{"id":1091,"date":"2019-12-14T19:04:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T19:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2019-12-14T19:04:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T19:04:25","slug":"winter-offhand-match-first-e-target-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/14\/winter-offhand-match-first-e-target-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Offhand Match- First E-Target Match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Well, for two months in a row we have had a good weather day\nfor a Winter Offhand Match.  Saturday December\n14 was just about as mild a day as we could ask for in mid-December; about\n35-degrees, no wind and an overcast but bright morning.  We had eleven shooters show up \u2013 and at least two\nmore sent notice that family obligations had to take precedence this month.  (That\u2019s one reason we only count three of the\nfive matches for season aggregate!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 8:50 we had a full line and no one else in the parking\nlot, so we started a bit early.   By\n10:15 we were done and the day\u2019s standings were as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mike King\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 382-6X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Randy Jahn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 372-2X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mark Walters 369-7X <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was also the first time we have used our Silver Mountain\nTargets E-target in a match setting.  I\nhad a high level of confidence that the target would work well, but a lot less\nconfidence in how I would be able to run the system when someone\u2019s score\nmattered.  I asked Mike King if he would\nbe my guinea pig for the debut \u2013 since he is the State High Power Champion, I\nfelt confident that he would do well in this first test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike did very well, as the scores above show.  And, I was pleasantly surprised when the practice in my basement in how to handle things worked out nicely on the range.  In addition to just watching shot placement on the target, folks looked at how the system shows shot velocities and how it calculates the standard deviation of velocity across the string.  Once Mike finished his two strings and saved his target on his phone, the rest of us played with the target for a bit and I practiced deleting cross-fire shots and inserting misses into a shooter\u2019s string.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we went down-range and compared the group on the tablet\nto the actual group on the target, if there was any difference in the two it\nwas hard to see and by anyone\u2019s judgment it was much less than one-half of a bullet\ndiameter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the actual target face at the end of the day.  Only one of the shots out in the white is Mike\u2019s, his second sighter was out at 8-o\u2019clock.  The others and the .308 holes were added in our after match activities.  If all goes well, I want to try to have at least three e-targets for the January match so I can get some experience in managing several shooters at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Actual Target Face<\/strong>
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It was good to see some familiar faces we haven’t seen for a while. Russ Bell came out to shoot today, he’s been buried with work and stuff for the last couple of years. Marie and Dennie Shook came out to visit and kibitz – it was good to see them as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our next match will be January 11 at 9:00 AM. Come out and shoot – or just come out and visit for a while.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, for two months in a row we have had a good weather day for a Winter Offhand Match.  Saturday December 14 was just about as mild a day as we could ask for in mid-December; about 35-degrees, no wind and an overcast but bright morning.  We had eleven shooters show up \u2013 and at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}