Bill Poole

COOL!!! one of my favorite cartridges! are you able to get your eye behind that scope with that euro buttstock? My CZ550FS is in 9.3x62, and I needed to add a leather cheek piece to get my eye high enough to use the scope I put on it. Poole

Thanks for the great report Lance ! Landlord says they'll have that shaded platform on east range in 2 weeks, I'd predict a bit longer but it will be built. It will be about 30' x 10' I'm waiting on a calender from the landlord and feedback to see who can volunteer as RO then we'll announce the schedule of october and thru 2014. Thanks to everyone who came out. Poole

This notice just sent out: Shooters! To everyone who has inquired about Cowtown Long Range Shooters! In about 11 hours our grand opening begins! Enter Cowtown (map at http://cowtownlrs.com/ ) and after paintball turn right and head towards the "east range", find somewhere to park and head down to the covered picnic area at the end to sign in. EVERYONE MUST SIGN IN READ THE SAFETY RULES AND SIGN THE WAIVER! From there, right up the hill we have the east range platform looking out at lots of steel from 100 to 1000+ yards. Once we get a range safety officer to open the gate, we'll also open up what we call platforms 2 and 3 on the "west range". Lots of steel visible from the two platforms, we have "don't shoot" regions roped off to keep a safety fan. Limited parking up there, but limited shooting spots too, so it should work out. Bring your Ear & Eye protection, (we'll have some if someone forgets), whatever water or food you need, but we'll have a cooler full of water. We will have NRA style Empty Chamber Indicators for your rifles if you don't have one, all rifles will be cased or ECI inserted except when shooting! Bring your rifle(s), ammo, shooting mat, rangefinder and similar gear, all you get from us is dirt to lay on and steel to shoot at! (and lots of each!) (Don't shoot the cactus, the burros or the yellow house!) If any of you are a Range Safety Officer interested in doing that regularly for the club, let us know when you sign in! We'll be ready before the 8AM start and stay into the afternoon as long as interest holds till 4PM. Vendors, who have signed in with Cowtown management can set up in Bay 6 before 8. See you all tomorrow! CTLRS!

rifle golf inspired this. http://spiritridgeriflegolf.blogspot.com/ unfortunately getting a 6 mile walk out of it won't work on this property. but I like your suggestion lancetkenyon, come out on the 4th, lets walk thru it and start planning something! Poole

LR Shooters! THANKS for all the comments! I posted the announcement on about 10 different forums and am getting a lot of comments! Some background: Cowtown Arizona, private property owned by Cowtown Management Group, has been there for decades and does a lot of cool photo shoots, movie sets and hosts lots and lots of high end contractor training for LE and DoD. They have also leased a tiny valley to a cowboy group for decades and some river bottom to a paintball operator. They were looking for someone to start a club to get long range rifle shooting going. Some Long Range hunter guys I know started talking to CTMG about forming that club and CTLRS was born. I have helped run some ASRPA (http://asrpa.com/) events out there and served on the board of several clubs so that’s how I got involved. 4-Oct is the grand opening, from that we’ll gauge interest and set up a schedule, tentatively one full weekend day per month, preferably the same weekend every month, but that might expand to several full weekends every month and maybe some weekdays (harder to schedule due to commercial usage). Depends on usage. We need volunteer RO’s and shooters filling the range to justify scheduling additional firing points and shoot days! We will have at least that one firing valley in the photo, where about 5 or 10 guys could lay down side by side and shoot, but there are 3 other similar firing points on the property and places to set up more. I picture guys shooting and spotting with a buddy till their barrels get hot, and walking back to the picnic area to cool down both shooter and barrel while others shoot a bit and doing it again till the ammo runs low. Cowtown, the landlord, owns the dirt and the steel. We won’t have to go out and set up steel, we might have to cease fire and paint the steel once or twice a day but there won’t be public range style 15-minute shooting sessions followed by target time… No personal steel, only Cowtown steel will be allowed. Just walk up, sign in, lay down and shoot! We’re not planning competitions. This is NOT a known-distance NRA/Palma/F-class firing line, all 3 ranges in phoenix have 500 to 1000 yd matches nearly every week, check out http://www.desertsharpshooters.com/ if that interests you. Nor do we plan Tactical Long Range Precision shoots, PRGC already runs some of the best such shoots in the US. http://www.phoenixrodandgun.org/ The founders are long range HUNTERS, who want a place to work with their LR elk rifles. But depending on interest of the members the direction of the club may evolve. As to the fees, the feedback is GREAT. It sounds divided between “I just joined online!” to “The numbers don’t add up” I’d strongly encourage all of you to come out to the 4-Oct event! See the facility, meet the management guys, express your opinions, volunteer to help run shoot days, etc. Like I said the direction of the club will evolve to best serve the shooters! Post or email questions, See you all on the 4th! Poole CTLRS http://cowtownlrs.com/

