Thanks again to BURRIS for their great support!

RESULTS
1. Trostel / Curtis
2. Thunder / Speedman
3. Gheriani / Way
4. Hsu / Merz
5. Castro / Helbert

FULL RESULTS PDF HERE

We have 2 more matches this year if you want to shoot (and/or hike) more: TEAM SAFARI, SNIPER ADVENTURE CHALLENGE

If you’d like to take a turn at RO duty, we can use volunteers at any or all of these.

Thanks also to everyone who signed Stan’s “memorial plaque” and came to our service for him.

Thanks everyone and see you next time.

WE LOSE STAN SANCHEZ

It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of STAN SANCHEZ. Stan passed away in late April due to natural causes. He was 81.

We have known Stan for over 25 years. Stan was with the original group who shot at Blue Steel when it was owned by Dave Wheeler. Stan was an active Bowling Pin shooter, 3-Gun, Multi-gun, and long-range shooter for decades. The first time I shot against Stan in a long-range competition was 2006 at the Steel Safari. Stan came in 5th place with a 111. Stan was a constant presence at most of the Colorado Multigun matches in the late 2000’s and virtually ALL of the long-range matches at Blue Steel, Raton, and then Douglas when we booted up that location.

Once “CD” started up, Stan was a constant help and staffed our matches as RO, admin, “sender”, checkpoint-runner, or whatever else we asked him to do. Stan most recently staffed our final match of 2024 (TEAM SAFARI) last September, and when I spoke to him in early April, he was looking forward to the 2025 season starting up with the Steel Safari.

The thing about Stan was that he would follow Jimmy’s and my directions to the “T”. One of the roles that Stan settled in to and was very well suited for was the “Main HQ Punch-Card Checker and Route-card Giver” at the Sniper Adventure Challenge, so Stan was the guy you had to show your correct route “punch card” to and convince you got all your checks before he’d give you the next route sheet! Stan was also a route “Sender” at Steel Safari, Burris, TBTC, USOTC, etc. He’d distract you with shit talking until he made you leave at 8:46 on the DOT. “HIT THE BRICKS!”

Stan would talk your ear off and we always joked about having a SAC stage where you had to wait there until you could extricate yourself from him talking to you while on the clock. But it turned out all his fish stories were TRUE (he brought the photo-album evidence to BSR in 2024). Whenever kids came up, he spoke of his son with so much pride.

GODSPEED STAN, SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE

SERVICES

It was Stan’s and the family’s wishes to not have a formal service, HOWEVER, We are having a Celebration of Life at the Wills Ranch in Douglas WY on Sunday June 22nd at 3pm until whenever.

This will be after the awards ceremony of the Burris Optics Team Challenge. Please come, bring a dish of something if you want to, and some of your stories about Stan. If you’re already at the match, please stay. If not, please come anyway, it’s not too far from the Denver metro area. If we go late, it is fine to camp somewhere in your sleeping bag overnight and leave in the morning.

Jimmy will be cooking for us.

If you have a .45 ACP handgun, please bring it.

If you don’t know the address for the Wills ranch, please ask in your RSVP, and I’ll send it to you.

Please RSVP to zak@competition-dynamics.com so we have a rough count

ALSO SEEKING ADD’L RO’S FOR BOTC

We are also looking for a few more RO’s for the Burris Optics Team Challenge. RO’s would need to be there from June 19-22nd.

Here are the 2025 Steel Safari results!
2025 RESULTS PDF

RIFLE
1. Clay Moyers
2. Justin Garay
3. Curtis Winner
4. Zach Poe
5. Nick Diaz

CARBINE
1. Trevor Schuetz
2. Zachary Walker
3. Tod Carroll

Thanks to Jeff, Tim, Travis for helping RO. And Jimmy and Manuel for setup! Thanks to “B” for “sending.”

See you all at BOTC and TS!

I am still looking for some RO’s for BOTC- email!

Online registration for 2025 CD events will open on Saturday Jan 12 at 6AM MST.

http://competition-dynamics.com/

We moved Steel Safari to May in order to avoid venue conflicts at BSR. Team Safari is back in October where everyone likes it. SAC is back in Douglas again, in its old time-slot in early Sept.

