Shooters News for the MN area - Sept 14th

The Week Ahead for MN area Shooters -  Sept 14. 2011 

Distinguished Rifleman's Badge

 Highpower
Service Rifle shooters, this is your big weekend coming up!  The MN State Service Rifle championship will be held Sept 17th, and 18 at NorthStar Rifle Club near Red Wing, MN  (Map).  The individual match starts Sat. morning with first shots down range at 0900Hrs.  Shooters will fire from the Offhand position, and the prone position in slow fire matches, and will fire from the sitting position, and the prone position in Rapid fire matches.  Following the 600 yd prone match, the mid-range part of the the Team match will be fired,with the short course part of the Team match being fired on Sunday morning.  The big match of the weekend, of course is the EIC Leg match which will start somewhere around 1100 hrs Sunday morning after the team match is completed.  This 50 shot OTC match will award much coveted "Leg" points as the big prize.  I wonder who is close to earning their last points toward the Distinguished Rifleman's Badge?
                      Click Here for Service Rifle Championship match Program

  From: Capt. Bob
"Attached is your program for the 2011 Minn. service rifle championship & EIC match at North Star.  NOTE that we are shooting 2 person teams this year. We want to promote club vs. club competition but if you can't find a team mate from your club let me know & I'll try to pair up some pick up teams under MRRA or some other state Ass'n. If you wish to camp on Fri. let me know and I'll get the top secret gate code to you. Advance entries are preferred and keep in mind the entry orifice closes at 0830 SHARP so if you are just showing up be there before 0830!

HOLDHARD,   Bob  dilligas@means.net

Larry Sawyer is hosting a Rifle Coaching Training Session -- Postponed till Jan 2012
    Click Here for program

Small Bore shooters have one more chance to practice and show off their skills in prone competition this weekend at Elk River Sportsmen's club on sunday Sept. 18.  Chris Hazelton will be match director at this once a year oppertunity to shoot at the Elk River small  Bore range.  This facility is really under used and I enjoy the chance to shoot there.  Click Here for a match program and a map to the range.
                       Click Here for a few pictures of this excellent range and a slide show of last years match.
 Highpower shooters should note that these prone SB matches are the absolute best way to practice for Mid and Long Range prone matches.  Two of the top 3 shooters at this past weekend's Mid Range State Championships regularly participate in Small Bore prone matches.  That should tell you something.  These matches are shot 20 shots per target, and because you can see the hole in the target through your spotting scope, you get instant feed back on position, trigger control, and wind reading.  The targets are shot at 50 yds, 50 m and 100 yds, with both Iron sights and Any sights being used during the day.  Seniors can shoot scope all day and Fclass is welcome.

Last Weekend
The 9/11 memorial Mid Range State Championship matches were held this past weekend at Northwestern Gun Club. The weather held to forecast and was arguably  the best conditions these matches have seen in many years.  With pleasant temperatures and little wind to confound the shooters, plenty of great scores were shot. 

Stacey, Eric, Steve, and Rick

  From Stacey Tamulinas:
"Hi Jim: 

I knew the 911 Match was going to have a good turn-out when I arrived and there wasn't any room to park at the 200 yd line. This is the first time I've ever seen 4 relays at a MN match. There were 6 or 7 firing points for sling shooters and the rest were F-Class. Saturday had perfect wind conditions but as usual the targets were very dark and did not get sun on the faces until about 12:30. Wind was about 0 - 5 mph and mostly 0. 

Shot my Palma rifles all weekend but should have left the scope off for the Sunday Match.  The MR-63 target at 300 yds has muted rings and X that made finding a point to aim at (at least for me) difficult.  Things went extremely well on Saturday (800-57x).  Steve Knutson was in 2nd place with 791-42x.  He was using Hornady V-Max in a 240 I think.  At least 4 of his points were lost when one of his bullets took a detour to the 6 ring, going through sideways!  Personally, I never trusted those funny plastic tips.

Steve Knutson - Champ

Scope day, the wind picked up to 5-15 mph but seemed to have a very limited effect (maybe 1/2 min) for most people.  Bryan Murnak continued to shoot his 6.5x284 with irons to good effect  Steve K. was shooting very well.  My three 9s were off call but probably due to operator error.   Bryan ended the second day only dropping 1 point and Steve K. dropped 2 points.
  There was very close battle between Phil Klanderude and Mark Rhomann with Mark taking 1st Master by 1 pt.
  Rick Sievers won the F-Class State Championship with a 1594 - 93x. That is hard holding on that little target.
  Eric Hazelton was 1st SS/Expert with a High Master score and a possible National Junior Record score for 500 yd any sight.  Fair warning to the upper classes, his Master Card will be arriving soon.
   I checked the NRA National Records and Eric Hazelton missed the Junior 20 shot 500 yds, Any Sight record by 2x's.  Still very impressive for a SS Junior and he's not even close to exiting the junior class. 

   However, there were two National Geezer Records Set.  Omer Hamer set a new 500 yd any sight,

grand senior record with a 200 - 14x and I set a new 500 yd metallic sight senior record with a 200 - 15x.

