Shooters News for the Minn Area - Aug 5, 2013

The Week Ahead 

 Highpower

From La Crosse to Eau Claire, the action stays in Wisconsin this coming weekend. After practicing up last weekend at the La Crosse Rifle club mid range matches, traveling shooters will again be heading east for this weekends Mid Range and Over the Course matches at the Eau Claire Rifle Club.  Both Saturday and Sunday (Aug 31, Sept 1) shooters will have opportunity to fire 4 prone matches of 20 shots ea. from the 600 yd line at the Eau Claire Rifle Club's shooting facility a little north of town on the banks of the river.  Click here for Match bulletin
  Over the Course shooters get their chance on Monday, Sept 2.  Two Service Rifle matches are on tap for folks to enjoy.  First off is an John C. Garand match in the morning. Competitors will fire CMP course B from the 200 yd line -- a 50 shot match with prone slow fire first.  Click Here for Match bulletin. 
 Then after lunch it will be time to uncase those beautiful M1A rifles and fire  "CMP Course B at 300yds" on the SR3 target. This should be a great day. Don't miss the chance to get out and exercise those older service rifles.  Click here for M1A match bulletin

  Reminder: Its time to get those entry's sent in for the 9//11 Mid Range matches (Sept 7-8) at NorthWestern Gun Club . These great prone matches (sling shooters State Championship) are only a week and a half away.  These matches are always well attended.  Don't miss out. Click here for match bulletin.

300 meter International
Mpls Rifle club hosts another in the summer series of 300m matches Next weekend - Sept 8th.

Last Weekend 
Congratulations to Larry Sawyer -- the Minnesota State Prone Champion with Small Bore rifles. 

  State Champion Larry Sawyer

  We were all glad to be shooting from shaded firing positions this weekend at the Minn State Sm Bore Prone Championships.  It was hot. The competition was great, but it was hot.  Thanks to George Minerich we had a couple fans to keep the air moving in the MRC sm bore shooting house.  With a cool drink in between targets, it was even pleasant. I would not have wanted to be out in the sun shooting all day.  Thanks again to George for running a great Championship -- as he always does.

    While we glad to have the air moving in the shooting house, we could have used a little less wind between us and the targets.  With an 15 mph average wind from the left, and gusts to 23 mph, there was enough wind for everybody.

    We started off Saturday's Iron Sight matches with Junior shooter, Eric Hazleton firing a clean score with half Xs winning the first match. The second match saw the wind at full bore and switching 180 deg every few seconds.  Larry Sawyer found a good shooting window, stuck to it, and won the DeWar match going away, and gaining good lead on the field. Emily Quniar held steady for 2nd with a solid 396-23x. In the 100 yd match it was Erick Hazleton who was the most patient with the reversals and gusts, dropping only 7 pts to take that win and take point from Larry Sawyer's lead.  Young Eric followed his disciplined shooting plan of mostly watching the wind and waiting for the opportunity to use good technique at the right time and won the match. By this time, I had found out that I hadn't shot all my bad shots last weekend and I was fading fast from the leader board. In the last match, the 50m match, Emily Q. made a run for the lead as she and Stacey Tamulinas traded 10s and Xs, shot for shot, untill Emily pulled ahead for tough win in tough conditions. In the end, Iron Sight day at the prone champs went to Larry Sawyer who fired a 1583 with and amazing 100 Xs.
 

Elmer M, Lori H, Madeline D, and Larry S.

 
 Day two at the prone champs saw many shooters switch to scopes as this was Any Sight day.  Most of the juniors and Emily Q., former NCAA competitor were content to contest the matches with Iron Sights only.
    No quarter was given in the first match at 50 yds.  Larry, Emily and Stacey T. all fired clean scores with Stacey a couple Xs ahead.  Stacey, 6 pts behind the leader in the weekends aggreate score, and Emily, 3 pts back were not ready to give up yet.  Stacey made his run in the Dewar match, again shooting clean for the 40 shots, in the gusty wind to pull back 3 pts on Larry S..  In the 100 yd match Larry padded his lead by one pt. by scoring 398 while Eric, Stacey, and Emily scored "only" 397s and a pile of Xs.  Larry's 399 in the 50 m match was a winner by a point, but not good enough to win the day's Any sight Championship.   Stacey's steady shooting (1595-119x)  gains him First place for the day, with Larry back a few Xs. 

