Sounds like the shooters had a great time yesterday. 16 came out, 5 slug and 11 pellet. No rimfire guys this month. Which makes it a good time to mention that XFT @ PRGC is the only place in the country where pellet, slug, and rimfire guys are all shooting field target. This month we had a couple shooters from California, two from Oklahoma, and at least one from Texas. All in all, a good showing of pretty talented competitors.
A small history lesson here at the beginning of the match report. (And this can all be corroborated with a thorough search here on AGN, as it was discussed at length in various posts)....
Prior to Ben Spencer, the only high power/long range field target option was the once a year American Field Target division at Extreme Benchrest. Ben thought there was much greater interest than was being served by those once-a-year matches and begged AOA to borrow their American Field Targets for a couple years before they finally acquiesced. Ben procured a location at Phoenix Rod and Gun Club and single-handedly built a course. The first event at PRGC was called "The American Field Target Southwest Challenge" holding true to the name used during EBR for the prior 5+ years. AOA sponsored that first event at PRGC and even produced a video: After that, Ben continued to put on monthly matches and growth exploded from there. He and Mike S saw where many improvements could be made and designed a new large/heavy duty field target. They initially produced enough for us to have matches and so that AOA's targets could be returned to their owner. Now Ben and Mike sell their heavy duty targets under the S&S Targets name. As I wrote those first couple match reports we tried out a few different names, eventually settling on a the new name of Extreme Field Target, which I often type as Xtreme Field Target, and even XFT for short. It's pretty cool to see how one man's simple vision (in this case creating and hosting frequently occurring high power/long range field target matches) can have such a profound effect.
Now, that we set the record straight, back to this month's report.....
Here are top three slug shooters. (left to right: Mike B, Peykan B and Derrick W) and yes, they're all Team Centercut
Top three shooters from pellet class (left to right: Scott H, Mike S, Tony P)
Some photos from sight-in...
Some photos from during the match...
Team Centercut...
The course was entirely new this month, all different distances and target placement than we're used to. Which is pretty dang cool! I love variety at a field target match, greatly enjoying a new course that I have never shot.
Wayne M. supplied the following data regarding the course...
You'll notice my chicken scratch down the right side, that's Troyer calculations. Overall T for the match this month was a 36.26, and then went up slightly if I threw out the offhand shots. I circled the 3 targets with the highest T values and will give specific hit ratios for those in the scorecard later on in this report.
Here are a select few of the targets....
And they dealt with some wind....
The equipment list and results....
There's always some cool stories behind the data here. Here are a few of them.
A small history lesson here at the beginning of the match report. (And this can all be corroborated with a thorough search here on AGN, as it was discussed at length in various posts)....
Prior to Ben Spencer, the only high power/long range field target option was the once a year American Field Target division at Extreme Benchrest. Ben thought there was much greater interest than was being served by those once-a-year matches and begged AOA to borrow their American Field Targets for a couple years before they finally acquiesced. Ben procured a location at Phoenix Rod and Gun Club and single-handedly built a course. The first event at PRGC was called "The American Field Target Southwest Challenge" holding true to the name used during EBR for the prior 5+ years. AOA sponsored that first event at PRGC and even produced a video:
Now, that we set the record straight, back to this month's report.....
Here are top three slug shooters. (left to right: Mike B, Peykan B and Derrick W) and yes, they're all Team Centercut
Top three shooters from pellet class (left to right: Scott H, Mike S, Tony P)
Some photos from sight-in...
Some photos from during the match...
Team Centercut...
The course was entirely new this month, all different distances and target placement than we're used to. Which is pretty dang cool! I love variety at a field target match, greatly enjoying a new course that I have never shot.
Wayne M. supplied the following data regarding the course...
You'll notice my chicken scratch down the right side, that's Troyer calculations. Overall T for the match this month was a 36.26, and then went up slightly if I threw out the offhand shots. I circled the 3 targets with the highest T values and will give specific hit ratios for those in the scorecard later on in this report.
Here are a select few of the targets....
And they dealt with some wind....
The equipment list and results....
There's always some cool stories behind the data here. Here are a few of them.
- We had a couple more slug shooters this month. I was supposed to be one of them but had schedule conflicts. As for the slugs, the Panthera's showed up! Peykan told me he got his Panthera just this week. He shot the Gen 1 34gr Patriot slugs from the .22 version, with 700mm liner, at 1000fps.
- Derrick and I discussed the slug guns we were prepping with back and forth for a few weeks prior to this match. The rig he used shows serious promise, holding MOA quite often. He told me the wind got him on a few yesterday though and he suspects that he had some flyers also bring his score down.
- Scott H went 23 shots without a miss! Tony only had 5, so of course the tie for high score went to Scott. Scott's been creeping up the scoreboard for a while now, and made it to the top this month. I've been squadded with Scott for 2 of the last 3 matches I've attended and he's a fun guy to shoot with. He's just a calm, laidback guy and shooting with him always feels more like hanging out with a good friend than being in a competition. He's got a grandson that has been coming to the low power field target matches across town and it's always good to see some young folks enjoying field target.
- Barb is normally higher up the scoreboard but she shot a different gun than she normally does.
- Van is also typically at the other end of the scoreboard but seems to have had some equipment malfunctions.
- Martin M was THE ONLY shooter to go 4/4 on the offhand land.
- Offhand shots: Despite winning, the high pellet and the high slug shooters had bad days on the offhand lane. 3 of Peykan's 5 misses came from that darned offhand lane. Long-standing tradition in field target for forced position shots to be make-or-break, and Ben is keeping that alive in XFT.
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