Rick Sievers - F class  Champ

   Thanks to Elliot Zunich.  He ran a great match although his Serbian good nature was tested. If you weren't there you missed a good one.   Attached are the photos.  I can barely make out the Sunday scores.  If there is a way to increase the contrast, it might help.

Best regards,  Stacey

   slide show - click here                  Results ---click here

Stacey Tamulinas

 





GRRC Palma Match Sept 3rd
 From Kurt Borlaug:
Last Saturday, Sept. 3rd, GRRC hosted a Palma match and the turnout was less than stellar, but we had a ball anyway. Brett Kratt and Bob Woods came down from Duluth and with myself we made a party of it. The wind was dead calm for 800 and 900, picking up a bit at 1k just to tickle the bullets a bit.  Brett Kratt ,shooting an M1-A fired a 410-4x.  Bob Woods' first ever Palma match fired a 421-9
Kurt Borlaug, Palma rifle fired a 435-14x
Thanks, Kurt

Notes:
Full Bore Match coming up!  (Oct. 9th)
From Capt Bob:  
Greetings prone shooters:    Attached is a program for a first ever full bore match to be held at the Gopher Club on Oct 9thnear Harris, MN. I believe full bore rules require a 308 Winchester; however there may be some latitude in this since this is a first time event for Gopher.  Contact Kurt for specifics.  Watch the weather closely.  It can be dandy or nasty this time of the year in Minn. 
Capt. Bob                   Click Here for "Full Bore" match program.  

     From me--- This should be a fun match.  Full Bore matches are usually shot "Two to a Mound".  This means that the two shooters on the line alternate firing.  Both are in firing position,.  One shooter fires and the other records the shot on the shooters score card. As soon as the the score is announced, the scorer then has only 45 sec to fire his shot while the first shooter becomes the scorer.  They alternate shooting then scoring after every shot.  The "game" here is that you can't wait for the wind to be in your "shooting window".  You must fire your shot within the 45 sec allowed.   You must correct for the wind that is present and cannot wait out a bad condition.  Go over the 45sec time limit twice and you can lose the value of that shot.  This makes for a good learning situation.  "Two to a mound" is a fun way to shoot a match.  See Full Bore Match Rules -- pg 11-12

GRRC's Service Rifle clinic scheduled for Oct  is for Nat Guard troops only.

Two Weeks Out

Sept 25         EIC Leg Match (Service Rifle) at GRRC -  Click Here for Program
Sept 24-25    Mid Range and OTC at Eau Claire -  Click Here for program

That's All Folks !
Hawkeye

Shooters News for the MN Area - Sept 8, 2011

The Week Ahead
This weekend we observe the 10th anniversary of the attacks against America. This weekend will also be the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 Highpower Matches held by Northwestern Gun Club   (map) to memorialize that tragic event.  This year the 9/11 matches, as before, will be prone Mid Range matches, and will be the State Mid Range Championship.  Each day, shooters will compete in four 20 shot prone slow fire matches to be fired from 300 yds to 500 yds. These matches are always seem to be shot on beautiful early fall days with a little pine sent in the air.  Head on up to NWGC on Saturday for the Iron sight matches, and stay over through Sunday for the Any sight matches.  There is Camping at the range and more than one club house to set up a cot indoors for the night.  There are two good places to eat on the Lake within just a few miles.       Contact person is Bob Woods  -  bwoods@nvva.us 
       9/11 Mid Range Championships  -  Click Here for Program
       Accurate, Weather Info for NWGC - Click Here -- updated by the minute from Airport (near the range) This weather site will be posted on the Blog throughout the weekend.

Sunday, 9/11 there will also be a 300 meter match at Minneapolis Rifle Club. (Map)  Brian Shiffman, match director, invites all to these matches, which are shot on electronic 300 m targets.  That means you just fire the shot and then ck the shot place on the computer screen next to each firing position.  Neat stuff!    F-class and Senior scope shooters are encouraged to come and compete.
From Brian Shiffman:

 "The Minneapolis Rifle Club (MRC) 300 meter match for September will be held this Sunday, September 11.  Shooting starts at 10AM so get there early to set up and ensure that we have enough targets ready for shooting as well as for administrative and chatting purposes."

Brian D. Shiffman     shiff004@umn.edu

Last Weekend
Highpower matches were shot at Eau Claire all weekend.  Mark Schoess sent in pictures of the score board from Saturday's OTC match, and you can notice that Minn shooters were numerous and well placed in the final standings. Kurt Borlaug continues his mastery of the Service Rifle by shooting an excellent 775 which was good for 4th over all.  Kevin Bangen took 2nd place with a awesome 781, and Dean Gillette, topped the large expert class, by shooting a Master score of 759.
Complete Results -- Click Here  and  Click Here   Tks to Mark Schoess for sending in the score board pictures.

Small bore
The 3 Position Small bore Regional Championships were held at Mpls Rifle Club, and once again Emily Quiner came out on top, and took home the Gold medal for her winning efforts.  These matches saw the return of Bruce Blahut as a competitor.  Due to injury, its been many years since we have seen Bruce on the firing line.  Welcome back !