   Adding up the weekends aggregate, the congratulations go to Emily Q for a well deserved 2rd place, and to Stacey T. for a hard earned 3rd over all for the weekend.  Top Junior prone shooter is Eric Hazleton, who continues his race to the Master Class. Congrats to Elmer Miller, a Grand Senior and new shooter who fired his new Personal Record score of 1540 on Sunday.  Elmer is definitely getting it figured out.

  Congratulations to Larry Sawyer (3178-212x) who is the 2013 Minn State Sm bore Prone Champion.     Click Here for complete results

Aug 24-25th Mid Range High power matches at LaCrosse -- no news  

Notes:  
More from Camp Perry

From Capt. Bob

Jim:

Sorry I didn't get a report in to you sooner.  Been busy catching up after 13 fun filled days of driving & shooting.  Feel free to report the following next report if you so desire.

    I coached the US RIFLE TEAM PEASLEY in both 1000 yard team matches & the Palma team.  The shooters were Steve & Shirley Mcgee from Kansas plus Leo Cebula from Detroit & Bud Solis from Seattle.  The team shot Palma rifles all the way.  Steve has been suffering some bad back pain so was a couple points off his normal outstanding scores. The team shot a ho hum 782X27 in the Roumanian team with over half the points lost to coaching error. I hate it when that happens! This score would have been good enough to break the  senior metallic sight team record of 779 but for the Pete Church team shooting a 790!  Next day in the Herrick match we picked it to a 790X31 good enough for 3rd among the teams shooting Palma rifles.  The team posted a 1772X59 in the Palma team match (450 each shooter).  This was high civilian team, high senior team and 2nd overall. We got beat by only the pros from the US Army who averaged about 35 years younger!  Here is the link to Palma team scores. 

http://compete.nra.org/perryscores/teamscores.aspx?mid=523 

 We showed up at US RIFLE TEAM MCGEE because the real captain (me) forgot to write RIFLE TEAM PEASLEY on the card.  Over half the 28 points lost were coaching errors again.  But if they will have me I'll do better next year including the team name!   

Bob

From Rick Curtis

Need a good inexpensive digital caliper for your bench? If so this weeks Did you Know may be of some assistance. Last month I was in Harbor Freight looking for some polishing materials and spotted a whole shelf of these calipers. (see attached picture) At the time they were marked down to $15 bucks so I thought what the heck. When I got it home and opened the box I was surprised to find a very well made instrument. The fit in the slide area is very tight and it comes with a spare battery. I now use it for all my reloading related needs. The even better news is that yesterday I received my September Rifleman and there on page 20 something is a Harbor Freight add with a coupon for this caliper that knocks the price down to just $10 bucks. So if you need a spare for the bench or one for the range box you just can't go wrong for very little money. 

                             

Thanks Rick for that tip, and tks for sending us results from the World F-class matches in Raton, NM

Also from Rick Curtis 
Shooters, attached is the aforementioned results, congratulations to Bob Meade on winning the this day in F-open    Click Here for Fclass World Day 1 results

I think I see Minn's own Rick Sievers on that list,  there are probably more. Maybe one or our local shooters would send us a match rpt.? 

2013 Western CMP Games & Creedmoor Cup Matches
From : Christina Roguski
Dear CMP Affiliated Club,

Registration for the 2013 Western CMP Games & Creedmoor Cup Matches is now open online.  The 2013 Western CMP Games take place at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility from October 11-October 15 and the Creedmoor Cup matches are held from October 15-20.  You can register for the Western CMP Games by clicking on the following link: http://ct.thecmp.org/app/v1/index.php?do=matchRegistrationLogin.  To register for the Creedmoor Cup matches please visit the Creedmoor Sports webpage at   www.creedmoorsports.com.  

