{"id":1105,"date":"2020-01-11T21:13:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2020-01-11T21:13:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T21:13:35","slug":"a-very-rainy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2020\/01\/11\/a-very-rainy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Rainy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For a change the weather prognosticators were right and Saturday morning was better day for a torpedo shoot than any kind of a rifle match.\u00a0 Over the course of the morning it went from a drizzle to a downpour and back \u2013 several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had changed the event from a Winter Offhand Match to an\nelectronic target learning session.  It\nwas a learning session because all of us were going to figure out things about\nour system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a brief introduction to the system and review of\nhow it works, and then we went over how we intend to set up targets for a\nmatch.  We covered sensor setup, cables\nand target insert installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, we took all the time folks needed to figure out just\nhow to set up their display device (Smart Phones, dumb phones, tablets, Ipads,\nFires and whatever) to connect to our server system.  It was good to see everyone helping one\nanother.  No one person knows just how\neach and every device works, but one way or another, we figured out how to get everyone\nhooked up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I demonstrated how shots show up on the display, and then I\ndivided up the group into \u201cTarget 4\u201d and \u201cTarget 6\u201d teams and we shot a match\non the simulator.  We shot slow fire\nstrings, we shot rapid fire strings, we learned how to handle cross fires and what\nto do about just out and out misses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were questions asked \u2013 some of which I could answer,\nsome we just haven\u2019t decided the answer as yet \u2013 and some I just don\u2019t know \u2013\nbut I\u2019ll find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Probably the most amazing thing at the session was what we\nfound when we took a break.  Most of us\nhave never been out at the range in a serious rain storm, so today was a first\nfor us.  Check out the pictures of the\ncreek.  The creek flows from north to\nsouth (right to left) across the range. \nOn the north side of the bridge that crosses to the 100-yard targets,\nwater had backed up like the bridge and culvert was a dam.  Drift junk has piled up like a beaver dam on\nthe north side of the bridge and just to the south of the bridge water was\nspilling into the ditch like a waterfall. \nWhat a mess!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That’s not water over dam – it’s water over the bridge – with a waterfall just downstream. Note the “Beaver dam” pile of trash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unless things just don\u2019t work out, I plan to hold this same\ntraining session later this month as an evening session for members who couldn\u2019t\nmake this session.  I am going to send\nout a notice to the High Power group as well as a general notice to the club.  Thanks to everyone who came out today \u2013 it was\na good day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The creek is just about at the top of its banks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a change the weather prognosticators were right and Saturday morning was better day for a torpedo shoot than any kind of a rifle match.\u00a0 Over the course of the morning it went from a drizzle to a downpour and back \u2013 several times. We had changed the event from a Winter Offhand Match to…<\/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-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","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=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}