  Emily Quiner -  3P Gold medal

Alex Giesar - Silver medal and 2nd place

   Complete Regional 3P Champ Results-- Click Here  


Small Bore Prone Outdoor Championships
  From Ross Ewert:
"Jim, I am not sure if anyone sent you the State prone results from Hibbing a week ago, if not, here it is. Emily shot an outstanding 3196 to become our latest MN state smallbore prone champion.  Click Here for Complete Results

300meter International 
  From Brian Shiffman:  
"What a great day for a match.  Fine weather, sunny skies slight breeze and not many excuses.

   For the second month in a row, Tom Loberg and Johan Boden had a real battle that was not settled until the last shot was fired.  For the second month, Johan bested Tom by one point, 590 to a 589.  Tom was ahead after the second series but dropped 4 points to Johan’s one in the third series.

  Prone class was decided by two points with Garold Jones ahead of Russ Siakel.

 Two shooters new to our matches were John Swenson and Bryan Peterson (Ya, for sure) who behaved themselves well while posting good scores for newcomers to 300 meters.  John was a model of consistency, shooting 188, 187 and 187.

  Russ Siakel was cruising in Prone until the third series then things just fell apart for him.  As for me, I gave up really early, like just after sighting in!  My eye was playing tricks on me as I tried shooting Prone.  I would have switched to F-Class but did not bring scope or rests.  So I enjoyed myself watching others shoot."

Full results are at http://www.edfpages.com/mgfc/results.php?match=8.

 Brian D. Shiffman    shiff004@umn.edu

Notes:
Olympic Free Pistol  (and Air Rifle, and Shuetzen rifle)
  from Mike Marzitelli
"Gentlemen and Ladies.  We are winding down the 2011 Free Pistol season with the State Championship coming up October 15th at the Minneapolis Rifle Club/Minnetonka Game & Fish Club facility.  We have one more match before the Championship the third Saturday in September at MRC/MG&FC.  

Starting October, we are beginning the Air Pistol matches at Bill's in Robbinsdale on Tuesday evenings.   Again, there will be two relays, the first at 4 in the afternoon with the second beginning about 5:30.   There has been in the past a full house at the first relay but there always has been plenty of room for additional shooters at the second relay.  These are open matches and all are invited to shoot any or all of them.   We will have as optional for those who want to establish National Rankings affiliation with  USA Shooting .   The few dollars extra is elective only for those who wish to register their scores and is not required for participation.  The fees will remain $6.00 for range use along with a contribution for targets when they are required.  We have sufficient targets from last year to last a few months.  

Olympic Air Rifle will also be starting on Wednesdays in October using the same format.  

Olympic Free Pistol Schedule Issues.   

For the last few years, we have been scheduling during the summer two matches a month, one on the first Saturday at Oakdale, and the second at MRC on the third Saturday.  This last summer, the attendance at Oakdale has been light.  During the summer, there are many conflicting activities hence that can be expected. These are things such as marriage, children, vocation, other travel, and other interests such as boating, cabins up north and so on.   These are all good things in and of themselves.   The question I have is given the conflict, is it in our interest as a competitive group to maintain the two match per month schedule from May through September for Free Pistol.  I would like some feedback on that as I have to meet with the other match directors this coming Saturday to work on the 2012 Oakdale schedule.  Feedback please.  mmarzitelli@hotmail.com

Schuetzen Team Formation.   Gerry Barnes has proposed that we should consider forming Schuetzen Teams for national competition. These teams would be in rimfire as well as centerfire Schuetzen.   We would meet once a month shooting together as a team and forward our scores to the governing organization.   In this case it would be the American Single Shot Association.  These scores would them compete against similar teams throughout the United States.   It would be shot from both Offhand and Bench and in Iron Sights and Any Sight categories.   If you are interested in becoming involved, let me know so we can begin the organizational ground work.  In as this is a postal match of sorts, we have scheduling options so we would be able to work around being on call , being elsewhere, being cold,  and other concerns.  The rimfire matches could be shot from the climate controlled facility available to us. The submitted scores would be for a five member team.  Feedback please.

Mike"  mmarzitelli@hotmail.com

 MRRA fall Board meeting
From George Minerich - MRRA pres.
"Hi All: Please find attached the Board meeting agenda for Saturday's meeting. Thanks! George PS: I know you can't make it Matt"  Click Here for agenda

Service Rifle Championships  (Sept 17-18)
From: Capt. Bob     
"Attached is your program for the 2011 Minn. service rifle championship & EIC match at North Star.  NOTE that we are shooting 2 person teams this year. We want to promote club vs. club competition but if you can't find a team mate from your club let me know & I'll try to pair up some pick up teams under MRRA or some other state Ass'n.

If you wish to camp on Fri. let me know & I'll get the top secret gate code to you.

Advance entries are preferred and keep in mind the entry orifice closes at 0830 SHARP so if you are just showing up be there before 0830!

