The USPSA Match scheduled for April 20 (which is Easter Sunday) has been rescheduled until the following Sunday, April 27.
Because of health issues, the Cowboy Action Matches for the summer of 2025 have been cancelled.
Final Winter Offhand – March 8, 2025
Saturday March 8 was the last session of Winter Offhand and the day opened looking a lot like winter. A Friday afternoon session of snow flurries left the lane into the range and the range itself look like a Winter Wonderland – hopefully the last one of the winter.
Eleven shooters came out for the last session of Winter Offhand. It was bright, and the wind coming from about our 2 o’clock position made it brisk, but not brutal. We started out as a snow covered day and finished with brown grass – a typical March snow day.
This winter we managed to shoot four Winter Offhand matches and we count
competitor’s top three scores towards the season aggregate. This season we shot in two classes; Class AA
for Experts, Masters and High Masters and Class A for Marksmen, Sharpshooters
and Unclassified shooters.
In Class AA, Mike King took first place with a season aggregate of 1168-34X. Second place went to Jim Jackson with 1117-14X, edging out Mark Walters in third place with a 1115-15X. Class AA rounded out with Mike Habel’s 1110-9X and Gary Mabis with 1071-8X.\
In Class A, Mia King, a Junior girl shooter, took top honors with a 1073-10X season aggregate. Joe Freiburger followed with 917-2X and Tayt Shaffer, another Junior shooter closed out the top three places with his 857-3X.
After the Winter Offhand match, we had a class and shooting session with our new Juniors, the Class of 2025. Eight young shooters showed up with six of them shooting and two having their first classroom session.
Winter Offhand is over – we start High Power on Saturday April 12. This year we are starting matches at 9:00AM to accommodate shooters who want to come in from further away so they don’t need to start out at oh-dark-thirty to get here. This match will be a practice match, not an NRA or CMP match, so we can work out all of the kinks before we start competition in May.
Come out and shoot with us in April!
Wet Range Reminder
It’s almost Spring in Indiana and that means wet, muddy and sloppy conditions.
Our range is no different – it is like the rest of Indiana right now.
Members are warned that you can and will get stuck if you drive on grassy areas at this time of year.
DO NOT DRIVE OFF THE ROAD TO GO OVER TO THE 200-YARD TARGET FRAMES!
DO NOT DRIVE ON THE GRASS IN FRONT OF THE 300-YARD TARGETS!
DO NOT PARK ON THE GRASS BEHIND THE 300-YARD LINES!
Every year we have someone who thinks that they can park somewhere or drive somewhere and get away with it. This usually ends up having to get that individual pulled out of the mud and creates ruts that are almost impossible to clean up without a tractor and a bucket.
DON’T EVEN TRY IT!