BCSA (Binghamton, NY) - August 9th, 2025 Match Report
Broome County Sportsmens Association (BCSA) Field Target Match Report
Another match is in the books at BCSA! The long range forecast for match day this time around was showing a dry warm day with light wind and low humidity. Guess what…this time around they nailed it! The canopies were not set up this time in order to let the sun shine in!.
We had 16 people on hand for this match which was a 60 shot rifle match followed by a 42 shot High Power Field Target match. Tom and Nancy Wade as well as Doug and Betsy Dunlap joined us for the day. Tom and Betsy participated while their spouses spectated.
Sight-in:
The course of fire for the rifle match was 10 lanes with 3 targets per lane, 2 shots per target, with the shooting order being left, middle, right. There was also the usual 1 standing lane and 1 kneeling lane. A previous layout was used but with many target placement changes. The stats for the 60 shot course are as follows.
The breakdown for the percentage of targets based on difficulty was:
The wind was pretty light but there were a few times where we had little gusts come through at the wrong time. As usual, there were targets in light unprotected areas and targets in dark protected areas along with everything in between! Brian VanLiew was able to lock in high score for the day with a 58 out of 60 in Open PCP . He cleaned both the positional lanes so the 2 misses came on the other lanes. 1 of those misses was from wind, not sure of the other The second highest score for the day was a 50 out of 60 from Rich Sarama in Hunter PCP. Following right behind were Nathan Thomas in Hunter PCP with a 49 and Karen Reis in Hunter PCP with a 48 . The rest of the pack followed behind and all the scores can be seen below.
We had 1 quick cold line to check a target that seemed to be acting up. All was well so the match continued on.
After the conclusion of the rifle match, while the scores were tallied, everyone jumped in and helped pick up and pack away the rifle targets and pull the strings for the High Power targets. As always, Thank You All, the help is greatly appreciated!
High Power Field Target Time!
The course of fire was 6 lanes with 5 lanes having 4 targets per lane and a standing lane with 2 targets. The course stats were as follows.
10 people participated this time around. 0.30’s, 0.25’s an 0.22’s galore! Quite a few of us were well under 50fpe of muzzle energy proving that anyone can play this game! As a matter of fact, one of those under 50 took match high!
No cold lines and the smattering of S&S, Paul Porch and especially the modified Gamo/Crosman targets continue to perform!
Chuck Senkus took first with a 32/42 followed by Nathan with a 28 and Brians Wagner & Vanliew with 24s. A 1990 quarter provided by Jacob was used for the tie breaking coin flip. It was flipped by Jacob, tails was chosen and Brian won the toss!!
After the match was completed, everyone jumped in and we made quick work of packing away all the concrete blocks and targets! As always, all the help is GREATLY GREATLY appreciated!
Thank you all that attended! We greatly appreciate you taking the time to spend the day with us at BCSA! We hope to see you and many more new faces for the remainder of 2025!!
Pictures for the day can be seen here: Click Here For The Match Pictures
The Results: Rifle Match Results (60 shot match)
High Power FT Match Results (40 shot match):
Broome County Sportsmens Association (BCSA) Field Target Match Report
Another match is in the books at BCSA! The long range forecast for match day this time around was showing a dry warm day with light wind and low humidity. Guess what…this time around they nailed it! The canopies were not set up this time in order to let the sun shine in!.
We had 16 people on hand for this match which was a 60 shot rifle match followed by a 42 shot High Power Field Target match. Tom and Nancy Wade as well as Doug and Betsy Dunlap joined us for the day. Tom and Betsy participated while their spouses spectated.
Sight-in:
The course of fire for the rifle match was 10 lanes with 3 targets per lane, 2 shots per target, with the shooting order being left, middle, right. There was also the usual 1 standing lane and 1 kneeling lane. A previous layout was used but with many target placement changes. The stats for the 60 shot course are as follows.
The breakdown for the percentage of targets based on difficulty was:
The wind was pretty light but there were a few times where we had little gusts come through at the wrong time. As usual, there were targets in light unprotected areas and targets in dark protected areas along with everything in between! Brian VanLiew was able to lock in high score for the day with a 58 out of 60 in Open PCP . He cleaned both the positional lanes so the 2 misses came on the other lanes. 1 of those misses was from wind, not sure of the other The second highest score for the day was a 50 out of 60 from Rich Sarama in Hunter PCP. Following right behind were Nathan Thomas in Hunter PCP with a 49 and Karen Reis in Hunter PCP with a 48 . The rest of the pack followed behind and all the scores can be seen below.
We had 1 quick cold line to check a target that seemed to be acting up. All was well so the match continued on.
After the conclusion of the rifle match, while the scores were tallied, everyone jumped in and helped pick up and pack away the rifle targets and pull the strings for the High Power targets. As always, Thank You All, the help is greatly appreciated!
