Happy Birthday to the BGM.

Another special note that this was Full Auto’s first match.  Full Auto has been with us from the founding but hasn’t been able to join us in a match.  Welcome!

Additional Information about the 2009 Steel City Tactical Carbine Championship

Application and Signup information for 2009 Steel City Tactical Carbine Championship

From the match director:

Hello shooters and Happy New Year!

Attached is an application and information for this year’s Steel City Tactical Carbine Championship.  This info will be posted on the message boards and on the Steel City website in a week or so, but I wanted to send it out to our regular shooters a bit early.

The match will be held the last weekend of May and will again have a one day format with the option to shoot either Saturday or Sunday.  This will allow us to hopefully accommodate more shooters and make the stages a bit more elaborate.

Each day’s participation will be capped at 75-80 shooters.  I suspect that Saturday will be the more popular of the two days, so if you want to shoot Saturday, please don’t wait too long to send in your application and match fee.

The Steel City board of directors has agreed to allow us to use more of the deep bays for this year’s match and that’s why the match fee is $60 vs $50 last year.  The longer bays will allow us to have better and more challenging stages normally associated with rifle shooting.  There’ll still be house clearing and up close blastin’ as well.

Prizes will be awarded via random drawing.  Depending on sponsor participation, we’ll try to award something nice to the category winners as well.  All prize distribution will depend on sponsor participation.  I’ll keep all registered shooters informed of prize details as we get closer to match time.

Just a reminder, we’ll have our regular quarterly rifle match later this month on Saturday, January 31st weather permitting.

Please let me know if there are any questions.  See you at the range soon!

David

BGM member shot with 4 of the top 5 shooters at the match.  Shooting with such an elite squad is like playing a round of golf with Tiger Woods – it either improves your game or intimidates you into a worse round.

Next weekend White Feather and Tax Man will be attending the Fort Benning Georgia 3 Gun Match.  Shoot Safe and have fun.

It has been quiet lately and looks to ramp up for the Tactical Rifle Match at the end of the month at Steel City.

This is what we know so far:

Sunday, September 28, 2008 – SKS/AK-47 Match

The message on the board from the Match Director:  Congratulations from BGM Tactical Weapons Team on the 1st year B-day Party:

Shooters,
I will not be able to put on a match this Saturday or Sunday. I have a set of grand twins with a one year old birthday party Saturday. Arab club is having a mass clean-up on Sunday. So, how about we have a match on Sunday the 28th of September. A match on Saturday will mess with the IDPA HGC match. Don’t want to do that. Since this will be on an odd day, how about we have an odd match. Lets drag out and dust off those AK47′s and SKS’s. Take them to the Arab range a shoot until the barrels melt off. One stage will require you to shoot from the hip just like you see on Fox News. While you are running… If you don’t have a gun to shoot, come anyway and bring some 7.62×39 or 5.45×39 ammo. Bring at least 100 rounds. Two classes to shoot in. Mags and stripper clips.. Should be lots of fun. We will start around 9:00 am. Set up at 8:oo. $15.00 to shoot. $20.00 to watch us make fools of ourselves.

See you then,
Scott

After re-reading the match description it seems that this is just going to be some organized fun for bragging rights of who is a better shooter. Plus it is reason enough to dust of the ol’ SKS you bough 15 years ago for $50 and test out some of the 30,000 rounds of the Norinco you’ve had in storage for 20 years. It sounds like it could be a loosely run stage setup where we can go out meet the North Alabama shooters and make friends. You can count me in. What about you? I plan to reach out and let them know how many people we are going to bring up with us. I have three so far. Let me know asap.

Here are the results for the BGM. Since I have never asked I am giving everyone a nick name. *Note: Nicknames have been updated 9/18

Since we got the days confused a couple of us are going to try out another type of match next Saturday August 23rd.  The match format is practical/tactical shotgun and pistol.

Details of the match:

Saturday, August 23, 2008 – Practical/Tactical Match

From the Steel City Website:

Practical/Tactical Match

In response to the demand for a multiple-gun match, we have turned the Practical Handgun Match into the Practical/Tactical – Handgun/Shotgun Match.

Every 4th Saturday beginning at 9:00am, we will be holding our 2-Gun match. So go dust off your tactical shotgun, or bird gun – we’re not picky – and get some shot-shells for it. Regardless of whether you have a run-of-the-mill Mossberg 500, a beefed-up 590 or Remington 870, or a top-of-the line Wilson Scattergun, come see what you can do with it when the timer is running.

Rules are simple, as usual: multiple stages, each set-up for a handgun and shotgun scenario. For the handgun, the rules remain the same: any reasonable pistol or revolver (if in doubt, contact me), stock or custom, optics or not – each type will compete in it’s own class. Single stacks shoot against single-stacks and hi-caps against hi-caps. Likewise for the shotguns, pump and semi-auto in its own class. Ammunition is restricted to #7, #7 1/2 or #8 bird shot. No buckshot, slugs or magnum loads allowed. No speed-loaders allowed for the shotguns.