New this year, the CMP will be holding a traveling Small Arms Firing School and M16 EIC Match on Friday October 11^th.  A new Modern Military Category has been added to the GSM Match.  Competitors will have the ability to fire in a maximum of four separate events during the CMP Games.  Shooters may choose to fire a Garand, Springfield, Vintage Military or a Modern Military Rifle.  The CMP Games will include a Carbine match, a Rimfire Sporter match and the popular Vintage Sniper Match.  The Creedmoor Matches will include a 2400 aggregate, 4-man team match and the Creedmoor EIC Match.  See the full 2013 Western CMP Games & Creedmoor Cup Schedule here:http://www.thecmp.org/Competitions/West_Schedule.pdf.  We hope to see all of you and your club members at the 2013 Western CMP Games & Creedmoor Cup Matches.  If you have any questions or need more information on the Western CMP Games please feel free to contact me at croguski@thecmp.org, for information on the Western Creedmoor Cup matches contact Dennis DeMille atdemille@creedmoorsports.com. 

Christina Roguski Competition Associate. Civilian Marksmanship Program Phone 419-635-2141 ext. 1114, fax   419-635-2802   croguski@thecmp.org

Two Weeks Out       
Aug   31, Sept 1  -  600 yd Mid Range Prone at Eau Claire - click here for match bulletin
Sept  2                -  M1 Garand, and M1A matches at Eau Claire - click here for match bulletin
Sept  7, 8            -  9/11 Mid Range Prone (sling) St. Championship at Duluth -  Click here for match bulletin

That's All Folks
Hawkeye

Shooters News for the Minn Area - Aug 20, 2013

   

The Week Ahead      
  Traveling shooters who are still ready to go even after long trips to Camp Perry, will be heading down the river to LaCrosse, Wisc this weekend for a Mid Range match.

   Those Multi-talented prone shooters that are left behind will be heading to the Mpls Rifle Club this Sat and Sunday for two great days of top prone shooting competition at the Outdoor Prone Sm Bore State Championships. Saturday, Aug 24th, shooters will be firing the Iron Sight matches all day, and on Sunday, Aug 25th, shooters will compete using 'any' sights.  Each day the matches will start with the 50yd match -- two targets, 20 shots ea at 50 yds.  Most High masters expect to clean this easier target with a good X count-- 34 Xs might be good enough to take the lead.  Then comes the DeWar match and that means another 50 yd target and one at 100 yds. Now things are getting serious. This is a tough target to clean.  If your position, trigger control and wind reading is not "perfect" on the 100 yd target, you will not get a 10 (don't even think about Xs).  In the third match -- the 100 yd match-- you will find out weather you are good prone shooter or not. This match is two targets at 100 yds, and the wind can mess you up big time.  I'm always happy to get off the line in the 100 yd match with a 395-20x and that won't win the match. The last match is the 50 meter match (or the Meter match as it's called) -- two targets at 50m.  This match is easy to shoot as the targets are a little closer and even old eyes can see good through Iron sights, but this match is very, very hard to excel at.  Only the best of the best prone shooters will clean this target.
                            Click Here for match bulletin    
From George Minerich MRRA Pres. 

      Since there are no High Power matches this weekend in Minnesota, I was wondering if you would please forward out the attached MN Small Bore Prone Championship Match Program to your shooters list.  I am pretty sure that there are a lot of High Power shooters with Small Bore rifles needing exercise!  It’s a fun match with a lot of shooting – 160 rounds a day.  It is a very good way to work on your prone skills.  100 yards in the wind at the Minneapolis Rifle Club range is a special treat. 
Thanks! George    

  Yup, George, there will be some top Palma and Long Range shooters there.  They know they need the practice for the upcoming Mid Range matches and Championships.

River City Rifle Club will be hosting the Iowa 300 yd St. Championship this weekend --  Aug 24-25 --   Click Here for match Bulliten

 Last Week 
Highpower OTC
Mpls Rifle Club hosted the 3rd weekend of their summer series Highpower Over the Course matches over the weekend and was blessed with the great weather we all expect in Aug.  I don't have a match report, but Match Director, Mark Rohmann sent us some results.  
   It looks like Erik Rhode is still on a tear and once again had the top score both days with an . awesome 780 on Sat and a 771-20x on Sunday.  Not far behind in the weekend's agg, was Jim Soderstrom, who came from behind on Sunday to take a well deserved 2nd place. Just a few pts back from Jim was Jim Fernandes, and up and comer from the Duluth whose scores continue to improve match by match. It was good to see Phil Carlson out at a match again after a couple years hiatus.

