The closest line of steel targets (the chickens) to the main berm is 200 yards. So I'm confused by the 100-yard comment
Don't be confused... or Perplexed.
It may be a simple error. I saw five target berms between the main (flagpole) staging berm and the 600 yard target area. It was natural to think that the berms were graduated at 100 yard intervals (not thinking metric, obviously).
Those steel targets probably are at 200 yards (or meters). I seem to recall a berm, even closer to the staging area, that had no targets. That must be the 100 yard (or 100 meter) berm that one of you refered to. We did nothing with that berm, because there were no targets. In the wide open spaces of the 600 yard range, compared to the plinking and rimfire ranges we commonly use, the distances deceived us.
And, as it turns out, I guess we're better marksmen than we ever imagined.
I ran a guy off the pistol silhouette range the other day who was shooting the pistol silhouettes with a 222rem.
BTW, I haven't run anybody off, but I did offer some correction to some guys at the rimfire range, who were shooting the little targets with a .45. I offered them my .357 and told them to try it on the big pigs further downrange. They shot a cylinder full of my ammo, then packed up.
Cap'n Bill