Give me a few weeks to catch up on some chores. In the meantime, lets get a consensus on the match rules.
My range on occasion sponsers Garand only, or as issued US military, or as issued any military, and as issued military pre 1950 (or some date).
Some other fun match ideas might involve carbines, requiring left and right hand shooting, requiring magazine change, or combined carbine/rifle/pistol shoots.
I went to the Knob Creek machine gun shoot this year in TN. Very cool, There was a sub-gun shoot which required shooting left & right handed. I decided right then & there I needed to work on shooting with my weak hand and eye. You never know when you may need to shoot around a corner thats not on the side you are use to shooting from.
Especially with an autoloader spitting out big 30-06 casings, even wearing shooting glasses. I don't know how lefty rifle shooters handle autoloaders without a brass deflecter, and even then.
Ahem... The Knob Creek machine gun shoot is in Kentucky! :) I wish I'd known you were going to be there; the one last spring is the first one I've missed in a couple of years. They'll have another one in the fall, you know. Might work for a big FReeper-shooter meeting, eh?
I hesitate to say this about our recent shoot, but for me at least, there's just something different about paper targets. I've taken more than a few deer in my life, at various ranges, and it took more than one shot only once, and that was because of a hidden hog wire fence I didn't see until after it deflected the first shot. Somehow, I just can't seem to get interested in paper targets.
'Course, as Lion Den Dan kept shooting those bulls I got more interested - but it was too late!