M1a Match 10/5 River Bend Gun Club

[AI-AR10-Dan]

HI All,

Just wanted to personally invite you to the M1A match which is being held at River Bend Gun Club on Sunday Oct 5 on the HP range. Registration starts at 8. First shot at 9 and it is $15 for members, $20 non-members. Details are on the match bulletin, questions, email me at M1carbine@rbgc.org. Range details and directions https://rbgc.org/

Gear to loan to noobs, real friendly crowd. Door prizes, cook out after award ceremony. Grab a few boxes of 308 and your m1a clone with iron sights or optic and get your late year shoot on!

https://rbgc.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=265856&module_id=562673

ETA Please pardon the recycled match announcement.

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

I'm planning to go
(if I can get enough good quality sleep tonight).

I can't find all of my high-power rifle gear, so I'll just bring my rifle, the bare minimum ammo, pair of binoculars, my home's welcome mat to lay over and prop my elbows on, and I'll make do.

Using a mixed lot of 50-year old foreign milsurp FMJ ammo, and some Privi Partizan 180 gr. soft-points.

 

[AI-AR10-Dan]

I'm planning to go
(if I can get enough good quality sleep tonight).

I can't find all of my high-power rifle gear, so I'll just bring my rifle, the bare minimum ammo, pair of binoculars, my home's welcome mat to lay over and prop my elbows on, and I'll make do.

Using a mixed lot of 50-year old foreign milsurp FMJ ammo, and some Privi Partizan 180 gr. soft-points.

An M1a rifle and three boxes should get you done! there should be scopes and mats not being used when one relay is in the pits.

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

Done!
I had the high score among the four shooters who had optics on their rifles (and I think the other guys were shooting from a bipod support when in the prone position.
No bipod or other artificial fore-end support for me.)



But none of us scoped shooters came close to achieving what the best four or five shooters did with their iron sighted M1A's.

It was fun, though somewhat frustrating with the wind-- seemed like it was blowing steady about 10 but gusting up to 20+.

Those of us who had time to stay for an hour afterward got to talk, drink bottled water, and eat some hotdogs and hamburgers that they cooked on a charcoal grill.

 

[AI-AR10-Dan]

Done!
I had the high score among the four shooters who had optics on their rifles (and I think the other guys were shooting from a bipod support when in the prone position.
No bipod or other artificial fore-end support for me.)



But none of us scoped shooters came close to achieving what the best four or five shooters did with their iron sighted M1A's.

It was fun, though somewhat frustrating with the wind-- seemed like it was blowing steady about 10 but gusting up to 20+.

Those of us who had time to stay for an hour afterward got to talk, drink bottled water, and eat some hotdogs and hamburgers that they cooked on a charcoal grill.

Puttin a face with a handle ) We walked over the bridge to the pits. Glad to have you out, hope you can make it regularly!

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[GAgunLAWbooklet]

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

This old military surplus ammo may not have been "the best thing" for slow fire prone, but for the sitting and standing phases of the match all of the inaccuracy was on me and not the gun or the ammo.

I got the stuff 35 years ago
for 10 cents a round.

 

[AI-AR10-Dan]

Bumping to the top for the OCT 5 2025 match, hope to see you there!