Gopher Rifle and Revolver Club to host Service Rifle matches
This coming weekend GRRC will host the 2nd in their summer series of CMP service rifle matches on Saturday, May 10th. These fun and easy matches will appeal to shooters who just want to get out and pull some triggers on what looks to be an actual 'sunny' day. Let's hope the forecast is right for a change ! The day will start out with an 'individual' 30 shot match, which consists of 10 shots prone slow fire, ten shots prone rapid fire and finishes with 10 shots offhand -- all from the 200 yd line. After a break for lunch the 2nd match on the schedule is a Sniper Team match where two shooters alternate shooting and coaching from the 300 yd line and 600 yd line. A good time will be had by all who attend, so dig out that older service rifle and give it a try.
Click Here for match bulletin
Sunday, May 11th head for Mpls Rifle Club near the small town of Now Then just NW of the Twin Cities.
From Brian Shiffman shiff004@umn.edu
The May Minneapolis Rifle Club 300 meter match will be held this Sunday, May 11th. There will be two relays scheduled; the first starts at 10 AM and the second at noon. My fuzzy caterpillar claims that it will be a nice, warm day. I told him or her that if it made a mistake that it will become bird food! (Contact Brian for entry & squadding )
May 10th &11th.Traveling shooters who prefer prone shooting only can find two good days of Mid Range prone shooting at the LaCrosse Rifle Club Both days matches will be shot from the 600 yd line and both days will have any/any, any/iron, Palma, Service, and F-class categories. Click Here for match bulletin E-mail entries to deadeyepagel@yahoo.com
Small Bore
If you just like to shoot a lot and not pull targets, grab that small bore match
rifle and head to Mpls rifle Club Saturday, May 10. Starting at 0900, shooters
will fire a 60 shot 3 position match, and after a lunch break they can fire a 60
shot prone match -- all on the 50m A50 target.Click Here for match bulletin
Sunday, May 11 MRC will host a second day of sm bore shooting -- all prone.
This will be a 160 shot conventional outdoor prone match with targets at 50yds,
100yds, and 50 meters. Click Here for match bulletin
This match is a good warm up for the Regional Sm bore champ in two weeks
Last Weekend
From Erik Rhode
Hi Jim,
Hi Jim,
Attached are results from the April 26 4x600 at Eau Claire,
and the Palma
Regional at in Lodi for you to use or ignore at your
discretion. I've been
meaning to get these to you sooner, but have been
extremely busy. I also sent
a message to the new HP chairs at GRRC
asking for their help in getting
results both to you for the
newsletter/blog, and onto the MRRA results calendar.
Hopefully we will
have better luck than last year.
The
weather at Eau Claire on the 26th of April was cool, but manageable.
Rain
threatened in the morning, but held off and everyone got in a full
day of shooting.
Light and fairly consistent winds led to some high
scores being shot throughout the
day.
Randy Gregory and Matt Griffin
duked it out for the win, with Randy squeaking past
Matt by X's with a
796-48 to Matt's 796-44. I was 2 points back for a distant 3rd place.
Sunday's
OTC match ended up being called due to rain at about 11 am after the
standing match and 2 relays of sitting. I don't believe that anyone was
too upset by
this decision, as it was pretty cold and very windy. When
the rain started, the fun
was pretty much over. I'm pretty sure my 181
won the standing match, if that gives
you any idea of the conditions.
Here's a link to Saturday's scores, in case they did
not copy you on
them:
On to Lodi. This past weekend was the
Palma Regional at Winnequah Gun Club.
The forecast was threatening rain
all week, but when I hit the road on friday
afternoon, WeatherBug was
showing a dry weekend. It indeed ended up staying
dry, but the
conditions were anything but pleasant.
Saturday
presented us with an honest-to-goodness 25-30 mph gusting, fishtailing
headwind that would occasionally even kick up sand to keep everyone on
their toes.
Fast moving clouds were making light conditions very tricky
on top of the extremely
difficult wind situation. I heard one shooter
come off the 1000 yard line say that he
didn't see the same target twice
through the whole string! Mirage was sometimes
visible, but was often
blown out and very hard to read, so most shooters switched to
watching
the flags. I found the center flag on the 600 yard line to be somewhat
reliable
and based my corrections off of that. Even the best shooters
were getting caught for
7's(or worse) and off-paper misses were not
uncommon. Several long-time Winnequah
members stated that it was the
hardest condition that they have seen at their range.
Shooters left at
the end of the day with wind-burned faces and dried-out eyes...
Brian
Mrnak managed the only HM score of the day with a 439 for the win. I
was pleasantly
surprised to find that my 433 was good enough for 2nd
place! The conditions
managed to get even worse for the bonus 20-shot
1000 yard match, and not one
shooter out of 29 was able to crack the 190
mark. There were 3 189's shot, including
the match winning 189-6x from
Frank Evica, out of the Expert class, no less! I was
happy to escape
with a 186-3x, which gained me 3 points on Brian's lead and kept
me in
2nd place for the 1-day agg.
On Sunday,
conditions proved to be much more favorable(though still not easy), and
scores were much higher for the day. Rick Burbach posted a very
respectable 445-20x
for the top spot on Sunday, with crafty vet Bill
Lair shooting a 441-15x for 2nd place.
In the
combined Master/Expert/SS class, Paul Cross won the weekend agg after 2
days
of solid shooting with a 1036-29x. A newcomer,
Sharpshooter-ranked Chris Veldkamp
was just 8 points behind Paul for
2nd place using mostly borrowed equipment. My bet is
that we can expect
for Chris not to remain a sharpshooter for very long.
On
Sunday afternoon when the dust settled, Brian "The Machine" Mrnak came
out on top,
and brought home the Gold Medal with a score of 1063-29x.
Brian is really at the top of his
game
right now, and he will be the man to beat at any match he chooses to enter. Waylon
Burbach showed why he's the #1 ranked junior shooter in the world by clawing his way up
game
right now, and he will be the man to beat at any match he chooses to enter. Waylon
Burbach showed why he's the #1 ranked junior shooter in the world by clawing his way up
to
2nd for the Silver with a 1055-31x.. My pitiful performance at the
1000 yard line on Sunday
dropped me down to 3rd, but considering the conditions, I was happy to sneak away with the
Bronze after shooting a 1051-33x.
dropped me down to 3rd, but considering the conditions, I was happy to sneak away with the
Bronze after shooting a 1051-33x.
Over on the F-class side, Pat
Scully made North Star Rifle Club proud in his first visit to
Lodi by
winning the F-Palma on Saturday AND the bonus 20-shot 1k match, giving
him
a comfortable lead going into day 2. Sunday was a little tougher on him, but he hung on
for the Gold medal and match win over 2nd place Bob Sebold with a 1048-23. Pat also
managed to earn the new nickname of "Square Head" from the Wisconsin guys - I think
that one's gonna stick!
a comfortable lead going into day 2. Sunday was a little tougher on him, but he hung on
for the Gold medal and match win over 2nd place Bob Sebold with a 1048-23. Pat also
managed to earn the new nickname of "Square Head" from the Wisconsin guys - I think
that one's gonna stick!
See score board photos from Lodi below.
Later,
Erik
Thats All Folks !
Hawkeye
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