Projects will include grading, trimming brush along the lane, cutting up a fallen tree, marking the property perimeter (using purple paint), repairing target frames, assembling shooting stools, and repairing the damage done to the 100 yard firing point on the 300 yard portion of the main range.
The equipment need to perform these tasks includes: pruning equipment, chain saws, trucks/trailers (to haul brush), general carpentry tools, tape measures, chaulk lines, a level, shovels, rakes, screw guns and work gloves.
Support your club, meet new friends, and enjoy a pizza lunch.
The 2024 High Power season
opened on Saturday with a 50/80 match.
This was a “fun” match to let us work out the kinks, find the things
that we had forgotten and the things we needed to work on before we shoot a
match for CMP or NRA classifications.
And, there were several
things we forgot. As we started
shooting, some people reported cross fires on their targets, some folks had missing
shots on targets and even some shooters had no issues at all. What in the world was going on?
We called “CEASE
FIRE” and went down range to straighten things out. It turned out we had moved the target frames
one lane to the right – target 3 was in front of number board 4, five was in
front of 6 – and so on all the way down the line. Shooters on either end of the line just shot
the target at the end of the target lines, some shooters in mid line counted
targets and some used the number boards. But, we got it figured out and things
went on after a bit of confusion,
It was a brisk day,
temperatures in the high 40’s, intermittently cloudy, partly cloudy and at
times even sunny. The wind was fairly
steady out of the west at about 10 MPH (predominantly from about 12
o’clock). It wasn’t hand numbing cold,
but there were several drippy noses and rosy cheeks.
We had eleven shooters. We would like to welcome newcomers Charles
Novak, Tim Jackson and Jeff McCullough to the high power group.
For the shooters firing the 80-round match, Mike King took top honors with a 785-25X. Marshall Rohrbach (Junior) took second with 764-16X, Jim Jackson was third with 756-12X and Kileen Shaffer (another Junior) closed out the top four shooters with a 750-13X.
For the 50-round match,
Jess Jessup took top honors with a 470-11X followed by Tim Jackson’s 434-4X .
Congratulations to the
shooters who came out on top of the standings and Thanks to everyone who came
out for the day. It was a good day.
Next Saturday, April 27 is
our Range Clean-up Day. The fun will start about 8:00 depending on task but
work will continue until early afternoon, so if you can’t be there early – come
on out anyway.
Our next High Power Match will be on Saturday, May
18. Registration and set-up will start
about 7:00. Registration will close at
7:45 and the first shot will be at 8:00 sharp.
If we have a two or three relay match, we should be done by noon or so,
so plan to come out and shoot with us!
By the end of March, High Power shooters begin to get antsy. Among the gray, wet nasty days there are
enough teasingly nice days to make people want to get out to the range and
shoot. A group of guys who had carried
on a “half-NMC” competition over the winter wanted to shoot (more about that
later) – so with a bit of urging we set up a March Madness 3 x 600 match for
March 30th.
March 30 broke dark, gray with intermittent to steady drizzle at start time. But, the weather did not stop 10 dedicated high power shooters. Rain fell steadily as we started setup about 8:30 and we had the usual first match of the season issues. Folks had to figure out which color cable went where and one server decided to go on strike and it took all of us a while to get things switched over. By about 9:00 it had slowed down to a sprinkle and we set up canopies on the firing line to keep things dry.
Yeah, it really was that dark as
we set up the canopies
But – as the day went on, things improved. By 10:00 the rain had stopped and midway
through the match the sun came out and it was a beautiful day to shoot!
The sun came out and we had
beautiful light to shoot
But, with the sun came some wind. One canopy blew over and another blew around. We moved them out of the way and kept shooting. It was a laid back match – no time limits, unlimited sighters, along with coaching allowed and help fixing guns. Everyone shot in the same category – a mix of Service, Palma, Match and F-Class rifles. At this level of shooting, the shooter is the major factor. Some fantastic scores were posted for the day. Sixteen strings of over 195 were posted with five 199’s and 4 perfect 200 strings.
Tom Bonner took top honors for the day (service rifle) with a 598-40X aggregate. Mike King (service rifle) followed closely with a 597-32X (but, he did get a canopy dropped on his head…) and Bryan Scott took third with 594-21X.
A special note; Jack Baker took the top slot in the Grand Senior Group. Jack, at 82-years old, is still banging away!
Mark Walters (seated) and Mark Richard
in their usual place at the high end of the line. Mark Richard is determined to
make the FatRat shoot!
At the end of the day just about everyone decided that we
needed to do it again next year. And –
the FWRR Juniors benefitted by receiving
$100 from match entry fees and another $70 from shooters who donated their
prize winnings to the Junior Fund.
WINTER HALF-RMC RESULTS
Over the winter a group of shooters organized a “Half-RMC”
Match. These matches were shot after
Winter Offhand matches and at other times.
40-round matches were shot at 100-yards on reduced targets; 10-rounds offhand,
sitting rapid, prone rapid and prone slow.
Four matches were shot over the course of the winter and shooters had
handicaps (like golf or bowling) to make the matches more competitive.
The top three shooters fired all five matches and the final standings
were:
Mark Walters 1982-46X
Gary Mabis 1974-51X
Mike King 1968-53X
Thanks to Gary Mabis for organizing these matches – and thanks
to the shooters who contributed $100 in match fees and $30 in prize awards to
the FWRR Junior fund.
