2025 CD MATCH ANNOUNCEMENTS

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!