Stake Event

[Joe Plakis, 9575V]

Does anyone have an old copy of the rules that can tell me how big the original stake was for a stake event. I have been told that it was originally a 2x6 they would shoot at.
If that was the case it was either 5 5/8 inches or 5 1/2 inches wide but I am looking to see if the rule had a dimension.

Thanks!

[snapcap14]

Joe
According to the chart on the wall in front of me, a nominal 2 x 6 would be actually 1 1/2 x 51/2

[Joe Plakis, 9575V]

Well SnapCap I hope you were right because my father and I just got done cutting up close to 200 of them at 5 1/2 by 24inches wide, if you are wrong it is all your fault! I hope you can live with yourself Best part it was all free lumber and there are at least 4 more skids of free material on the way!

Expect to see a lot of stake events at MA-Region shoots that are run by the Region, especially the Regional Picnics and Commander Shoots!

[snapcap14]

MORE WOOD FOR sATURDAY NIGHTS FIRE. i DID NOT SAY IT WAS LEGAL TO SHOT!
BURN BABBY BURN! OOPS SORRY ABOUT THE CAP LOCK BEING ON!

[Lou Lou Lou]

The reason they went from shooting 2 X 6's to particle board was uniformity. Some of the stakes had Knots and one, well placed shot would breark the stake. Lots of excitement when it breaks during the first volley. My 2 cents.

[John Holland]

Lou is right, and that's not all. I've seen stakes that were so resin filled a Beaver couldn't have chewed them off!

All a wooden stake does is PO the team that is winning by accurate shooting and then loses the skirmish by bad luck. Luck should NEVER play a part in a shooting match.

And that's my 2 cents....been there, done that, and still remember why we got rid of the wooden stake event.

JDH

[Eggman]

With that attitude Sir Holland I would have to turn in ALL my medals. I was in a 4x4 muzzleloading match one time - I was using an 1803 Navy Arms Harpers Ferry flinter. My first shot was a misfire, as were the second, third, and fourth, so I retreated from the line to work on it (no N-SSA rules here) and after some hard maintenace, frustration, cuss words, new flint, new priming powder, and a pint of Gatoraide, I finally managed to get it to fire. This was after the match was over, however, and my four teammates had won it. That purple ribbon is one of my proudest posessions.
Only in the N-SSA would somebody complain because somebody else's board had too many knotts in it. This is the same guy that complained because his coal had too many prehistoric toads in it.

[Blair]

I remember 'Stakes' that were made up from old telephone poles.
I don't remember them being larger than 6" in dia., but they could have been.
I also remember most 'Stake shooting Teams' wanting at least one .69 cal. shooter on their team. Some one as I remember called his .69 cal "old termite" (???) because of the stake shoots.

Had a shoot in Glorieta, N.M. that used the fiber board for the team 'Stake' event. That was fun enough, but, what was amazing was the 12 lbs Howitzer shooting about 3 lbs. of broken bits of Hardtack like it was Canister.
At 50 yards, the fiber board had no chance with a single shot! Some of the larger pieces of hardtack would take to the air like a Frisbee/Boomerang. (That would make your "pucker factor" go up to just about 10 as you watched them fly out and start circling back.)

[John Holland]

Eggman -

Spoken like someone who never saw the "The Wooden Elephant".

Sir Holland

[Eggman]

Well I saw it --- I just couldn't get a shot off at it.