FOP Range Inc.

Chicken Challenge

The Chicken Challenge is an informal shooting challenge that members can undertake on the Handgun Steel Plate range individually or against friends. 

• The Handgun Steel Plate range has 161 steel plate targets, 50 at 25 yards, 50 at 15 yards, and another 61 at 10 yards. 

• To play, start at one side of the range and engage each plate with only one round. 

• Move across the range, using the shooting positions in front of the targets you need to shoot until you are at the other end. 

• When you are done, you will have a hot gun and your score is the number of plates you hit. 

• The name Chicken Challenge comes from the chicken targets at 25 yards as they are about the hardest things on the range to get hits on.  

• It is easier to just count your misses, noting them on your score sheet as you go.

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A few years ago, we held a monthly chicken challenge match and did the shoot as an organized event. 

• We divided the range into thirds and ran the pile of shooters through each position. 

• We limited the guns to iron sights only as dots and scopes make it much easier to clean the targets. 

• We also did a rimfire Chicken Challenge match using the Rimfire Range and all the targets there.

• Yes, there are some really small chicken plates at 25 yards on the Rimfire Steel Plate range so the name Rimfire Chicken Challenge is applicable.  

• Give it a shot... or a lot of shots.  Makes a trip to the range a little more fun.

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Chicken Challenge Jr...

• The full Chicken Challenge at 161 targets is going to eat 4 boxes of ammo and that is mighty expensive these days. 

• To make it a little cheaper to shoot, we have a Chicken Challenge Jr. shoot which is only using the 50 targets on the far left side of the Steel Range at 25 yards for the challenge. 

• The chickens have taken roost there and dare you to hit them.

 

Print out the scoresheet above or get a scoresheet from the office and record your hits and misses.  We give them out for free.