The Tweedsmuir Park Rod and Gun Club celebrated the 50th annual 1000 yard shoot the weekend of May 24-25th 2025. Fifty two shooters and their families gathered to mark the milestone event. There were shooters from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Washington; some shooters have been coming for years while others this was their first time shooting the event. The club had shooters arriving to practice all month long in preparation of the shoot. They hosted a roast beef dinner and pancake breakfast over the weekend. The rainy weather and calmer winds on Saturday provided good shooting conditions helping competitors to be able to post several personal bests throughout the day.
One of the events is to shoot at an egg shape target just before lunch on Saturday for a chance to win your dinner that evening. This target is approximately 9” x 6” which is half of the size of a chicken egg to scale at 1000 yards. This year there were twelve hits on the egg and a random draw was used to determine who the winner was.
Another fun challenge is the final event of the weekend where competitors shoot standing offhand at a 4’ x 4’ steel gong. This event is shot until the last person standing who has not missed yet sometimes lasting as many as six rounds. There were six competitors who hit on their first round out of nearly forty shooters with only a single shooter successfully hit the steel on round two.
They would like to thank their sponsors from across Canada. Woods N Water, Nechako Outdoors, Corlane’s, Lakes District Maintenance, Industrial Transformers, Stevenson Knives, Purely H2O, Kal Tire, Burns Lake Automotive Supply, Hirsch Precision Inc, Burns Lake Home Hardware, NAPA Auto Parts, Burns Lake Post Office, Chinook Community Forest, Babine Forest Products, Decker Lake Forest Products, Twisted North Designs, Krikke’s, Telford’s, P&B Feeds, PMT Stocks, Inland Kenworth, Tahtsa Group, Starland, Pineridge Holdings, Dark Timber Adventures, WEI Environmental, OK Tire, Pharmasave, Blu Jay Sports, Reil Vienneau, Precision Optics, Bighorn Sales, Benchmark Barrels, National Firearms Association, LDFC Printing and Stationary, Ron Ball, Rolf Johnson, Keith Matson, Marvin’s Trucking, Grizzly Jim’s, John Howett and Tweedsmuir Park Rod and Gun Club.
To commemorate the anniversary the club had custom printed targets produced as well as challenge coins, tumblers, key chains and hoodies. All items are still available for purchase please contact info@tprg.ca if you would like to order.
We would like to thank all of the volunteers who put in countless hours to organize before hand, run the event, manage the kitchen and sort through the data afterwards. Without your assistance the event would not run as smoothly as it does.
Archery and Shooting programs are currently on hold due to conflicting commitments with our volunteers. Please watch for further updates in 2025
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