Monday, May 31, 2010

Team Warm-up match -- May 30th

Sundays Team Warm-up match at NorthStar Rifle Club drew 5 teams looking to have a good training session of coaching, wind reading and of course—Shooting. Each team consisted of 4 shooters and a dedicated Coach or a team member coach. The course of fire was the std. National Match Course of 50 shots per shooter, from 3 positions,( standing, sitting, and prone) and from 200 yds to 600 yds. Kurt Borlaug had a team of Service Rifle shooters who were bound for Camp Perry Nationals in August. GRRC, North Star, NWGC, Elk River all had shooters in the match.

More later:

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Pictures and Final Results from Sm Bore Regional

Small Bore
The Small Bore Regional at MRC had the biggest turnout in years. 2 relays were needed. Shooters enjoyed a beautiful warm summer day today firing 4 matches of 40 shots ea prone. Temperature was perfect, wind was manageable.

10 sub juniors contested the match and showed the progress of Junior teams fielded by Larry Sawyer, and Bruce Blahut.

Small Bore Regional --  Day one --  Iron Sights
Ross Ewert, Larry Sawyer and Emily Quinar (just back from Murray State College for the summer) started off in the lead by shooting clean 400 scores in the 50 yd match. Ross Ewert won the Dewar match by an X over Steve Kuntson, both shooting 397s and leaving Ross 1pt up on the group after half way. Emily and Larry were now a pt down, having shot 396's. Stacey Tamulinas, an unclassified master, fired a very good 395, showing what a few years of Palma Training will do for a prone shooter. Only Larry S. really mastered the switching wind in the 100yd match, dropping only 3 for a 397 and pulling away from the other contenders who all lost 9-13 pts in that match and started fading away on the Score board. The last cards were shot at 50 meters on that very difficult target, and Larry ensured the days the win with a 398/400, 4pts above the best efforts of Steve Knutson and Stacey Tamulinas -- 394 each.
Congratulations to Larry Sawyer for winning the Iron Sight match of this regional.
Small Bore regional Day Two -- Any Sights
Larry Sawyer took no prisoners in day 2 of this regional. He fired Clean scores of 400 out of a possible 400 in the first 3 matches, putting him far enough ahead so that slipping a little in the last match and losing 9 pts there, to Steve Knutson's almost perfect 399-34x, did not cost him the Win. It was close with final scores having Larry at 1593, Steve Knutson at 1591, and Expert Class winner Ross Ewert right behind with a 1590. That's great shooting !!

The Juniors fought it out all day and sub Jr. Sam Ewert's 1558 was the Any Sight winner in that class.

Congratulations to Larry Sawyer for winning both days events and the over all Regional Championship

   For Pictures --  click here

Results:  click to enlarge
Results :  Day 1 -- Iron sights
Winner Larry Sawyer --1591
1st Expert -- Ross Ewert 1573
1st Sharpshooter -- Robert Young 1549
1st Mk and Jr.   --  Carmen Fry  1554
Results :   Day 2 -- Any Sights
Winner -- Larry Sawyer   1593
1st Expert -- Ross Ewert  1591

1st Sharpshooter -- Peter Zenner  1580
1st Mk and Jr.  --  Sam Ewert  1555

Regional Awards for highest Aggregate Score:
Gold Medal --Larry Sawyer
Silver Medal --  Steve Knutson
Bronze Medal --  Ross ewert

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The Essence of Long Range

Sunday's 800 yd Palma at GRRC

Watch that wind flag
The Heat of Competition
Click to enlarge

The Week Ahead -- Minn Shooters News -- May 25th

The Week Ahead -- Shooters news of the Minn Area - May 25th

Next Weekend
Choices, choices ! This weekend there are choices of 4 rifle matches to participate in. Small Bore shooters can shoot both Saturday and Sunday in the Prone Regional at Mpls Rifle Club. Saturdays' match is an Iron sight 1600 with the Any sight 1600 match taking place on Sunday. Highpower shooters also have a full weekend coming up with a Mid Range prone match being shot at NorthStar (Red Wing) on Saturday, and then the long awaited warm-up Team OTC match getting started on Sunday morning, also at NorthStar. I think I'll choose a little of both and since I definitely want to shoot the team match on Sunday, it'll have to be Small Bore prone at MRC on Saturday.
May 29 & 30th; Small Bore Regional program
May 29 Mid Range match program
May 30 Warm up Team match program

