At the October meeting of the FWRR, it was voted to purchase three Silver Mountain Target systems. This has been done. Two of these systems are the server based systems we use for formal matches and one system is a “Stand Alone” system of the type often used by individual shooters for practice sessions.
The Stand Alone system was purchased because a number of members who do not regularly shoot in formal high power matches indicated their desire to have access to an electronic target system to make practice sessions more productive; knowing exactly where shots impact on a shot by shot basis without having to walk down 100, 200 or 300 yards (then back) in a shooting session.
This system does require some instruction in its use. Like the match system, it can be used with a smart phone, iPad, most tablets or just about any device you can use to access the internet. It is not a hard system to learn how to use, but even with our match system – having five years of experience with it – we are still finding “oh-by-the-ways”.
I am proposing to have at least one training session for folks who are interested in using this system (I will do more if the interest is there). It would be a Saturday morning session and as a guess it would last about three hours with classroom instruction and a shooting session to practice what we cover in class.
Only members who have attended the training session would have access to the system and only members who show that their shooting skills would not endanger the target system would be qualified as users (like the CMP does at the Talladega range). Even with this, there will is a chance of damage to the system (every year we lose about one sensor in high power matches and practice) and replacement costs for a damaged sensor run about $150.00. I anticipate that there will be a modest user fee (think $20.00 per member) to be a user of this system, but those arrangements will have to be finalized as we get the details ironed out.
If you would be interested in using such a system and attending a training session, send me an email at FWRRHPDirector@aol.com so I can see how much interest there is in this plan.
Thank you,
Larry Beardsley
High Power Range Officer