Long Nine Long Range Rifle Match Schedule for 2016
Winners from Sunday Oct 16, 2016
Winners from the October Long Range Match (left to right):
Stogie Jack Daniels – 3rd at 100 yards, 3rd Overall
Comstock Charlie – 1st at 100 yards, 1st Overall
The Rossiman – 1st at 200 yards, 2nd Overall
Moonshooter – 3rd at 200 yards
The Lemon Drop Kid – 2nd at 200 yards
We’ll were shooting 100 and 200 yards with big-bore guns.
The Rules:
Lever-actions guns will be allowed, but they must be period and no ARs. Lead bullets of course. Calibers allowed will be all the old-fashioned ones. 40-60, 40-65, 40-82, 45-70, 45-75, 45-90, 45-110, 45-120, 50-95, etc….
The 30-30 is also acceptable because Winchester’s 1894 was considered a big-bore hunting gun. No 30-06.
There will be a small fee of $5 because we must give money to Lefthanders Gun Club for using its range.
Long Range Rifle Match
Rifle caliber – usual calibers (45-70, 45-90, 45-110, 38-55, 30-30), iron or peep sights
Lever or single-shot
Rifle caliber-100, 200 yards
Each stage-5 minutes per shooter for ten shots
Match Directors are Lemon Drop Kid and Don Jorge
LONG NINE LONG RANGE RIFLE SHOOTING
Shooting will be split into Rifle caliber at 100 and 200 yards and awards will be presented.
Equipment should follow the SASS rules, copied from the handbook below.
LONG RANGE (OR PRECISION) RIFLE
SASS long range or precision rifle competition is different than main match rifle competition with more emphasis placed on precision shooting at longer ranges, with time being a secondary scoring factor. Scoring for these matches is determined by the number of hits, with either of two methods used to break ties. At the match director’s option, either total time used to shoot the required number of shots or a shoot-off may be used to break ties.
BASIC EQUIPMENT RULES FOR THE LONG RANGE COMPETITIONS
• Front barrel sights may vary from simple blades to period hooded wind gauge designs using interchangeable sight inserts and having a spirit level mounted integral with the sight or sight base.
• Rear sights must either be open iron sights mounted on the barrel or original style tang or stock wrist mounted peep sights. Long range rear barrel mounted sights of the flip-up ladder type may use a peephole drilled through the sliding sight leaf. An example of this is the various ladder type sights used on the Springfield trapdoors.
• Optical and receiver mounted sights are not allowed.
• “Rifle Caliber” competition rifles must use traditional, period, rimmed cartridges. No cartridge chambered for use in any SASS approved main match revolver or rifle may be used in the “Rifle Caliber” competition, except the .56-50. Thus, .30-30 (.30 WCF), .38-55 Marlin & Ballard, .43 Spanish, or .45-70 Government cartridges are legal, while a .375 Winchester, .444 Marlin, .32-20, or .44-40 are not legal.
• Regardless of category or caliber, bullets used in long range and precision rifle matches must be made of pure lead or lead alloy having a plain base, gas checked, or paper patched configuration.
Lever Action Rifles used in long range matches, whether revolver or rifle calibers, must be originals or replicas of rifles manufactured during the period from approximately 1860 until 1899. Lever or slide action, tubular feed, exposed hammer rifles or carbines are allowed, providing they are in safe working condition.
Single Shot and Buffalo Single Shot firearms must be originals or replicas of single shot rifles manufactured during the period from approximately 1860 until 1899. All rifles MUST have exposed hammers. The caliber and cartridge rules for the “Rifle Caliber” firearms noted above under basic rules also apply to Single Shot and Buffalo Single Shot rifles with the exception Buffalo Single Shot rifles must be .375″ bore size or larger.
Buffalo Single Shot competition has further restrictions requiring original or replica rifles to be a design of U.S. manufacture. Spring-loaded ejectors are also prohibited, except for Springfield Trapdoor Rifles.