There is still time to get on a team for the warm-up team match. See the program and contact Capt Bob to shoot on a pickup team. A good time will be had by all.
From Capt. Bob
"Hello shooters: As per the match program for the NRA team warm up match at North Star I'm here to tell you we have the minimum number of teams and in fact may have 7 teams. So, it's a go for Sunday. I am planning on bringing a couple bags of chips and some Salsa for consumption during debrief/review after it's over. Feel free to stay and munch or bug out if you must. Provide your own favorite beverage.
Capt. Bob"

Small Bore
Results of May 16th Sm Bore prone match posted below

Next weekend -- dont forget-- Small bore both Sat and Sunday at MRC -- prone 1600s. I'm able to shoot the Sat. match. See you all there.
Hawkeye

High Power
The US Palma Team held a Training session for upper Midwest members of the US Palma Team, this past Thursday through Saturday, at GRRC's long range shooting facility in Harris, MN. Five of the top Junior long range shooters were also in attendance for the three days. This event was far more a working session that just a fun shooting event, as Palma Team Development coach Bob Mead put both the shooters and the prospective wind coaches through hrs of shooting drills each day. Every shot fired by all shooters was plotted for analysis later of both elevation and windage deviation from center. Any shots fired that ended up above or below the ten ring became a point off for the shooter, and shots left and right of the ten ring were marked against the wind coaches. Each shooter had a wind coach positioned close beside their position, with only the wind coach actually turning the windage knobs on the rifle. Each Line coach was equipped with a communications headset and took his direction from the the Back coach -- who actually called for the wind corrections. This system seemed to be working very well. The shooters only worried about delivering shots on the water line through the X ring and let the wind coaches worry about wind corrections.

Now all the plots of each shooters groups are sent off for statistical analysis and then are compared to other shooters and wind coaches efforts at other training sessions. With the good shooting I saw while pulling targets, I believe that we will be sending a great team to Australia in 2011.
Palma Training Pictures -- click here

WadeKamper Palma Match - May 16th
Stacey Tamulinas and Bill Lair took full advantage of their 3 days of Palma training and practice to top the field at GRRC's Wadekamper Memorial Palma matches on Sunday. Bill, Stacey, and Matt Griffen fired excellent scores of 149/150 at the 800yd line, but then at the 900 yd line, Bill Lair went up 1 point by again firing a 149/150 to Stacey's 148. This is good shooting. The fishtailing winds at 1000 yds kept all the shooters busy watching the mirage and the flags for a hint of corrections to be made. Stacey was best able to see the condition and get the shot off before the conditions changed and dropped only 3 pts in 15 shots for a 147 score, 2 pts better than Bill, and those two pts put Stacey on top with a 444/450 for the match Win.
Other notable scores -- Brian Mrnak shot a 149-9X on the 900 yd line to win that match
Adam Shidla was the top F-class shooter scoring a 439-16x to take that class. John Rykkus also put up a good score in that class with a 525-14x.
Palma Match Results -- click here
Palma Match Pictures -- click here     Two good pics here -- see "Watch that wind" and "in the heat of competition" (posted on Blog)

Iowa St.  Service Rifle Championship match June 5th and 6th
"We are holding the Iowa state service rifle championship the 5th and 6th of June. There will be an 80 shot organized practice June 5th with a dinner that night for the competitors and their families. The 80 shot xcross the coarse championship will be held June 6th at 9AM. There will be camping at the range Friday and Saturday nights and room for shooters to bunk in the club house. We have electricity and porta potties but no water. I am including a match bulletin if you could send it out for me we would sure appreciate it. If anyone has any questions they can sure give me a call or email.
Hope to see you there!"
Steve Hays 641-423-9981 nineringsh@hotmail.com   Match program - click here

Bald Eagle Rifle Club
Bald Eagle Sportsman's Assoc. host monthly Service Rifle 50 shot matches at its range in Hugo Mn. This 100 yd range is located just east of Hwy #61, on 125th st. -- Just north of White Bear Lake. The next match is on the schedule for June 12th. These are low key matches and everyone has fun. The match goes fast as there is usually only one relay, and the targets are stapled up at 100 yds, so while the shooter is taking a few min break between stages, the match officials are changing targets and scoring them. I've shot here a half doz. times and had a good time. 
Match Programs for Bald Eagle   Click Here
Notes:
From Elliot Zunich-- sveti_ilija@northlc.com
Hey guys, We have a new shooter at the NWGC who is looking to buy a "bolt action" OTC .223 rifle. Do you know of anyone who has one for sale. Right handed. EZ