Long Range Hunters and Shooters! Are you interested in Long Range Hunting or Long Range Precision shooting? Looking for a place to practice long range shots with your hunting/long range gear but don’t have the interest, patience or barrel profile for an NRA style F-class match on a known-distance range? With the support of the owners of Cowtown, AZ (http://azcowtown.com/) we are starting up a club which will give our members access to Cowtown Ranges in Peoria, just northwest of Phoenix! This new club, Cowtown Long Range Shooters, http://cowtownlrs.com/, will be holding a free Grand Opening shoot on Saturday October 4, 2014 - 8AM and till 4PM! The Grand Opening is FREE and open to all safe shooters! Bring your favorite long range rifles! We’ll have multiple firing points each with numerous steel plate targets from 100 yds to over 1000 yards! (all rifles must be previously sighted in, leave rifles in vehicles until you have been directed to your assigned range and squadded to shoot) Shooting industry vendors & manufacturers displays! Long range shooting platform demonstrations! Membership information for this new club! A chance to meet other shooters with similar interests! If you like the shooting facilities and decide to join, you can expect to participate in monthly shoot days with access to firing points overlooking steel targets from under 100 yards to a planned 2000+ yards. The club also will be running 2 or 3 big weekend-long shoots every year. For more information on the Grand Opening or on joining the club, see our website at http://cowtownlrs.com/ and email us at cowtownlrsmembership@gmail.com. We’re already set up to take membership applications online at: (Grand Opening rate): http://azcowtown.com/events/ If you plan to attend, send us an email at: cowtownlrsmembership@gmail.com If you are a certified Range Safety Officer or want to become one, we need you in our club! Let us know! cowtownlrsmembership@gmail.com. If you are interested in a vendor booth and having your company represented at this grand opening or other events at Cowtown, please contact Cowtown management directly at: info@azcowtown.com Download this flyer here http://cowtownlrs.com/CTLRS-4oct-Flyer.pdf print a few copies and drop them off with your friends and at your favorite gun shop! Hope to see many of you on the 4th! CTLRS - Cowtown Long Range Shooters Post questions here or email cowtownlrsmembership@gmail.com . Range Location: 10402 West Old Carefree Highway, Peoria, Arizona 85383 Map: Take Carefree Hwy west from I-17, south 100yds on Lake Pleasant Blvd, then west on Old Carefree Hwy, past the airstrip and 2 canals till you hit the mountains at Cowtown. This is a shooting range! Bring eye and ear protection for everyone in your party! Under 18 must be accompanied by an adult, experienced adult & youth shooters welcome, event may not be enjoyable for very young children. Don't want to mess around setting up paper targets? We have lots of steel like this: That canyon has 8 or 10 steel targets out to 1000 yards

Another vote for that -35 elk hunter, I like to sleep out in the open if the sky looks clear. Up on Lemmon a few years ago woke up in the middle of the night to pee and found 2" of snow that had silently come in, didn't even notice it in that bag with just a blue tarp laid over. wayyy too warm for nice weather camping, wayyyyy to big for backpacking. http://www.sportsmanswarehouse.com/sportsmans/Rustic-Ridge-Elk-Hunter-35-degree-Sleeping-Bag/productDetail/Rectangular-Bags/prod9999008370/cat100842

