Saturday, December 26, 2009

The Month Ahead -- Dec 26, 2009



The Month Ahead
Note: all links to programs and Schedules in this news letter are permanately posted at the Minnesota Rifle Shooting blog: http://minnesotarifleshooting.blogspot.com/

Jan 2nd, 2010 -- Start off the new year with participation in the 2nd match of the new "Winter Highpower League"
to be shot at Mpls. Rifle Club (Elect. targets) and put on by George Minerich, match director and MRRA President. Match is in the OTC format, 50 shots plus sighters with first shots down range at 1000 hrs. There is no need to be cold shooting here as the target house is heated and very comfortable and no target pulling is necessary. Match program: http://mrra.org/downloads/mrc/MRC_Winter_League.pdf
If you can't shoot because your trigger finger is broken (or some other lame excuse), come by and shoot the breeze about the up-coming big dollar ($$$) prize standing match in Feb
Results of Dec. match were not received by me.
Jan 10th 2010 -- Will be the first 300 meter match of 2010 again at Mpls Rifle Club -- Prone, Offhand, or 3P Take your pick.

300 Meter match report from Brian shiffman-- Dec
Robert Smith and shot monitor.jpg Mpls Rifle Club shooting house and shot monitor

"It was a pretty good day to have a match. Conditions required a bit of wind doping. We had 14 shooters with one abstaining. Several shooters that were new to me joined to shoot. We encourage all centerfire rifle competitors to participate in our monthly club matches; they are open to all. Just remember, no hunting or expanding bullets and no muzzle breaks.
The scores for the match are posted at http://www.edfpages.com/mgfc/results.php?match=12 As you look through the scores you will notice that ta number of shooters post consistent scores in F-Class and Prone. Philip Klanderud’s scores were very consistent; his first string only 2 points down from his next two strings of 20 shots each. Phillip was bested by one point by Matt Griffin. Their first and third strings were identical (187 and 189) but Matt shot a 190 to Phillip’s 189 in the second string. I shot F-Class with optical sight for my first string and got brave to shoot the last two strings with iron sights. Even using a rest, my scores are not good or consistent which means I still need work on my sight picture and alignment. I want to move to Prone but I’ll have to do better with iron sights before I tackle the other variables of position dynamics.
NOTE: With the upcoming Robert Sandager offhand match scheduled for February 13 and 14 we added an Offhand Class to the December and January matches for those wishing to get some practice under match conditions. We had two shooters at the December match that shoot Offhand Class, Erhard Bruderer and Mark Havlik. Erhard was shooting a full on match rifle while Mark shot his AR15. Our web scoring page does not have an Offhand Class so here are the results for Erhard and Mark:
Erhard 160 167 167 504
Mark 119 119 131 369
The January club 300 meter match will be on January 10th and as usual we will start at 10AM and a match fee of $15, all up. This match will again include the Offhand Class.
As I write this we are under a blanket of snow and the satellite dish is not getting a signal. It is a good time to sit by the fireplace and think about the many blessings we have had this year.
Happy holiday season."
Brian D. Shiffman shiff004@umn.edu

2010 Highpower Sched
from Bob Peasley
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23879501/2010-High-Power-Shcedule-Dec-5th-Version

Highpower
Kurt Borlaug has announced the schedule for the summer 2010 Thursday evening HighPower league matches at Gopher Rifle and Revolver club. Program (Schedule):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24410947/2010-GRRC-Thursday-Evening-High-Power-Prone-League-Schedule


Kurt has also organized a Tuesday evening M1 Garand league for summer of 2010 (again at GRRC), and these matches will be shot as a "President's" match format -- 10 shots prone slow fire, 10 shots rapid fire Prone, and 10 shots Standing.
Program (schedule) is found at http://www.scribd.com/doc/24412448/2010-GRRC-M1-League-Schedule

High Power clinic
When --Jan 23 rd
Where -- Gander Mt.-- Lakeville, MN
What -- Everything you wanted to know about High Power rifle competition
(rules, sight settings, how to zero, wind reading, basic sight alignment, trigger control, sling attachment, getting into position, scope placement, etc.)
Who -- Bob Peasley (High master shooter in Long Range, OTC, Mid range, etc)

Program:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24413996/High-Power-Rifle-Clinic-Bob-Peasley

Long Range:
Berger Bullets SouthWest Long Range Nationals -- Feb 4th--7th 2010
Get away from the Cold!
Shoot long range at the Berger Bullets Southwest Long Range Nationals-- Feb 4th thru Feb 7th. This is a good opportunity to shoot head to head with the top prone shooters in the nation and thaw out a little in the process. This will be 4 days of Palma and 1000 yd matches at Ben Avery Range in Phoenix, AZ. You can test your skill against the big boys and the Ladies, such as Trudy Fay, Michelle and Nancy Galagher. You know that you need a shooting vacation this winter----this is your chance!
See you there
Match program:
http://www.desertsharpshooters.com/champ/2010/2010%20Berger%20SW%20Nationals/Berger_SW_Nationals.pdf


Small Bore:
Our friend from North of the Border-- NWOshooter-- has posted a couple of good articles on his blog (Prone in the Wilderness) about his own training regimen, and the one I think that bears reading is about keeping a shooting diary. Keeping such a diary forces you to confront and list your mistakes and thereby reinforcing your memory to what you did wrong. Reviewing your shooting diary before a match and during your training helps you concentrate on the things that have caused problems in the past and hopefully you can apply corrections to your methods. We do hope to see NWOshooter at one of our next MN Small bore matches this coming summer. here is an example of one of his methods : http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B6GgWSR_71MKMTgxNDMyYTktMjBhNC00MWM1LTk3MjUtZGZhMGZkYWFlZGUw&hl=en

Article at: http://proneinthewilderness.blogspot.com/

Personal Notes:
Never get too Discouraged

OK, so you had the worst day of your shooting career today -- There is always tomorrow, and there is no place to go but up. Following is a letter I sent to my shooting Buddy who has vowed to Quit shooting due to lack of reward for all the effort he has put in trying to be a better shooter. ---

"(B.....)
Taking a break from an activity for a while can be a good Idea. However, one must be careful about over-reacting if one has had a bad day or a bad weekend. Recognizing "burn-out" for what it is helps one cope with the stress of relative failure in competition.
Remember, we don't shoot, at our skill level, in order to win, but to compete--to "play the game" as it were. I haven't won a rifle match in the last 5 years. It's doubtful weather I'll ever win another rifle match, so for me the competition is just to shoot at least above my average. If you think about it, this actually becomes easier and easier, as if we don't shoot well, our average goes down and then it's easier to shoot our average. So, eventually we win (shoot our average), and all is well.

