{"id":2217,"date":"2023-05-30T20:39:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2023-05-30T20:39:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:39:25","slug":"high-power-may-25-and-may-27th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2023\/05\/30\/high-power-may-25-and-may-27th\/","title":{"rendered":"High Power; May 25 and May 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The week ending May 27th was a busy week for High Power shooters.  For our Thursday night practice session, we\nshot an NRA Approved 100-yard match. \nSeven shooters stood to the line and we had a really good match.  When the scores were totaled up, I had to go\nto the NRA Rule Book to do something I had not needed to do in my several years\nof being High Power Range Officer. Mike King and Mark Walters both posted 489 scores.  When I went to the X-count to break the tie \u2013\nboth of them posted 22X counts.  How do\nyou break a tie at 489-22X?  The NRA High\nPower Rules book says that I have to go back to the stage at the longest (or\nlongest simulated) range.  That would\nhave been the simulated 600-yard range \u2026 and at that range Mark Walters shot a\n197-12X.  In most matches that would have\nbeen pretty good, but Mike King cut a 198-12X \u2026 gotcha Mark. Mike King took the\nmatch first place with a tie-breaking score on the simulated 600-yard range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The high Junior was Marshall Rohrbach with a 475-15X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then came Saturday, the 300-yard Mid-Range match.\u00a0 It was a fantastic day for a match. \u00a0We had two full relays and we had to turn away a couple of shooters who showed up at the last minute after we had the two relays set and on the line.\u00a0 We had a special guest shoot with us Saturday; Joe Bakies from the Lima Sabers club.\u00a0 Joe is a member of the US National Shooting Team and specializes in shooting at ranges that most of us can only imagine \u2013 routinely out to 1000-yards.\u00a0 Our 300-yard range was a gallery shoot for him, but he still had to deal with his share of trash talk.\u00a0 After all, this was a group of high power shooters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joe Bakies with his loooong barreled rifle<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We had classes for Match rifles, Scoped Service rifles and Any Sight Service rifles. Shooters on each firing point were allowed to set their own match sequence- shooting this as an infiltration match. As we have found, if you just leave High Power shooters alone, they will figure out the best way to run a match.\u00a0 And, as in the last several matches, we ended up with a real \u201cshoot-out\u201d between a couple of our shooters.\u00a0 Mia King and Kileen Shaffer were shooting partners.\u00a0 In the first Match, Kileen had a rough match, shooting a 175-4X to Mia\u2019s 184-3X.\u00a0 As of the end of Match 1; it was Kileen 175, Mia 184 (it was a really solid match for Mia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kileen was pretty bummed out with her score; \u201cI don\u2019t want\nto shoot any more..\u201d.  She got some advice;\n\u201cEvery Match is a fresh start, you\u2019ve already bought ammunition, there are two\nmore matches \u2013 so put on your big girl britches and get back in there and shoot.\u201d\nSo she did.  In Match 2 Mia shot a very\nrespectable 180-3X but Kileen listened to the advice and in Match 2 she came\nback with a whopping 189-5X to Mia\u2019s 180-3X. \nAt the end of Match 2, Kileen had Creedmored Mia by 3X-counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Match 3 was the deciding match.\u00a0 Mia came on strong with a 183-3X \u2013 just one point shy of her Match 1 score.\u00a0 But \u2013 Kileen came on even stronger with a 188-3X.\u00a0 Her 552-12X aggregate shaded Mia\u2019s 547-9X by five points.\u00a0 This was great shooting by a pair of our Junior girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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K: “My gun won’t shoot and the bolt won’t open”
Mr. B: “When was the last time you cleaned the chamber?”
K: “I oiled the bolt this morning”.
Mr. B: “When did you clean the chamber?”
K: “I dunno – and I broke my fingernail”<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our guest shooter, Joe Bakies, put on a shooting exhibition\nfor us.  Over the 60-shot match, Joe posted\na 600-45X score.  At that level, just\npoints and X-count don\u2019t tell the story. \nIn his three matches, Joe shot groups of 1.17, 1.14 and 0.95 MOA spread.\nJoe of course took Tournament Aggregate and he graciously returned his awards\nto the Junior program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Results are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Match Rifle First               Joe\nBakies           600-45X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Match Rifle Second          Mike\nHabel          588-24X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Service Rifle First              Jess\nJessup          548-18X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Service Rifle Second         Gary\nMabis          575-17X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any Sight First                    John\nHalter         515- 5X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High Junior                         Kileen\nShaffer     552-12X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our next Matches are the Mid-Summer Madness matches on Friday June 9, Saturday June 19 and Sunday June 11. \u00a0\u00a0Sign-up is open \u2013 so don\u2019t wait too long!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Range Officer even gets picked on by the Bystanders<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The week ending May 27th was a busy week for High Power shooters.  For our Thursday night practice session, we shot an NRA Approved 100-yard match.  Seven shooters stood to the line and we had a really good match.  When the scores were totaled up, I had to go to the NRA Rule Book to…<\/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-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}