Saturday May 29th -- Mid range prone at Northstar and Prone Small bore at MRC
Sunday May 30th -- OTC Team match at Northsar and Prone Small bore ar MRC

See you out there
Hawkeye

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Small Bore Prone -- Mpls.Rifle Club May 16

Photos by Chad Danielson
Sm Bore shooters enjoyed a beautiful day May 16, shooting a prone ourdoor 1600 match at MRC.
Lance Peters was the master of the day, shooting clean scores of 400 in 3 of the 4 matches and only droping only 4 pts in the remaining match to finish with an awsome aggreate of 1596 and 107 Xs.  Close behind Steve Knutson (1589-84x), Ross Ewert, (1585-92x) and Stacey Tamulinas (1585-89x)----Stacey and Steve both spent this weekend at the Palma Team training session being held at GRRC.

5 Juniors contested that class with Patrick Sunderman's fine score of 1563-71x giving him High Junior honors

Next weekend --  dont forget-- Small bore both Sat and Sunday at MRC  --  prone 1600s.  I get to shoot the Sat. match. See you all there.
Hawkeye
Results:  click to enlarge

Friday, May 21, 2010

Forming Team for Warm up Team match

4 man Team match coming up.
If you don't want to miss participating in the Warm-up Team match Sunday May 30th at NorthStar range   and you are not yet on a team, now's the time to contact the Highpower coach in your club and get on a team list.  If you can't get on a club team, we can organize a pick up team right here. 
Anyone that wants to shoot on a pick up team in the Warm up match--just leave a comment here below the post with your Ph # and I'll try to organize a pickup team.  Don't delay !
match Program
Hawkeye

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The Week Ahead -- Shooters news of the Minn Area - May 19th

The Week Ahead
This week Palma shooters are in town for a Midwest regional training session of the US Developement Team.   GRRC, at Harris, MN is hosting this Long Range training session on its 800, 900, and 1000yd firing lines Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I believe that local top ranked Long Range shooters Bill Lair, Stacey Tamulinas, Steve Knutson, Morgan Dietrich and others will all be participating. Shooters will be evaluated on their ability to hold good water line elevation at these long ranges, while coaches will be evaluated on being able to keep their shooters centered up with good wind reading skills. Top shooter/ coach combinations will see the wind coach positioned close enough to the shooter to be the one that operates the wind knobs on the rifle sights. Shooters shoot, -- coaches turn the knobs. This kind of trust by both members of the team are necessary when at 1000yds a wind change of only a couple mph, means more than a foot displacement of the bullet on the target. GRRC gets gold star for having such a quality facility that is capabile of hosting this event.

This coming Sunday, May 23, all shooters are invited to enter and participate in the Wadekamper Mem. Palma match, the last event of this Long Range weekend at GRRC. This open match will be 15 shots plus sighters at each distance of 800, 900 and 1000yds. This event is open to F-Class shooters. Get those long range rifles out and come to GRRC and shoot some Palma.

Click here for Match Program

Last Weekend's Matches
The Service Rifle Clinic -- . See following post.

The Leg Match
The match I have been looking forward to for th past few weeks, was the Leg Match. I like shooting Leg Matches--I always have. There is a lot of good reasons to enjoying Leg Matches.
1. Intense Competition. Leg matches are the most important matches for most Highpower shooters. Most of us start highpower and shoot our first matches with a Service Rifle. After we make Expert, we see that we might, I repeat, might get good enough at this to earn a Distinguished Rifleman's Badge and we Start entering Leg Matches to try and get some of those oh, so elusive Leg Points. Leg Points becomes the Holy Grail of our shooting careers. To earn that Badge............ So Leg Matches become Important and the competition is stiff as the top shooters will travel and try to earn points out of State.
2. Short and Sweet. Leg matches are only 50 shots. 10 shots Standing, a string of 10 shots Sitting position rapid fire, another rapid in the prone pos., and then 20 precision shots medium range from the prone pos.
3. No sighters Its a true rifle man's match--- first shot counts, no sighters. You learn your Zeros when you can't count on sighters.
4. Shooting Service Rifles --  It's more fun shooting service rifles than match rifles. There are just less things to adust, or misadjust on a service rifle. Just pick it up and shoot it --as is. Yes, the post front sight is a little harder to see, but I really only see a disadvantage in the longer range prone slow fire. I just find it "easier" to shoot service rifles than match rifles even though I lose a few pts.
5. Friendships Leg match shooters tend to participate on Service rifle teams (to get more practice) and team shooting makes for long term frindships from sharing experiences.

