It looks like the Dubois Community Club shooting matches have been canceled for August.
Celestine Community Club shooting match schedule but the start has been postponed until October.
Just Google "shooting matches" in Dubois County for others. By the way, if it has been a long time since you've been to a shooting match don't be surprised that the guns and gear are hardly recognizable any more. What used to be fairly laid back, friendly competition with mostly stock guns has been altered by an arms race of highly specialized, extremely long barreled, smithed guns with scopes and other doodads.
Some FB friends in MI always post pics of these, not sure what it's all about? It looks like basically shooting shotguns at patterning type targets?
They have doodads now?? What about thingamabobs?
Friendship, Indiana at the NMLRA range used to have a couple during the year and that's about 1 hour & 40 minutes drive from Borden. You might check out their website or contact them. They had different contests both traditional shotgun turkey board shoots and muzzleloader shotgun turkey board shoots. Not sure if they are still going on or not. Right now all there events have been cancelled due to COVID. Here's their website: https://nmlra.membershipsoftware.org/
It looks like the Dubois Community Club shooting matches have been canceled for August.
Celestine Community Club shooting match schedule but the start has been postponed until October.
Just Google "shooting matches" in Dubois County for others. By the way, if it has been a long time since you've been to a shooting match don't be surprised that the guns and gear are hardly recognizable any more. What used to be fairly laid back, friendly competition with mostly stock guns has been altered by an arms race of highly specialized, extremely long barreled, smithed guns with scopes and other doodads.
I'm a Director at the St. Anthony conservation club which is sort of tied together with Birdseye and Schnellville conservation clubs. When I find out their schedules I will post them here. We only do a spring shoot at our club, the fall one just wasn't worth having anymore. Celestine has cancelled all their shoots in August and September due to the Rona.
Edit:
As of now Scnellville Conservation club is having a shoot on Oct. 4th and one on Dec. 6th
Yes, and even thingamajigs. It's difficult to be competitive without a long tube with all of the doodads, thingamabobs, and thingamajigs.
Article on the shooting matches
its been about 17 years or so since I've been to one. I was shooting one of my grandas Winchester 37s with a choked down barrel and a Simmons 9x scope. Some people were shooting guns with 5 foot long barrels. I'd love to find a shoot mandating stock guns. I've got a stock Winchester 97 that I think would do pretty good.
Personally, I think if they required all shots to be taken from a standing, unsupported position that would be a good start. However, I think this would also reduce the number of people that travel long distances to compete with those specialize rigs and thus decrease the funds raised by the groups putting on the matches.
I doubt it was ever a rule that was just my idea for reducing some of the silliness. I do remember many/most people shooting unsupported. My grandfather won a lot of meat with a stock model 12. He took shooting matches really seriously and used to complain when someone who wasn't elderly(defined as someone much older than him and he shot matches into his mid 70's) or a kid shot supported and placed.
After running shoots for the last 12 years I can say 2 things, stock barrels still win A LOT of of the time, yeah putting more bbs on the board helps, but it only takes one lucky one to win. Also, there is no way we could run off the long barrels, as previously stated it would significantly decrease the prizes on the closed match and the amount of money clubs make. Most of the long barrel shooters will drop several hundred dollars on boards and food, your average local guy with a shotgun will maybe spend $40.
After running shoots for the last 12 years I can say 2 things, stock barrels still win A LOT of of the time, yeah putting more bbs on the board helps, but it only takes one lucky one to win. Also, there is no way we could run off the long barrels, as previously stated it would significantly decrease the prizes on the closed match and the amount of money clubs make. Most of the long barrel shooters will drop several hundred dollars on boards and food, your average local guy with a shotgun will maybe spend $40.