http://www.odcmp.com/

Did a practice shoot this last weekend for the CMP. I had never gone to an organized event like that before and it was a lot of fun. I have to admit, right off the bat I was concerned about even getting a shot on the paper, I mean I'd never shot at anything past 100 yards before and even that was with a powerful scope. For the CMP you can't use optics so I had to pull my scope, well at least I thought I did, one of the guys told me I could have left it and just kept the caps on, dang... I had it zero'd nicely at 100 cest la via.

Anyway, my irons were last zero'ed for 50yd so I had to make some adjustments, but after 5 clicks back I was good and zero'ed for 200 yards, too cool.

Anyway, after a brief sight-in stage we got to it. We did the standard fare stuff, standing (offhand), sitting and prone (laying down). I was actually quite shocked at how accurate you can actually be at that sort of range with only the iron sights.

The different stages had different rules, like 60 seconds to fire 10 shots offhand, 70 seconds to drop from standing to prone and fire 10 shots, there was also a slow prone, 20 shots in 20 minutes session. That one was especially grueling, but it was nice to have the extra time to really setup your shot.

I'm still curious to see how I scored, I have 4 of my targets so I could run some totals, but hey I was just glad to participate it was a load of fun and hey, I know I bagged at least 1 ten ring! :) At 200 yards with iron sights and from the sitting position, not bad, well, for me at least.

Here's how they score:
Expert ----- 90% and above (450 and above on a 50 rounds for score course)
Sharpshooter ----- 80% to 89% (400 thru 449)
Marksman ----- 70% to 79% (350 thru 399)
Unqualified (Unclassified) less than 70%.

Oh and I made that hat I'm wearing in the pictures, more on that later though.