Winter Wars IV!!!

Find your mittens… The Winter Wars Matches are back by popular demand! Our High Power rifle romp in the snow at the ISRA Range at Bonfield, IL. kicks off at 9:00 AM on Saturday, January 19, 2008. (Please note the date change!!) “Not a fiercely contested event for finely tuned match rifles, this is an opportunity for the milsurp rifle enthusiast to shake off cabin fever and get back in touch with some of his favorite relic battle rifles, for a little fun and a little frost-bite!” There will be many door prizes – not score prizes – and YOU will probably receive one, if you will brave the cold!

Winter Wars IV will sport a new course of fire and new battles:

Course of fire: Each of the three matches will begin with a five minute sighting-in period during which each individual shot will be marked to help you get your sights or sight picture adjusted. Following the sighting period there will be two stages for record: A five minute period to fire ten shots from prone, and a seventy second period to fire ten shots from the sitting or kneeling position. All firing will be at 200 yards on the military “sitting dog” silhouette target. Scoring will be hit-or-miss, no point scores, but there will be a “heart” drawn on the target to serve as a tie-breaker in the manner of the “X” ring on a conventional target. Each relay will fire this course three times, completing three consecutive matches or “battles”

Choice of Battles: Also new this year is the competitor’s choice of battles. We will have several battles described – or you may request to add a historical battle to the list to suit the rifle(s) you wish to use. You may shoot your choice of battles in any order by simply designating your battle on each scorecard. Although unintended, this opens the door to firing battles “re-entry” style – shooting the same battle more than once in the hopes of bettering your own score.

Any safe rifle can participate in any of the matches, but only scores fired with rifles appropriate to designated battles will be considered for match winners. If you are concerned as to whether your rifle qualifies to win one of the battles, or whether it is a “safe rifle”, you may inquire of the contact below.

To keep the competitors from shivering their way to thirty misses, there will be hot beverages and hot chili between matches and a blazing fire. Since it is, of course, the DEAD OF WINTER, we reserve the right to reduce the number of matches if the weather threatens the well-being of the competitors.

Come on out! Firing your old mil-surp rifles in January is not going to put you off your game for Camp Perry in August, and it’s a great opportunity to escape from indoor smallbore and show what real high power shooting is all about – misery! Fun misery! See you there.

For more information, contact Claude Heale c/o Precise (815) 553-0591.

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The entry fee is $25 for the entire event of three matches. Timely entries must be postmarked by 1/12/08. Late entry fee is $5. Entries will be taken the day of the event, to the extent of capacity.

Mail entry to: ISRA P.O. Box 637 Chatsworth, IL 60921

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