Winners
Left to right: Mike S, Wayne, M, Sandy C, Bobby C, and Doug T.
For those who haven't had the privilege of attending, the course is on far side of the berm in the background of the above photo, with most shots being up the side of those hills.
Mother Nature took pity on us poor Arizona airgun shooters and granted an abnormally cool late April Phoenix day. Before the match I was standing under the shade and thought to myself, "that little bit of wind is almost cold!" I'd guess low 80s out in the full sun at the peak of the day. In the sense of weather, it was simply a beautiful day. I think a bit more wind than we had on Sat of the Grand Prix last month, but I don't think as much wind yesterday as they had on Sun of the Grand Prix. Most of the wind was coming from behind us, switching back and forth to be coming from left or right shoulder, going out to the targets up the hill east of us.
We had 20 shooters show up, one wasn't shooting for an official score though, as his slugs were self-swaged (one of the rules is that ammo has to be commercially manufactured/mass produced). He ended up with a DNF as I heard second-hand that he was having equipment problems.
So, here are the stats for the other 19.
Sorry for the small font, I was trying to crowd in all the info I usually provide in a couple different tables into just one.
Lane 3 far and Lane 10 far were included since they're the hardest targets on the course. Offhand included b/c there's usually interest there as well.
Standouts for me as compiled the data and/or heard the discussion at the post match meeting....
Winners will get windicators from JD's Custom Design. Thanks JD!
Thanks to Phoenix Rod and Gun Club for sharing their facilities.
Also want to express appreciation for Ben and staff for setting up/tearing down the course as well as painting/maintaining the targets.
All in all I had a great time and saw many smiles to suggest other shooters did as well.
(all photo credit to Peykan B).
Left to right: Mike S, Wayne, M, Sandy C, Bobby C, and Doug T.
For those who haven't had the privilege of attending, the course is on far side of the berm in the background of the above photo, with most shots being up the side of those hills.
Mother Nature took pity on us poor Arizona airgun shooters and granted an abnormally cool late April Phoenix day. Before the match I was standing under the shade and thought to myself, "that little bit of wind is almost cold!" I'd guess low 80s out in the full sun at the peak of the day. In the sense of weather, it was simply a beautiful day. I think a bit more wind than we had on Sat of the Grand Prix last month, but I don't think as much wind yesterday as they had on Sun of the Grand Prix. Most of the wind was coming from behind us, switching back and forth to be coming from left or right shoulder, going out to the targets up the hill east of us.
We had 20 shooters show up, one wasn't shooting for an official score though, as his slugs were self-swaged (one of the rules is that ammo has to be commercially manufactured/mass produced). He ended up with a DNF as I heard second-hand that he was having equipment problems.
So, here are the stats for the other 19.
Sorry for the small font, I was trying to crowd in all the info I usually provide in a couple different tables into just one.
Lane 3 far and Lane 10 far were included since they're the hardest targets on the course. Offhand included b/c there's usually interest there as well.
Standouts for me as compiled the data and/or heard the discussion at the post match meeting....
- Heard a comment that Bobby's winning score ties with Peykan for the XFT PHX record.
- Top 3 pellets scores were HOTLY contested.
- This is only Doug's second XFT match. His first was a couple months ago, using .22/18.13s. Seems he found himself a gun that can launch a better BC pellet, although that's not the only reason he's in the top 3. Doug is a heck of a shooter, often showing up and beating us in regular field target after we havent seen him for a few months. He even won the state match for regular FT with a .22.
- Looks like Doug was the only pellet shooter to get 4/4 on the 100 yard shots.
- Wayne M had the highest far target knockdown ratio of anybody, with a 18/20 (dang rimfire guys, lol).
- Mike S also got all 4 100 yard targets (dang rimfire guys, AGAIN).
- Dan L was the only shooter to knock down more than half of the offhand shots. Dang rimfire guys-x3 on Dan's suggestion.
- If we were giving out a "most improved" award it would go to Mike C. This is also only his second match and he shot very well yesterday.
- Some great shooting hidden in those details!
Winners will get windicators from JD's Custom Design. Thanks JD!
Thanks to Phoenix Rod and Gun Club for sharing their facilities.
Also want to express appreciation for Ben and staff for setting up/tearing down the course as well as painting/maintaining the targets.
All in all I had a great time and saw many smiles to suggest other shooters did as well.
(all photo credit to Peykan B).
FUN day ! Glad the weather cooperated and Ben decided to go for it !
