Doug Koenig won his 21st Bianchi Cup in May with a perfect 1920-182X, a score that leaves no room for a loose optic mount or a dead red-dot battery. Real Avid thinks the habits behind that kind of shooting can help anyone get more out of a range day, and the company has built a new online resource around that idea. The free portal, called Range Ready, pairs instructional articles and videos built around Koenig with a downloadable field guide and a set of printable range worksheets.
Everything on the site hangs on five principles: preparation, precision, control, consistency and confidence. Its central argument is easy to follow. Range time should go toward confirming work already done at home, not toward finding and fixing problems that could have been caught at the bench.
The article series leans on Koenig’s career to make its points about stability and repeatable setup. Several pieces focus on Real Avid’s Ratchet Rest adjustable-height shooting bags and the case for setting elevation mechanically instead of squeezing a rear bag or stacking makeshift support from shot to shot.
The field guide carries most of the practical detail. Its 26 pages follow a shooter from the workbench at home through cleanup after the session. One of its more useful sections is a 30-minute pre-range routine, split into five-minute blocks, that starts with deciding what the session is for before anything goes into the bag. Firearm inspection, optic checks, ammunition and magazines, the tool kit and range supplies follow in that order.
From there, the guide lays out a seven-step workflow for the session itself and a matching seven-step reset for cleaning, restocking and logging notes once the shooting is done. Separate sections tailor gear recommendations to new shooters, range regulars, hunters, competitors and instructors. A troubleshooting table covers the usual culprits behind a wasted trip, from a driver bit left at home to a range bag that never gets restocked.
Competition shooters will recognize much of it. Anyone who has burned through three scope adjustments chasing a flier, only to find a loose ring screw, knows the cost of letting several variables move at once. The guide’s answer is to adjust one major variable at a time and record each change.
Worksheets from the guide are also available as standalone PDFs, so there’s no need to print the whole guide to use them. The set includes a master pre-range checklist, a session planning sheet, a range data sheet, a post-range reset sheet and a printable target. On the range data sheet, shooters can log conditions, starting zero, group notes for each string and the result of every adjustment.
All of it is free. Go to realavid.com.
