Saturday, September 13 was the last High Power Match of this High Power season. It was also the weekend of the ISRPA Camp Atterbury State Championships, so we were a bit down in attendance – but it was a really fun day anyway.
We had thirteen shooters ready to shoot by 8:45 A.M. and after the safety brief, conducted by newly certified Range Officer Mia King, shooters self squadded and the match got under way. The match went as smoothly as just about any match has gone (even with a couple of target uh-oh’s) and we finished up at 12:10 P.M.
Ready on the right …?
Ready on the left …?
We had shooters firing 50, 80 and 100-round matches, In the 50-round matches, Mia King (one of our Junior girls) took top honors with a personal best 477-12X Master Class score. She was followed by another Junior girl with another personal best, Aria Hobbs, firing an Expert Class 464-7X. Aria beat her GrandPa, Jess Jessup who was third in the 50-round match with 459-10X.
Mia and Aria Celebrating Personal Best Scores
In the 80-round matches, Marshall Rohrbach (just recently moving up from the Junior ranks) was top shooter with 787-23X. This Master Class score cements Marshall’s CMP Master Classification – making him a Master Class shooter for both CMP and NRA matches. Jeff Beierke was second with 757-22X and Ron Dague, returning for only his third match this year, took third with 733-13X.
Mark Walters shot the 1000 point aggregate 100-round course of fire. He took this match as an opportunity to test some loads for this trip to the Vermont CMP Games later this month and found out that his service rifle really didn’t like heavy VLD bullets. In spite of that, he shot an impressive 960-29X in the long course match.
Ashton (419-3X) showing very good prone technique
Our next match will be on October 18th, a 3 x 20 300-yard prone match. This has historically been a well-attended, fun match so make plans to join us to close out the High Power season.