I think there is no doubt that you shoot too much. I come to practice on Tuesday, and Thurs, and you are there before me, shooting away, and then when I leave, you are still there banging away. I shoot about 40 rds at practice and you shoot about 140.
Now, you have added long range to your goal, and shoot a Palma match. I couldn't handle that much shooting, besides the fact that long range is very hard to score at. Too much shooting and too much loading ! Too much time spent on the sport for it to be fun. I becomes a chore, ---work. Work with no pay off.
So, think about what it is about the matches that is fun--- being at the match with the guys, -- having the opportunity to stretch your limits a little, --- Try new things out, -- a little friendly competition --- A person needs these things to stay young.
So, instead of quitting, just ease off a little, shoot less, enjoy it more. You will actually shoot better because of it. Go back to what you found to be fun when you started --- over the course, service rifle---well maybe not that far back. You now see why I don't shoot as much Long range prone. Prone shooters are so serious. The sport is boiled down too far to perfection. You have to shoot almost perfect scores or you are a failure. Like, Why did I drop those two pts yesterday---Why?
It's lots easier to have some fun in OTC matches-- No one shoots perfect scores there, and rapid fire is always fun --- and sometimes you get lucky.
So, take a little break from practice and loading, mix up your matches -- a little Prone, a few OTC matches, shoot scope in SB, set reasonable goals! Look at how far you have come in the last two years and be satisfied. Remember you shot a good score just last Sat in SB. Get back to the fun part of shooting.
I'll be at the OTC Sat with the service rifle, then a week so off.

Hawkeye"-


I also had to send this msg to myself last Sat night. I had just shot my personal record LOW score at a 500yd mid range match. I couldn't see the target, (old eyes) the new expensive sight I had bought didn't help, I couldn't read the wind (nothing new here), My trigger control was bad, and 2 x-fires didn't help much at all. Difficult wind (gusting to 25mph) and bad visibility didn't seem to hurt the better shooters (German Salazar shot a 598/600), so any excuses were I made were worthless. I was just not competitive --- period! Oh poor me. What a loser!
Well, Sunday morn.the sun still came up as expected, the weather was a little warmer, the wind was down, and I could shoot scope in a gentlemanly 160 shot SB prone match. I didn't have to worry about sight-alignment, and the scope substituted for old eyes. What a difference a day makes! Shooting was fun again. I shot the first 20x clean of my whole career, dropped only 2 pts for the day, and settled with a personal record high score of 1598/105x. What a difference a day makes. Two days of shooting, two personal records. I am rejuvenated. I can shoot well sometimes, and that makes it all worthwhile --- all the work, all the expense, all the mental anguish is worth it, for just one brief, shining moment when it all comes together (there is a Camelot).
Did I win that match ?--- nope. I was just 2nd loser. Rick Curtis shot 1599/136x and Allen Elliot shot 1598/112x. Oh, Well, I had fun and that's all that really counts. Think about it after a bad shooting day. The sun will come up tomorrow.
Hawkeye

Matches coming up:
Saturday Jan 2nd -- Mpls Rifle club -- Winter HP league
Sunday Jan 10th -- Mpls Rifle club --- 300m match
Saturday Jan 23 -- Highpower Clinic -- Gander Mt, Lakeville, MN
Sat & Sun -- Feb 13th &14th-- Mpls Rifle club -- Bob Sandager Offand Matches (Big prizes)

Minnesota Rifle Shooting Blog: http://minnesotarifleshooting.blogspot.com/

"If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner." -- Terry Goodkind

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Southwest Long Range Nationals --Feb 4 thru Feb 7th

Get away from the Cold!
Shoot long range at the Berger Bullets Southwest Long Range Nationals-- Feb 4th thru Feb 7th. This is a good opportunity to shoot head to head with the top prone shooters in the nation and thaw out a little in the process. This will be 4 days of Palma and 1000 yd matches at Ben Avery Range in Phoenix, AZ. You can test your skill against the big boys and the Ladies, such as Trudy Fay, Michelle and Nancy Galagher. You know that you need a shooting vacation this winter----this is your chance!
See you there

Match program:
http://www.desertsharpshooters.com/champ/2010/2010%20Berger%20SW%20Nationals/Berger_SW_Nationals.pdf

Sunday, December 20, 2009

High Power Rifle Clinic

When --Jan 23 rd
Where -- Gander Mt.-- Lakeville, MN
What -- Everything you wanted to know about High Power rifle competition
(rules, sight settings, how to zero, wind reading, basic sight alignment, trigger control, sling attachment, getting into position, scope placement, etc.)
Who -- Bob Peasley (High master shooter in Long Range, OTC, Mid range, etc)

Program:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24413996/High-Power-Rifle-Clinic-Bob-Peasley

GRRC Thursday evening High Power prone league

From Kurt Borlaug
Here is the Program & schedule for next summer's (2010) Thursday evening HP prone league matches at Gopher.

Program (schedule):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24410947/2010-GRRC-Thursday-Evening-High-Power-Prone-League-Schedule

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

The Week Ahead Dec 9th, 2009

The Week Ahead
This coming Sunday be at Mpls Rifle Club and shoot from a heated shooting house. The match-- 300 meters, position and prone, take your pick. Bring 60 rds + and have some fun shooting on the electric targets. F-class shooters encouraged to come.