I knew that I had a good chance in this Leg Match to place if I just had a good day. I would also have some competition from Capt. Bob for "high senior" and the usual friendly rivalry between Larry Weidell and myself to see who would beat who that day. Larry and I have been shooting against each other in Service Rifle matches for about 10 years now and are usually separated in scores at the end of the day by a point or two. Last year, he beat me in every match. Well, that was last year. This year it will be different.

I was 1st relay, so I was first up to shoot 200yd standing, and it did not go well. I called the first shot a good solid nine at 3 o'clock, but it came up a 7 at 3 and I was down 3pts. I ck'ed the windage knob to see if I was off 1 revolution--nope. Ok, make no correction but fire a better 2nd shot. I called the 2nd shot a scratch 10 at 3, but again it came up an 8 out the right. I was down 5 pts in two shots, but I knew that the sight was set right and only came over 1 click, and glad of that because 3rd shot went to left, a nine. I finished with 10s but only a 91 total. I thought that I had shot good enough for a better score, Larry Weidell shot a 94 and led the pack, 3 ahead of me, 1 ahead of Jeremy Harrison, and Phil Klanderud at 90.

In the Rapid fire Sitting match that followed, I was hoping for my usuall 98, but good visibility (a sharp bulleye and sight), and a good position got me a clean 100 all grouped just left of the Xring -- 1x. Larry dropped 6 pts, Phil lost 4, but Jeremy Harrison dropped only 2 shots out of the ten ring and took the lead going back to the 300 yd line by one x over yours truly, both down 9 pts total.
The Prone rapid fire match was pretty even. I lost only one pt to Larry W. and still led him by two. Jerremy Gained one pt, while Phil lost one. Larry and Jerremy had 97s, Phil and I had 96s. I'm usually happy to take 96 in the 300yd rapid match. A 6 inch ten ring is not easy to hit at 300 yds as some people might like to think it is.
It was anybody's match to win at the 600 yd line. The light was good, but the wind was swirling around just enough to confuse the flags and most of the shooters. It was not my best performance. I kept hovering around the 10 ring, but here were too many 9s just above and below the ten ring and in 20 shots I lost 14pts -- about 4 below average. Over all I was satisfied. I had shot a 473 -- a respectable score for a senior citizen service rifle shooter. The others also had their long line problems and no one ran away with the match. I had beat Larry Weidell by 1 pt,(finally) on the last shot of the day by shooting an X.  I had snuck ahead of Capt. Bob for the Old Guy honors,  Won a Silver Medal,, and again had a great day shooting a Leg Match. Life is Good !

Jerremy Harrison won the Gold Medal at Sundays GRRC Leg Match.

Shooters trying to earn points towards the lifetime achiement award of a Distinguished Rifleman's Badge shot 50 rds for record with service rifles Sunday afternoon. Shooting 3 positions and at distances of 200 to 600 yds, Jeremy (previously Distinquished) scored a 475 and the top prize, with Jim Evenson getting the Silver (473), and Larry Weidell taking the Bronze with a 472.

Phil Klanderude was the top non-Distinguished shooter and thus won a leg and 8 pts after five 2nd place finishes over the last few years. Congratulations to Phil, it was a well earned award.

Pictures of the leg Match --- Click Here !



Small Bore
Results from this past Sundays's 1600 prone outdoor conventional Small Bore match at MRC were not forwarded to me in time to be posted here.
Two weeks from now the Sm Bore Conventional Prone Outdoor Regional Championships will be held at Mpls Rifle Club. These are both 1600s with the Iron sight match being Saturday, and then the Any sight champ match being on Sunday. I will shoot the Saturday match and bring back some pictures. 2 day Sm Bore Prone Regional Program --  click here