Those of you familiar with our Practical Match already know to bring lots of ammo. We like to shoot, and then shoot some more. Estimate 100 handgun rounds and one box of shotgun shells, at a minimum. Handgun holsters are encouraged but not required.

Targets will be a combination of reactive steel, static steel and paper. You may be required to engage targets through doorways, through windows or while seated at a card table – you never know! Develop your accuracy and speed while negotiating your way through fun and challenging courses.

Gates will open at 8:30 with the shooting starting at 9:00. Bring a friend. Let’s get more people involved in the shooting sports. We welcome all levels of competitors, from novice to expert. If you have any questions, contact me at maguirre@bellsouth.net. See you there on the 4th Saturday.

Eye Protection and Hearing Protection are Mandatory – no exceptions. Safety first, always.

You might be interested in this video from Steel City Pistol and Shotgun match.

The new proposed shirt is a wicking athletic tee with lighter colors and smaller screen printed logo’s.  The t-shirts come with a nice price about $30 plus tax and shipping.  We hope to place an order within the next few days to ensure delivery. If you are interested in ordering send us your T-shirt Size, number of shirts, and pledge you are going to pay.

To see the t-shirt use the web gadget below:

The gadget was breaking our page and if you would like to see it I can pass the the link along to you.

Don’t forget that this Saturday we have the Pistol Steel Plate Match at Pleasant Grove FOP. In addition to the steel plate match we will be having a 3 Gun Practice. We plan to run a couple different style stages with walls, steel plates, sporting clays, and silhouette targets. We may also have a couple swingers in place. The swingers will be on loan form Lee Knobloch.

Lee has been kind enough to grant us use of his personal swingers. Lee is a fantastic pistol competitor and if you ever want to know something about shooting or just want to chat give him a call over at the FOP range, 205.744.2600.

Hopefully the weather will be good. We always go even in inclimate weather. It adds to practical action of the the shoot. Check the weather.

We have all heard the stories about the internet making people millions. Well, why hasn’t the shooting industry joined in?

1. Gun people aren’t tech savvy?
2. They can’t use computers?
3. They are are unorganized?
4. Maybe all of the above?

We happen to think not. Someone hasn’t come along and entered into the heavy competition for marketing over the internet. Which by our calculations is a bad thing. For instance… If you are looking for a “NHO Magwell” on Google, or Yahoo you couldn’t find one. So if somebody spent a little time and learned to market gun products on the internet it would make life easier for the shooters doing the shopping and make somebody lots of money.

There sites like bizrate.com or yahoo shopping. But what do those companies know about guns and gun accessories? Nothing. What if somebody came along and made a Amazon style website? That would revolutionize the weapon industry. Lots of people have a website but they are so poor it is hard even for advanced internet users. Maybe a single company with the capital and the right internet marketing direction will come along soon. If you get some ideas from this post give us credit for the inspiration. If it is good enough we might even promote it on our site.

As a question what do you think of the internet gun shopping business? What are your favorite sites? What type of things do you buy from them?

Though we are not marketing or selling anything as a team… We use the services of Birmingham SEO Service, to help promote shooting through search engines. We don’t pay for anything when it comes to the website. The owner of the Search Engine Optimization Service is a member of our team and provides basic design, layout, SEO, and all around technical know how for our website. So if you want to discuss ideas them about improving your online gun business contact Birmingham SEO and tell them you saw this article and receive a very willing and helpful person.

This weekend at Steel City Shooting Sports in Hoover is hosting a Tactical Rifle Practical Shooting match. The bull gang will be in attendance. Due to family vacations a couple members will be absent.

If you would like to join us as we navigate the shooting stages at the SCSSA at Bocks Gap meet before 8:00am near the registration booth. You will be able to spot us by our black T-Shirts.

We will have stages setup compatible with tactical rifle as the primary purpose. We plan to incorporate a little bit of 3 gun competition into it. Some of the setups will be setup for shotguns and pistol as well.

We will have a couple swinging silhouette targets, a shooting house, steel plates, and standard silhouette targets. Hopefully we will add a couple other little things to give it a full scence. If you have some type of safe target or shooting house you would like to bring it. Also any PVC pipe, screen, roll plastic that can be turned into a blind, shooting house, prop that would be great. Bring it along and add to the true tactical reality would be fun. All are welcome to join us. Our ranges can be shot with pistol, shot gun, and especially rifle.

Come out to Pleasant Grove FOP Saturday around 10:30. We will be there rain or shine.

We hastily put together a map for you to follow along your journey. If you have questions or just want to drop us a line to expect you come on. If you are venturing to PGFOP you may want to take note of their phone number for directions 744-2600.