HOLDHARD,  Bob"

Two Weeks Out
Sept 16-18 NRA Rifle coach training classes by Larry Sawyer -- Click Here for program
Sept 17-18  Service Rifle Championships at NorthStar  - Click Here for Program
Sept 18       Small Bore1600 at ERSC -- Click Here for Match Program
Sept 24       Service Rifle clinic at GRRC
Sept 25       EIC Leg Match (Service Rifle) at GRRC -  Click Here for Program   
That's All Folks  -- Note:  Match programs etc always avalible on Blog

  Hawkeye

Shooters News for the MN Area -- Aug 23, 2011

The Week Ahead  
   This coming weekend has the Championship trail shifting to the North with the Prone Small Bore St. Championships to be held in Hibbing, Mn, at the the Hibbing Rifle and Pistol Club.  There will be matches both Saturday and Sunday (Aug 27-28), and each day will see the shooters facing off in prone matches to be shot on targets from 50 yds to 100 yds.  The four matches on Saturday will be shot with Iron sights and then on Sunday, any sights may be used at the shooters choice.  This will be the a great opportunity for all you northern Highpower prone shooters to practice for the 9/11 Mid Range Matches at NWGC.  Don't miss this opportunity.  St. Prone SB Champ  Match Bulletin (pg 8-10)  --  Click Here   

  For the Highpower shooter there is the South Dakota St Champ matches at Yankton, SD over the two day weekend of Aug 27-28. There will be a sporter rifle match on Sat, and Sunday is the State Champ match.   Click Here for match bulletin. 

   There also is a rumor of Mid Range Matches at Lacrosse Rifle Club this weekend, but I don't have a match bulletin to share.   

Last Weekend
Highpower
The NRA Regional Championships were held.  The contest was contested.  The shooters fired matches at 200 yds, 300yds and 600 yds.  The Champion was crowned after a tough match. Capt. Bob Peasley is the 2011 Mn Regional Champion. Capt. Bob fired good consistant high scores to come out on top and win the Gold medal.  While he didn't win any of the matches outright, he made no mistakes though out the day and had the most points at the end.
   Capt. Bob was just out Xed by Kevin Bangen in the Standing match.  Both had fired awesome 190 scores in that that difficult match.  In the Sitting Rapid fire match it was Dale Wickstrom that had just one more point that Capt Bob, and his Sitting Rapid fire score of 196 took that match.                At the 300yd line, it was

Erick Rhode who dropped just two pts and won that rapid fire match with his 198 score.  At the 600 yd line it was the last chance for Capt Bob to take a match win, and his 196 score was again good for a 2nd place but again Kevin Bangen was just one point better and took the prone slow fire match with a 197.  Actually, the match wasn't just 1 point difference, Kevin drilled 14 Xs, while the next best shoot could only manage 6 Xs -- No, It wasn't even close.  Kevin won that match going away!
  In the end, it didn't matter who won each of the 4 matches, Capt Bob's solid performance in every match won the Day !
  Congratulations to Capt. Bob Peasley for winning the MN NRA Regional with the top score of 775-15x. 
  Other great scores were fired by Jim Schonke (763) who was in town for the next days very important Leg Match.  Dick Van Valkenberg might be close to earning his Master card if he continues to shoot 765s like he did in this tournament.  

  Click Here to see Capt. Bob fire his 200 yd Rapid fire match on the way to his Gold medal. It almost didn't go the way it was supposed too. 
From Capt. Bob:   " As you could see by watching close I had a couple minor feed problems and had to double clutch a couple shots.  It was worse at 300.  I think I had about 1/4 second left after all 4 strings." 

Sunday, was the big Service Rifle Leg Match. Mark Havlik sent in a copy of the results.  Thank You Mark.

                     Results of Leg Match:  >>>

It looks like Jim Schonke made his trip from Wisc. worthwhile by holding hard in the beautiful weather, and taking the Gold Medal and Leg Points with a well shot 475-7x.  I believe that Jim has traveled here before and taken home well earned Leg Points.  Jim should now have enough pts for his Distinguished badge or be very close to it.  Congratulations to Jim Schonke such good shooting.  Terry McDonnell was not far behind in 2nd place with a 469, but with only 14 shooters, I'm not sure if a 2nd leg was given for even that good score. Right behind Terry was Thomas Holm, and Dean Gillette both firing competitive scores above 465 and next in line to be taking Leg points from less practiced shooters.

   Mark Havlik has also sent in for us another excellent slide show, set to music, of the pictures Mark took at the Leg Match.  I have to say that Mark is getting very good at producing these moving slide shows and they are as good as any I've seen of shooting events.
             Click Here to view Mark's latest slide show. 

Small Bore
The last of Mpls. Rifle Club's summer series of prone small bore matches was held this past Sunday under Blue Bird skys, and with little wind to plague the assembled shooters.  It was to be a great day for most every body. The conditions meant that just about every shooter had a really good or great match to remember after.  In the end, it would be a battle between Metric State Champ and collegiate shooter Emily Quinar, High Power prone specialist Stacey Tamulinas, and all round High Master Steve Knutson.  The 50 yd match started with a light breeze from 8 o'clock, and Steve and Stacey cleaned both 20 shot targets, while Emile dropped one pt for a 399 score. Marksman shooter Julie Huseby was dialed in and fired a competitive 397 just behind Jim Biles for 5th place.  Next up was the Dewar Match and that meant first a 50 yd target and then a 100 yd target with the regular 20 shots on each.  Steve Knutson again cleaned both of these challenging targets for a 400-29x and now had a 1pt lead over Stacey, and 3 over Emily.   