2010 Highpower Sched
from Bob Peasley
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23879501/2010-High-Power-Shcedule-Dec-5th-Version

Winter fun with Rifles and win "Big"
money!
" Hi All
Please find attached a match bulletin for a little winter fun. Feb 13th and 14th, Minneapolis Rifle Club is holding a 60 round offhand match with $1400.00 in total prize money. Pre registration is $15.00 or $20.00 walk on registration. Please see the attached bulletin. Please spread the word. Thanks!"
George Minerich -- MRRA President
Match bulletin: http://www.scribd.com/doc/23878798/REVISED-60-Shot-Offhand-Match

Mpls Rifle Club 300m Match -- Nov 8th
See Brian Shiffman's report on this match and pictures below:
Next match is Dec 13th--This Sunday Mpls Rifle Club 0900hrs

Long Range Shooters:

AZ Palma championships Dec. 4th -6th 2009
I had the pleasure of attending (pulling targets $$, not shooting) at the 2009 Arizona Palma State Championship matches this past weekend. This is a Long Range Match contested over 3 days at 800, 900, and 1000 yds with .308 caliber rifles, Iron sights, and little 155gn bullets, so as to really test the skill of the shooters. They were tested. Friday's start at the 800 yd line saw cold and strong gusty winds already separating out the top shooters from the also rans. At the 900 the wind calmed and the temp rose to a comfortable 60's deg day. Friday was great weather in the high 60s with light winds except at the 1000 yd line, and Sunday repeated Saturdays conditions, again with tricky winds at the 1000 to ensure that the top shooters earned their wins. They did.
See Links below for results:

From: German Salazar -- ASRPA Highpower Director
"We had a very good turnout and the weather was very good, presenting a range of conditions without becoming unmanageable. We hope to see you all back for the Berger Bullets Long Range Championship in February, the program and entry forms are at www.desertsharpshooters.com ."

AZ Palma champ results (agg)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23875596/2009-AZ-PALMA-AGG

AZ Palma champ results (Team)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23876443/2009-Az-Palma-Team

Prepare for 2010 Highpower-- from
GRRC December newsletter (Dave Newell -Pub)
"GRRC will be experiencing some new and exciting changes to the High Power practice format in 2010. First of all, we will have an M1 Garand League. These will be 30 shot matches fired at 200 yards in the prone slow-fire, prone rapid-fire and standing slow-fire stages. Each shooter will take a turn in the pits and then shoot, and vice-versa. These will be fired on meeting nights beginning in June, running through September. The final match will be a CMP sanctioned event where scores will be sent to CMP for national rankings. Shooters achieving "cut" scores will receive medals of bronze, silver or gold relating to performance.

The usual Thursday practices will have an added twist. First of all, we are moving to Wednesdays. Explanation to follow. The Wednesdays will be in a league format. Each session will be either 10 shots standing at 200 yards followed by ten shots sitting rapid-fire at 200. Shooters will then go back to 300 for a prone rapid string. Pits will rotate after the first relay finishes, and those who started in pits will fire. The next session will be 600 yards slow-fire prone at 600 yards, with an infantry match stage thrown in for MN Team shooters as well as anybody who wants to try this game.

Thursdays will witness the beginning of a High Power Prone League. This will be open to F-Class shooters as well as sling shooters. This will be a mix of 300, 500, 600 and 1,000 yard events. The schedule for this league is based around the LR matches that GRRC will host.

All leagues will be open to members and non-members alike. If you have wanted to try HP in some form and never had the chance, this will be a low-impact introduction to the sport. I will need HELP! Please contact me if you are interested in competing/assisting. Start prepping brass as it will be a long season!!"
Kurt Borlaug

1st Annual GRRC Smallbore Prone League Final Results
Larry Sawyer 6354-403X League Champion (MNCenter shots Head Coach, Distinguished Smallbore position and prone shooter)
Jim Evenson 6299-326X First GRRC Member
Jonell Sawyer 6281-263X First Woman (Larry’s partner in love and crime)
Kurt Borlaug 6251-271X (GRRC, Mn Rifle Team)
Carmen Fry
6169-195X First Junior and GRRC Jr.
Joel Peabody 6164-187X (GRRC)
Scott Chester 6138-210X (GRRC JR)
Shelby Sandstrom 6128-175X (GRRC JR)
Danielle Groeshens 6113-180X (GRRC JR)
Mark Schoess 6064—134X (??) (GRRC, MN Rifle Team)
Randy Allee 6033- 160X (GRRC MN Rifle Team)
Bill Lahti 5999-143X (GRRC)
Willy Elliot 5929-123X (GRRC, Anoka Cty. 4H Coach
Tom Torborg 5928-111X (GRRC, Mn Rifle Team, NewFather)
Gordon Kordosky 5847-106X (GRRC)
Allie Taschuk 5667-82X (Mn. Centershots JR)
Gabe Starr 5585-71X (GRRC JR)
Sarah Kostick 5559-76X (Anoka County 4H Coach)
Rik Rarick 5545-65X (GRRC BPCR)
Cliff Secord 5533-47X (GRRC wearer of many hats)

The total possible points for this league was 6400-640X. Small-bore prone is fired at 50 yards, 50 meters and 100 yards. The
blackpowder range is where we fired this league and many thanks are due to GRRC members for help setting up this range, as well as the cooperation involved among other disciplines. The turnout was far better than I expected and a special thanks is due to Jim Evenson for helping to run the “Day Shift” shooters. These were a group of retired gents who fired in the mornings and
helped to take pressure off the evening shift when firing points were at a premium. All scores will be sent to the NRA and you will receive a classification card representing the classification you earned while participating in this league. Thanks to all participants and we hope to see you next year
-Kurt Borlaug

Next Match
Dec 13th 2009
-- Mpls Rifle club -- 300m prone and position

Keep em in the middle
Hawkeye

"If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner." -- Terry Goodkind

Mpls Rifle Club - 300 m Match - Nov 8th

If the temperature was in the 70’s is might have been a better day than what we had on Nov. 8. Calm to begin with and a little breeze from now and then by 11AM or so. Basically, a really nice day to shoot .Lance was on his game, particularly in kneeling. Look at his score (and all the rest) at http://www.edfpages.com/mgfc/results.php?match=11

We had a couple of new shooters at this match, Robert Smith and Steve Morehead. Steve’s a lefty, like me, but shooting a right handed hunting rifle. I’ve included pictures as attachments so you can see who the shooters are and what they were shooting.

This was Robert’s first time out and with a custom AR15. The rifle was set up with iron sights and he was intending to shoot Prone class but with the combination of rear riser and high front sight there was not sufficient adjustment up; with the riser removed there was not adjustment down! That issue will be solved with new parts. As a result, Robert shot in F-Class, and for his first time out did remarkably well. Robert is an air and free pistol shooter and so has picked up some good habits along the way.

If you look at the scores of the F-Class shooters you will see very good consistency for each as the match progressed.

Ed Facundo brought his twin sons for their first trip to watch the match. They are not identical but I still could not remember which name went with which boy. They were remarkably well behaved and quite interested for being almost 9 years old. After the match they had a chance to fire a few shots from his rifle and then some through my Anschutz air rifle. 300 meters is a stretch for a pellet but he wanted them to get a chance to get up close and personal with an air rifle. Ed has plans to get one for the boys.

