{"id":2675,"date":"2024-10-20T21:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2024-10-22T12:14:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T12:14:11","slug":"high-power-season-closes-with-a-fantastic-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/2024\/10\/20\/high-power-season-closes-with-a-fantastic-match\/","title":{"rendered":"High Power Season Closes With a Fantastic Match!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What a way to close out a High Power season!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had everything that a High Power Match could ask for.  The weather was outstanding.  The day dawned bright and just a bit frosty, but as the sun warmed the range, the frost vanished and the morning light on the targets contrasted with the fall colors to make a picture that looked like a fall postcard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A beautiful start to a great match!<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then, there the helpers. \nWe weren\u2019t going to shoot until 9:00, but when I got to the range at\n7:30 (yes, almost in the dark) there were people already setting up targets.  Who could ask for a better crew to support a\nmatch?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And yes, the sky really was that blue on Saturday!<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Next, if you are going to have a match, you need shooters.  How about the biggest crowd of the year; 25 shooters?  We had Grand Seniors, we had Juniors, we had Service Rifles, Match Rifles and a contingent of Palma and F-Class Rifles in the match \u2013 just about every ingredient you could ask for a match.The match was a 3 x 20 300-yard prone match.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A great bunch of shooters and a beautiful morning.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking from the high end to low end of the line<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We set it up to be a casual fun match \u2013 shooters were assigned firing points and each group of shooters decided how they would fire the match.  One group of shooters shot all 60 rounds at once and another shot the match 20 rounds at a time.  If someone was waiting for a shooting position and one came open, we just swapped firing points and kept the match moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How well did it work? \nWe started a little after 9:00 (there were some last minute oh-pooh\u2019s in\ngetting set up) and finished a three relay 3 x 20 match by 11:58!  This was a great bunch of shooters who moved the\nmatch right along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ashley Stevens works with Addysin while Tayt tries to figure out why everything goes backwards when he turns the knobs!<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And, even after five seasons with the Silver Mountain\nTargets, we still manage to discover new things.  The guys on target 5 made a new and\nmystifying discovery.  If you made a\nsight correction, the point of impact moved the wrong way.  Upward elevation corrections moved the point\nof impact down and right windage corrections moved it to the left. When we\ncleaned up targets at the end of the match, we discovered the exact combination\nof swapped cables on target 5 that made for backwards corrections!  Maybe we need to send some folks back to\nkindergarten to learn their color words when they install targets. (We\u2019re\npoking fun at ourselves \u2013 not fussing!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had three categories of shooting yesterday; Service\nRifle, Match Rifle and Palma\/F-Class rifles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Palma\/F-Class group, standings were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First                      Joe\nBakies           598-41X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second                 Tom\nBonner        596-34X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third                     Lewis\nLevin         553-12X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Match Rifle settled out like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First                      Mark\nWalters     591-26X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second                 Ron\nDague          578-13X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third                     Jim\nJackson         575-12X
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And the Service Rifle shooters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First                      Ashley\nStevens                  596-26X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second                 Gary Mabis                         591-14X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third                     Mike\nKing                           590-20X<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fourth                  Marshall\nRohrbach           571-16X  (High Junior)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were great scores and there were a lot of good scores\nfor the day. One great story of the day is Miss Aria, our newest Junior shooter\nin her first match (another left-handed 12-year old girl).  She swapped rifles this week and is shooting\na full sized rifle that weighs as much as she does \u2013 well, almost – maybe.  She started with a 153-2 for her first\nstring.  After a bit of a rest, her\nsecond string was a 173-0X and then she finished up with a third string of\n189-4X.  That was really good shooting\nMiss Aria!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a great day \u2013 we had fun and everyone enjoyed a great\nmatch; a most excellent way to close out a high power season. The only problem \u2013\nwhat do we do to make high power shooting even better next year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We start Winter Offhand on Saturday, November 9 at 9:00 AM, and follow up with a Junior Class and the Winter 40 shooters.  Come out and join us!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a way to close out a High Power season! We had everything that a High Power Match could ask for.  The weather was outstanding.  The day dawned bright and just a bit frosty, but as the sun warmed the range, the frost vanished and the morning light on the targets contrasted with the fall…<\/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-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","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=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}