   The third match would be the 100 yd match and since this was a " One Day Regional" course of fire, this match and the following 50m match would allow the use of "Any Sights".  I had shot pretty good in the 2 iron sight matches, and was down only 8 for the day, but I was having trouble with blurry eyes and would go to a Scope for rest of the match.  Jim Biles, Steve Knutson and others made the same choice. It was also a good day to test the inexpensive SK yellow box ammo with the light wind and  20 pwr scope to help out.  
  Two shooters decided not to use scopes --  Stacey and Emily.  Emily, because she shoots only iron sights in collegiate competition, and besides she just won the State Metric Champ with iron sights over the best scope shooters.   Stacey chose iron sighs because he wanted to shoot head to head with Emily and if either won the day, it would have been a fair fight -- not exactly mano a mano, but you get the idea. It was a good choice because the use of a scope did not help Steve in this match as he scored the same 397 as Stacey and Emily, but Stacey scored the most Xs with 25 and gets the win.  Jim Biles was just a pt behind and now only 9 down for the day.
  Now we were down to the last two targets to be shot at 50m.  The "meter" match is always considered to be the hardest match and so it is proper to make it the last match. it's easy to drop a bunch of pts in the meter match.    Steve K. was now ahead for the day, but only one pt over Stacey, and with only a 3 pt cushion over Emily.  Any one could win yet!   Two folks cleaned the first target of 20 shots. Stacey and my self.  Emily dropped a couple and was slipping away from a possible win. Steve K. shot a 199 and this meant that going into the last of the 8 targets shot, it was a tied up shooting match.  20 more shots on the 50m target would determine the winner.  First off the line was yours truly dropping 3 and posting a 397- good for 2nd in this meter match.  Then, Steve came off the line having dropped 3 more for a 396.  Stacey and Emily were taking their time and were the last shooters off the line.  Emily could not make up earlier lost pts, and posted a 396.  She would not win today.
     It was up to Stacey to take the win on the last shot or not.  Shoot a 10 and win the match out right on points or shoot a nine and risk being creedmoored by Steve on who shot the last x. 
    It was a 10 and Stacey wins this last MRC 1600 Sm Bore match, after a good battle down to the last point and the last shot.  What a great way to win the day.  Steve came in 2nd with a SB Master score of 1593-106x.  Emily was third.  Stacey not only won the match, but fired his first Master iron sight Sm bore prone score, shooting somewhere around 99.6% possible (1594-126x)  . 

  Everyone had fun, and it was a great day at the range.  Thanks to George Minerich for 8 hrs of range prep on Friday to make this match possible. 
 Complete Results: Click to expand

                              

Two Weeks Out
Sept 3        Palma at GRRC  -- Click Here for Program
Sept 3-5     Mid range and OTC at Eau Claire  -- Click Here for program
Sept 10-11 Mid Range prone champs at NWGC Duluth -  Click Here for program

That's All Folks!
Hawkeye

Regional OTC championship at ERSC

Capt. Bob Peasley Wins the MN NRA Regional Championship.

  Capt. Bob fired solid scores in all 4 matches of the NRA Regional Championship\, held this past Saturday at Elk River Sportsman's Club, and topped the list of final aggregate scores.
  Here is Capt. Bob firing the Sitting Rapid fire match from the 200 yd line on his way to the Gold Medal.

                        Results:  

Shooters News for the MN area - Aug 16, 2011

The Week Ahead
Highpower Championship weekend again ---  The NRA Regional Over the Course Championship and a Service Rifle Leg match will be held this weekend at the Elk River Sportman's Club this Saturday and Sunday. On Aug 20, Saturday, the match will be the Individual Championship -- a 80 shot OTC match.  This match will have an Offhand stage shot at 200yds, a sitting Rapid fire stage also at 200 yds, followed by a prone rapid fire stage from 300yds, and finally 20 shots prone slow fire from 600yds. The prone slow fire phase of the Team match will also be shot Sat.    On Sunday, the 21st, the team match will continue with the Rapid fire, and the Offhand stages at the start of the day, and then be followed by an Excellence in Competition Leg match for Service Rifles, which will probably start around 1100 hrs.   
  I know that the range is in excellent condition, and as usual, the targets are in good shape. This will be a great match.  See you there?
                   Weather forecast click Here
                   Regional OTC and Leg Match Program  Click Here
 From Scott Olson: (match director)
A BBQ dinner will be served to all match participants Saturday evening after the completion of all shooting.This meal is included in the entry fee. 
            CONTACT: Scott Olson Pullbanger@aol.com

Small Bore
For the Dedicated prone shooter, on Sunday, Aug 21 there will be the monthly Sm Bore 1600 match at Mpls. Rifle Club. Shooters will be firing matches on NRA targets at 50yds to 100yds. This match should be good for everyone's ego as these NRA targets are notably easier to score on than those intimating UIT targets we shot on two weeks ago.  If you need some prone practice for Highpower, this is as good as it gets.  F-Class and Senior scope shooters always welcome.
Small bore match program Click Here

Last Weekend
International Friendship match:  From Stacey Tamulinas: 

"The Swiss Rifle Club of Minneapolis hosted the International Friendship match between the Gopher Club and the Zuckenriet Shooting Club.  As usual, this was a very casual match on the extremely hard international 300M target. The Club was also competing against Vancouver and Los Angeles Swiss Rifle Clubs in a separate postal match. 

