We had another great match this weekend up around 8600 feet above sea level in the cool pines. The weather was great, with threats of afternoon monsoon thunderstorms building up each afternoon but never quite materializing. We got a few spits and sprinkles but not enough to even settle the dust.
Friday Evening Silhouette
8 shooters participated in the < 20fpe silhouette match.
How bout Steve shooting a perfect silhouette score?!?!?! Great shooting Steve. Those perfect scores happen occasionally but they're tough to come by when shooting tiny little chickens at 70 yards with <20 fpe.
Field Target
Friday morning we set a 12 lane, 56 shot match. And yes, the math doesn't quite add up, and that's because the first 4 lanes had 3 targets/6 shots each, the remaining 8 lanes had the typical 2 targets/4 shots each. The game plan was to set the course with enough (mostly) pistol legal targets so that some could be used for both a rifle and a pistol match. We used the near and the middle targets on lanes 1-4 and then used lane 7 and lane 11 for pistol. That resulted in only two pistol targets that wouldn't be quite pistol legal at a grand prix: a 1.5inch at 36 yards was just one yard too far, and a 3/8 inch target at 10 yards. I understand official pistol rules allow for kill zones of 1/2 inch and higher. So, we ended up with a 56 shot rifle match, with a course Troyer of 32 and a 24 shot pistol match, with a course Troyer of 28. There were 3 targets on the rifle course with Troyer of 40 or more and the hardest pistol target was a Troyer of 34.7 coming from a 3/4 inch kill zone at 26 yards. The easiest pistol target was still a 20.7, so, overall a pretty tough pistol match, at least it seemed that way to me.
Rifle Scores
Franz shot VERY well. He has only had that Huntsman for 2 weeks and was just marveling at how accurate a nice PCP can be. His seems to be on the higher end of the accuracy spectrum as he was same-holing many of his practice shots prior to the official match. He also stated that he was having a blast picking tiny twigs off the trees. An accurate airgun is a smile maker for sure.
Pistol Score
Many thanks to Steve Q and Larry for detouring on their way to the match to pick up the the targets at Rex's. Also thank you to all who helped set up and tear down (I think it was everybody actually).
Photos taken throughout the weekend (thanks Larry)
Friday Evening Silhouette
8 shooters participated in the < 20fpe silhouette match.
How bout Steve shooting a perfect silhouette score?!?!?! Great shooting Steve. Those perfect scores happen occasionally but they're tough to come by when shooting tiny little chickens at 70 yards with <20 fpe.
Field Target
Friday morning we set a 12 lane, 56 shot match. And yes, the math doesn't quite add up, and that's because the first 4 lanes had 3 targets/6 shots each, the remaining 8 lanes had the typical 2 targets/4 shots each. The game plan was to set the course with enough (mostly) pistol legal targets so that some could be used for both a rifle and a pistol match. We used the near and the middle targets on lanes 1-4 and then used lane 7 and lane 11 for pistol. That resulted in only two pistol targets that wouldn't be quite pistol legal at a grand prix: a 1.5inch at 36 yards was just one yard too far, and a 3/8 inch target at 10 yards. I understand official pistol rules allow for kill zones of 1/2 inch and higher. So, we ended up with a 56 shot rifle match, with a course Troyer of 32 and a 24 shot pistol match, with a course Troyer of 28. There were 3 targets on the rifle course with Troyer of 40 or more and the hardest pistol target was a Troyer of 34.7 coming from a 3/4 inch kill zone at 26 yards. The easiest pistol target was still a 20.7, so, overall a pretty tough pistol match, at least it seemed that way to me.
Rifle Scores
Franz shot VERY well. He has only had that Huntsman for 2 weeks and was just marveling at how accurate a nice PCP can be. His seems to be on the higher end of the accuracy spectrum as he was same-holing many of his practice shots prior to the official match. He also stated that he was having a blast picking tiny twigs off the trees. An accurate airgun is a smile maker for sure.
Pistol Score
Many thanks to Steve Q and Larry for detouring on their way to the match to pick up the the targets at Rex's. Also thank you to all who helped set up and tear down (I think it was everybody actually).
Photos taken throughout the weekend (thanks Larry)
