Fort Wayne Rifle and Revolver Club

Team N-Squared (Norb Norbert and Tom Nagle) were the top team in the Leonard Johnson Memorial Match shot on Saturday September 21st. Team Johnson and Johnson (Jerry and Doug) were the runner-ups with a close second place finish.

The Leonard Johnson Memorial Match is shot in honor of Leonard Johnson (Jerry’s father and Doug’s grandfather), a long time FWRR member and a collegiate small-bore champion.  Leonard was active in small bore and high power shooting, so the Leonard Johnson Memorial Match is a combination of the two disciplines.  It is a team match.  It is shot with .22-rimfire rifles at 200-yards (yes, 200 yards with a .22-rimfire) and center fire rifles at 300-yards. Then to make the game more interesting, it is shot on the SR-42 target, a 200-yard reduction of the SR-3 300-yard target.  Then, atop that – when the shooters move back to 300-yards, they still shoot on that 200-yard reduced target.  The match has been called “The Toughest 2-Man Team Match in the Country”.

This year’s match ran afoul of two other state level competitions, so only two teams competed – but there was still some outstanding shooting.  In the 200-yard stage, for Team Johnson and Johnson – Jerry Johnson shot a 194-6X with a 99-4X second string, but youth and sharper eyes overcame old age and experience as Doug Johnson shot a 196-5X.

Team N-Squared were close with Tom Nagle posting a 193-5X and Norb’s 191 – 1X.  The match went to 300-yards with Johnson and Johnson in the lead by 6-points.  But, at 300-yards heat and eyesight began to take their toll on both teams and N-Squared crept up on Johnson and Johnson.  N-Squared captured a 334-6X aggregate to Johnson and Johnson’s 325-4X.  For the day, Team N-Squared came away with a 718-12X aggregate to Johnson and Johnson with a 715-15X.

Just wait until next year though.  We will shoot this match in August, after the NRA and CMP National Matches and before the Indiana State matches to enable more shooters to participate.

And, thanks to all of the shooters for donating their award winnings to the FWRR Juniors!

The FWRR High Power season will close On October 19^th with a 3 x 20 300-yard Prone Match.  Make plans to come out for this last match – make me schedule four relays!

Marshall Rohrbach won the Indiana State 100-Yard Championship on Saturday, September 14th at the Fall Creek Valley Conservation Club.  Marshall is the first Fort Wayne Rifle and Revolver Club Junior shooter to win a state match, taking the top slot in a field of 13 shooters representing the best shooters in Indiana high power. This match is the second of four matches whose scores make up the ISRPA Aggregate State Championship. 

Marshall’s victory was a bit sweeter because he outscored one of Indiana’s perennial top shooters (and one of Marshall’s mentors, FWRR member Mike King) – with a Creedmoor victory – a tied score with the winner being decided by X-count.  Both Marshall and Mike shot scores of 780, but Marshall took the win with a 24X count to Mike’s 19X tally.

FWRR shooters took four of the five top places.  Mike King was second with his 780-19X; Geoff Branson was third with 776-27X (high X-count for the day) and Mark Richard followed in fourth, just one point behind with 775-21X.

Gary Mabis finished just out of the top five with 768-21X, Emma Branson, another FWRR Junior tallied 758-11X and Doc Habel shot 749-11X. 

Congratulations to all of the FWRR shooters – now on to Atterbury for the season finale.

On Thursday afternoon we shot a 100-yard match as a warm-up for the Fall Creek 100-Yard State Championship on Saturday 14 September.  It was a warm afternoon, and not a weekend match, but 12 shooters showed up and we had to expand the match to a two relay match.  Thanks to all who came out – it just goes to show that if we offer a match; people will come.

Now, before you think that shooting a match at 100-yards should be simple, as we simulate longer and longer distances – the black of the target stays the same size, but more and more scoring rings get crammed into that 6-inch black center.  At a simulated 600-yards, the whole black is only about 1 ½ minutes wide!

Not surprisingly, Mike King took the top spot with a 490-20X score.  But, his 198-8X at simulated 600 wasn’t the top score in that stage.  Gary Mabis took second with a 488-11X – but with a 199-8X at simulated 600.  Jim Jackson took third with a 485, with a 199-10X at the simulated 600 yard stage.  Marshall Rohrbach took fourth place and High Junior with a 484-14X – solidifying his NRA Master Classification and just one stinkin’ point out of an NRA High Master score.  (That’s why it’s so hard).

Welcome to two new shooters; Aria Noel and Chris who shot their first sorta’ formal match with us.  And, good luck to the shooters who go to the Fall Creek match this weekend.  Knock ‘em down and make FWRR proud of you!

The ISRPA State Aggregate Championship series kicked off Saturday, September 7^th with the 300-Yard State Championship match at Wildcat Rifle and Pistol Club.  Twenty seven shooters came to the match on a very good day for shooting.  The weather was brisk in the morning with intermittent overcast periods through the day, and one very short period when it spit a few raindrops.  By the close of the match the sun was out and it was a pleasant day overall.

The match winner was Liam McKenna, an imported shooter from Wisconsin – so he could not be the Indiana 300-Yard Champion, but he did put on an impressive show of shooting.  After Liam dropped 3 points at the Offhand stage, he proceeded to clean the next three stages – posting a 797-51X overall score and taking the CMP Gold Medal.

Mike King of FWRR was the Indiana 300-Yard State Champion taking the CMP Silver Medal with a 789-30X score.  Andrew Beaver rounded out the medal category with a 783-33X for the Bronze medal.

Emma Branson, a FWRR Junior took overall fourth place in the match with a 782-20X, High Junior and High Woman in the match.  That score put her one place above her Dad, FWRR member Geoff Branson with a 778-32X for fifth overall.

FWRR shooters took the next two places; Gary Mabis was sixth with a 774-22X and Marshall Rohrbach (Junior) took seventh with 773-24X (High Expert).  Mark Richard took First High Master, Match rifle with a 768-12X.  Addiysn Shull shot a 712-4X in the Sharpshooter class and Taytin Shaffer posted a 665-7X in Marksman.

Congratulations to all of the FWRR shooters who made the trip to Wildcat and helped make a successful 300-Yard State Championship match.