Regional F-class Championships at Elk River
From: Rick Sievers 

"Elk River Sportsman’s Club held the 1^st Annual Midwest Mid-Range Championship this last weekend.  As match director, I wanted to give a special thanks to all that made this event run so smoothly.  Mike Miceli and John Clausen both did a great job running the line and keeping all the guys out of trouble.  If you had seen who showed up you would understand.  Just kidding, we had a great group of guys shooting both days.  A total of 25 shooters shot four matches each day.  The weather was great both days, but the little bit of wind we had made for some tricking shooting at times.  Gary Boham was the “Pit Boss” and did another great job down there getting the targets up and down and repaired.  One of the range attendants even helped out pulling a few targets.  Thanks to everyone that helped make the tournament great. Here are the results to the tournament:
F-TR Champion was:  Scott Brabec          F-Open Champion was:    Ben Winget 
F-TR 2^nd Place was:  Mike Lehmeier         F-Open 2^nd Place was:      Dan Whalen
F-TR 3^rd Place was:   Ron Benner             F-Open 3^rd Place was:      Rick Sievers 
If you were in the top three above, you were unable to be the following classification winners.  They also shot great and they were as follows:
High Master 1^st Place:   Chris Longley       High Master 2^nd Place:   Pat Scully

Master 1^st Place :  Jim Lantt              Master 2^nd Place:  Dan Larson
Expert 1^st Place:  Joel Danielson       Expert 2^nd Place: Russ Adamski  
Sharpshooters and Marksmen were put together because there weren't five Marksmen entered in the tournament.
Sharpshooter/Marksman 1^st Place:        Dave Ericksen
Sharpshooter/Marksman 2^nd Place:       Nick Larson
Thanks to ERSC for letting us have this event, and thanks to the Gun Stop for sponsoring the event.  There was some remarkable shooting this last weekend by everyone.  The scores have sure changed over the last couple of years.  There were ten 200 scores and a lot of 199’s and 198’s.  And lots of X’s.  It was a great weekend with a lot of great shooters and friends.  Thanks to everyone, and see you at the range. 
Rick Sievers – F-Classer " 

Tks Rick for that Report.  I know a lot of the guys were out at the F-class world Championships in Raton, NM this past week.  I hope we get some good news from out that way.  I did get this note from F-classer, John Chilton.
 "Great first day of the USA F-class Nationals is in the bag, Shot my first clean at 1000yds this morning   150-7x. ended up 2nd in the Agg. today dropping 8 pts for the day. Thank you Sawtooth Rifles for a great gun"

Small bore At MRC
It was a pretty good turn out this past Sunday at the MRC SB 1600 even with most folks being burned out from the Nationals.  Long time Gallery shooter, Bill Roos was there working out his favorite M52B Winchester.  While we were trying to shoot a 10 on the 50 meter target from the prone position, Bill was shooting Standing, and using his Unertl scope.  I can't even imagine what my wobble would look like through a scope, standing, on that target.  My hats off to you, Bill.

    Jason Jarvis and Nick Learn

  Jason Jarvis came down from Fort Francis, Canada on his annual trip to shoot with us Southerners.  Jason runs the Prone in the Wilderness Blog when he is not shooting, working, or coaching his Cadet Sm bore team.
   