Two Weeks out
Plan ahead, as there are 4 very good shooting matches planned for the Memorial Day Weekend. There are two highpower events, and two Small bore prone matches. NorthStar Rifle club has a weekend of Highpower which includes a Mid Range Prone match on Saturday, then, on Sunday, the much anticipated warm-up Over the Course team match.. Mpls Rifle Club has both Sat. and Sunday Small Bore Conventional Prone matches -- Regional Championships.
I'll have to make choices as I would like to get to all these matches. First Priority is the Team warm up match-- I'll pick that for Sunday, and though I hate to miss an enjoyable leisurely Mid Range prone match, I want to catch one of the Sm Bore Regional matches, so I'll be at MRC Saturday for their 1600. I've had a couple good Sm Bore prone scores recently, and am looking forward to the next 1600. My discussions with German Salazar about the importance of getting the rear sight closer to the eye and using smaller rear apertures seems to be making quite a difference for me. Look out Expert class.
More on the Team warm-up match---I know that Gopher has got a couple of good teams ready to go. I think that Gopher has a good chance to win this match this year. I haven't heard about the Duluth Guys or the Elk River guys, --- last fall they had a good iron sight team and a good F-team for that prone match. I hope that all the shooters that want to participate in this Team match get to their High Power director so the Clubs can pre-register if possible. Team shooting with coaches is very beneficial to all up-coming shooters. So-- get on a team and we'll see you there.

Saturday May 29th -- Mid Range Prone at NorthStar   Click here for Program
Saturday May 29th -- Small Bore Prone Regional at Mpls Rifle club   Click here for Program
Sunday May 30th -- The warm up Team Match   Click here for Program
Sunday May 30th -- Small bore Prone Rgional at Mpls Rifle club

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Flash -- Pictures in from CMP Service Rifle clinic at Gopher range

Todays Service Rifle clinic and M1 Garand match at GRRC were both well attended. Thirty two aspiring shooters benifited from Kurt Borlaug's instruction in the "How to's" of service rifle shootiing and an introduction to Highpower competition. 
  It couldn't have been a nicer day to be at the range pulling some triggers ---  70 deg with just a light breeze to be refreshing.  Experienced coaches were assigned to each shooter who talked and coached each shooter through the 50 rd  match.  Each participant shot 10 rds Standing, then 10 rds rapid fire from the sitting , and the prone position,  and 20 rds from the prone position.  Every body had a few good shots to brag about and a few bad shots to forget about.  I looked to me that everyone was enjoying the exerience.  We all hope to see them come back to another match in the near future. 
I'll rearrange and label some of the pictures tomorrow. 
See clinic pictures -- click here
More clinic pictures by Mike May -- click here
Even More Pictures from Mark Havlick --  Click Here

Don't Forget !  There will be a 50 rd service rifle match tomorrow ( Sunday) --  again at GRRC. Same course of fire, if you weren't there today --- come tomorrow!   Match starts 1100 hrs or there after.

Thursday, May 13, 2010

The Week Ahead -- Shooters news of the Minn Area

My computer is back up and running - May 13, 1200 hrs

Highpower

Two Important shooting days this weekend.
GRRC hosts it's annual Service Rifle Clinic this coming Saturday-- May 15th. New Service Rifle Shooters will attend a class on Service Rifle highpower shooting Saturday morning and fire a 50 rd CMP qualifying match following both slow and rapid firing demonstrations. Note: The Harris exit off of I35 is now open and anybody attending festivities at GRRC this weekend can use that exit? North Branch is now in surgery. Thanks, Kurt
Program for Clinic --         click here Map to GRRC

From Kurt Borlaug:
" Boys, Sorry for the duplication of some of you on this missive. GRRC will have it's HP Clinic this Saturday. We are doing a one-day clinic w/ classroom in am and the actual match starts at 12 noon.
I'm asking (pleading begging) for some help with coaches and pits. We are planning to run in three relays as the clinic will shoot concurrently w/ our M1 CMP Match. We request your presence by 11 am.
If you are able and willing please respond by this Wednesday. Last year we had some outstanding help from Non_GRRC members and it made the event go quite smoothly. Remember that these folks are newest of the new and too much info can hamper their experience. Safety is our first concern of course, and the Mn. Rifle Team has a great opportunity to be ambassadors of the sport.
Thanks for the consideration ", Kurt Borlaug    kubeborlaug@msn.com