PRGC, Phoenix Rod & Gun Club, southern end of 7th AVENUE up against the mountain

Hope this is the right forum for this post. Hunters & Shooters! Sorry for getting this out late! The PRGC Hunting Rifle Shoot will be Saturday 28-Sep-13, 7:30AM set up. This will be Animal targets from 100 to 400 yards from field positions. Several different stages fewer than 40 rounds fired. This is intended not as a shooting match but as a practice of your hunting gear and techniques. Bring anything you would use on a hunt and nothing you wouldn’t. It will be at the PRGC High Power Range. PRGC is at the southern end of 7th AVENUE (not street) up against the mountain. HP is accessed at the gate at the back of the public range parking lot. See: http://arizona-rifleshooting.com/hunting-rifle-shoot-PRGC.html This will be the last shoot before hunting season, we’ll have a Safari Rifle shoot on 29-Dec. Post or PM questions. Hope to see you all there. Shoot Good! Bill Poole PRGC HP Div Director

Shooters & Hunters! Phoenix Rod & Gun Club is running a hunting rifle shoot this coming Saturday! This is not a championships, rather it is a fun shoot with hunting rifles & equipment, from hunting distances and positions at animal targets! We fire 30 to 40 shots, several different stages, you can shoot different rifles if you like. Expect deer, bear, antelope, elk and javelina from 50 to 500 yards. PRGC is at the south end of 7th AVENUE up against the mountain. Be there by 8 for set up we’ll try to start at 8:30 and be done 1 or 2. Event website & pictures: http://arizona-rifleshooting.com/hunting-rifle-shoot-PRGC.html PM or post questions! See you all on the line! Poole

would you hunt with it?? this is not a competition to see if you can beat the guy on the firing point next to you, its a chance to practice your hunting rifle. If its the rifle you hunt with, its a hunting rifle! By the way there is a monthly tactical rifle match for "sniper rifle" type rifles at PRGC, 3rd saturday every month, they shoot steel mostly. and if you see "prone" or "F-class" on a schedule for Rio or PRGC that's 500 yd competition at a round bullseye paper target and u can use a rifle with big scope that has turrets. ( but the 20 shot string is hard on heating up barrels). Poole http://arizona-rifleshooting.com/

yes and yes if you hunt with your AR-15, then its a hunting rifle. .223 is under powered for most big game (per this shoot's rules) so there is a point penatly for that... but who cares... just make sure you are squaded on opposite relays so one of you is working targets and one shooting Poole

Shooters! Sunday 30-Dec will be the last PRGC hunting rifle shoot for 2012! Pics & rules at http://arizona-rifle...shoot-PRGC.html This is a fun shoot for hunting rifles at animal targets at realistic distances from field positions! I have not yet worked up the course of fire, but expect 20 to 30 shots at life sized Bear, Antelope, Whitetail, Muley at 50 to 400 yards. PRGC is in south Phoenix, 7th AVENUE (not street!) south of baseline to the mountain. We’ll be on the High Power Range. We’ll try to set up early and start by 8AM, usually done 1PM or so depending on turn-out. Post or IM questions. Poole 2013 dates: Sat 2-Feb. Sun 10-Mar, Sat 4-May, Sat 28-Sep Flyer for 2013, print & hand out to your hunting friends! http://arizona-rifle...eshoot-2013.pdf

Shooters! Wasn't sure where on CWT to put this posting.... so I'll start it here... This coming Sunday, 23-Sep, PRGC will hold a “Hunting Rifle Shoot”! This is a non-competition fun shooting event for you to use your hunting rifles at hunting distances from field positions at life-sized animal targets! Details here: http://arizona-rifleshooting.com/hunting-rifle-shoot-PRGC.html We’ll try to set up at 7 and shoot 8 till about noon! I’m planning on starting at 200 yds with sighters and deer, then move back to 300, 400, 500 yds for more deer and bear, then up to 100 for Javelina and Coyotes! Bring your usual hunting gear plus eye & ear protection, a pen to write down your hits and $15 entry fee. We’ll do it again 30-Dec and then nearly monthly after that till summer. Following weekend we’ll have the Safari Rifle shoot, in case you need an excuse for a .458 Win Mag! http://arizona-rifleshooting.com/safari-rifle-shoot-PRGC.html Poole

Deer Draw Successful 01010 Nov 02 - Nov 08, 2012 UNIT 8 000364 so me and some friends have elk and deer in unit 8! I better get up there and start scouting!