Due to the excessive heat warning and near 100-degree heat index predicted for this afternoon, I am cancelling the regular practice and the 100-yard match.
It’s not worth having someone get sick in the heat.
We will reschedule the match for another Thursday.
(Corrected – had wrong date on original post)
On Saturday, June 28 – the 200 and 300 yard rifle ranges will be closed from 1:00 until 4:00 PM for a Concordia High School Junior Introduction to High Power Class. The pistol bays will be open.
On Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22, ISRPA held dual EIC Matches at Camp Atterbury. The Fort Wayne Rifle and Revolver Club was well represented, both in the number of members who participated and in their accomplishments.
Saturday was a hot day and it took a while for the match to start; by some accounts it was close to 11:00 before the first shot for record went downrange. It was also windy enough to push folks around in Offhand.
FWRR scores for Saturday were:
Jim Jackson 467 – 11X
Gary Mabis 464 – 10X
Mike King 453 – 12X
Marshall Rohrbach 444 – 6X Junior Boy
Jess Jessup 440 – 3X
Aria Hobbs 408 – 4X Junior Girl
Tayt Shaffer 407 – 8X Junior Boy
Sunday was also a hot day, but the match went smoother and scores reflected that shooters did not have to sit around in the heat as long as they did Saturday.
Mike King 485 – 14X Third overall, CMP Bronze Medal
Gary Mabis 474 – 12X 2nd Non-Distinguished, 6 Leg Points
Marshall Rohrbach 467 – 5X 3rd Non-Distinguished, 6 Leg Points
Tayt Shaffer 396 – 1X Junior Boy
Killian Grimm 343 – 3X Junior Boy
Ashton Hovey 343 – 0X Junior Boy
Timothy Hovey 288 – 0X
Brian Grimm 226 – 0X
Congratulations to Gary Mabis on his first EIC points and to Marshall for his 6 points to add to the 4 he received at Small Arms Firing School.
The rifle ranges will be closed on Monday morning, June 23 for mowing. The exact start time and duration is not known, so plan your range activities accordingly.
Things were not looking good for the Indiana Junior State Championship Match. Saturday, June 14 dawned cloudy with a steady drizzle. Twenty shooters and spectators gathered in the clubhouse and under the canopy and watched the rain fall. Weather radars showed green and yellow rainfall southwest of Fort Wayne moving toward the northeast, but it looked like the rain just might go a bit south of the range at Harlan. Our 9:00 AM start time came and went, and by about 9:30 the rain had dwindled to a misty curtain and someone said; “Let’s go ahead and at least we might get in the 200-yard stages” – so we went to the line.
Nine Junior shooters and ten senior shooters gathered up their gear and we went out into the misty rain. We managed to squeeze the nineteen shooters into two relays with two shooters pair firing on their target. As the match went along, we had a period of just downright rain, but nothing hard enough to drive shooters off of the range or to cause a major distraction to shooters – fortunately, no lightning.
The rain was an annoyance, but not a major distraction with many shooters posting impressive scores. When everyone gathered after the match to check scores, Marshall Rohrbach was the new Indiana State Junior High Power Champion, posting a 778-21X score. Logan Becker took second place with his 763-23X, Creedmooring Mia King for third place with her 763-17X tally.
Marshall Rohrbach receives the State Championship Trophy from ISRPA High Power Co-VP Bob Winding
Silver Medal honors went to Logan Becker
Mia King took the Bronze medal award for the match
In the senior category, Geoff Branson took top honors with an impressive 786-34X, followed by Jim Jackson with 778-27X and Mike King with 770-31X.
We had a catered lunch and if anyone went hungry – it was their own fault. We had an awards ceremony and awards presentation, the rain had stopped and we went back to the range and fired a Garand Match. In the Garand Match, Mike King and Gary Mabis took Gold Medal awards in the Unlimited Modern Military class and Mark Walters (even with his bum knee) took a Silver award with the As-Issued M1 Garand. Seven Bronze medals were awarded in M1 Garand, 1903 Springfield and Modern Military classes.
Killian in the slow prone stage of the Garand Match
Miss Mia with the 1903A3 Springfield
The 2025 Indiana High Power Juniors (with one Old Coot)