The 50 yd match went to Emily Quinar who did indeed clean the target with 34 Xs, while every one else dropped 2 or more pts--- that is except Sub Junior, Norman Lilyerd who watched the switchy wind better than the rest of us and fired a 399-25x.  Again in the DeWar match, it was Emily who showed us how it is done, winning with a 398-25x.  At this time Jim Biles started getting rid of all those bad shots he had saved up at previous matches -- matches that he didn't shoot any bad shots in.  Jim got rid of 15 more of those bad shots in the 100 yd match for a new personal low record score. Jim said "well that's done, now I can get back to some good shooting at next weeks State Champ match"  I also got rid of good number of bad shots in that match, so I'm looking good for next week also. By this time Stacey Tamulinas had settled into 2nd place a few pts behind Emily.  I finally shot clean on the on the 2nd target of the Meter match so I got to go home happy as I have only cleaned the Meter target very few times in the 100s of times I have shot that target.  I didn't win the match though because I got rid of 3 more Bad nines on the first target and Stacy took that match with 6 Xs more than I had - 397-25x,  -- awesome score for the tough target and the wind that was changing 2 or 3 times a minute. That's his target above (nice groups!)   Good shooting on the last target wasn't good enough though as Emily had whipped us all like a rented mule throughout the whole day and earned the Match win with a great score of 1590 and 107 Xs --- that's right 107 Xs, 43 tens, and 10 nines!. She does it shooting Irons when the rest of us are shooting scopes for half the match.
  Stacey came in 2nd with a 1585-96x.  Your's truly got the 2nd loser spot, another 6 pts and a bunch of Xs back.  Junior shooter, Nick Learn was nipping at our heels all day and will be passing us by sooner than later.  (I think that kid has grown a foot since last summer)  

More From Camp Perry    
From: Jay Johnson

     Brian Mrnak did an awesome job in the Palma Championship match.
The winds were out of the NNW and very switchy which really played into Brian strength, wind reading.
When people like Nancy Tompkins and John Widden are dropping 5 points at 900, (Widden shot 2-8’s) Brian is staying ahead of the wind and  dropping only 2.
Brian cleaned 800 and went to 1000yd only 2 pts down.  Again the winds were brutal on everybody but Brian kept it all together and only dropped 2.
I was scoring for Brian and we both knew this was going to be a very good score for the day.  When we heard Green and Cooper both shot 445’s it looked like Brian would take the whole thing.  Then we heard about Hendricks’s shooting a 446-26X which bested Brian by a few X’s.  It wasn’t until we checked the official results during the challenge period did we find out Hendricks used an 'ANY' rifle and Brian was the National Palma Indiviudual Champ.  It was a great day for Brian and fun to be part of it. 
Shirley McGee also ended up High Woman and 4^th overall in the National Championship Agg. 
Brian Mrnak (446-18x)  and Stacey Tamulinas (444-14x) both made the Palma 20 as well.
I managed to take 15^th in Leech Cup and 20^th in Wimbledon Cup (Shooting IRON’s sights  along side the scopes for a 199-10x!) 
Morgan Dietrich (200-10x) was 10^th overall in the Band of Brothers Trophy  
Capt. Bob coached some teams but not sure how they ended up.
Regards, Jay" 

Tks for the pictures, Jay, and Hey!  That was good shooting yourself !   Congratulations on that.

Two Weeks Out       
Aug 31, Sept 1  -  600 yd Mid Range Prone at Eau Claire - click here for match bulletin
Sept  2              - M1 Garand, and M1A matches at Eau Claire - click here for match bulletin
Sept  7,8            - 9/11 Mid Range Prone (sling) St. Championship at Duluth -  Click here for match bulletin

That's All Folks
Hawkeye

Shooters News for the Minn Area - Aug 14, 2013

The Week Ahead  

  This week local area long range shooters are still fighting it out at the National Matches in Ohio. Some great scores are being put on the board. Our guys and gals are holding their own with with the best of the best this nation has to offer.

 Highpower
   On the home front Highpower Over the Course shooters will have a chance to fire their first match since returning from the nationals. They will be gathering at Mpls. Rifle Club this Sat, Aug 17 and Sunday, Aug 18 to put all that practice to work competiting with the hungry shooters who couldn't make it to the Nationals.  Saturday's match is a 100 pt OTC, fired at 200 and 300 yds.  Competitors will have the opportunity to fire two 20 shot prone matches on MR 63 target. On Sunday, the standard 80 shot course of fire will be used, and again all matches are fired out to 300 yds.  With it's well maintained firing lines and Pit facilities, MRC always draws a good crowd of shooters.
   Oh, I forgot,-- the last match (#7) on Sat is actually a "Chicken Barbeque" furnished and served by MRC's own Iron Chef.  Should be a great day-- shooting and barbeque - does it get any better than that? 
See you there?   Click Here for Match bulletin

