Saturday. August 13th continued our string of good luck days for high power matches.\u00a0 It was overcast most of the morning, about 55-degrees at 8:02 when we sent the first shot downrange.\u00a0 When we finished at 11:04, it was only 64-degrees, a very comfortable day for shooting.\u00a0 Our ranks of shooters were thinned out a bit; we had five of our regular shooters call in sick (either with WooHooFloo or recovering from it) and two shooters decided that they wanted to \u00a0uphold the FWRR reputation at the 600-yard match at Atterbury .\u00a0 Even so we had eleven shooters on the line and we had a good match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was Jim Jackson\u2019s day; he took first place for the match aggregate with a 770-22X and he dominated both prone stages, with a 399-16X across both prone stages.\u00a0 He dropped one point in the first prone rapid stage, cleaned the second prone rapid and then continued to clean prone slow with a 200-9X.\u00a0 Congratulations to Jim for a great match.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Second place went to Mark Walters with a 758-24X – third\ngoing to a guest from South Bend, Pete Yarbro with a 751-13X. (Pete is a guest, but not a stranger to us). Mia King took advantage of a massive two-magazine\n cross-fire to take top Junior with a\n711-4X count to take the Top Junior place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marshall Rohrbach,\none of our Juniors, won the Offhand Match with a 188-1X. Mark Walters took first for Sitting Rapid\nwith 199-8X . And, Jim Jackson dominated\nProne Rapid (199-7X) and Prone Slow (200-9X) to take first in both matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We had an issue with\nslow target response in all of the rapid fire stages and after I got home and\nlooked at some of the information stored in our line servers, I was able to\nfigure out why. I\u2019ll try to be\nbrief. I can look at valid and invalid\nshots in each target log. In the rapid\nfire stages there were many invalid shots logged in each string. Our targets operate on sound – and yesterday\nmorning was a cool, humid morning. Sound\ncarried well yesterday. Shots from adjoining targets were being logged, and the\nsystem had to decide if they were valid on-target shots or invalid shots. The\nsystem got overloaded and it took it some time for it to figure things\nout. No shots were lost, but the slow\nresponse caused confusion with some shooters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n To prevent this from\nhappening in the future, I will not simultaneously shoot adjacent targets on\nrapid fire strings. We will shoot odd\ntargets then even targets to prevent this from happening again. I apologize for any confusion that was caused\n– we\u2019re still learning even after operating this long with the system. (Please, remind me of this in case I forget\u2026).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our next match will be on Thursday, August 18th – a regular\npractice night. This will be an NRA National\nMatch Course (50-rounds) fired from the 100-yard firing line on the electronic\ntargets. Just a caution, there may be a waterhole\nin front of the line, so bring bug spray for \u2018skeeters. This is a \u201cNo Match Fee\u201d free match, but if\nyou want scores sent to the NRA, please bring $5 for NRA processing fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ONE MORE THING \u2026 Saturday, August 27th will be the Indiana State\n300-Yard Championship at Wildcat Valley. \nIt looks like we have a group of Juniors going down to shoot and it\nwould be great to have a FWRR contingent there to take back 300-Yard Bragging\nRights for 2022.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday. August 13th continued our string of good luck days for high power matches.\u00a0 It was overcast most of the morning, about 55-degrees at 8:02 when we sent the first shot downrange.\u00a0 When we finished at 11:04, it was only 64-degrees, a very comfortable day for shooting.\u00a0 Our ranks of shooters were thinned out a…<\/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-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","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=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}