The December match will be this Sunday, December 13th. As usual, shooting will start at 10AM so get there in time to set up, go through the administrative process (really easy, just pay $15) and a review of the electronic target operation. Oh, get there really early if you want to set up and go through the admin stuff before the BS sessions begin. I expect to have several new shooters at this match and there should be time to get to know each other.

I missed summer; it looks like winter decided to show up after all.

Brian D. Shiffman
shiff004@umn.edu

Monday, November 30, 2009

Minn Rifle & Revolver Assoc. winter meeting Dec 5th -- Agendas

The MRRA will hold it's winter Board and Membership meeting at Gander Mountain located at 14640 W. Freeway Dr., Forest Lake, MN, 55025 on Dec. 5th.
10 Am Board meeting
12 pm General membership meeting
Note: State service rifle team meeting follows membership meeting

Please attend: This is your chance to discuss and bring ideas to the Assoc. to help improve our sport.
See agendas at link below--
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23372557/2009-Winter-Meet-Agenda-2

Friday, November 27, 2009

High Power winter league -- at Mpls. Rifle Club

"Hi Guys please find below the schedule for the MRC Saturday NRA National Match / F-Class League. We will shoot the NRA National Match Course, 10 offhand, 10 Rapid Sitting, 10 Rapid Prone and 20 Slow Fire Prone with sighters at each position. If you want EIC practice you get no sighters. All targets scoring is modified for the electronic targets at 300 meters and the target on the computer monitor will look like the SR, SR-3 or MR. For F-Class shooters we will let you shoot the International target - 50 rounds plus sighters (challenge wise, it’s very similar to the F-Class target).
The league fee is a flat fee of $80.00. $7.00 is the NRA League fee and the balance is for heat and electronic target maintenance. The $80.00 fee is due at the first match and is nonrefundable. Please note The fee is set up this way to reserve the range and to be sure there is participation since I am donating 8 Saturdays. You can pre-register by contacting me -- see below.
Matches start at 10:00am, but be there by 9:30am for preparation. We should be done by noon.
Please contact George Minerich if you have any questions at (320) 968-6898 or minerich@clearwire.net

MRC SATURDAY HIGH POWER LEAGUE
50 Rounds plus sighters
Dec. 19, 2009
Jan. 02, 2010
Jan. 16, 2010
Jan. 30, 2010
Feb.06, 2010
Feb. 20, 2010
Mar. 06, 2010
Mar. 20, 2010

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Out of town High Power Match -- Rio Salado OTC Nov 21, 2009


It was a beautiful day for a match -- 75 deg and no wind! Had fun with the Service rifle and shot the smallest group I ever shot in 300 rapid. Too bad it was all in the 9 ring at 12 o'clock.

Hawkeye

Monday, November 16, 2009

Out of Town Small Bore Match -- Phoenix Rod and Gun Club Nov 14th '09



Shooters,

I seem to have misplaced my results table so my feeble attemt at a summary will have to do.We had a great day at the range today, 14 shooters on the line for the Anysight 1600 with four juniors to boot. Speaking of juniors Richard Layton made his prescence known by winning the Dewar Match with a very impressive 400-34 and winning the 50 yrd match with an almost perfect 400-39X. Richard finished the day with a very respectable 1595-129X for second overall, just out X-ing our Match Director Allen Elliot who finished third with a 1595-105X. Great shooting Richard! In the slightly older division Jack Arnold and Pete Church battled it out for fourth place with Jacks 1594-102X just besting Pete's 1593-109X.

Back to the younger folks who choose to shoot iron sights today, we had a battle to the end with Matt Roessel claiming victory and the Silver Mug with a great 1526-46X just edging out Jay James' 1521-38 and Scott Siggs who put up a solid 1497-45X. Full results below.

Rick Curtis 1597-117X
Richard Layton 1595-129X Jr.
Allen Elliot 1595-104X
Jack Arnold 1594-102X
Peter Church 1593-109X
Jim Cobb 1585-082X --- Irons
Jim Evenson 1582-076X ---Irons
Mick Walker 1573-076X
Bill Luth 1533-037X
Matt Roessel 1526-046X Jr. ---Irons
Jay James 1521-038X Jr. ---Irons
Scott Siggs 1497-045X Jr. ---Irons
Jack Greenleaf 1469-014X ---Irons

On behalf of the Desert Sharpshooters I want to thank everyone who came out and we look forward to seeing you all again. Remember, if you want our sport to grow bring a junior.
Rick Curtis

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Monday, November 9, 2009

International Air Rifle match -- Nov 09



Cold weather does not stop dedicated shooters !

Bills Gun Shop -- Robinsdale, MN
Pictures by Mike Marzitelli

Air Pistol match -- Nov 09



Air Pistol shooting Nov. 09 Pics by Mike Marzitelli

Monday, November 2, 2009

Mple Rifle Club -- Electronic targets -- 300 meters

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300 meter match Sunday, Nov 8th

300 m Rifle match

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

Rifle shooters, this Sunday Nov 8th, the Mpls Rifle Club will be hosting their monthly 300 meter rifle match. This is another good chance to try out those really neat Electronic targets while shooting from a comfortable heated shooting house. So, there's no excuses to stay home because of cold weather. Come on out -- have some fun -- be social - pull some triggers.

Map to MRC -- http://mrra.org/images/maps/mrc_map.gif

Air Rifle and Air pistol League starting up

"The Air Pistol and Air Rifles Leagues are off and running at Bill's in Robbinsdale. The pistol shooters convene on Tuesday evening and the offhand rifle shooters on Wednesday. There are about a dozen pistol shooters, some performing at an elite level. We have just started the offhand rifle league hence we have about 8 regular competitors. It is gratifying to see the improvement in offhand scores that many are experiencing thus far. This should be fair warning for some of the other smallbore and highpower competitors next season. There is room for more shooters on both evenings. The price is absolutely right, being 5 bucks for range fees and a one time contribution of between $5 or $7 to cover target costs. If anyone is interested, they should come at least to be a spectator, free, and see the action. Feel free to contact Mike Marzitelli at mmarzitelli@hotmail.com for any questions or details. "
Mike marzitelli

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Mpls. Rifle Club -- 300m 3P State Champ


"The day was overcast but not dark and the wind was very light; an almost perfect day for a match.

It was a jacket and hat type of day but we were all in our shirtsleeves in heated comfort in the shooting house.