    For next year, I must notify local shooters that they are eligible to compete and win some nice medals by achieving a 90% score with a "standard rifle"(European rules - heavy Trigger -no diopter, etc). If you don't make the medal the first time you get to try again. 

    Attached are a few photos for your viewing pleasure.  The after-match debriefing at the North Woods Bar lasted almost as long as the match.  We did manage to solve most of the problems in Switzerland and the USA. 

   The folks who attending in the Group Photo (lf - rt): Stacey Tamulinas, Steve Petschel, Erhard Bruderer, Russ Siakel, Brian Shiftman, Joel Peabody, Rinhard Dediker (Pres) Chris Heeb,   center: Patrick Fischer (Sec)

 Stacey " 

Notes: 
Mark Havlik has produced a very good slide show (with music) of this years trip to Camp Perry, which has picts of many of the MN Service Rifle team in action--
Click Here to view
Tks Mark for sending this in!

Two Weeks out
Aug  27-28  S.Dak Hp champ at Yankton -- Program click here
 Aug 27-28  Sm Bore St. Prone Champ at Hibbing -  Program click here
Sept 3         Palma 800yds-1000yds at GRRC  -  Program click here
Sept 3-4      MRP and OTC at Eau claire   Program click here

Camp Perry 2011 by Mark Havlik

Karl Kenyon 1918 --2011

In Memorial

from elynews.com

Karl B. Kenyon, 1918 – 2011, has left the range          
Karl Beau Chene Kenyon, a resident of Ely, Nevada for 91 years, passed away in Sandy, Utah on Friday, July 29, 2011, at the age of 93. Karl was born on June 28, 1918, in Ely, Nevada to Douglas and Isabella Kenyon. On April 29, 1939, he married Zoe Anderson in Ely, Nevada. He served in the Army during WWII in both France and Belgium. Karl was an assayer and chemist for Kennecott in Ruth and McGill. Shortly after WWII, he developed his passion for guns into what would become a life long career in gunsmithing. He designed and built his own trigger for target rifles (known worldwide as the “Kenyon” trigger) and soon became one of the premier gunsmiths in the world.
Karl is survived by his children: Ronald E. (Ardath) Kenyon, Reginald D. (Alicia) Kenyon and Terry K. (Nickie) Kenyon; his brother Arien Wise; 20 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Zoe, daughter Gayle Bronson, and brothers Doug Kenyon and Duke Hermansen.

The Shooting community lost a great friend this past week. Karl was legend in Sm Bore circles and will be missed by all.  His accomplishments were many, but he was best known for his redesign of the famous Winchester Mod 52 micromotion trigger.  Three years ago, I had Karl work his magic on my M-52 trigger and what a sweet trigger group it is now.  Karl loved to talk on the phone with shooters and customers, and I twice enjoyed shooting stories from Karl, when I was his customer.  
Karl Kenyon - Rest in Peace
We are diminished.

From Kurt Borlaug:
 " Jim, Sad to hear but I believe I heard earlier this year he was failing. Isn't it wonderful that God gives us passions that reach so many in ways we could never concieve of. Just imagine what he saw as an improvement to an already good mechanism and a desire to surpass it. One can only ponder how many shooters put extra X's into a target from his talent.
 Thanks for the notice, Kurt."

South Dakota St. HP Championships

Not enough rifle matches? For those traveling shooters in need of just one more rifle match, you are saved.  Yankton County Sharpshooters are hosting both a Sm bore, and a High Power State Championship this month. Aug 14, this Sunday will be the Sm Bore state Champ.  Click Here for match Program. Following that there will be HP St Champ matches on Aug 28. These matches include a Grand Match on Saturday, and a Sporting Rifle match.  Click Here for Match program.
From Match director George Cwach:  gdcwach@svtv.com
Attached are the programs for South Dakota State Championship to be held a my clubs range in August. I know it is a long way to drive for 200 yard match, but you and the rest of the Minnesota team are welcome to attend if you choose to.

 George

Shooters News for the MN area - Aug 9, 2011

The Week Ahead

Even with many of the competitive Highpower shooters off to Camp Perry for the Nationals, this next weekend still offers two rifle matches for the shooting aficionado to work on their trigger pull, and NPA.  Both matches are prone matches at Mid Range distances, so it's easy shooting, and comfortable weather is forecast to make for a pleasant day at either match.

