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BR News => Club Events => Topic started by: rpollock on March 20, 2022, 09:24:24 PM

Title: BR101 Clinic at Rosebud Range May 14, 2022
Post by: rpollock on March 20, 2022, 09:24:24 PM
The Rosebud Silhouette & Benchrest Club is pleased to announce it will hold a Benchrest 101 Clinic on May 14, 2022 at the club. This is our first chance to resume these clinics after having to cancel the 2020 and 2021 clinics, and are we ever glad to be back and offering this clinic.

This clinic provides an introduction to competitive Benchrest shooting. The focus will be on short range (100-200 yd) group shooting using center fire BR rifles.

This clinic will appeal to the accuracy enthusiast who is serious about entering the world of competitive BR shooting. The Clinic will provide the first step of many steps in learning to shoot BR at a regional, national and international level. The clinic is available to shooters who have not taken the clinic in previous years. You do not have to be a Rosebud member to attend.

The Clinic takes the better part of a full day, so you will need to plan accordingly. We will start at around 9:00 AM with part of the morning taken up in the clubhouse discussing the basics of Benchrest shooting, such as suitable cartridges, rifles, reloading, the match format, among many other topics. We will also use the morning to set up wind flags and bench rest equipment such as front rest and rear bags.

There will be a 30 minute lunch break and then in the afternoon there will be informal shooting instruction on the rifle range. Students will shoot using state of the art BR rifles and rests, wind flags, and all other associated equipment. This will also be a good time to see what cartridge reloading at the range is all about, and to see what how to keep clean a rifle bore to BR standards.

For this Clinic the coaches will supply the rifles and ammo, along with all the other equipment necessary to shoot a match. A coach will be assigned to each student. There is no need to bring your own rifle or sand bags etc., the coaches will provide that. Note the coaches are current and past members of the club who shoot at the Regional, National and World level. These folks have been there, done that and got the T-shirt so to speak.

All you need to do is bring your hearing protection, eye protection, lunch and refreshments. We expect to be done at about 4:00 PM.

Depending on availability of spare rifles, coaches etc we will likely limit this to about 20 shooters. I would recommend people sign up early.

To register please contact me at the e-mail below, or feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Rick Pollock
VP Benchrest  - Rosebud Silhouette & Benchrest Club
rickpollock@shaw.ca
Title: Rosebud BR 101
Post by: wharris1 on May 15, 2022, 06:11:41 AM
Just like to thank Rick and all the coaches for there time and mentorship
this was a great event and will help any new shooter to understand what the Benchrest  game is
if you are thinking of trying Benchrest this is a great place to start
William
Title: Re: BR101 Clinic at Rosebud Range May 14, 2022
Post by: rpollock on May 15, 2022, 09:33:32 AM
A good time had by all. Thanks to the Rosebud Club for making the range available for the day, and especially thanks to all the coaches, Rob, Tony, Hugh, Vic, Tyler, Bob, Larry.  Hope to run it again next year.

Title: Re: BR101 Clinic at Rosebud Range May 14, 2022
Post by: rpollock on June 03, 2022, 10:55:01 AM
Here is a short video of our BR101 Clinic

Title: Re: BR101 Clinic at Rosebud Range May 14, 2022
Post by: duceman on June 03, 2022, 12:42:24 PM
very well done!!