We had a grand total of two, yes, two competitors. But let’s think in terms of quality not quantity. These were two of the top shooters in the state, Lance Peters and Erhard Bruderer (who, in spite of a stellar history of rifle competition, now says he is a pistol shooter). The fact is that Lance also shoots pistol and is more than holding his own in that discipline. These two are real competitors on the range and it is entertaining to see them compete. Note, small children and sensitive adults should not be close by. As you look at the photos of the guys shooting, notice the concentration. The pictures were taken without the aid of flash and, thus, the shutter speed was around half a second or so. Not only did the camera operator have hold steady (handheld, no tripod; what was I thinking???) but the competitors did not know that pictures were being taken at the time.

Back to the State 3 position championship. It was a full match of 120 rounds for score, 40 in each of prone, standing and kneeling. It is as much a test of stamina and conditioning as it is impeccable rifle shooting. The multiple computer system was in operation and the gallery was able to amuse themselves in the club room watching each shot on a master scoreboard. In the end, Lance Peters was crowned State Champion with a total score of 1115 and Erhard Bruderer was second with a score of 1093. After 120 rounds the difference is not that much. In fact, the gallery was really engrossed watching each shot by each of them throughout the match. Only towards the end of the last position was it possible to wager on the outcome. Due to the low turnout, the payout for the top shooters was meager, indeed. Lance got a $5 bill and Erhard received $1 which he proudly displays in one of the photos of the match.

A good time was had by all. This match was originally scheduled for earlier in the season and had to be moved. In 2010 it will be put on the schedule early enough that if it has to be moved, there would still be time to hold it before shooters scatter for matches and vacations unknown.

We will be shooting throughout the winter in heated comfort; come join us for practice each week and a monthly club match. "

Brian Shiffman

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Blue Goop -- Copper removal

The post on Blue Goop - Copper removal has been downloaded by 96 folks so far. I'd like to hear some comments on how it worked from those who have tried it. I have used it a few times , with not so obvious results. Now that is not to say it didn't do it's job as advertised, but I'm not so sure that my barrels get much in the way of copper fowling in the first place.
I have been using Kreiger barrels, with moderate loads, in .223 and 6m BR. I have tried quite a few bore cleaners that usually help remove copper, such as Sweets 7.62, Bore Tec Eliminator, Shooters Choice, Hoppies, etc. and the Blue Goop -- none of which seem to dissolve much in the way of copper fowling in my barrels --ie, patches turn blue. I suspect that since the results are pretty much the same with all the products, there just is not much copper fowling in my barrels to remove, and my barrels are just not a good test for the Blue Goop.
So, let's hear some comments from you folks who have tried it on some barrels that do have copper fowling problems.
Blue Goop-- http://www.scribd.com/doc/19887175/Blue-Goop
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

50 m Free Pistol - MN State Championship Results

The results of the State Championship Match held on September 26th at Oakdale Gun Club in Lake Elmo, Minnesota were as follows:
State Champion Lance Peters 591
First Expert - Erhard Bruderer 578
First Sharpshooter - Thomas O'Donnell 564
First Marksman - James A. Reedstrom 546
High Senior - Joel Peabody 524
Mark Peabody 544
Alex Gybin 538
Karl A. Studt 480
Arne Olsen 467
Brian P. Shiffman 430
The scores are for a total of 70 shots. There were two stages, the normal 60 round stage with a 10 shot, one shot in 75 seconds, final. The match was shot under good conditions with little wind and benign temperature. Additionally we have some newer younger shooters who are making impressive gains.
Mike Marzitelli

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The Week Ahead -- Oct 6th 2009

Shooters

The Week Ahead
This coming Sunday, Sunday (not Saturday), Oct 11, you will want to be heading to Mpls Rifle Club for the 300m 3P State Championship. Map to MRC-- http://www.mrra.org/images/maps/mrc_map.gif Try out that neat Electronic target system where you fire a shot and the hit location is shown on the computer monitor at your firing position. Rain, snow-- doesn't matter as you will be firing from a heated shooting house at the targets 300m away. This is one of only two electronic 300m target ranges in the U.S., and it's pretty cool. Match Program: http://www.mrra.org/downloads/mrc/300m11-11.pdf
MRC also hosts open 300m practice on Tuesday and Saturday mornings. Remember it's warm and comfortable shooting from the MRC shooting house all winter. There will also be a 300m match (prone and 3p) on Nov 8th, and Dec 13th and they will be the best thing going to cure SWS (shooting withdrawal syndrome) while keeping in practice.

Last Week
This past Sunday Gopher Rifle Club hosted the last Service Rifle Leg Match of the season. Fall weather threatened rain all day, but conditions remained good enough - cool, light wind, and a few sprinkles. Enough participants guaranteed 2 legs available to be won by non-distinguished shooters, and medals were up for grabs by all shooters. Leg matches are particularly good matches as they are Army style matches where no sighters are allowed -- first shot counts, all shots count. Leg matches teach you to know (and have confidence in) your zeros and force you to make a well thought out wind call for that first shot. Leg matches are true rifleman's matches. Course of fire-- 10 shots standing at 200, 10 shot string of sitting rapid at 200, 10 shot string of rapid prone at 300yds, and finishing with 20 shots prone at 600yds (no sighters). As I said it is a true test of a rifleman's skill.
Finishing on top and winning the Gold medal was Kurt Borlaug (Dist. shooter). In 2nd place taking the Silver and 8 leg pts. was Ben Brunk. The Bronze Medal goes to Larry Weidell, (Dist. shooter). The second non-distinguished shooter was Mark Havlik who earned 6 leg points towards his Distinguished Rifleman's badge. Congratulations to these these 4 top riflemen. GRRC was in great shape for this well run match thanks to hard work by Don Mastro, Kurt Borlaug and others.
Leg Match Pictures posted Below

MRRA Board meeting Oct 17 -- Cabela's in Rogers, MN 10am in the snack bar. Agenda: http://www.mrra.org/downloads/agenda9-17.pdf 2nd board meeting, and membership meeting on Dec 5th at Gander Mt store, Forest Lake MN.

