On occasion everything comes together to make a beautiful day for a High Power Match and Saturday, 18 May was just exactly that day. The threat of rain earlier in the week was gone, the skies were clear and blue, there was almost no wind all day and what wind there was came from straight downrange and cooled rather than bothered. It did get warm, but not the “I’m cooking in this coat” warm.
And – in response to the great day we had 23 shooters come to the line at 8:00, the largest number of shooters we have had in a while. This was a 50/80 Match where shooters may elect to shoot either a 50 round or 80 round course of fire. The matches are fired concurrently; we had 15 shooters in the 80- round match and 8 shooters in the 50-round match.
All of the shooters did well and the match moved right along with very few delays of any sort; we fired in three relays and we finished the last relay at 12:33. Great job shooters – you make it easy on the Range Officer.
In the 80 round Match, the top three shooters were:
First Mike King 784-28X
Second Mark Walters 775-22X
Third Gary Mabis 758-23X
In the 50 round Match, the top two shooters were:
First Jeff McCullough 462-4X
Second Jerry Johnson 443-2X (It’s good to see Jerry back to shooting)
Thanks to Marty Didion who acted as our match statistician and to Gary Mabis who was kind of our handyman who showed up just at the right times in several places where a hand was appreciated.
Our next match is a 3 x 600 (Reduced to 300) prone match on June 1 with our Midsummer Madness Weekend the next week (Friday June 7, Saturday June 8 and Sunday June 9). Keep an eye out for more information about that series of matches – 5 matches in two-and-a-half days!
We will shoot the Indiana Junior State High Power Championship on Saturday June 8 as part of that series, but there will be openings for just about everyone who wants to shoot that day – not just Juniors.