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Both Tri County in Sherwood, Or. and Douglas Ridlge in Barton, Or. have 1,000 yd. ranges. Douglas Ridge even sets aside a day each week strictly for long range shooters to practice on the 1,000 yd. range. If you're located anywhere near either range you should drop in and join. I belong to DR, but both are excellent clubs!

joe,
there is a 1000 rage up in columbus tx at yaupon creek.
go look at the website.
yauponcreek.org
cheers irish

wildbill, I looked on the Douglas Ridge website. They dont have BPCR match's.  If I remember right, the highpower shooters had a problem with us fellas and our blunderbuss's stinkin up the place.

They can be a snooty troublesome bunch as I have shot with them in the past and witness'd it first hand. 

When I shot there, they only had enough room for 600. They did have a gong target up at 800.  We werent supposed to shoot at it. I did it anyway just to show the HP snoots that my blunderbuss would reach that far.  I'm probly the one that gottum all bent out of shape enough to kick us off the range.  They do shoot CBA.  Then you have to contend with haulin oxygen bottle's around for all the old coots on the line.  I'd be the one to trip on a hose and send one to the clinic. 

It was a great place to shoot, and there is , or was a nice bar in Estacada.  And motels.  If Marlinguy would go talk nice to them maybe they would let us shoot some BPCR match's there again.  I'm sure they wouldnt recognize me now.  Grey with hubblefocal glass's and hunched over  some.

We used to battle the Canadiac shooters there.  They were a lot of fun. There was at least a dozen of them that would come down from all over Canadia.  Most of them have gone to the big range now. John Urselesqeu is the only one still alive as far as I know. I hope I spell'd his name right.   

                                                                             Joe.

           

Blackmith,
Do you recall what the instructor recommended as a "proper" rifle ? I would be interested in knowing that. JOe S

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This is an old wive's tale that can easily be disproven by a few minutes' examination of the trigonometry involved. Merely take the sight 'come-ups' between 900 and 1000 yds and use that dimension along with the 1000-yd distance to figure the mean angle of flight (at 950 yds), then do the same for the 'come-ups' between 1000 and 1100 yds if available. You get the picture. The come-ups will vary with each load but I bet you'll find that it's highly improbable that any of this ever happened for real. I don't lke to use the expression 'impossible' but I'm very tempted here.

I've forgotten the exact figures for the only time I ever bothered to run the calcs but seem to recall an angular figure of around 8 degrees, that is, a bullet at 1000 yds would pass over the butts at an angle of ~ 8 degrees below the horizontal. Actually, since the arc of the trajectory follows an asymptotically-curved path, the angle would be slightly greater, say ~ 10 degrees below the horizontal.

According to the actual figures, the butts would hafta be about a foot high for the bullet to hit 10 feet beyond them. So, with all due respect to the tale-tellers, I've gotta conclude that leprechauns or fairies or something like that was to blame. Or could it have anything to do with adult beverages, perhaps?
This is JMO, I await correction and chastisement, Joe

JD the first time North Carolina National Guard let us use the Camp Butner range for BP Rifles we had to deal with the same thing.

There fear was at 1000 yards the trajectory would cause a hazard to the pit crew.  Not so much as hitting people sitting on the benches but hitting the machinery and causing injury from it.  We ran some test with 45/70's and while the shots impacted the berm lower than high power it was not enough lower to cause any saftey issues.

I did not volenteer to be in the first relay pit crew though. Everyone came out unscared and took my turn 2nd relay.

Boats

Don't want to give his name, but lets say I was looking forward to learning from someone who is known for his sights and barrels.  He also said Sharps just were not as good as center hung hammers on Hepburns, high walls, and ballards.  I see his point, but also know that alot of BPCR matches have been won by Sharps and my Pedisoli has won some (not in my hands yet).  I think it was more a case of "I'm old, famous, and opinionated.

I am not that anamored with SSAS much anymore. It is still fun, but some of their rules I don't like. ASSRA, BPCR, and my muzzleloading shoots are where I am going to keep most of my energy.

lets not be too hard on the highpower shooters, after all, they are shooters, and many of them are pretty darn good. Besides that, most are gentlemen and good sports. I shoot in a military rifle league once a month, Feb-Oct, and there are some really good shooters there.  Just for kicks, I shoot my Trapdoor quite often and nobody laughs. I cant drill the X ring like some of the mouse guns and m1As, but it is very compeitive, even in rapid fire. Bolt guns and single shots shoot two strings of five shots in a minute for rapid fire, which is easily done with a trapdoor at least with a little practice. I used to shoot ten shots in a minute right along with the mouse guns but I decided there was too much chance of an accidental firing.  at any rate, the point is we shoot shoot what we like, not what somebody else likes. Joe S