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!