High Power Field Target Time!
The course of fire was 6 lanes with 5 lanes having 4 targets per lane and a standing lane with 2 targets. The course stats were as follows.
10 people participated this time around. 0.30’s, 0.25’s an 0.22’s galore! Quite a few of us were well under 50fpe of muzzle energy proving that anyone can play this game! As a matter of fact, one of those under 50 took match high!
No cold lines and the smattering of S&S, Paul Porch and especially the modified Gamo/Crosman targets continue to perform!
Chuck Senkus took first with a 32/42 followed by Nathan with a 28 and Brians Wagner & Vanliew with 24s. A 1990 quarter provided by Jacob was used for the tie breaking coin flip. It was flipped by Jacob, tails was chosen and Brian won the toss!!
After the match was completed, everyone jumped in and we made quick work of packing away all the concrete blocks and targets! As always, all the help is GREATLY GREATLY appreciated!
Thank you all that attended! We greatly appreciate you taking the time to spend the day with us at BCSA! We hope to see you and many more new faces for the remainder of 2025!!
Pictures for the day can be seen here: Click Here For The Match Pictures
The Results: Rifle Match Results (60 shot match)
Name | Class | Rifle | Optics | Pellet | Score |
Brian VanLiew | Open - PCP | Steyr LG110 | Nikko Diamond | AA 10.34 | 58 |
Rick Vaeth | Open - PCP | Steyr Challenge | Sightron S6 10-60x56 | JSB 13.43 | 37 |
Brian Wagner | Hunter - Piston | Walther LGU | Blackhound Genesis 6-24 | AEA 8.72 | 39 |
Brian Sarama | Hunter - Piston | HW97 | Element Helix | H&N 9.57 | 27 |
Rich Sarama | Hunter - PCP | FX Crown | Element Helix | FX 10.34 | 50 |
Nathan Thomas | Hunter - PCP | Crosman Challenger | Sidewinder FFP 6-24x56 | AA 10.34 | 49 |
Karen Reis | Hunter - PCP | Thomas | Sightron S3 10-50x60 | JSB 13.43 | 48 |
Doug Rogers | Hunter - PCP | HW100 | Hawke ED 10-50x60 | AA 10.34 | 45 |
Stephan Hottenrott | Hunter - PCP | RAW TM1000 | Delta Stryker | JSB 13.43 | 45 |
Betsy Dunlap | Hunter - PCP | Benjamin Marauder | Hawke Sidewinder | JSB 10.34 | 44 |
Jacob Pattison | Hunter - PCP | AV Avenger | Bushnell R3 6-18x50 | JSB 13.43 RDM | 41 |
Chuck Senkus | Hunter - PCP | BRK Ghost | Athlon Helos 4-20x50 | JSB 13.43 RDM | 40 |
Paul Varney | Hunter - PCP | HW100 | Hawke Sidewinder | Benjamin 10.5 | 34 |
Thomas Wade | Hunter - PCP | Air Arms S500 | Hawke AirMax | JSB 8.44 | 28 |
Louis Hopewell | Hunter - PCP | DAR Gen 3 | Discovery | JSB 10.34 | 13 |
Bill Campbell | Hunter - PCP | Benjamin Maximus | Simmons Pro Dia 1.5-5x32 | JSB 13.43 | 11 |
High Power FT Match Results (40 shot match):
Name | Class | Pistol/Rifle | Optics | Pellet | Score |
Chuck Senkus | High Power FT | BRK Ghost | Athlon Helos 6-24x56 | AEA 25.3 gr | 32 |
Nathan Thomas | High Power FT | FX Impact M3 | Sightron S6 5-30 | AEA 45 gr | 28 |
Brian Wagner | High Power FT | FX Impact M3 | Athlon 8-34 | AEA 45 gr | 24 |
Brian VanLiew | High Power FT | FX500 | Blackhound | JSB 33.95 | 24 |
Greg Shirhall | High Power FT | FX Panthera | Athlon Ares 4.5-27x50 | AEA 25.3 gr | 21 |
Rick Vaeth | High Power FT | Kalibr Gun Carbine | Hawke Sidewinder 8-32x56 | JSB 25.4 | 18 |
Jacob Pattison | High Power FT | AV Avenger | Simmons Pro Target 2-7x32 | JTS DC 22.07 | 12 |
Doug Rogers | High Power FT | BSA R10 | Hawke 8-40x56 | JSB 18.13 | 7 |
Bill Campbell | High Power FT | Airforce CondorSS | Simmons | JSB .25 MK II | 5 |
Louis Hopewell | High Power FT | Hatsan Factor | Blackhound | JSB .25 MK II | 3 |
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