  Sunday, Aug 14th there will be a 300 meter International (it's still mid range prone shooting) match at Mpls Rifle Club.  This match had been listed incorrectly on the MRRA schedule for Aug 7,  however the proper date for the match is this next Sunday, Aug 14, and will be shot then. 
    Note:  The 300m shooters might have to get freindly with the Swiss club who also have Aug 14 scheduled for their match at mrc
    From Brian Shiffman:  (On the confusion of match dates.)
    300 Meter club matches are held on the 2^nd Sunday of each month throughout the year.  On occasion the April match is scheduled for the 3^rd Sunday, but that is know and posted at the beginning of each year.  The August match will be NEXT Sunday, the 14^th since that is the second Sunday of the month.  The MRRA calendar has the date of August 7^th but that is in error.  I never caught that problem until this evening.  If you look on the MGFC-MRC web site under Events you will see that the match is shown on August 14^th.  http://www.mgfc.org/calendar.aspx

I am sure that there will be a lot of confusion but I hope this email will get to people in time to prevent unnecessary traveling, etc.

   That said, the August match will be on the 14^th and the usual rules and fees apply.  We start at 10 am.  Come early to set up.

    Results of the July match are posted at http://www.edfpages.com/mgfc/results.php?match=7.  F-Class was hotly contested by Johan Boden (a film star) and Tom Loberg.  While I shot F-Class and used a rest, I again tried to use iron sights.  I’m encouraged enough to try Prone at the upcoming match.

    Russ Saikel was the lone Prone competitor and has bullet seating issues that probably kept him from posting a better score.

Brian"          Click Here for MRC Map

 This match offers a local competition for Shooters on the NW side of the cities, and will be shot on those really neat Electronic targets.

Sunday Aug 14th there will also be a great prone Mid Range match just SE of the cities at NorthStar Rifle Club's great facility this side of Red Wing on Hwy 61. Click Here for map  This match will be shot at 300, 500 and 600 yds.

  From Capt. Bob:
"I just received confirmation that Jerry Johnson will run a 9AM (stat orifice closes at 0830) $5.00 practice MRP at 3, 5 & 600 on Sun. Aug. 14 at North Star.  Depending on turn out it might be a 2 relay, score in the pit, no award, gone by noon 30 event."

Last Weekend 

Poor man's Camp Perry matches at Northwestern Gun Club -- no news or results passed on to me, sorry.

 The Sm Bore Metric Prone Regional at Mpls Rifle Club was contested with 160 shots for record on both Sat,

Emily Quinar- Gold medal

and Sunday last weekend.  12 Competitors from both the USA and Canada fought both heat and humidity on Saturday during most of the 4 stages of 20 shots each on two targets.
      Saturday was Iron sight day, and fogged up glasses was one of the problems I faced on every shot for the first half of the match.  These UIT targets we were shooting, left no room for error.  The 10 ring is only about 1 min of angle and to hit that 3/8" 10 ring at 50 meters , or the 1 in. 10 ring at 100yds requires all the skill I didn't have this day.  In the last Metric match I had shot, this past April in Phoenix, I had been practicing a lot during the Sm Bore "March Madness" of a 3200 or a 6400 every weekend for a month.  My scores reflected that amt of shooting with averages scores of 191-193.  Not today, though.  I was shooting 186-187 (or worse) and falling way too far behind to worry about being competitive for a place on the podium. 
   Not everybody was having problems though. Lots good scores were shot by the younger, fitter and more practiced shooters. Age and treachery were not going to win today. Youth and Skill would define the eventual winners.
 
  Bruce Blahut ran a great match.  We all should not forget all the work it takes to put on these championship tournaments. Bruce does all this work for the benifit of the Kids -- the Junior shooters.  While this was the Regional Champ match, it was in reality, put on for the kids-- the juniors -- to shoot in tough higher level competition.  If it wasn't for Bruce's effort to provide this competition fo r the kids, adults like myself would not have a match to shoot in.  That effort (and that of others) has been going on for a long time, while a lot of junior shooters have benifited along the way-----so do the adults who have these matches to shoot in.    I appreciate that.