2025 EVENT DATES

STEEL SAFARI May 8-11, 2025 at Logan, NM (* NOTE DATE CHANGE! *)
BURRIS OPTICS TEAM CHALLENGE June 19-22, 2025 at Douglas, WY
SNIPER ADVENTURE CHALLENGE Sept 4-7, 2025 at Douglas, WY
TEAM SAFARI Oct 16-19, 2025 at Logan, NM

STEEL SAFARI: The Original Hike And Shoot Match. The Steel Safari is the archetypal “hike-and-shoot” long-range rifle match. It tests a wide spectrum of skills involved in getting to a shooting location, identifying targets, and engaging long-range rifle targets with only one shot each. Some of these skills include target recognition, ranging, wind doping, ballistic data management, marksmanship under field conditions, non-standard shooting positions, rudimentary trail skills.

BURRIS OPTICS TEAM CHALLENGE: A hard team match! This match is an extreme test of practical field shooting of rifles, carbines, and pistols, and supporting activities. Two-man teams will be required to navigate rugged desert / mountainous terrain, recognize, locate, range, and engage challenging rifle targets from compromised shooting positions, communicate with their partner and the range officer (RO), and do it under time constraints.

TEAM SAFARI: This is a team “hike-and-shoot” rifle match for long-range rifle, semi-auto “carbine,” and pistols. It will test a 2-man team’s ability to locate, range, and engage practical targetry spread in the terrain using both weapons systems. Some of the skills involved include target recognition, ranging, wind doping, ballistic data management, marksmanship under field conditions, non-standard shooting positions, rudimentary trail skills. You can think of the Team Safari as a Team version of the Steel Safari. This match is much easier physically than the TBTC and is more on-par with the Steel Safari.

SNIPER ADVENTURE CHALLENGE: The Premier Tactical Adventure Race. You and your partner will undergo tests involving: land navigation; practical shooting with long-range rifle, carbine, and pistols; fieldcraft; problem solving; and other related tasks. Two-man teams will be required to navigate 30-60+ miles on foot to complete the course. Along the way, there will be a series of tasks to accomplish to gain additional points. These tasks may include: shooting problems with long-range rifle, carbine, and pistols; problem-solving; physical challenges; fieldcraft; communication; target recognition; memory; and other tasks. For 2025 we are rescinding the rule that prohibited night-vision devices in the SAC. We will post more about this on the SAC page shortly.

Please go to the CD web site for match info and registration http://competition-dynamics.com/

We are also looking for RANGE OFFICER volunteers for all of these matches. Please see our Here’s an overview of our Range Officer (RO) Program and then contact zak@competition-dynamics.com if you’d like to volunteer

NOTE ON PRIZE TABLES
The popularity of precision or long-range / bolt-action matches has more people around the country shooting matches that are at least somewhat similar to “our” matches. The downside is that the demand on sponsors for prizes has gone up an exponential amount compared to a decade ago. CD’s intent has always been to put on matches that “we’d like to shoot” and keep them as pure of spirit as possible. The reward for competing should be bragging rights, the things you learned about yourself and your equipment, and the experience– not trying to get loot off the prize table. There are literally thousands of matches vying for what is more-or-less a fixed pool of available sponsors. To pull together a prize table like we could get a decade ago, now we would need someone working that full time. Although CD is its own business entity, the goal has always been to just end up enough “in the black” that we can afford the periodic repair/replacement of things like targetry, trailers, and ATVs that we need for match ops. And given the time that our core staff can commit to CD, I would rather have that time go to stage and course design. So long story short, we are “de-emphasizing” our prize tables, although we still hope to have some stuff there. Like always, if anyone would like to volunteer time to help out with the prize stuff, please shoot me an email.

Thanks and we’ll see you in the field in 2025!

The normal 4 matches are a GO for 2025. Here are the dates:

STEEL SAFARI May 8-11, 2025 at Logan, NM (* NOTE DATE CHANGE! *)
BURRIS OPTICS TEAM CHALLENGE June 19-22, 2025 at Douglas, WY
SNIPER ADVENTURE CHALLENGE Sept 4-7, 2025 at Douglas, WY
TEAM SAFARI Oct 16-19, 2025 at Logan, NM

The match info pages and registration will be inline in the next few days.