For the second night match last week the slug to pellet distribution was a bit more even, 6 slug shooters and 8 pellet class competitors.
All of our fine sponsors donated dual prize packages, one for each night, the 5th, and the 7th. The match report for the 5th details all they donated, but all said and done, about $5000 worth of prizes distributed over two nights. That meant about $2500 amongst us 14 shooters for the match on the 7th. It was a good night to attend!
https://www.airgunnation.com/thread...b-10-05-23-match-report.1298567/#post-1583906
The weather on the 7th was much less conducive to shooting than it was on the 5th. The wind was BRUTAL. We dealt with what I would guess to be 20+ mph gusts, switching 180 degrees at times. The most constant wind seemed to be a headwind, but the big gusts were coming from the right and the left. It was wild to sit there trying to get a feel for the wind, while still getting all four shots off in the alotted four minutes, and feel the wind from all directions. The wind was stiff enough that it was pushing my body around while in the shooting position. I spoke with a couple of the "regulars" and we felt like this is the worst wind we've ever seen at one of Ben's matches. Even after the match the banners would slap both sides of the metal cover over where we have the pre and post match meetings. You can see one of the banners above wrapped completely over the top of the cover. Those banners had a wooden 1x2 as a weight in the bottom. CHALLENGING wind to be shooting in.
But this is how the match played out.
High slug was Thayne again.
And high pellet was Scott H.
Really cool to see Scott H win. He recently told me that he doesn't think night matches agree with him.....well, after this performance I beg to differ. Also, he subtracted 4 points from his score when he found out the tripod left at the standing bipod lane was meant to be used as a bipod. He hadn't known at the time and used it as a tripod so self-adjusted his score, removing the 4 points for that. With those 4 points that he removed, he would have been the overall high score for the match. Regardless, an impressive performance while using pellets in very unforgiving winds.
John P, main machinist for Donny FL, was the only person to go 2/2 on that tricky far shot on lane 10.
And Dylan and Josh shared a gun, both choosing to launch the JTS pellets. They were respectively 3rd and 2nd in pellet class.
Thayne S had quite the weekend. Lots of prize money went his way. Very talented shooter and a very humble individual.
The rest of the top scorers....
I truly enjoyed these two night matches. It was great to make some new airgun friends. And prize money is always nice.
Thank you again to our sponsors and Ben and all the staff that makes this possible.
Hope to see you all at future matches.
Some of the lights from the Phoenix Police Department's training facility swept over the south end of the course. The device taking this photo did some automatic adjustments to make those lights appear brighter than they really were.
All of our fine sponsors donated dual prize packages, one for each night, the 5th, and the 7th. The match report for the 5th details all they donated, but all said and done, about $5000 worth of prizes distributed over two nights. That meant about $2500 amongst us 14 shooters for the match on the 7th. It was a good night to attend!
https://www.airgunnation.com/thread...b-10-05-23-match-report.1298567/#post-1583906
The weather on the 7th was much less conducive to shooting than it was on the 5th. The wind was BRUTAL. We dealt with what I would guess to be 20+ mph gusts, switching 180 degrees at times. The most constant wind seemed to be a headwind, but the big gusts were coming from the right and the left. It was wild to sit there trying to get a feel for the wind, while still getting all four shots off in the alotted four minutes, and feel the wind from all directions. The wind was stiff enough that it was pushing my body around while in the shooting position. I spoke with a couple of the "regulars" and we felt like this is the worst wind we've ever seen at one of Ben's matches. Even after the match the banners would slap both sides of the metal cover over where we have the pre and post match meetings. You can see one of the banners above wrapped completely over the top of the cover. Those banners had a wooden 1x2 as a weight in the bottom. CHALLENGING wind to be shooting in.
But this is how the match played out.
High slug was Thayne again.
And high pellet was Scott H.
Really cool to see Scott H win. He recently told me that he doesn't think night matches agree with him.....well, after this performance I beg to differ. Also, he subtracted 4 points from his score when he found out the tripod left at the standing bipod lane was meant to be used as a bipod. He hadn't known at the time and used it as a tripod so self-adjusted his score, removing the 4 points for that. With those 4 points that he removed, he would have been the overall high score for the match. Regardless, an impressive performance while using pellets in very unforgiving winds.
John P, main machinist for Donny FL, was the only person to go 2/2 on that tricky far shot on lane 10.
And Dylan and Josh shared a gun, both choosing to launch the JTS pellets. They were respectively 3rd and 2nd in pellet class.
Thayne S had quite the weekend. Lots of prize money went his way. Very talented shooter and a very humble individual.
The rest of the top scorers....
I truly enjoyed these two night matches. It was great to make some new airgun friends. And prize money is always nice.
Thank you again to our sponsors and Ben and all the staff that makes this possible.
Hope to see you all at future matches.
Some of the lights from the Phoenix Police Department's training facility swept over the south end of the course. The device taking this photo did some automatic adjustments to make those lights appear brighter than they really were.
