{"id":1946,"date":"2022-09-11T19:32:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2022-09-11T19:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T19:32:32","slug":"saturday-10-september-50-80-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2022\/09\/11\/saturday-10-september-50-80-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday – 10 September 50\/80 Match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Labor Day has come and gone \u2013 so even though the calendar hasn\u2019t said \u201cend of Summer\u201d yet \u2013 unofficially summer has drawn to a close. Saturday September 10th was our last 50\/80 XTC High Power Match of the summer and we could not have asked for a more beautiful day for a rifle match.\u00a0 And, as is usual at the end of shooting season, we had some match conflicts with other Clubs and our attendance was down because we had five shooters from FWRR go to the Fall Creek Conservation Club for the Indiana 100-yard State Championship Match.\u00a0 Nonetheless, we had nine shooters at the line for Saturday\u2019s match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A beautiful day for a match; 63-degrees and no wind<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We had a couple of special guests for the Match. Carl Johnson, an FWRR Distinguished Rifleman (Badge 2160) currently living in southern Indiana showed us that he still has the chops as he was the overall match winner with a score of 773-24X. Carl also had a personal best in Prone Rapid with a 200-11X and was the high Prone Slowfire shooter with a 196-8X.  Jim Schieltz made the trip over from the Lima Sabers \u2013 he had a rough day as he had \u2018scope issues but before things went sour, he managed to shoot the top Offhand score with a 194-4X.  200-yard Rapid Sitting honors went to Mark Walters with a 197-3X.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carl Johnson; Match Winner 773-24X<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jim Schieltz; Offhand High Score – 190-4X<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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And, congratulations to Miss Mia King \u2013 one of our Junior\ngirl person shooters.  This is Mia\u2019s\nfirst season shooting high power and on Saturday she put together a score of 725-10X\n(90.6%), putting her solidly into NRA Expert territory and just into CMP Expert\nclassification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But, to match the high points of the day, there were several\nexamples of how quickly things can change in high power shooting.  When we started the rapid fire strings, Gary\nMabis found that his rifle would not strip rounds from the magazine \u2013 making it\na straight pull AR-15 (a condition not conducive to shooting in a time limit).  After putting up great Offhand and Sitting Rapid\nscores, Jim Schiletz\u2019s scope developed issues \u2013 shots that were called in the\n10\/X rings wandered out to the 7 or 8 ring. \nNormally, we would blame this on the shooter \u2013 but not this time \u2013 it was\nan equipment issue.  The most baffling\nissue of the day was the disappearing bullets that Mark Walters was shooting. Mark\nwas beating up the 10\/X rings. He would fire a shot and it would not plot.  This might happen again on the next shot. We\ndid some experimenting and the only explanation we could logically figure was\nthat the bullets were blowing up as they went downrange \u2013 strange indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are going to shoot a fun match on Thursday afternoon,\nSeptember 22nd after a quick practice session to get zeroes for .22 rimfire\nrifles.  The Juniors have wanted to shoot\na Rattle Battle Match ever since they learned about it during their SAFS trip\nto Camp Perry.  We will shoot a\nmini-Rattle Battle that afternoon.  The\nJuniors have gotten fairly well organized (they\u2019re doing it all themselves) and\nCaptain King is assigning shooters, figuring out strategies and deciding how\nshe is going to divvy up the 200-rounds of ammo allowed for the four person\nteam for this match.  We are looking for\nan Old Coot Team to shoot against them, so if you guys want to shoot this match\n\u2013 I have a set of rules and you just need to figure out a Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 24th, we will shoot the Leonard Johnson\nMemorial Match.  This has sometimes been\ncalled \u201cThe World\u2019s Toughest Team Match\u201d. \nEach shooter on two person teams will shoot 20 rounds with .22 rimfire rifles\nat 200-yards on the NRA SR-42 target, a reduction of the SR-3 target to\nsimulate the 300-yard stage of the National Match Course at 200 yards.  Now, as if this was not already a hard enough\ntarget \u2013 shooters will move back to 300-yards and fire another 20-rounds each\nat that same target! It is a challenging match and it draws a number of shooters\nwith unique rifles!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We close the high power season on October 9 with a 60-round\nMid-Range match.  That match will start\nat 11:00, so if folks want to come from afar \u2013 they won\u2019t have to start out at\noh-dark-thirty. We resume Winter Offhand Matches on Saturday, November 12 with\na 40-round offhand match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Labor Day has come and gone \u2013 so even though the calendar hasn\u2019t said \u201cend of Summer\u201d yet \u2013 unofficially summer has drawn to a close. Saturday September 10th was our last 50\/80 XTC High Power Match of the summer and we could not have asked for a more beautiful day for a rifle match.\u00a0…<\/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-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","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=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}