Several weeks ago INGOer VERT decided to organize an INGO Meet & Greet down in Nashville Indiana at Big Woods Pizza and Brewing Company. Since dinner wasn't until 8pm, and since folks would already be coming down to Brown County, lovemywoods and I decided to wrangle some INGOers into helping us with an upcoming product review.
(Meet & Greet details can be found here: https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...85-meet_and_greet_nashville_in_2_11_12_a.html )
At the January Indy 1500 lovemywoods purchased a 6-paddle AR500 dueling tree from Bobcat Steel. He had wanted one for some time and was glad that ZbornacSVT was now producing them. He and I decided to put the tree to the test and provide a full review so that INGOers would know a bit more about this new offering. lovemywoods has documented everything from purchasing, to assembly, to painting, to transporting, to modifying, to positioning, to shooting. As a part of the "shooting" phase, we wanted to get impressions from other INGOers as well.
Everything just seemed to come together for a great day of shooting and eating.
(note: the full dueling tree review will be available soon)
Sixteen INGOers rose to the challenge of coming out and shooting the tree in the freezing cold temps. They were bwframe, DaKruiser, esrice, HotPocket, jblomengerg16, Kr_Treefog2, lovemywoods, OneBadV8, Que, Scutter01, shooter1054, shooter521, spasmo, Stschil, VERT, and VUPDblue.
Along with lovemywoods' dueling tree, OneBadV8 also brought his Bobcat Steel 6-paddle AR500 dueling tree, and VERT brought his Bobcat Steel full-size IPSC Chest Flapper target.
After hauling all the targets and gear down to the range, everyone realized just how cold it was going to be and welcomed the presence of a small fire pit.
lovemywoods kicked things off by giving everyone a basic rundown of the target system. Seen here is OneBadV8's tree.
lovemywoods opted for a "factory" enhancement and also made some modifications of his own on his tree. More on that in the full review.
We started by shooting some impromptu and informal head-to-head competitions with pistols.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv79tu1gt04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bYoBLTGn7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emuIz-63DBo
shooter521 momentarily channeled FPSRussia (or maybe FPSBorat?) after an exciting win.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONeDll_CijM
Then folks starting getting creative with the competitions. Here Que and VERT break out the pistol caliber lever guns!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gbSisr6Lts
Que also decided that the only way he'd have a chance against shooter521 was if he was using his pistol caliber AR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9iVTVOWeO4
Later in the afternoon we repositioned the targets and broke out the rifles! This certainly amped up the energy level. Or was it HotPocket's peanut butter brownies. . . . ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBpCRg4d_8
jblomenberg16 brought out his CMMG in .300BLK. Only being my second time shooting .300BLK, I was amazed at how much more violently the paddles would swing when hit (when compared to 5.56). So hard, in fact, that many of them would simply bounce right back into their original position! It seems like some kind of voodoo is involved to get that kind of response with no perceptible increase in felt-recoil.
As the day wore on, the cold started sinking into my bones. Thank god for that fire. . . .
Moving up to the top of the dam, the long distance rifles came out for shooting some hanging Bobcat Steel IPSC targets.
When we couldn't take the cold any more, we packed up and headed back to the house where we were greeted with chips and homemade salsa, monkey squares, homemade hot chocolate, pigs-in-a-blanket, and strawberry cheesecake brownies.
An hour or so later, after we had all made the mistake of stuffing ourselves and then relaxing , we all headed south to Nashville to the Meet & Greet (which was excellent!).
I'm sure the others will chime in here with their thoughts, but I know I personally learned a few things:
Till next time!
(Meet & Greet details can be found here: https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...85-meet_and_greet_nashville_in_2_11_12_a.html )
At the January Indy 1500 lovemywoods purchased a 6-paddle AR500 dueling tree from Bobcat Steel. He had wanted one for some time and was glad that ZbornacSVT was now producing them. He and I decided to put the tree to the test and provide a full review so that INGOers would know a bit more about this new offering. lovemywoods has documented everything from purchasing, to assembly, to painting, to transporting, to modifying, to positioning, to shooting. As a part of the "shooting" phase, we wanted to get impressions from other INGOers as well.
Everything just seemed to come together for a great day of shooting and eating.
(note: the full dueling tree review will be available soon)
Sixteen INGOers rose to the challenge of coming out and shooting the tree in the freezing cold temps. They were bwframe, DaKruiser, esrice, HotPocket, jblomengerg16, Kr_Treefog2, lovemywoods, OneBadV8, Que, Scutter01, shooter1054, shooter521, spasmo, Stschil, VERT, and VUPDblue.
Along with lovemywoods' dueling tree, OneBadV8 also brought his Bobcat Steel 6-paddle AR500 dueling tree, and VERT brought his Bobcat Steel full-size IPSC Chest Flapper target.
After hauling all the targets and gear down to the range, everyone realized just how cold it was going to be and welcomed the presence of a small fire pit.
lovemywoods kicked things off by giving everyone a basic rundown of the target system. Seen here is OneBadV8's tree.
lovemywoods opted for a "factory" enhancement and also made some modifications of his own on his tree. More on that in the full review.
We started by shooting some impromptu and informal head-to-head competitions with pistols.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv79tu1gt04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bYoBLTGn7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emuIz-63DBo
shooter521 momentarily channeled FPSRussia (or maybe FPSBorat?) after an exciting win.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONeDll_CijM
Then folks starting getting creative with the competitions. Here Que and VERT break out the pistol caliber lever guns!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gbSisr6Lts
Que also decided that the only way he'd have a chance against shooter521 was if he was using his pistol caliber AR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9iVTVOWeO4
Later in the afternoon we repositioned the targets and broke out the rifles! This certainly amped up the energy level. Or was it HotPocket's peanut butter brownies. . . . ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBpCRg4d_8
jblomenberg16 brought out his CMMG in .300BLK. Only being my second time shooting .300BLK, I was amazed at how much more violently the paddles would swing when hit (when compared to 5.56). So hard, in fact, that many of them would simply bounce right back into their original position! It seems like some kind of voodoo is involved to get that kind of response with no perceptible increase in felt-recoil.
As the day wore on, the cold started sinking into my bones. Thank god for that fire. . . .
Moving up to the top of the dam, the long distance rifles came out for shooting some hanging Bobcat Steel IPSC targets.
When we couldn't take the cold any more, we packed up and headed back to the house where we were greeted with chips and homemade salsa, monkey squares, homemade hot chocolate, pigs-in-a-blanket, and strawberry cheesecake brownies.
An hour or so later, after we had all made the mistake of stuffing ourselves and then relaxing , we all headed south to Nashville to the Meet & Greet (which was excellent!).
I'm sure the others will chime in here with their thoughts, but I know I personally learned a few things:
- Shooting stuff is fun!
- Shooting in the cold sucks! My pistol performance was TERRIBLE.
- Having a fire was a lifesaver!
- Seeing white paddles against a snowy background was difficult. Once they got a few hits on them they looked JUST like the backstop. Bright blue or fluorescent green might work better in all seasons.
- I need (want ) a .300BLK upper.
- [STRIKE]Burl is a ninja.[/STRIKE] Already knew that.
Till next time!
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