Clinic UP-DATE 5/13 1130hrs

Gentlemen, We will have over 30 clinic students this year. The e-mail traffic over the last few weeks has been heavy.
With this amount of students we believe that the coaches need to distinguish themselves from the students by wearing orange vests......seriously! If you have one of your own great, GRRC has some in the refer in the Island shed. Tom Torborg will be our official "Registrar" in charge of general Cat Herding. He can distribute the vests if you need one.
We need you there by 9am, no later than 10:00. I earlier said 11 but we have upped the time. The actual match starts at 12 noon. Those of you working pits are going to be prepping buckets for the match as well as covering live fire demo.
See you Saturday, bring patience!! Later,
Kurt

Sunday-- May 16 --GRRC will host the first Leg Match of the season in this area. Nervous Service Rifle shooters will be lining up and starding tall Sunday morning at Gopher's 200 yd line, and anticipating earning some of those elusive leg points, and climb that ladder towards a Distinguished Rifleman's Badge, that every Service rifle shooter aspires to earning. Those shooters that are not in the hunt for Leg points will compete for the Medals and just for fun.

From Kurt Borlaug:
".... don't forget the Leg Match on Sunday. We will run a two-man Hearst Match starting at 9am. A $5 donation is requested for entry and awards will be determined by participation for this event. Pair firing is required at 200 Offhand and 600 slow-fire. You are allowed to coach each other with a scope at 300 rapid.
Leg Match starts not before 12 noon."
Kurt Borlaug

F-Class Prone
Evening league matches continue with Elk River sportsman;s club shooting on Monday nights. See program May 17 will be a 600 yd shoot. GRRC has it's own evening prone - and F-Class night each Thursday evening -- next on May 27 th.    See Program

Small Bore:
There will be a 1600 prone conventional outdoor match for small bore shooters on Sunday, May 16 th, at the Mpls Rifle club. This match starts off the Sm Bore outdoor season so don't miss it. (unless you are shooting in the Leg Match) I hope some one takes a few pictures of this match to send us -- including one of the score board.
Match Program - click here

Mpls Rifle Club -- Annual Meeting !
The spring meeting of the MRC is being held this Thursday, May 13th at 7:30PM. This is one of three meetings scheduled per year as approved by the membership last year.
The meeting will be held at the main clubhouse on the Minnetonka Game and Fish property; it is the first building on the right as soon as you come through the electronic gate.
Among the topics for discussion is the opportunity to purchase the property immediately East and adjacent to the 300 meter range. The property was sold about 5 years ago to a developer before either the MGFC or MRC knew it was even for sale. Now, the developer wants to sell the property for about what he paid for it. This situation presents an opportunity. Do we want to do anything? We will review the meetings that have been held between the boards of MGFC and MRC and have a discussion with the membership as to what action, if any, we should take.
that property would be a buffer and a safety zone, and by keeping it out of the hands of developers, provide more years of staying in this location.
Brian Shiffman

Two Weeks out---
May 22 Palma tryouts at GRRC
May 23 -- Palma Match at GRRC - Wadekamper Mem. 800yd, 900yd and 1000yd matches open to all shooters.
             Palma Match Program -- click here

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

The Week Ahead -- May 5th

The Week Ahead -- Shooters news of the Minn Area

Highpower
Highpower shooters are taking the weekend off this week --- unless you are traveling to the LaCross Rifle Club for Matches. There are no local Highpower  this weekend, that I know of.
There is shooting however, as GRRC starts its Wednesday evening  Highpower OTC League tomorrow night with a 200 yd standing match, and a 200yd Sitting Rapid Fire match.  This League continues most Wed. evenings.  All shooters may participate. Thursday evening will see the start of GRRC's Highpower Prone League 

From Match Director Kurt Borlaug:
"
Howdy Boys,

      Wednesday
will see the beginning of the HP OTC league. There is seven so far who have let me know their intent to participate. If you want to and haven't let me know, do soo soon. First rounds down at 5:30. We will shoot 200 OH and Rf and then go to 300. After a pit change we'll repeat. I have some nifty scorecards for us to use and you'll keep your own score on the line.
      Thursday we will begin the prone league. There are only two who have let me know their interest in this.You will be shooting alongside the F-Class crew. Note that the targets for 300 MRP are in the rack on the north side of pile. I marked the target edges as to their use.
 The lock combo is 26-28-2. Use the pasters in there and spotters and buckets. Radios are in the pit box in refrigerator in Island house. MAKE SURE YOU RETURN THE BOX!!! and radios are turned off!!
 Hope to see you there on Thursday. Don't forget the Clinic on May 15th and Leg Match on the 16th. There will be a two-man Hearst type match on Sunday am at 9. Leg starts at 12. Let me know if you can help on Saturday. Right now we'll need  thirteen people between the pits and coaches. Easy work day! Lemme know!
Later, Kurt

