Dave Markowitz
Member
Yesterday I met up with a few other guys at Boulder Valley Sportsman's Assoc. in Green Lane, PA to help clean and setup the woods walk course. Some cleanup had already done been about 2 weeks ago, trimming back the brush from the shooting lanes. Yesterday we went in with loppers, a chainsaw, and weed whackers to finish the job, and then set out targets. After we took a lunch break three of us shot a round on the course to make sure we didn't have any targets blocked from the firing points or had setup anything that was too difficult. Our first monthly shoot is next Sunday, October 8th and the season runs until April.
I also shoot the woods walks at Boyertown Rod and Gun Assoc. Their monthly shoots start in November and run until March.
If you've never shot a woods walk I encourage you to do so if you have the chance. They are a lot of fun, and good practice for hunting since you'll be shooting at variously sized reactive targets set out at random, unknown distances. For example at BVSA, the targets range in size from small discs to a large plate and ranges from about 15 yards to 85 yards. All loading is done from your shooting pouch, and all shots are taken offhand. The matches at both clubs where I shoot are 20 targets each with scored as a hit or a miss.
You get to see a nice variety of smokepoles at these events, ranging from production rifles like old CVAs, Traditions, and T/C's to custom rifles and even a few smoothbore fowlers.
A couple YouTube channels that have good woods walk videos are the Folk Firearms Collective out in Montana, and B Kauffman, here in Pennsylvania. Watching the videos on FFC is what got me into this aspect of the hobby.
I also shoot the woods walks at Boyertown Rod and Gun Assoc. Their monthly shoots start in November and run until March.
If you've never shot a woods walk I encourage you to do so if you have the chance. They are a lot of fun, and good practice for hunting since you'll be shooting at variously sized reactive targets set out at random, unknown distances. For example at BVSA, the targets range in size from small discs to a large plate and ranges from about 15 yards to 85 yards. All loading is done from your shooting pouch, and all shots are taken offhand. The matches at both clubs where I shoot are 20 targets each with scored as a hit or a miss.
You get to see a nice variety of smokepoles at these events, ranging from production rifles like old CVAs, Traditions, and T/C's to custom rifles and even a few smoothbore fowlers.
A couple YouTube channels that have good woods walk videos are the Folk Firearms Collective out in Montana, and B Kauffman, here in Pennsylvania. Watching the videos on FFC is what got me into this aspect of the hobby.