{"id":1172,"date":"2020-05-10T20:17:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2020-05-11T22:43:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T22:43:16","slug":"may-9th-inaugural-electronic-target-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/10\/may-9th-inaugural-electronic-target-match\/","title":{"rendered":"May 9th – Inaugural Electronic Target Match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Electronic Targets at the ready- The wind hasn’t picked up as yet!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, May 9th was the inaugural 50\/80 Match on the new Silver Mountain electronic targets.  Our target setup can support five active shooters per relay (one target is held as a spare in case something happens with an active target) and we had scheduled two relays in the morning session and two relays in the afternoon session.  Twenty shooters quickly pre-registered for the two sessions and as things progressed, three shooters had to drop out and they were quickly replaced with three more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday morning dawned as a frosty morning; there was frost on the grass over much of the range \u2013 but the wind was initially calm.  We had scheduled to have our first shot go down range at 9:00, but the first and second relay had gathered by 8:40 and when Jim Sweeney, the FWRR President arrived for the First Shot Ceremony, we got things under way.  Jim noted that “… the future of organized High Power shooting was moving toward electronic targets and this match marked the start of a new chapter of FWRR High Power.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jim Sweeney fires the Ceremonial First Shot at the Inaugural Electronic Target match<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

As the first and second relays moved through the match, the\ncalm wind conditions that existed at the start of the match quickly changed – and\ngusty, cold and blustery winds became the rule. \nIn accordance with social distancing guidelines, competitors were asked\nto wear masks except when actually shooting and it turned out that masks came\nin handy just to keep noses warm!  By the\ntime we moved back to 300-yards, several shooters were heard to make the\ncomment \u201cI can\u2019t feel my fingers\u201d.  Such is\nMay in Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, if High Power shooters aren\u2019t complaining about being\nhot, they have cold to mumble about, so we went back to 300-yards and finished\nthe match. The morning session closed out about 11:15; two-and-a-half hours for\nan 80-round Regional Match Course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the morning shooters packed up and headed to the house to\nwarm up, the afternoon relays took to the course.  We started about 12:00-noon and finished at\n3:00.  The afternoon relays might not\nbeen as cold as the morning, but the winds became even more blustery as the day\nprogressed.  One afternoon competitor\nmeasured winds at 25 MPH with gusts to 32+MPH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Relays 3 and 4 – Sitting Rapid. Note the wind ribbon on the scope stand<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But all in all, it was a good day.  Competition for top spot was close, but Joe\nBakies from the Lima Sabers \u201cCreedmored\u201d  FWRR\u2019s Mike King to take top honors for the\nday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Match Winner:           Joe\nBakies                                           772-25X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second Place:             Mike\nKing                                            772-22X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third Place:                 Mark Richard                                      762-18X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High Junior:                Madeline\nSchnelle (Wildcat Valley)  564-  4X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The electronic target system worked well.  There were some issues with targets going off\nthe air, but we believe that this is due to some super-cheap Chinese cables\nsupplied with the batteries.  We have\nreplaced those cables with regular cheap Chinese cables and we believe that should\neliminate cables as an issue.  We also\nhad several bullets just vanish on the way to the target (probably about five\nbullets), but we believe that the extremely blustery winds might have had\nsomething to do with that.  A 99.68%\narrival rate isn\u2019t bad for a first outing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to offer special thanks to the crew who acted as \u201cPit\nSitters\u201d for us; Marty Didion and Chip Seidel in the morning session (thanks\nfor the donuts Marty) and Mike King and Mike Bailey for the afternoon.  Having people in the pits to resolve battery\nand cable issues as well as swap out target faces was a huge factor in moving\nthe matches along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, as always, another huge THANK YOU<\/em><\/strong> to\nGlenna and Mike Grannis for their willingness to be my Stat Office; collecting\nmoney and registrations, gathering and tallying scores and just running around\nand helping in a lot of places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our next match will\nbe June 13th \u2013 the second Saturday in June. \nAs of now I plan to run five relays in this match; two morning and three\nafternoon relays and I plan to start the match at 8:00 so we won\u2019t run so late\nin the afternoon.  By 8:00 we have absolutely\nfantastic light on those white plastic target faces and it will make for a good\nearly session.  This will give us places\nfor at least 25-shooters, and if several things develop as they promise to do \u2013\nwe may have room for up to 35 shooters that day.  Stay tuned for more information on this!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday, May 9th was the inaugural 50\/80 Match on the new Silver Mountain electronic targets.  Our target setup can support five active shooters per relay (one target is held as a spare in case something happens with an active target) and we had scheduled two relays in the morning session and two relays in the…<\/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-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","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=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}