{"id":6023,"date":"2018-04-21T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/iron-sights-at-800-yards-new-mexico-milsurps-match\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:08:00","slug":"iron-sights-at-800-yards-new-mexico-milsurps-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/iron-sights-at-800-yards-new-mexico-milsurps-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Sights at 800 Yards: New Mexico Milsurps Match!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9--BX-AUK5g?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>While traveling through Albuquerque, I was invited to join the New Mexico Milsurps club for one of their long range rifle matches. This is no typical shooting challenge &#8211; the course of fire is 20 rounds (after the spotting shots to figure out your hold) on a 21&#8243; x 43&#8243; silhouette target at 800 yards. It is open to unmodified military firearms only, with a heavy focus on iron sighted bolt action rifles. I was loaned an Eddystone M1917 rifle in .30-06 to use &#8211; one of the best military bolt actions ever made, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>The club has a very cool system set up for spotting hits on the target. A bracket on the back of the target holds a piezoelectric accelerometer connects to a bright strobe flash on a tripod about 10 yards off to the side. When a bullet hits the target plate, the accelerometer triggers the strobe to flash, and that light is readily visible from even 800 yards away (as you can see in the video).<\/p>\n<p>The match was a lot of fun &#8211; both the shooting challenge and the company of the club members. My thanks for their hospitality and a great time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1886lebel.tripod.com\/nmmilsurps\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/1886lebel.tripod.com\/nmmilsurps\/home.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/InRangeTVShow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While traveling through Albuquerque, I was invited to join the New Mexico Milsurps club for one of their long range rifle matches. This is no typical shooting challenge &#8211; the course of fire is 20 rounds (after the spotting shots to figure out your hold) on a 21&#8243; x 43&#8243; silhouette target at 800 yards.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/iron-sights-at-800-yards-new-mexico-milsurps-match\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iron Sights at 800 Yards: New Mexico Milsurps Match!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14360,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/14360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}