Small Bore
While the Highpower shooters are shooting on the MRC 300m range in their OTC matches, 3 position and Prone shooters will be also be shooting matches at MRC on the outdoor Bob VanGene Sm Bore range. Saturday, Aug 17 the competition will be for the Position shooters, who will shoot a 1200 pt match on the tough metric targets.  Shooters will fire 40 shots each from Standing, Sitting, and the Kneeling position.      Click Here for match bulletin
 Prone shooters will duke it out on Sunday, Aug 18 in a conventional Outdoor Prone match.This is a 1600 pt match with shooters firing 4 matches of 40 shots (2 targets) at distances out to 100 yds. I'll be there with Mr. Winchester M-52D to defend last months win, so bring it on! 
   click Here for match bulletin

Last Week    
F-Class Regional Championships at Elk River Sportsman's Club -- No news  

                Ck this out!

From Lisa Olson:
Hi Jim, I was checking out the blog tonight and thought I'd send you a pic of my gorgeous F-Class Open Rifle. It made its debut at the state match recently and proved to be a finely tuned machine :)It has a BAT MB action with Bartlein 1-8" 5R barrel chambered in a tight neck 6mm BRX, Precision Rifle and Tool Lowboy stock assembled by Stan Ware of Westbrook MN and a Jewel Trigger. Topped with a Nightforse 12-42 BR scope with ammo lovingly assembled by my sweet husband! Painter-- Kim Vahlsing of Princeton, MN
    It took over a year to complete. I placed 2nd overall of 50 shooters!!! Still classified an expert, it was fun to see my name up there with the high masters. A wife of another shooter was inspired when she saw my pretty rifle and told her hubby, "I want to get into this sport!" She was out the following Monday eve trying it out and did quite well! The more people we get in our sport the better. Lisa"

Thanks Lisa for that picture
Lisa, not only came in 2nd among the 50 participants, she claimed the Women's Minn State Champion F-class Long Range title.  

Notes:  Click here for a few picts of our friends from AZ, practicing F-class at Ben Avery range as a warm up for the F-class World Championships at Raton, MN
    Go to 3:38 of this video and listen to Rick Curtis coach an F-class shooter on time management when receiving slow pit service*** (listen carefully)

300m International

from:  Brian Shiffman   Results of August 11 MRC 300 Meter Match 
What a beautiful day to be shooting.  A few puffy clouds, low humidity, a little breeze and mild temps.  It was all milk and honey until you looked through a rifle scope and saw the target dancing around.  There was a lot of mirage.  If you picked the wrong mirage to shoot, your perfect 10 became a mid 9; tell me about it.   
  There were several 3 position shooters but Kurt Kisch had his game face on and was 79 points ahead of second place, Tom O’Donnell.  Tom shot 10 points above his average and has been improving during this year.  Mike Doty, shooting our match for the first time and using a bone stock AR15 with battle sights worked hard and did a good job for someone with little experience or practice.
   Lance Peters shot the match in standing position.  Surprisingly, there were only 2 shooters in the F Open class.  Greg Meller came down to spank all F Class shooters, posting a 595; 5 points ahead of the winner of the F-TR class, Jeremy Jenniges and 6 points ahead of me in second place in F-Open.. 

   In F-TR class, at least the top 3 were shooting .308 caliber (or calibre).  Jeremy was shooting factory Federal Unobtanium military match ammo.  Terry Stern, in second, brought a new rifle to the match which he claims to have had around 100 rounds through it before the match.  Greg Meller shot those working up a load for Terry to use for the match.  Kevin Walker, in third, handicapped himself by shooting with a sling but because his rifle had a scope he had to be in F class rather than in Prone (which does not allow optical sights).  Even so, his third place finish was only 1 point behind Terry and one point above Trent Taylor in 4^th.  All in all, the F-TR class was pretty tightly contested between 2^nd and 5^th. 