Ammo for sale
Don Burke, U.S. Marine, and former Highpower shooter, has 500rds of .223 Black Hills (re-mfg) match ammo, loaded with 75 gn Hornady bullets, for sale at $350. Don Suffered a Stroke last year and now resides at the VA hospital while undergoing therapy. Don would like to hear from any shooters to chit chat, or to sell the ammo and Sights (Anchutz, Zelnak) for a flat top AR. Call Don at - 612-722-3391 Best time to call M-F is 8-10p.m. or anytime on sat/sun. When able, Don still plans to shoot some bullseye pistol. Get Well Soon, Don. We are thinking about you.

Adios
With the shooting season winding down, and due to low apparent readership in the late season, this news letter will now become a monthly occurance. The survey I posted in last week's "The Week Ahead" newsletter, asking those who read it if they wanted to stay on the mailing list drew 38 positive responses. Tks to all for their support. The continuation and purpose of the Blog is being re-assessed to better serve the promotion of rifle shooting sports in MN. Any and all comments are welcome


Hawkeye -- signing off
Semper Fi and keep em in the middle

"If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner." -- Terry Goodkind

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Week Ahead -- Sept 28th, 2009

The Week Ahead for Shooters

Well shooters, the competitive season here in MN is winding down. There is one Over the Course Service Rifle match left. This coming Sunday, GRRC is hosting a Service Rifle Leg Match - 50 shot OTC. If you own, and occasionally shoot a service rifle - this is the match for you and its a good one to wind down the season with. This is a Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) sanctioned Match and points towards a Distinguished Rifleman badge are the prize. For those in the hunt for these elusive points, the competition will be fierce. For the Rest of us, it will just be a fun match to shoot. 50 shots---easy day.
We would like to see as many of you there as possible to support this worthwhile CMP program. Numbers count, and the more shooters that participate the more justification there is to keep this program going. So, please support the CMP and come to this Match. Note: Harris exit closed--get off at North Branch, take #61 north to Harris and then west over freeway.
Program -- http://www.mrra.org/downloads/grrc/2009_EIC.pdf

Last Weeks matches
No news

1997 MN Service Rifle Team (ITT) - Picture posted at http://minnesotarifleshooting.blogspot.com/

2010 Proposed Small Bore Schedule
"Hi Guys: You have expressed interest in smallbore shooting. Attached is a Word file with the proposed 2010 Outdoor smallbore schedule. Due to feed back Second Saturday Prone League is now third Sunday Prone League. This is your last chance to comment. The State Championship dates will be submitted to the MN Rifle and Revolver Assoc. Board at the Oct. 17 Board Meeting. Thanks! George Minerich MRRA President
Proposed Sched: http://www.scribd.com/doc/20386100/Proposed-2010-Outdoor-Smallbore-Match-Schedule-Word-20031


Winter Air pistol League
"Here is the program for the Winter Air Pistol League we will be starting on Tuesday, October 6th at Bill's in Robbinsdale. If you can post this on the MRRA website under airgun, it would be appreciated. I have copied this to those who may be interested in participating as well.
Thanks Mike Marzitille."
Air Pistol Program -- http://www.mrra.org/downloads/air_pistol/Air_Pistol_League09.pdf

Winter Air Rifle League
"Shooters All. Below is a proposed Air Rifle League for this following fall. All is in place. Is there sufficient interest? All is in place, we only need attendees. I haven't heard any followup on Kurt's earlier query so Larry S and I set this up and are wondering if anyone is interested other than us. Let me know.
Mike Marzitille"
Air rifle Program http://www.mrra.org/downloads/air_pistol/Air_Rifle_League09.pdf

300 m Matches
"The 300 meter match at MRC on Oct 11 is the State 3p Championship Match."
Brian D. Shiffman

The Week Ahead
Head to GRRC on Sunday Oct 4 and shoot the CMP Service Rifle Match -- See you there

Question ? Has this news letter (and the Blog) been worthwhile? --
Reply to ( ARman772@aol.com,) Blank replys are fine, I just need to know how many read these msgs, and I will use the replys to form the new E-mail list. I assume that those on this years list who don't reply -- don't read it and don't want to. So, If you want to keep receiving "The Week Ahead" next season, just hit reply, then send.
The same goes for the Blog - Go to the right hand column and vote. (no votes-no blog)

Take care.
Hawkeye

Monday, September 21, 2009

Mpls Rifle Club -- 2009 Champion Rifle Club


Steve Knutson, Kurt Kisch, Stacey Tamulinas,
and Erhard Bruderer

Match pics posted below along with Complete Report on Match

Club Team Prone Championship -- Northstar Rifle Club 9/20/09


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The Week Ahead -- Sept 22nd, 2009

Results team match--click to enlarge


The Week ahead -- competitions
Shooters
Next weekend I show little on my schedule locally for Rifle matches. However, a short drive to Eau Claire National Rifle Club will offer 2 matches to prevent shooting withdrawal symptoms (SWS). Saturday (9/26) is the usual 600 prone match and there will be an Over the Course match on Sunday. Other than the GRRC Service rifle Leg Match on Oct 4th, these will be the last OTC and MR matches within easy driving distances. I suspect there will be a great turnout. You've seen the pics on the shooting blog, Eau Claire is a very nice range to shoot at.

Last Weekend
Talk about a way to wind up the High Power shooting season with a bang --just schedule the NRA Champ match and the all important Club vs. Club championship match on the same weekend in September.
NorthStar Rifle Club near Red Wing, Mn was the place to be last Sat and Sunday. The rescheduled NRA Regional Championship match on Saturday saw Kevin Bangen complete his sweep of the Over the Course Minnesota championships, this year by firing a 783-26x to take the Gold Medal. I remember Rudy Wadekamper saying that if you shoot 25Xs that's a good days shooting, so congratulations to Kevin for a good days shooting and that Gold Medal. Silver Medal to Omer Hamer, and Bronze to Steve Erickson who overcame equipment problems to take that medal. Other Class winners were Mark Havlik - master, Don Mastro - Expert, and Lisa Johnson -Sharpshooter. A gentle breeze and Fall colors appearing made this a fine day to pull some triggers. Mike May match director-- great job!

