BOYERTOWN
ROD & GUN
ASSOCIATION, INC.
SMALLBORE SILHOUETTE LEAGUE
295 Sunset Hill Road
Boyertown, PA 19512
Dear Fellow Competitor,
Our 2009 schedule will be changed due to the fact that shooting when you can not feel your fingers is NOT fun. We will be shooting the 2nd and 4th Sundays from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM providing that the wind chill factor is not below 40 degrees, Not Raining or Not Snowing. If there was snow on the groundwe will use black targets instead of white.
During the last relay of shooting we shoot a “Free For All” in which every one present gets on line and shoots the target of their choice. The fun part of this is that just as you are ready to take your shot the target you are aiming at falls because someone beat you to it so you go to the next one and hope to beat out the others for the shot. We will continue to shoot on Wednesday nights until the 4th Sunday in September, when we switch back to the 2nd & 4th Sunday of the month for the remaining of the year. The League will run from the 2nd Sunday of April to the 4th Sunday of October. Fees for shooting are $1.00 per string of 20. In review of our Silhouette Shooting Program we shoot in 4 categories, Senior Offhand, Senior Benchrest, Junior Offhand and Junior Benchrest. We shoot 5 Chickens, 5 Pigs, 5 Turkeys and 5 Rams. There is a 15 second prep period before each string of 5 fired in 2½ minutes. The time for shooting all 20 targets including setting the targets back up for the next relay usually takes 30 minutes. We are working on completing the range expansion program in 2008. If you know someone with a front-end loader/backhoe that could assist in this please contact the Smallbore Committee Chairman, Keith Davis at 610-369-0608. We now have a set of 5 Big Bore Silhouettes which we will be setting up in the future. The distances for these will be 150 for Chickens & Pigs & 200 yards for Turkeys & rams. No calibers below 30 and only round nose or solid lead bullets. We will be making more targets in the future with hopes of having 4 sets of 5.
