Saturday 17 August dawned as a clear, sunny day that turned out to be neither too hot, too cold, nor too windy – another perfect day for a High Power match after an iffy forecast for the earlier part of the week.
Fifteen shooters came to the line and the first shot went downrange at 7:58 – two minutes early. Thanks to all shooters for being prompt and letting the match get started on time. Everything went very smoothly and we finished up a two relay, 80-round Regional Match by 11:15. Everything was put away and cleaned up by noon – about the time that the dark rain clouds rolled in.
The match saw some really great scores posted; of the fifteen shooters, seven shot NRA and CMP Master or higher scores.
Mike King took the top place with a 786-25X score, dropping only one point in the rapid fire stages. Mark Walters followed up with a 769-15X and third place was taken by a visitor, Shawn Agne with 767-21X. Tom Collins and Gary Mabis battled for the fourth and fifth spots, both posting 766 scores – but Tom Creedmoored Gary with a 21X count to Gary’s 17X score.
Marshall Rohrbach took top Junior with a 762-22X score, well into Master score range for both CMP and NRA . Marshall cleaned the 300-yard Slow Prone stage with a 200-7X score. Marshall did this the hard way; shooting a 9 crossfire in Offhand and getting only 9 shots off during Sitting Rapid.
A brief Thank You note: Jim Jackson enabled FWRR obtaining a number of iPads that we used in Saturday’s match. Thank you, Jim.
Upcoming events for High Power shooters include:
September 7 300 Yard Indiana Championship – Wildcat
September 12 (Thursday) yard NMC 4:30
September 21-22 Atterbury Governor’s Cup – State Championship
September 21 Leonard Johnson Match 9:00