Asked in another thread about Schuetzen matches in PA . About 100 reads and only one reply to a club in Maryland . Do most shooters of this disapline just have to travelto matches ? Or do you just shoot at your local club by yourself ?Here in Western PA it's all about trap and archery . It seems there are shoots all over the country but you have to travel . I will not be retired for at least another 7 years . When I bring out my single shots at my 1000 member club most have never seen a single shot rifle . Lots of black plastic rifles and bolt action hunting rifles .

Jefferson State Schuetzen Society was started by a friend and I, that I got enterested SS because of their accuracy. He was a High Power shooter at dabbled in muzzle loading and that was how I met him (ML).

We affiliated, right a way, with ASSRA in 1986, with just the 2 of us. Once it got in the News Letter (now Journal), I had another guy call me and he joined and then another in the next couple of months.

After that, I mined gun shows and would talk to anyone that would stand still long enough to bend their ear. Over a period of about 5 years, there was about 8 - 10 of us but, my friend died. It was a lot of work, I ran the matches and sent the announcements and results and, and, and, and, and!

I enjoyed it and over the years, help a lot of guys to get their rifles shooting to help keep them from becoming discouraged. Like I said, it was a lot of work but, rewarding. Also, at that time, there was the Coors matches and a lot of people new about SS because of it. I'm not sure how much that helped, as I saw it the biggest problem was finding competitive people that would invest in it.

Frank

I travel a lot. Fuel prices are down but it's winter. Dread.

    Joe.

Live in Central Pa.  Have shot in Maryland, nice shoot, had a good time.  Unfortunatly most of the matches I shoot are one man matches.  Wish there was more interest in Schuetzen in Pa

Have you looked at the "Members Map"?  It shows a lot of members in W. Pa and Eastern Ohio.  Some can be contacted by PM.
    Driving to a match can be enjoyable in itself if you have interesting Companions to share driving and gas.

Here on the left coast, well behind the Redwood Curtain, we have a small group (minimum of 3, maximum of 12, so far), with 4 traditional Schuetzen matches a year (.25 cal centerfire or larger, iron sights, 30 shots at 200 yards) on Sunday mornings, plus some sort of shoot every Tuesday.  We meet at the gate to the Manila range Tuesdays at 11:30 AM.  Mostly it is rimfire; outdoor gallery from Christmas thru mid-May, 100 yard & 200 yard either bench or offhand or some combination after that.  We shoot the ASSRA rimfire match in October, the Bruce Garbe match in June, a Monica Lewinsky's birthday match (almost guaranteed to annoy your wife), and whatever seems to strike our fancy.  We sometimes shoot at the 50-foot gallery targets, gallery format, at 100 yards from the bench.

We call ourselves the Tuesday Afternoon Schuetzen Verein, and our definition of acceptable rifles is pretty broad.  In October, we had a Schuetzen match (30 shots offhand at 200 yards) for M-1s, Springfields (etc) and ARs. Scores were not up to our Schuetzen standards.  Today was the start of Gallery season.  One younger shooter used a Mossberg 44US and beat us all.  1159-16c, with Blazers.

Good jobs are hard to come by around here and tend to be seasonal.  Many of our younger shooters participate when they are out of work.  If they find work, they disappear until the next layoff.

We are a long way from any other SS shooters.  It's 4+ hours each way and at least one night in a motel or camping if we go to the Jefferson State Schuetzen Society.  Everywhere else is a major effort.  A couple of our members go to the Quigley, but mostly we stay home.

If Christmas or New Year's Day came on Tuesday, we probably would not shoot.  Last year, Joe & Biggi joined us for a Christmas Eve shoot.

waterman wrote on Dec 24^th, 2014 at 2:46am:


That sounds like a good time   When is Monica's birthday?

I used to do what my wife dubbed the Stupid Sunday Match at Tacoma.  It was 200 yard BPCR on Super Bowl Sunday for those who did not want to waste the day watching an over rated, lop sided football blow out

Fredrick Sellous said of the 4-bore, he wished he had never used one, it spoiled his offhand shooting for life.