The Saturday, January 10 Winter Offhand Match was shot under just about as friendly weather conditions as you could ask for … at least in Indiana in January. We were set up by about 8:30, but that was only about 25 minutes after what was supposed to be sunrise and it was so dark I quipped; “Lady and Gentlemen – this will be a night shoot”. It wasn’t really cold, about 40-degrees and there was not a hint of wind! The clouds hung on, but by the usual 9:00 AM start time, we had enough light to shoot and in spite of that – some really good scores were posted.
We had eleven shooters and one prospective Junior observer, a fair turnout considering two of my shooters sent me an email saying that they had slept in and we shouldn’t wait for them. Oh well – if you snooze, you looze.
In the Senior Division, top shooter for the day was Marshall Rohrbach, living up to his High Master classification with a 391-8X score. Mike King followed with 382-10X and Jim Jackson in third with a 381-4X. Topping the Junior Division was Mia King with 373-2X.
For the season to date, the leader board is as follows:
Marshall Rohrbach 777-16X
Jim Jackson 764-12X
Mark Walters 730- 7X
Mia King 726- 6X
We have two more matches to go and the low score for each shooter will be tossed out to figure the season totals – so nothing is cast in concrete yet.
The next match is the second Saturday in February, February 14th. That is Valentine’s Day, so tie a red ribbon on your rifle and come out and shoot with us. Setup is at about 8:15 and we will shoot the first relay when we get a full line – any latecomers will shoot on the second relay.