Opportunity to fire on E-Targets this Friday

“Note to the Membership – This weekend (June 11 and 12, 2022), BMRPA will host the 2022 North Dakota Long Range State Championship.

On Friday, June 10, we plan to set up e-targets in order to prepare for the weekend event. We intend to have the target set up completed around 5PM. The range may be SHUT DOWN for about an hour on Friday afternoon to set up and calibrate the targets. After the targets are ready (around 5PM) – the range will be open for practice firing from the 600 yard line. We will close down firing on the e-targets around 8pm.

Club members are invited to come out and try out the e-targets. If you never seen e-targets in action – I would encourage you to come out and take a look at this. If you would like to shoot – please make sure you have a least a 200 yard zero. Ammunition should be above trans-sonic velocity at target (approximately 1300 fps – sorry – no Blackpowder cartridge ammo). Also, bring a good shooting rest. E-targets have external microphone that can be damaged (or destroyed) by bullet strikes – so a good zero and a good rest is required.

Bring your smart phone or preferably a tablet (ipad, etc). You do not need a app to make this work on your phone/tablet.

E-targets have a series of microphones (the Shot Marker brand uses 8 microphones) that triangulate the shock wave from the bullet at target. The shot is then plotted on a simulated target displayed on your phone or tablet. The e-target also shows the score of the hit, bullet velocity and standard deviation velocity of the series of shots.

Anyone is more than welcome to check zeros and do some practice firing. Practice firing will probably be done from the 600 yard line (since the rest of the range will NOT be closed on Friday). However, if there are no objections from other members using the range – we MIGHT be able to shoot from 1000 yards.

We ask for a free will donation of $5 to help pay for target costs (repair centers, etc.).

If you have any questions – please contact Tom Thompson

Thank you

Tom Thompson

701-220-4601″