited. Registration is done on a first come, first served basis.
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Tiger
Valley now has over one hundred pictures from September's Team Sniper
Match available online. Pictures are courtesy of Brandon
Parscale, from Parscale Photography. Check them out here.
Those interested in the event poster can view and purchase the poster here.
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Free Christmas Long Range Clinic
Tiger
Valley is offering a free long range clinic at our Waco facility on December 12th.
Gain valuable experience in engaging long range stationary and moving
targets from 100 to 1000 yards. Individuals with no precision
rifle experience are encouraged to attend this clinic.
Bring your rifle, 100 rounds of ammunition, notebook, and safety
gear. Please bring a rifle capable of shooting these
distances. Rifles must have magnified optics with external
turrets. The event begins promptly at 8 AM. Burgers and hot
dogs will follow the day's shooting.
Space is limited and students are accepted on a first-registered,
first-accepted basis. Registration opens on November 24th to
those who have not attended a Tiger Valley event in the past.
Registration by past Tiger Valley students opens December 1st.
Register by emailing your name, phone number, rifle and make/model of
your optic to tjpilling@tigervalley.com.
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Pistol Accuracy Standards with Rifle Shooting
-by T.J. Pilling
The
rifle seems to have eclipsed the handgun in most in most CQB
discussions. Comments exist like “I only use my pistol to fight
my way to my rifle”, as Clint Smith stated so many times. Don’t
get me wrong, the terminal ballistic between rifle and handgun
shouldn’t even be discussed on the same page as they don’t compare in
the least.
The rifle is far superior to the pistol in its ability to transfer
energy and wins hands down, and that’s not an issue with me. What
I have issue with is when you watch shooters functioning with rifle in
drills at distances that you would normally consider handgun, and group
sizes seem to be the same. You are now shooting a weapon with
mounting points, longer sight radius, everything that equates to
accurate shots but the groups look like that of a pistol. How can
this be with such superior equipment?
A recent class was asked where they were zeroed. Hand went up for
the fifty yard and some for the one hundred yard zero. I then
asked both groups where their impacts would change for both zeros at
the different distances. This is when I turned into the pink
elephant that no one wanted to look at as no one really knew.
The first thing we did with this group as with others is to check
zeros. When we went to the line to accomplish this, some shooters
were off as much as 18 inches. These are the same shooters that
just told you they were zeroed. When you question them as to how
they could be off, they usually tell you that they just checked zero at
25 yards and “it was close”. In here lies the problem; close
doesn’t work at distance for accuracy.
We have replaced the handgun with the rifle and accepted accuracy
standards with the rifle that we would normally accept with the
pistol. Those shots that are 3 inches to the left at 25 yards are
12 inches left at 100, and yes, are a misses when shooting at the
head. When you watch them zero you are lucky to get them to take
a knee, much less go to the prone position. What most don’t seem
to realize is that you compound the amount you miss times the distance
to the target. If you are off 3 inches at 25 yards and you are
about to shoot the same weapon at 300 yards, you have to ask how many
25 yards are there in 300 yards and the answer is 12. If you take
that twelve and multiply it times three inches you are off that gives
you a whopping 36 inches at target, or a big fat miss.
I’m sure Davy Crockett, Daniel Boon and Sgt. York are all turning flips
in their graves with this type of shooting. What we have lost in
this type of weapon usage is all the advantages that the long gun gives
him/her in the first place, a weapon that has superior ballistics and
accuracy. It might be great at 25 yards but if you can’t hit a
target at 100 or beyond you are only hitting on half the cylinder of
that motor.
It seem that when some shooters slap their high speed dot scopes or
ACOGs on they never bothered to read the instructions as to how to zero
the sights. However they managed to get on paper, it doesn’t seem to
carry over on the 100-yard line. You walk down range take a look
at the target and tell them they need to go 9 minutes down and 4
right. Then you watch as they gingerly take a quarter turn on the
turrets and slap the covers on. Then it’s back to the 100-yard
line to watch the impact change one minute. Either they don’t
have a grasp of what subtended minute of angle changes mean in the
scope or they weren’t confident that the group they just shot was the
Indian and not the bow. When you put that high-end sight on your
weapon you need to know and understand what the movement in the turrets
mean and how that impacts the strike change on the target. Bottom
line is that it is just basic math that a third grader could apply. If you
don’t have that grasp you will be taking many jogs down range to look
at your strike change
How did we get to this point? I think it’s the constant emphasis
on the CQB mentality and maybe a lack of adequate ranges to apply
marksmanship skills. Lying prone at 100 yards and then walking to
your target isn’t nearly as easy or glitzy as banging away at 10 or 15
yards, especially if all you are looking for is handgun accuracy.
My feeling is that if the weapon is capable of 400 yards then so should the
shooter.
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