Saturday August 12 dawned as a cloudy morning – no rain threatening but as humid and muggy a morning as we have seen in a while. It wasn’t actually foggy, but by the time we finished setup just about everyone commented on how damp things were. But, that didn’t seem to affect the shooting ability of the fourteen shooters who came to the match.
We were glad to see Ron Dague return to shooting after a long absence to get some medical problems cleared up. Welcome back, Ron!
Mike King continued his dominance, setting the bar for the rest of the field with an impressive 790-26X score. Mike commented to the effect; “After shooting so many matches at 600-yards, 300-yards seems to be almost easy”. He does make it look easy; back at 300 yards Mike did not drop a point, posting 200-8X and 200-9X scores in rapid and slow prone stages. Good shooting Mike!
Jeff Bierke quietly worked his way into second place with a 768-14X, narrowly edging Mark Walters’ 766-23X. Jess Jessup closed out the top four places with a 763-15X. The top four shooters all posted Master or High Master scores – great shooting guys.
The High Junior was Marshall Rohrbach with 741-11X, closing out the top five shooters for the day.
Our next event is the Indiana State 300-yard Championship Match at Wildcat Valley on Saturday, August 19th. This match is a match very similar to our FWRR matches; a CMP 80-round match fired on Silver Mountain Targets. It’s a nice day trip down to Wildcat Valley and I encourage everyone to make the trip.
On Thursday afternoon, August 24th we will shoot an NRA Approved National Match Course 100-yard match at FWRR in place of our regular high power practice. This is a quick, fun match; that little SR target reduced to 600-yards is harder to hit than it looks like it should be.