{"id":2049,"date":"2022-11-12T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T19:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2022-11-13T01:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T01:20:13","slug":"offhand-match-december-12-shooting-in-a-winter-wonderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2022\/11\/12\/offhand-match-december-12-shooting-in-a-winter-wonderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Offhand Match – December 12; Shooting in a Winter Wonderland!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As of 7:00 AM, the official Fort Wayne weather outlook was a slight chance of snow after 4PM.  Well, that should have given us plenty of time to get our first Winter Offhand match over and done with and entered into the books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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8:45 – Things are looking pretty good!<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We started setup about 8:00 \u2013 these guys show up early and get started.  We had to do some work to replace nails to hold target faces, but there were plenty of folks to help and by about 8:45 we had a full relay, we held our safety briefing and the line went hot.  It was dark \u2013 not the best day to shoot. We had a light wind out of the northwest \u2013 but not punishingly brutal.  Things changed quickly, by the time the first string was finished, it was snowing.  It started out as a few scattered flakes, but it quickly developed into one of those lake-effect snow storms we know so well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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9:00; AND IT IS JUST GETTING STARTED<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Visibility was rotten \u2013 but we are High Power Shooters and we don\u2019t let a stinkin\u2019 snow storm run us off the line. (Or maybe we just don\u2019t have much better sense\u2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Working with Tayt, early<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We finished up about 9:45; cleaned up, put things away and headed home.  It was not a good day to hang around and practice, zero a rifle or chronograph loads \u2013 those tasks will need to wait for another day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mia uses the under-magazine hold for short-armed shooters. This was early in the first string of fire. <\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tayt, later in the match<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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And it just kept snowing!<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Just keep shooting!<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But \u2013 in spite of the weather the scores looked pretty good.  We have an alliterative list of the top five shooters this month; Mike, Mark, Mark, Marshall and Mia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike King                                          385-9X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Richard                                    367-2X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Walters                                   363-3X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marshall Rohrbach                          354-3X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mia King                                            346-4X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It snowed so much ….. !<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Mark Walters on wining the Garand Match at Anderson last weekend \u2013 even after firing a miss on his first Offhand shot!\u00a0 Mark has been known to comment that the Garand is useful only as a tomato stick, but it appears that he can do more than just garden with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, late breaking news; a reliable source reports that Mike King took second place in the Garand Match and Mark Richard took at least a share of third place. Another great showing for FWRR. Thanks Guys!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark Walters likes playing in the snow while Mike King tends to business.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And, Yes, it seemed like everyone had a good time. Now we all have a High Power story to tell; “There was this one time it snowed so hard ….”. Thanks to the parents and grandparents who showed up to watch the Juniors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our next Winter Offhand is December 10th<\/sup> \u2013 same time, same place \u2013 same format.  Hopefully \u2013 less snow, but I can\u2019t guarantee that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t forget the FWRR Meeting on Monday, December 5th at 7:00 at the VFW\/Legion\/Marine Corps League Building at the end of Main Street in Ft. Wayne.  This is the meeting where we elect officers, so please plan to be there.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But it does make the lane look pretty!<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of 7:00 AM, the official Fort Wayne weather outlook was a slight chance of snow after 4PM.  Well, that should have given us plenty of time to get our first Winter Offhand match over and done with and entered into the books. We started setup about 8:00 \u2013 these guys show up early and…<\/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-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","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=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}