We will never host another Field Target match here that adheres to the rules you guys applied, since I bought these acres BECAUSE of the challenging terrain and winds. I have never liked the earlier AAFTA rules much for my matches (of around 20 events I hosted, only a couple were AAFTA rules), and I have always been upfront with this, but since I was unaware of the latest gp rule changes until the course was actually being set, there was no stopping it then.
I enjoyed seeing many old shooting buddies showing up (some Ive shot with here for well over twenty years), as well as a number of shooters I knew, but that were new to shooting at my place. I was truly grateful for my good friend Carlos Iglesia and his buddies for fine grilled meats and wonderful sauce they Provided. Some of us stayed up late each night, shooting and talking airgun stories etc. And some us went downtown and had some fine meals together. Randy and Wayne arrived many days early with their own well tuned targets, and had most of the work done well before most others arrived to help out, but stiil, there are always loose ends to handle, and Alan Otsuka, Scott Hull, James Brinkley, Jim Wittlesey, and others filled in as needed. The GP event wouldnt have occurred here without Juan Carrerra, who did a fine organizing job and bangup website to publicise the event.
I was thrilled to have several World Champion shooters here, and a bit disgusted to realize they would likely shoot lower scores here than they did while WINNING the recent worlds matches they had attended because while the wind factors are no longer considered for the target values, the course was configured in a way that made it likely to seriously skew the results.
I love to shoot FT, but won‘t be doing THAT again.
LD
from compressor is more difficult cause you can’t give the valve a blast… but generally same thing…
So nice, I watch it twice…
