Well, the 2018 \u2013 2019 Winter Offhand Matches came to their close this Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 Nine shooters and an observer came out into the wind for the last match of the season.<\/p>\n
To say that it was not a good day for offhand shooting would probably be an understatement.<\/em><\/strong> It was windy \u2013 no one had one of those nifty Kestrel meters, but I would guess gusts well above 20-MPH.\u00a0 (National Weather Service says 25 with gusts to 39). To aggravate the wind, it came from the west to north-west, which put it in the right eye of shooters. \u00a0Between bleary eyes and wind pushing rifles around, no one had a really good day \u2013 no season\u2019s bests were set today.<\/p>\n The season had five matches scheduled and we shot all five of them \u2013 the first time we\u2019ve been able to do that for several winters \u2013 no weather cancellations. \u00a0The winner for the season aggregate score was set as the best three matches of the five.\u00a0 Although there were shooters who shot all five matches, their season aggregate scores were the best of their five matches.<\/p>\n Season three match aggregate winners and awards are:<\/p>\n Mike King\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01141 \u2013 21X\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $43.00 First Place plus $5.00 X-Man Award<\/p>\n Mark Walters \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1095 \u2013 13X\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $22.00 Second Place<\/p>\n Jeff Beierke\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01049 \u2013 14X\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $11.00 Third Place<\/p>\n Five match aggregate scores were:<\/p>\n Steve Kage\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01566 \u2013 8X<\/p>\n Kris Hartwig\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1514 \u2013 3X<\/p>\n Jeff Beierke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1351 \u2013 14X<\/p>\n Congratulations to the Three Match and Five Match top three finishers.<\/p>\n And, in the best traditions of the sport, Joe Freiberger came out and shot all five matches and he wins the Anchor Man Award for hanging in there and giving it his best with his 1917 Enfield!<\/p>\n Joe Freiberger\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 752 \u2013 0X\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anchor Award\u00a0 $5.00<\/p>\n I want to thank all of the shooters.\u00a0 We had 52 entries for the year and all of you helped me with setting up, putting things away, running a smooth and safe line and being respectful to your fellow shooters by taking the light hearted social chatter off the line so as not to disturb folks still shooting.<\/p>\n Well, the 2018 \u2013 2019 Winter Offhand Matches came to their close this Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 Nine shooters and an observer came out into the wind for the last match of the season. To say that it was not a good day for offhand shooting would probably be an understatement. It was windy \u2013 no one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwrrclub.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}I\u2019m looking forward to the High Power Clinic on March 30 and the first 50\/80 Match on April 13th.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"