Jason Jarvis fires at 100yd targets

    Saturday -- the Iron Sight match.  In the first 50 m match Emily Quinar (387-18) jumped off to a 2 pt advantage over long range specialist, Stacey Tamulinas, while Canadian Jason Jarvas, and Steve Knutson,fired 381s were tied for 3rd..  The Dewar match shot at 50m and 100 m, continued to separate the would be winners from the rest of the pack.  Emily and Stacey both posted scores in the 380s. to retain the lead, but it was Greg Quinar, that won the match, by shooting an excellent 386-13. Greg comes out of the MK class for this win.  The 100 m match was plagued by winds that didn't know weather to blow out of the NW or the SE -- or when to switch.  Emily Q, did the best of watching the shifts and put herself 2 pts up on the field with "good for the conditions" 385-13x. Sub Junior, Eric Hazleton shot a very constant 379-11 on his way to 4th place for the day.   In the last match, targets were shot at 50m again. Stacey T. clawed back 2 points of the lead that Emily had at this point and won the 2nd 50m Match with the high score of 388-17x. Greg Quinar kept the family in the running with his 386-13x score. So at the end of the day it was Stacey with a 1538 and Emily with a 1539.  One point makes all the difference and Emily Quinar wins the Metric Iron sight championship! 
    Sunday --  The Any Sight (scopes or Irons) Match
 Sunday started out just a little humid, but a much lower temperature greeted the shooters and it looked to be a great day on the range.  Again the wind was switchy, running 4-5mph from any direction and from all directions at the same time sometimes. Emily Quinar started out the day in the first 50m match by hammering the competition with a 393-23x, and the only one to stay close was Stacy with a 392.  The rest of us sat in the middle 380s and were happy to get that score. In the metric Dewar, it was Greg Quinar who scored his 2nd match win of the weekend, by shooting first an amazing 198-15x on the 50m target, and finishing with a 391-26x after the 100 m target.   Stacey was 2nd. He got the same 391 points but was 5 Xs short of Greg's great score.  The 100m match is 20 shots each on two 100m targets.  These targets are reduced 300m targets and it's darned tough to hit that 1 in ten ring.  With 3 pts in hand, Stacey T. went into this match as the days leader.  There were still  2 matches and 4 targets to go, but as Stacey later said to me, that he was getting a little tired and holding those cross hairs in the 10 ring was getting a little unsteady.    Stacey fires his worst score of the weekend and drops out of the lead. A few others, such as Chad Danielson are not so far behind with 381s.  The last 50 m match sealed the deal, as Emily walks away with the day's Any Sight win by shooting the top score of 393-22x.   I miraculously get my only good score of the weekend and 2nd in this match with a 390-17x-(even a blind monkey..........)
   Oh, by the Way, did I mention that Emily shot Iron sights to win this Any Sight match.

             To View a Slide show of a few pictures from this Match  --  Click Here

Emily Quinar, collegiate shooter on the Murray St. Racer Rifle Team, was top shooter at this weekend's Prone Sb Regional Championships at the Mpls. Rifle club. Using only Iron Sights in today's Any sight match, Emily outscored all the Scope shooters and doubled up her win in Saturdays Iron sight only match. With an excellent score of 3099-149x for the two days shooting, Emily takes the Gold Medal in these tough matches shot on those non-forgiving UIT targets. 

Stacey T.  Silver medal

Stacey Tamulinas wins the Silver Medal just a few pts back, and also took 2nd place in the irons only match, just one pt down from Emily. 

Click to expand Results

 

More on this Weekends Prone Metric matches at Mpls Rifle club ---

Jason Jarvis, a rising young shooter, and Blogger from Fort Frances, Ontario, attended our Metric SB matches this weekend and Published this article about his shooting expedition to Mn.  Click Here to read Jason's own article in his Blog: Prone In the Wilderness .
 Jason fired an excellent score on tough targets at an unfamiliar range.    

We were all disappointed when Jason could not come back on Sunday to enjoy less stressful shooting in better weather.  We enjoyed his company and sure hope to see him at matches next year or sooner.
                                                                

Sm bore Notes:
From Chad Danielson
Jim,  Below you’ll find the Current Smallbore Season Aggregate Standings as they are after this weekends, Metric Prone Regional Championship.  Feel free to post them as you see fit.

			1. Eric Hazelton (Jr.)	10,448 - 402
			2. Steve Knutson	9,351 - 458
			3. Jim Evenson	9,088 - 414
			4. Jim Biles	7,895 – 406
			5. Stacey Tamulinas	7,855 - 445
			6. Chad Danielson	7,705 - 298
			7. Alex Giesar (Jr.)	7,684 - 308
			8. Nick Learn (Jr.)	7,628 - 249
			9. Morgan Dietrich	6,337 – 391
			10. Emily Quiner (Jr.)	6,287 - 369

HighPower Notes:
Ammo Prices-
  From: Capt Bob

"HP shooters:   A source within the sales department of a BIG wholesaler told me this morning, July 29, 2011, that they are expecting a HUGE increase in factory ammo prices sometime in September. Something in the neighborhood of 25 freaking percent.  Imagine that, just in time for hunting season.

This guy has always had solid information in the past so take it for what it's worth. He did NOT mention components, just factory loaded ammo.  However since both use copper & lead you do the math.

GOODLUCK!"  Bob  

Two Weeks Out
Aug 20-21 -  NRA Regional and Leg match at Elk River Sportsmen's Club - Click Here for Match Program

That's all folks
Hawkeye

Emily Quinar wins Sm Bore Metric Regional Championship !

Emily Quinar - Gold Medal

Emily Quinar, collegiate shooter on the Murray St. Racer Rifle Team, was top shooter at this weekend's Prone Sb Regional Championships at the Mpls. Rifle club. Using only Iron Sights in today's Any sight match, Emily outscored all the Scope shooters and doubled up her win in Saturdays Iron sight only match. With an excellent score of 3099-149x for the two days shooting, Emily takes the Gold Medal in these tough matches shot on those non-forgiving ISU targets. 

Stacey T.  Silver medal

Stacey Tamulinas wins the Silver Medal just a few pts back, and also took 2nd place in the irons only match, just one pt down from Emily. 

Click to expand Results