What a Glorious day for a shooting match!
On Saturday, October 8th we closed out the 2022 High Power season with a Mid-Range 300-yard Prone Match. The weather co-operated with brisk but not brutal temperatures and cloudy bright to clear skies. The winds made shooting as bit challenging with winds fish-tailing from southwest to northeast at as much as about 10 MPH – but with periods of calm as well. Fourteen shooters came out and we had almost two full relays.
All of our shooters were well experienced shooters, so we were able to run the match as an infiltration match. The shooters were allowed to decide how they wanted to come on and off the line and we gave a total block time to finish the match. Some folks decided they wanted to shoot straight through; some shot alternate shooters and some shot two matches and rested one. It worked very well and things moved as smoothly as just about any match has in a long time.
We had planned the match as a late start match to let shooters from distant places come over without having to get up at oh-dark-thirty and the scheme worked out well. We had three shooters come over from the Lima Sabers – it was good to see those guys at our FWRR range.
And – to top the day off; the shooting was excellent. Fourteen shooters shot three matches each, for a total of 42 matches. There were 8 iron sight matches, the rest were scope matches. Of the 42 matches, 19 matches scored 190 or better – pretty good shooting.
In the iron sight matches, Joe Bakies from Lima Sabers took top iron with his third match score of 200-11X. Norb Norden took second iron with a 184-4X and Mark Walters closed out the money with a 178-6X.
In any-sight, the top shooter was Geoff Branson with a 200-15X. Ron Dague was second in any-sight with a 200-8X. Bob Working dropped a point and took third with a 199-6X. It was a tough day and it only took one little error to cost you!
The High Match Aggregate was shot by Joe Bakies with a 596-32X. (Joe shot all three matches with iron sights). Geoff Branson took Second Aggregate, down by one point, with a 595-39X. (Geoff takes the X-Man award with the 39X count; he wins bragging rights). Ron Dague rounded out the top three places with a 592-24X.
The top Junior for the day was Miss Emma Branson, continuing her sharp eyed hot streak from the Atterbury State Weekend, with a fifth place overall score of 577-17X.
These guys just have too much fun!
Thanks to all of the shooters who came out for the day. It was fun and it was a great way to close out the 2022 High Power season. Our next match will be Winter Offhand on Saturday, November 12 at 9:00. We will shoot our usual 100-yard format; two strings of 20 shots for record (first string will be 22 shots, drop the low 2 as sighters). We’ll see you then!