  Full results can be seen at http://edfpages.com/mgfc/results.php?match=8. 

The next match is scheduled for September 8^th.  Registration will be open on September 1^st, but I’ll send out an announcement before then as a reminder.   

Brian D. Shiffman  shiff004@umn.edu 

Camp Perry National Matches

From Mark Rohmann: 
 

Hi,         

This cast of characters is the 2013 State Association Match Rifle National Champion Team. The Rumbold Match was fired on Monday (8/5) @ Camp Perry OH. Firing Members (L to R) Kevin Bangen (Coach), Erik Rhode, Dick VanValkenberg and Mark Rohmann (Captain). - Mark Rohmann

Congratulations to the MRRA State Assoc. Team for wining this honor at the National Championships !

Other news from Camp Perry---
   Final results show our friend, Brian Mrnak has had great success this year at the Nationals.  Brian is the Match Winner in the Palma Individual Trophy match.  Brian fired the match winning score of 446-18x to beat the best Long Range shooters in the Nation.  Awesome job, Brian!
  Stacey Tamulinas scored an 8th over all in the Andrus Memorial Cup match.
  Steve Knutson shot an incredible score of 200-12x to earn a respectable 8th place in the enormously prestigious 1000 yd Wimbledon Cup match.
   I'm sure that there were other great scores fired by Minn area shooters.  Check it out at the Camp Perry national match results web site---- Click here

 Notes:
I got this from Bill Roos after the publishing the match rpt about my M-52D Winchester a couple weeks ago--

From William Roos

In Shooter's News email of July 16, 2013, arman772@aol.com wrote:

     " The only "proper" scope for an M52 is a Unertl scope so I searched around purchased a 2" Unertl "Programmer" in pristine condition from Mike Tiess."  

My father and his brother bought M52s around 1940 or so; I have the sales receipt, but cannot locate it. My uncle gave his M52 to me when I was about 15 or 16 which would be around 1954-1955, maybe a year or two earlier, I cannot remember. It has a Lyman 12 power scope that is inadequate for me at my age. (I sure wish my father had given me a chance at his 24 (30?) power Unertl before he sold it with his M52.) I fashioned a stock for it (never finished it; yours sure looks nice!) and tried full bedding the barrel, but went back to the four rubber thingys which worked the best. I do not know how many rounds have been fired through it, but I would estimate (not much good at estimating) around twenty to forty thousand.

  Up until about 1964 I was active in mostly gallery shooting, but tapered off through 1966. After one more match in 1967, I did not fire a round until the match at MRRA, August 18, 2012. 

   Anyway, I have no idea where to look for a scope nor how much it would cost—I'm still getting over the high cost of match ammo. I also bought a new spotting scope, a Celestron 52250 Ultima 80mm, but I need a single pole stand with a mount that I can easily adjust for viewing through the fixed eyepiece—should have bought one with a swivel eyepiece. 

   So far I have not tried iron sights. With my pulse between 80 and 110, and my poor eyesight, consistent scores, even though they will never be competitive again, are impossible. 
I will stop droning on now.
Bill"

Thanks Bill for sending than in.   It must have been great to have been around for the "Golden Age" of Sm Bore shooting. Those old M52's represent the best America, and the world had to offer in those days.  We have gotten fancier now with our rifles, but they are not more fun to shoot. I do hope to see you and that M52 out at this weekends SB match. Hope you can make it.

Spotting scope repair
Larry Weidell was kind enough to lend me a 25x LER eyepiece for my Kowa spotting scope, so now I can send mine to Kowa Optimid for repair.  I will report on the outcome, and duration of this repair.