Wed. League match program -- click here
Thursday Evening Prone League --Match program -- click here


 Also:
 State Team Captain Kurt Borlaug is looking for shooters to fill out an additional team and participate in the National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio this Aug.  This is a good chance to see what it is like to shoot in the Nationals, even if you feel your skills are not yet up to the High Master level.  Give it a try
From Kurt:

  "
Guys and Gals, I am asking you to spread the word that Mn. Rifle Team will be looking for shooters and target pullers for  out-of comp. teams for the NTT and NTIT at Perry this year. A few of our shooters are willing and able to fill out and the experience is invaluable....and a GAS!!
 Out-of-comp teams can be a mix of civilian/ military or from any state. Individual firing members are eligible for Pershing trophy (NTT), the team is NOT eligible for any team awards.
 There will be entry fees necessary for each shooter and they will be responsible for their own ammo.
Thanks, Kurt Borlaug
kubeborlaug@msn.com

 
Reloading for Highpower
  I have linked a series of articles on Reloading for Highpower competition on my blog (
http://minnesotarifleshooting.blogspot.com/ )
These articles are all written by my friend German Salazar, who I feel has a very good grasp on this subject -- he also wins a lot of rifle matches.  

For the Service Rifle shooter ( or anyone else)  I have linked on the Service Rifle Team Blog
  (
http://minnesotaservicerifleshooting.blogspot.com/ )  German's article on "Preping Military Brass for Highpower"  This is a newer article that German just sent me today.

Monday Evening F class  League
Elk River Sportman's club
Monday evening F-class league is up and running.  Monday evenings at 6pm for a $5 fee you can shoot in this league at distances from 100 to 600yds on a rotating schedule.  Next match is May 10th and will be shot at 300 yds. 
ERSC Monday evening F-Class League program -- click here


Last weekend's matches at Red Wing:
    May 1st Mid Range Match Results -- click here
    May 2nd OTC results -- click here


Small bore
GRRC started (yesterday) their every Monday evening Small Bore league.  This Mondays match was the 50yd match-- 2 targets of 20 shots prone slow fire on the NRA 50yd targets.  If you missed this Mondays league start -- no problem, just come next Monday night, and there will be make-up nights along the way. 

From Mark Schoess  -- league Director.

 "
WHEN: League firing begins Monday, May 3rd at 1700 (5:00 PM) and will continue most Mondays ending on August 23. Note: no league May 31 (Holiday), July 5 (Holiday) and July 26 (Camp Perry). This schedule will allow two nights for make-up and rainouts. You can sigh up and submit your entry fee on the first or second league night.
 ELIGIBILITY: Open to all shooters, GRRC member or not. Juniors will need an adult with them while shooting. That adult can be a competitor. GRRC reserves the right to reject any entry.  League will be NRA sanctioned."


Mpls Rifle Club  -- Work Days
From George Minerich (MRRA Pres.)
"Hi All:
    We had a great work day at the ranges.  At the 300 Meter building we repaired the stairs, finished the white pegboard on the south wall, rebuild the benches on the south wall, cleaned the storage room and got rid of a bunch of garbage.  The 300 Meter building is looking spiffy! 
   Brush from the logging was also cleaned up!
   Smallbore range projects included hanging new heating ducts and repairing smallbore targets.  I m happy to report  that there are now a
complete set of practice and match target frames.   Our new furnace isabout 70% installed.   Great Job!
   I would like to thank all the members who came out to help Saturday for workday!  We really accomplished a lot.
Regards,       George Minerich
Good Work George and the others who participated--  that range always looks tip top.


Upcoming -- Two Weeks out

May 15  Saturday  --  Service Rifle Clinic  at GRRC  
-- clinic program - click here
May 16 Sunday --  Service Rifle Leg Mach at GRRC 
-- Leg Match program -- click here
May 16 Sunday --  Small Bore prone outdoor 1600 at MPLS Rifle club -- first outdoor prone match of the year                 
-- Match program -- click here


Keep em in the Middle 
I am in full Migration mode this week, so I'll see you all at matches in a week or so.
Hawkeye