Greetings,
Yesterday morning we held our August 7th USARB 25 meter air rifle Benchrest match at Southern Michigan Gun Club. The weather man had us down for a chance of rain all morning but as it turns out that happened overnight, and was cleared up by the time we got to the club. I generally open the gates at 8 am in preparation for the Benchrest matches. Yesterday when we arrived they were already open, and there were other shooters at other parts of the range, which is good for the club. It means that one of the top clubs in Michigan certainly for Airguns is also getting good use for the other sports represented.
We have been on an all summer long course of preparations for the upcoming Great Lakes Invitational, and yesterday we had few things to get done before and after the regular match. As it turns out, some of our members are also making improvements with their practice and their equipments also for this upcoming “Main Event”. We got the things done we needed to and started singing people up for the days match. I had a chance to chat with Tim Bunch, and Chris Martin as we laid out the plans for the upcoming Match, and Im glad to sewed have full club support in this. When I was searching throughout Michigan for clubs that were "Benchrest Friendly”, "Airgun Friendly”, and wanted to see growth, and promote growth, SMGC was the main place that met those criteria. I’m happy to be able to help here and promote Benchrest as a sport for this club and the Airgun community of shooters. I could see yesterday morning that we were getting lots of shooters ready to start the match so I quickly and quietly broke from Chris Martin and Tim to get these Guys and Gals started for their day. I’m thankful that Chris and Tim are rounding up shooters from other disciplines to help me run our Event. In all we ended up with 17 shooters most of whom shot both morning and afternoon. Yesterday was the best attendance I’ve seen yet at this club, and we also had some very good scores, some of the best I’ve seen at an outdoor 25 meter match.
One of our top shooters, Joe Chapman, claims to have found some “Magic” batch of pellet that fit best with his rifle. He was shooting his RAW in the HV division, and he had the top scores that Ive seen him shoot, and also he had better scores than one of our other Top shooters that was having a terrific day with his FX Impact in Open class, Ryan Parks. Congrats to both as they really have a good handle on things. Joe Chapman did manage to also shoot a perfect 250 target for which I owe him one of the coveted 250 stickers. I don’t hand many of these out. Below will be the full match scores, but within the score some mentions should be made that some of our regular shooters shot their best scores yesterday, Tom Evans, Eric Simmons, Francis Becigneul, Greg Vaughan, and Vern Bouws, Bill Mehl, Alan Moerdyk, Mark King, John Ayers, and Michelle Becigneul had very respectable targets.
Jon Wulff shot 2 rifles, his RAW Hv 177 in the morning, and his Crown .22 Open in the afternoon. Because of that his scores don’t show the same routine in the excel program as the other shooters, but he did well with both rifles and it was a good test for how he’ll be set up for the September GLI.
One point that should be made is we all have a new friend, Michael Hagerty who drove from south central Illinois to come to our match. He has a "new to him” Thomas rifle, which other than a few “rookie” mistakes, the rifle shot very well and I believe he will be back and he told me that he had a great time. Thanks for coming and giving our club a chance to introduce you to Air rifle BR.
The big announcements are that the next match will in fact be the Sept 24-25 Great Lakes Invitational, and we still have a little bit of time to get you signed up. Best route is to contact me and I’ll get the ball rolling. For that match we’ll start Friday with an informal meet and greet, an afternoon of practice, and a catered dinner. Saturdays match will begin at 9am as we have a big day planned with 2 complete Aggregates, and a catered Lunch break. Competitors get Shirts, meals, trophies, and there will be Merchandise and a swap and sell area set aside.
Below are the excel tables for how the scores went yesterday. Congrats to all.
Paul Becigneul
Yesterday morning we held our August 7th USARB 25 meter air rifle Benchrest match at Southern Michigan Gun Club. The weather man had us down for a chance of rain all morning but as it turns out that happened overnight, and was cleared up by the time we got to the club. I generally open the gates at 8 am in preparation for the Benchrest matches. Yesterday when we arrived they were already open, and there were other shooters at other parts of the range, which is good for the club. It means that one of the top clubs in Michigan certainly for Airguns is also getting good use for the other sports represented.
We have been on an all summer long course of preparations for the upcoming Great Lakes Invitational, and yesterday we had few things to get done before and after the regular match. As it turns out, some of our members are also making improvements with their practice and their equipments also for this upcoming “Main Event”. We got the things done we needed to and started singing people up for the days match. I had a chance to chat with Tim Bunch, and Chris Martin as we laid out the plans for the upcoming Match, and Im glad to sewed have full club support in this. When I was searching throughout Michigan for clubs that were "Benchrest Friendly”, "Airgun Friendly”, and wanted to see growth, and promote growth, SMGC was the main place that met those criteria. I’m happy to be able to help here and promote Benchrest as a sport for this club and the Airgun community of shooters. I could see yesterday morning that we were getting lots of shooters ready to start the match so I quickly and quietly broke from Chris Martin and Tim to get these Guys and Gals started for their day. I’m thankful that Chris and Tim are rounding up shooters from other disciplines to help me run our Event. In all we ended up with 17 shooters most of whom shot both morning and afternoon. Yesterday was the best attendance I’ve seen yet at this club, and we also had some very good scores, some of the best I’ve seen at an outdoor 25 meter match.
One of our top shooters, Joe Chapman, claims to have found some “Magic” batch of pellet that fit best with his rifle. He was shooting his RAW in the HV division, and he had the top scores that Ive seen him shoot, and also he had better scores than one of our other Top shooters that was having a terrific day with his FX Impact in Open class, Ryan Parks. Congrats to both as they really have a good handle on things. Joe Chapman did manage to also shoot a perfect 250 target for which I owe him one of the coveted 250 stickers. I don’t hand many of these out. Below will be the full match scores, but within the score some mentions should be made that some of our regular shooters shot their best scores yesterday, Tom Evans, Eric Simmons, Francis Becigneul, Greg Vaughan, and Vern Bouws, Bill Mehl, Alan Moerdyk, Mark King, John Ayers, and Michelle Becigneul had very respectable targets.
Jon Wulff shot 2 rifles, his RAW Hv 177 in the morning, and his Crown .22 Open in the afternoon. Because of that his scores don’t show the same routine in the excel program as the other shooters, but he did well with both rifles and it was a good test for how he’ll be set up for the September GLI.
One point that should be made is we all have a new friend, Michael Hagerty who drove from south central Illinois to come to our match. He has a "new to him” Thomas rifle, which other than a few “rookie” mistakes, the rifle shot very well and I believe he will be back and he told me that he had a great time. Thanks for coming and giving our club a chance to introduce you to Air rifle BR.
The big announcements are that the next match will in fact be the Sept 24-25 Great Lakes Invitational, and we still have a little bit of time to get you signed up. Best route is to contact me and I’ll get the ball rolling. For that match we’ll start Friday with an informal meet and greet, an afternoon of practice, and a catered dinner. Saturdays match will begin at 9am as we have a big day planned with 2 complete Aggregates, and a catered Lunch break. Competitors get Shirts, meals, trophies, and there will be Merchandise and a swap and sell area set aside.
Below are the excel tables for how the scores went yesterday. Congrats to all.
Paul Becigneul