The Big Match

It was the Big Match -- all the marbles were on the table, the bragging rights were up for grabs, it was the Club vs Club shoot-off and the State's top rifle clubs sent their best shooters to contest for honors. This would be a prone match at 300 yds to 600yds. There would be three 20 shot matches with irons and one 600 yd match with any sights to test the shooting skills, and the wind coaching skills of the each team.
After years of dwindling participation in Team Matches, this year would be different. All Star teams of open associations would be discouraged, and shooters would be encouraged to shoot for the Home club. Club championships would mean something again. The challenge was issued and the Clubs answered that challenge.
Gopher Rifle and Revolver Club would send 3 complete sling shooter teams and one F-class team under team captian Kurt Borlaug. Elk River Sportsman's Club sends both an F team and a Sling team led by Tim Thole. North Star Rifle Club under Dbl. Distinguished Capt. Bob Peasley, also fields a team in each division -- a High Master Sling Team, and the F-Team to be anchored by Ken Erickson - former NRA National Champion in 1960, and celebrating his 85th Birthday today. LaCrosse Rifle Club sent US Palma team shooters, Sandy Pagel (capt) and Bill Lair to bolster their teams chances. Air Force Rifle Team shooter Matt Griffen, HM Elliot Zunich--NWGC, would form an Assoc. pickup team with Elk River prone masters Mark Rohrman, and Phill Klandurd. And if you think that even one of these hard holding teams would have a lock on the trophy -- Forget It! Minneapolis Rifle Club was also sending current members of the US Palma team, Stacy Tamulinas, and Steve Knutson, International 300 m shooter Erhard Bruderer, and he who wins most every type of shooting event he participates in--Kurt Kisch. Minneapolis Rifle club came to play.
The day was gorgeous, 75 deg, blue sky, and light fishtailing wind that would come into play later at the 500 yd line.
Mpls Rifle club (MRC) started right out at the 300 yd iron sight match with two clean scores from Stacey T., and Kurt Kisch (16Xs), coming off the line only 4 pts. down. The LaCrosse Rifle team also benifited from two clean targets fired by their Palma experts, B. Lair, and Sandy Pagel-(11x) and went to the 500 yd line 5pts down. MRRA assoc team hung in there and but had dropped
9pts. Unforced errors by Gopher shooters took the pressure off that team early.
At the 500 yd line MRC did well with Steve K. on the scope and turning the knobs for his shooters. Stacy T. again cleaned the target- (17Xs !), but with the 6 range flags now all pointing different directions, and the breeze getting stiffer, MRC lost 17 pts and would have to suck it up to have any chance of final victory. On the other hand Northstar, and MRRA teams had all shooters firing solid 198s or 197s, losing only 10 pts per team. Even with Sandy Pagel turning the knobs, the LaCrosse team lost 16 for their 4 shooters.
The 600 yd line -- MRRA assoc. team was in the lead by 3 pts, two matches to go. Matt Griffen started things out for those guys with a 199 but it wasn't enough to keep them in front. They have their worst match and go down 21 pts. Fishtailing wind also confounds LaCrosse, and Northstar who average 4 pts lost per shooter, but not MRC and Kurt Kisch again shoots clean, while the others only lose 8 total, and MRC goes into the scope match, now ahead by 7 pts--not necessarily comfortable with that slim margin.
The Scope Match. The pressure is on. Steve Erickson of NorthStar, Stacey. T of MRC, and Matt Griffen of MRRA hold hard, losing no pts for their teams. Even with local knowledge, the home team NorthStar, loses 16 in the difficult conditions. LaCrosse also suffers a couple unforced errors and loses their chance to win by losing 24 pts in that match. However its those 300 m and Plama experts from MRC that shine in this final match, only losing 13 team pts. They hold on to their lead and win the match.
Congratulations to Minneapolis Rifle Club -- winners of the 2009 upper midwest Club Championship. NorthStar Rifle club --2nd, and Lacrosse 3rd. Top Individual shooters in the Team Match was Stacey Tamulinas who lost only 3pts the whole match -- 797-45x, and Sandy Pagle with a 795-42x --- That's fine shooting.

F-Class champs are NorthStar Rifle club, with Jerry Johnson, Ken Erickson, Bruce cotton, and Ben Winget. 2nd place to the new team of shooters from GRRC -- S. Hoskins, Collin Mitchell, Greg Wahistrom, and G. Mitchell. They did very well for their first match as a team. Ben Winget turned in the top F Score with an astounding 792-39x -- whew!
This was the best team match we have had in many years. 11 club teams from around the state and Wisc. participated. It would have been nice to have seen a team from Northwestern Gun Club (frozen in already or what?), and Eau Claire Nat. Rifle club. They can both field powerful teams but chose to rest on the laurels of their past triumphs and did not contest for honors this year. Next year maybe they will answer the Challenge. We hope so.

Last weeks 50m Free Pistol match at MRC-- no News

Copper Fouling problems ? -- See Blue Goop recipe at: http://minnesotarifleshooting.blogspot.com/

The Week Ahead
Saturday Sept 26
-- Mid Range 600 yd 80 shot match -- Eau Claire Rifle Club
Program: http://www.wrpa.com/2009_Match_Programs/090926-27_EauClaire.pdf
Saturday Sept 26 -- 50 m Free Pistol at Oakdale
Sunday Sept 27 -- 80 shot OTC match -- Eau claire Rifle club
Program: http://www.wrpa.com/2009_Match_Programs/090926-27_EauClaire.pdf

Take care
Hawkeye

NRA Regional at NorthStar Rifle Club --Sept 20, 2009

NRA Regional Results


Click to enlarge

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

The Week Ahead -- Sept 15th 2009

Shooters
The Week Ahead

This is the weekend when all the bragging rights are on the line. The two biggest matches of the year are on this weekends schedule. NorthStar Rifle Club will be the site for the rescheduled NRA Regional OTC championship on Saturday. On Sunday it is Club vs Club in the hotly contested Mid Range prone Team Championship. This year there is more interest in shooting for Club vs Club bragging rights than ever before. With a new format that encourages shooters to shoot for their "home" team, and not some "intra-club Lightholder, or Association all star teams", each club will have a much better chance to put their name on the Team Trophy. Clubs are taking this match seriously this year, with GRRC rumored to be sending 3 Teams, Elk River bringing 2 teams, and even Mpls Rifle Club is sending a team of 300 meter experts. Will the hard-holders from Northwestern Gun club, or the always powerful NorthStar team be able to defend their past championships--- We'll see. Eau Claire National Rifle Club,--bring your best!
Are you going to be there shooting for your club? I hope so.