Two Weeks Out 

 Aug 24, 25       - State Outdoor Prone SB Championships 3200 at MRC - click here for match bulletin
Aug 31, Sept 1 -  600 yd Mid Range Prone at Eau Claire - click here for match bulletin
Sept 2             - M1 Garand, and M1A matches at Eau Claire - click here for match bulletin

That's All Folks
Hawkeye

Shooters News for the Minn Area - Aug 5, 2013

The Week Ahead

Highpower      
For the second time this month, the weekend will be an F-class show.  With most of the Sling shooters off to Camp Perry for the Nationals, The F-class shooters will again have the weekend mostly to themselves. 
  Elk River Sportman's Club will be hosting the 2nd in their summer series of F-class Championships.  This coming weekend  (Aug 10,11) it will be a Regional Championship, and shooters will be flocking in from all over the 5 state area to shoot at the beautiful Elk River 600 yd Mid range facility. 
                       Click Here for Match bulletin and Entry info  

 300 Meter International

  From BrianShiffman:  
 The August Minneapolis Rifle Club 300 meter match will be held Sunday, August 11 with two relays scheduled; the first goes off at 10 AM and the second at noon.

   Register yourself at http://edfpages.com/mgfc/match.php.  Read the instructions.  Pay attention as you fill in the boxes and make selections from the drop down lists.  There is room for only 14 shooters per relay.  The box at the top of the list shows the number of shooters for each relay.

Last Week
 F-Class State Championships at Elk river Sportsman's Club

From: Scott Olson  
 Hi Guys

  The 2013 MR F-Class State Championship was held at Elk River Sportsman's Club on July 27-28. Special guests at the match was a film crew from Jim Scoutten's Shooting USA TV show. They filmed the match and interviewed many competitors about the sport of F-Class. The crew has done some filming at the National Matches so they were familar with HP shooting. When they saw the dimensions of the F-Class target being 75% smaller than the MR target, they were amazed. I will let everyone know when the segments will air. They say the camera adds 10 pounds, this means I really need to go on a diet! 
   
Saturday's the team match had 30 shooters competing for honors. After 60 shots, Team NorthStar had won the match with members Pat Scully, Ben Winget, Scott Brabec and 12 year old shooting phenom Tyson anchoring the team. Close behind was the Turret Twisters from Elk River. Maybe next year, the Twisters will take home the trophy...  

The individual match was held on Sunday with 50 shooters firing 80 shots for record.  Conditions were deceiving with light, but quickly switching winds and flags that never told the truth. At the end of the day, Ben Winget had secured the F-Open title with an amazing score of 795-48x. Close behind was Lisa Olson with a 791-46x to secure second. Jon clauson was third with a 791-44x. Those 6mmBR improved rifles can shoot! On the F-T/R side, Scott Brabec ran under the radar all day with everyone assuming he was an Open shooter. Scott's score of 786-31x secured the F-T/R trophy. Second went to Ed Higgins with a 779-25x and close behind for third was Mike Lehmeier with a 778-22x. 
   Medals were given out to first, second and third in each classification and discipline so many shooters went home with some hardware. Next years match looks to be even larger! 
Thanks,  Scott  

Complete Results: (Click to expand)

F-Open Class

  FTR Class

 

Notes:
From: Joe Showwalter
A nice write up about Samantha Peterson, a Minnesota junior shooter.
http://www.nrablog.com/post/2013/07/20/Junior-Shooters-take-to-the-line-for-international-competition-against-England.aspx#.Ue3m3vBR2Kg.facebook       

Spotting Scope repair
 I have recently been looking around to find the place to send my Kowa TSN1 spotting scope eyepiece to for cleaning or repair.  The interior elements of the eye piece look like they have dust and smears on them and I can't get it unscrewed to clean it. 

For repair Kowa Scopes should be sent to --
   Kowa Optimid Inc                                
   20001 South Vermont Avenue
   Torrance, CA 90502
    Phone: (800) 966-5692 or *(310) 327-1913 x 327* 
    Fax: (310) 327-4177
    E-mail: CustomerService@kowa.com 
    Web site  http://www.kowascope.com/
Turn around time is 3 weeks from when they receive the scope or eyepiece.  You must call and make arrangements for repair, and get a RMA (Return Material Authorization) number before sending anything in. 
OK, now that I know what to do, does anyone have a 25x LER Eye piece I could borrow for a few weeks?  

 Two Weeks Out
August 17,18 -  OTC matches at MRC                Click here for match bulletin
August 17     -  3P Small bore 1200 at MRC        Click Here for match Bulletin  

August,18     -   Prone Sm Bore 1600 at MRC     Click Here for match bulletin  

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