{"id":1203,"date":"2020-06-21T14:45:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2020-06-21T14:50:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T14:50:33","slug":"electronic-range-day-saturday-june-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/21\/electronic-range-day-saturday-june-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Target Range Day; Saturday, June 20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About a year ago when we were brainstorming ideas about the\nSilver Mountain Target electronic targets, one of the questions someone asked\nwas; \u201cJust how will these targets benefit members who are not High Power\ncompetitive shooters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a valid question, so in the proposal I included electronic target Range Days that would be open to members and guests as well as a Deer Rifle Sight-In day.  Our first Range Day in May was cancelled because of the WooHooFloo, so Saturday June 20th was our first opportunity to have open shooting on the electronic targets for members and guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our High Power luck held out again and we had a nice day to\nshoot.  It was hot, but not \u201cpass out in\nyour coat\u201d hot.  Ten shooters took advantage\nof the opportunity, about half High Power shooters and half members and guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Electronic Target Range Day; Relay 2<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The electronic target system worked flawlessly as we continue to work out issues and make fewer human errors.  Everyone\u2019s phone, tablet or iPad logged in with no issues and we had no target dropouts or interruptions.  One guest shooter made the comment that the range at Roanoke needs to get one of these systems!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks again to the people who help these events happen; Glenna, Mike, Marty and Aaron and Gary who stayed and helped us put things away.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our next Range Day\nwill be a Deer Rifle Sight-In on October 24th at 10:00.  We will offer sight-in targets at 100, 200\nand 300 yards.  As an example, if you\nsight in at 200-yards, you can then  shoot at 100 and 300-yards to get exact hold under\/over\nfor the other two distances.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now \u2013 just a couple of\nstories:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 9:30, Marty and I were going downrange to start\nsetup.  I was coming up on the ditch when\na critter ran across the road in front of me \u2013 right to left.  Rabbits, groundhogs, dogs and the occasional\ncat are pretty common visitors to the range, but this was a solid black, low\nslung, slinky critter that looked like it had a leash on its neck.  It was gone in a flash, but after a second or\nso, I realized that I had seen a mink! \nMinks hang out along ditches where they find frogs, crayfish and other\ndelicacies and they are really not uncommon \u2013 just reclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, what about the leash? \nIt took another second or so and I realized that, of course, a mink\nwould not have a leash.  This mink had\ncaught a small snake and was dragging it out of the woods.  It just looked like it was trailing a leash.  After he crossed the road, he dashed into the\nweeds and went back down into the ditch to enjoy his breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is another\ncritter story too. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marty called my attention to a very strong, musky odor around\nthe dirt pile down by the pits.  Now we\nknow that is a ground hog hotel, but this was a lot stronger odor than ground\nhog.  After a bit, we both agreed it was\ndefinitely the smell of fox urine \u2013 the scent we use to cover our scent when we\ngo deer hunting.  We\u2019ve seen foxes at the\nrange several times, so we have a resident fox; maybe even a litter of fox kits;\njust something to keep an eye out for. Maybe the foxes will discourage the\nground hogs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a year ago when we were brainstorming ideas about the Silver Mountain Target electronic targets, one of the questions someone asked was; \u201cJust how will these targets benefit members who are not High Power competitive shooters? It was a valid question, so in the proposal I included electronic target Range Days that would be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}