But First
It's not often that I Iike to get extra early (0500 hrs) to go to a rifle match, but when there is a chance to get up north for the day and shoot a good match, I'll make the sacrifice. So with the range at Hunter Lake on the radar I was crossing the St Louis River in Cloquet Saturday about an hour after sun up. It was a misty scene with mirror smooth water--what a sight. When I crossed again up near the range---Well, see the picture on the blog. I guess us Norwegians just like smell the pine trees and lakes once in a while.
Northwestern Gun Club was hosting the 9/11 Patriot's match -- 2 days of prone shooting and a good tune up for the MR club championship coming up. Saturdays course of fire was all at 300 yds, with 2 iron sight matches and 2 any sight matches. The morning fog caused a short delay till the targets could be seen, but by 10 o'clock the first relay was on the line and the match was on. Stacey Tamulinas showed that he hasn't lost anything since his success at the Canadian Nationals by hammering the X-ring 16 times in that first iron sight match and going clean for the first 19 shots when he proved the old adage that "8s happen" and left the line a couple Xs ahead of Dave Salo with 198 scores and a pt ahead of Elliot Zunich at 197. In the 2nd iron sight match Stacey made up for his only bad shot so far and fired a 200-15x getting a couple pt jump on D. Salo but right behind were Larry Miller and Mark Rohrman with 199-10x. In the first Any Sight match both Dave S. and Larry M. shot clean and this put Dave up by one over Stacey, with Larry down by 2 and Elliot and yours truly now 5 pts back and losing traction. In the final any sight match Larry M. would not be denied and again shot a clean 200-13x to Stacey and Dave's 198s. but this good shooting would only manage to tie Dave's 793, and Dave Salo's 42 Xs beats Larry's 37 Xs for the Win. Stacey T. landed in 3rd place 1 pt back, with a monstrous 56 X count on that 2 in x ring. Amazing! In the Master class John Andres finished with a 199 and Omer Hamer finished with a pair of 199s--John taking the class win over Omer and Elliot by just one pt.
Sunday saw another short fog delay before the start of the 500 yd matches -- a good time to ck out the competition and chit chat for a while. Good Eyes and a tenacious hold saw Stacey take the first Iron match on a 199-9 score but only 1 ahead of Phill Klanderud's 198. The 2nd Iron match shuffled things up a bit, with Larry miller clawing back to go one up on Stacey with a fine 199-6 for the conditions, but not good enough to stay with Phill K. who was now down only 5 and leading into the scope matches. In these last two Any sight matches, Larry Miller never gave the competition a chance --shooting every one of the 40 record shots in to the ten and x ring. Both Omer Hamer and Stacey shot one of those matches clean, but a 398 or 399 never beats a 400, and Larry Miller takes the day with a 794 to Stacey' 791 and Dave Salo at 788.
So the competition was very tight for the two great days of matches at Northwestern Gun Club. Larry Miller takes the 1600 two day agg. with a 1587-72. 2nd was Stacey T. with 1583-91. Omer Hamer squeaked out a Master Class win over John Andres by only Xs as both shot 1567s.
In the ever more popular F-Class, D. Zeffke pretty much had his own way all weekend over the 6 other F Troops, ending up both days a little ahead of Ron Berg and Gary LaValley and taking the two day agg.
Pictures of this match are posted Above:

Small Bore
I received a nice note from Canadian Shooter interested in attending some of our matches.--

"Hawkeye,
I stumbled across your blog looking for info on rifle shooting in Minnesota. I shoot ISSF smallbore prone and live right across the border in Fort Frances and I’m thinking of getting the paperwork so I can bring my rifle into the U.S. and compete next year. I was going to drop down to Hibbing to see the state championships a couple of weeks ago but I’d just gotten home from the Canadian nationals so had a largish “honey do” list to work through first. J
I’ve visited the MSSEC and check out the MRRA website regularly, but – until I found your blog
– don’t really know how else to reach out to Minnesota shooters. Any suggestions?"
Jason Jarvis thejarvisfamily@vianet.ca
Fort Frances, Ontario

Jason is on the list of match bulletins now and we hope to see him sometime next summer, and he has been invited to center fire matches at Northwestern Gun Club in the future. He might also be a good 300m recruit. Brian?

300 m Shooting
"The MRC 300 meter club match was held Sunday, September 13, 2009. There were 5 competitors and Chuck Diehl breaking in barrels of two guns. What a wonderful day to shoot. Calm, sunny and comfortable in the air-conditioned shooting house; outside it was also calm and sunny with temp at high as 76 but with humidity in the 80’s, at least.

The results can be seen at http://www.edfpages.com/mgfc/results.php?match=9

Kurt Kisch came a bit late but managed to beat everyone even though he was handicapped using iron sights. He beat F-class shooters (of which there was one…me). He kicked butt shooting a 6.5-308 thingie.
I shot about my average for my Savage box stock .223 even though I shot fast but had good sight pictures through the scope and I felt good. ..........
The next 300 meter club match would normally be on October 11, but, this October 11 will be=2 0the state 3P match at the club so there will not be a club match. All you 3P shooters should come out for this major match. More to come a bit later. "
Brian Shiffman

F-Class at Elk River
"Hello,
Wanted to let you know that F Class in Elk River ends on Sept. 14th-Monday. 6 months of fun is coming to a close.
Sincerely,"
Lisa Olson, Corresponding Secretary, Elk River Sportsman's Club

Note: Gary LaValley, Mfg. of the excellent Phoenix Precision rifle sights, has posted a couple vidoes on his web site featuring local shooters, and the our Elk River Range. Gary, you are making us all look good. link: http://www.phoenixprec.com/

News from other matches last weekend
Wahl Classic Rifle shoot --- No news
Bald Eagle Sportsman's Assoc. CMP match -- No news

The Week Ahead

Saturday Sept 19 -- NRA Regional at NorthStar Rifle Club -- program link in schedule below.
Saturday Sept 19 -- Free Pistol 50m at MRC
Sunday Sept 20 -- Mid Range Prone Team Championship at NorthStar Rifle Club
MR match program: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19334030/Mid-Range-Team-091

note: A change has been made to the team match program due to an printing error----

From Capt. Bob
"I discovered this error at about 2 AM this morning when I woke up in a cold sweat and realized I had shown the entry fee of $28.00 per team. It should have been $64.00 per team or $16.00 per shooter. Even at that it leaves little for awards & club income."

Bob, We'll come anyway.
This is a big weekend of shooting in MN--- See you all out there! Support your club rifle team!
Hawkeye

PS-- The blog is getting hits from all over the US and the World. The pictures of our local matches are being seen by many interested shooters. You're all looking good out there.

Minnesota area is a great place to shoot! Our local ranges are the best there is.