Forum woodswalk at Friendship.

Time to start planning our forum woodswalk for the sping shoot at Friendship!

Possible dates are Saturday, June 11 or Sunday June 12. Last fall we did an afternoon stroll on Sunday that worked fine for most, but made for a late night for folks who needed to get back home Sunday night.

For those who have not attended before, a group of us from the muzzleloader forum gather at the woodswalk check in station and do the woodswalk together. In addition to the normal match, we also compete for a "traveling plate" where the winner of the match takes the plate until the next match and engraves their name in it for posterity sake.

Drop a message here if you are interested in joining us and give a preferred time.

I will start things off by offering a noon start on Sunday, June 12.

Barry

Barry,
Thanks for getting this started. :hatsoff:
I'm not arriving until Saturday morning the 11th and would prefer to take the balance of that day to set up my camp, get my feet on the ground and generally "settle in" before shooting.
Sunday will work best for me, as I'll be there well into the next week.
That said, I recognize that others may need to have our Woodswalk on Saturday. If that is the plan..perhaps making it a little later in the day would be an option ..??

I will not make it to the Spring shoot this year .My wife is having rotator cuff surgery on May 11. I hope to get back up there for the Fall shoot this year

Sunday at noon would be good, I'd really like to make it this year.

Smo, Good luck to your wife with that surgery! Had the same surgery feb. 26 and can't lift 2 lbs yet. I'm hopping, but don't know if I can make it in the spring. Good Luck to all

Thanks John I hope you and her both make a full recovery and soon :hatsoff:

If I can make it, this would be my first woods walk. What are the rules? Is it ok to use an aperture sight, cause that's all I have right now.

Each of us shoot in whatever category matches our equipment for the general match. For our own "grudge match" we just go by highest score regardless of equipment. Easy!

Looking forward to meeting you!

Barry

@Boomerang: You would shoot Match 711, Men's match, any metallic sight, flint or percussion.

For more info what matches you can shoot: http://rsengineering.de/nmlra/index.htm

@Barry: Sunday noon sounds good to me.

Thanks guys. Looking forward to it.

Barry, I can't make the June shoot, but should make the September. Have fun and make lots of smoke.
Leon

any more interest in this?

Barry

Hello. I plan to be there. Sunday would be best for me.

Barry,
I should bring Jake and Steve with me again.
The young snapper needs to try to defend his title )

Since this would be my first one, how exactly does a woods walk work? How many and what kind of targets? What is the average shooting distance? Are they all standing off-hand shots or is there different positions? Sorry for all the questions, but this is new to me.

There are usually around 18 targets at perhaps 14 different stations (some stations have two or three targets). All shots are off-hand. Targets ranges are from 7-50 yards. The close ones are novelties like splitting playing cards in half edgewise, blowing up supsended charcoal briquets.

We do the match as a group so there will be plenty of people there to give you good advice.

It is also good to bring a fairly thick skin as some members here have been known to trash talk :blah:

Barry

Boomerang,
As Barry pointed out, the targets are unique, placed at various un-marked ranges in the woods along the trail. NO paper bullseye targets..!!
You might find it best to have your rifle dialed in with a flat shooting load, sights regulated to use a "center-hold" on whatever kind of target is presented.
Our bunch is a friendly, helpful crowd. Try to bring along everything you might need to deal with any "issues" that might arrive in the woods, but if you don't have an item or accessory...there's a good chance someone else will. This is not a timed event. There's NO rush, and only the pressure is what you put on yourself. This is a fun time, and an opportunity to meet other folks from the forum. Whatever muzzleloader you choose to bring is welcome. There are no distinctions or separate classes. SOME of us...like myself, prefer a slender 40 caliber precision instrument :thumbsup: , while others feel the necessity to drag along a virtual Napolean smoothbore field piece. :shocked2: :shake:
That said...it is fun to see those Big Bores really SMACK the long gongs when used by someone who knows how..!! :bow:

Any idea on how bad the traffic will be Sunday morning? We have to register (I think?), can you register on the primitive side or only over by the firing line?

I plan on driving down Sunday morning, the last time I arrived on a Sunday morning RT63 was like a parking lot, at least till I passed the flea market. I'm hoping 9am is early enough to aviod the jam.

Bad.

I doubt that 0900 is early enough to avoid the weekend flea market traffic.