{"id":1585,"date":"2021-09-28T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2021-09-28T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T14:04:42","slug":"leonard-johnson-memorial-match-saturday-september-25th-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2021\/09\/28\/leonard-johnson-memorial-match-saturday-september-25th-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Johnson Memorial Match; Saturday September 25th, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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It\u2019s 6:45.\u00a0 I open one eye and I can hear rain rattling off the side of the house.\u00a0 Oh well, we\u2019ve had a really great summer of good weather, but it looks like our luck has run out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, I can\u2019t just roll over and go back to sleep \u2013 I need to go out to the range and either wait out the rain or cancel the match.\u00a0 While the coffee is brewing I checked the weather radar.\u00a0 There is a green blotch of rain with a well-defined western edge moving across Ft. Wayne, but at the rate it is moving \u2013 it just might clear away by about 9:00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I take my coffee and head out. Along I-469 it is just\npouring.  At Harlan Donuts, it is a\nsteady downpour.  I get to the range,\nopen up the house, start the heat and wait and see if anyone is going to show\nup.  The rain sounds like someone is\npouring gravel on the metal roof of the clubhouse \u2013 I am more convinced that\nthis is going to be a rainout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After I eat my fritter and drink my coffee, I start sweeping\nup the dead wasps, stink bugs, spider webs and dead grass. Then, Doc Habel\nshows up.  My comment to him; \u201cWell, at\nleast I\u2019m not the only crazy person today.\u201d \nIt starts to rain harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, about 8:15 Joe Bakies and Jack Baker from Lima Sabers walk in and just a few minutes later Mark Walters shows up also.\u00a0 The rain slacks off a bit and we just sit around and swap stories about whatever comes to mind.\u00a0 Then, about 8:45 it just pours again and just as suddenly quits.\u00a0 We looked out the windows and there was a streak of light and a patch of blue sky off to the northwest.\u00a0 By 9:00, our start time \u2013 the rain had quit, the clouds were breaking up and we decided; \u201dLet\u2019s go do this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had four people, two relays, so we set up the match as a\nFWRR vs. Lima Sabers head-to-head Club Match. \nA coin flip decided that FWRR would shoot first and we decided to shoot\nall the way back with just one pit change. \nBy the time the FWRR shooters went to the line, the rain was gone and\nthe sky was blue with fluffy cotton ball clouds floating by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a very doubtful beginning, we ended up with a\nfantastic day to shoot. It was cool enough that nobody got too hot and there\nwas just a slight wind that fishtailed from about 2 o\u2019clock to 10 o\u2019clock to\nmake the 200-yard rim fire stage a challenge. The fluffy white clouds were the\nbiggest challenge as you could go from a target in bright sunlight to deep\nshadow in a matter of just a few seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Walters was very consistent over the day with 193-6X in\nthe .22 rim fire stage and 193-5X at 300 yards for a 386-11X aggregate.  Joe Bakies made a good run at Mark\u2019s score,\nbut his 196-7X 300-yard score just did not quite make up for his 189-4X score\nat 200-yards.  His 385-11X fell one point\nshy of Marl\u2019s 386-11X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doc Habel caught a couple of wind changes and a 7 and a pair of 8\u2019s held him to a 181-1X in the .22 stage followed by a 188-2X at 300 yards.\u00a0 Jack Baker, a Grand Senior, shot a very respectable 184-2X at 200-yards and a 169-2X at 300 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, The Leonard Johnson Match is the Toughest 2-Man Team Match\nin the country, so in the end it was the team scores that counted.  The Fort Wayne Rifle and Revolver Club Team\nhad a 755-14X and the Lima Sabers had a 738-15X, giving FWRR the bragging rights\nfor the 2021 Leonard Johnson Memorial Match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doc Habel, Joe Bakies, Jack Baker and Mark Walters – 2021 Leonard Johnson Match competitors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Joe Bakies is considering holding a 200-yard  .22 rim fire\/300-yard center fire match at\nLima in the spring, so we could well end up with an inter-club competition here\nwith a suitable traveling trophy at stake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And \u2013 it turned out to be a great day and a good time was had by all\u2026..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s 6:45.\u00a0 I open one eye and I can hear rain rattling off the side of the house.\u00a0 Oh well, we\u2019ve had a really great summer of good weather, but it looks like our luck has run out. But, I can\u2019t just roll over and go back to sleep \u2013 I need to go out…<\/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-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","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=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}