Results Texas State Piston Rifle Championship - RESULTS

Hello Padd. Just PM me with your email address and I will fill you in with info. Same goes for anyone else. Thanks.

Nope. No convicts here or exconvicts I know of. Right now we have 18 people signed up but it's still early and should break 20. I started this match a couple years ago to give back to the piston shooters. So many matches the piston shooters were lumped into PCP classes because there wasn't enough piston shooters in any given piston class to make a class of their own. Of course in situations like this the PCP guys got the glory and the piston guys not so much. The piston shooters were (and still are and growing) a dedicated group and never missed a match. Therefore I decided to have a piston only match (no PCP rifles allowed on the range) to give back to a dedicated group of shooters. We hold this match in November after nationals. The idea is a competitive but laid back match where the PCP crew will dust off their springer and come out and shoot with the springer crew. It's proven to be a lot of fun and I get people asking me thru out the year to keep it going. I set the course up more piston rifle friendly with some bigger kill zones and more reasonable distances as I don't have PCP's to contend with. The idea is for people to knock down a lot of targets but just hard enough to keep anyone from cleaning the course. This year the Troyer is set at 27, average KZ is 1.18", average distance is 30 yards.

Give it a try Brislee. We have a great crew of spring rifle shooters, that is growing, but have been spread out over all 3 classes. We consider it takes 3 shooters to make a class. What motivated me to start this was my own experience at my first state championship match here in TX. Several of us had been shooting Open Piston and several of us had been shooting WFTF Piston. When we got to the big 2 day match for the chance to be the state champion only 2 guys showed up for WFTF and me and another guy showed up for Open. So neither class was eligible for the award and tile as neither class had 3 shooters. So we worked all year long, paid the money for the match, and walked away with nothing. To make things worse the PCP class equivalents didn't have enough to make their classes so us piston guys got lumped into their class and the PCP guys walked away with the title & award and the Piston guys got nothing. So that was the motivation. Give a dedicated group of talented shooters a chance each year to win something and take an award home.

i experimented around with this match and suggest doing it like I do now. Hunter, Open, WFTF piston shooters going head to head using the AAFTA rules for their chosen class, Top overall scores win.

Here are the results from Saturday:

All,



Below are the results of the match on Saturday. We had a nice turnout and a fun morning of shooting piston rifles. I think everything was about as perfect as we could have hoped for except a crazy amount of wind. As I repainted the targets yesterday I figured out my problem and most everyone else’s problem. The wind was pushing our shots off to the right. There was one guy though that seemed to have figured it out and that was Paul Bracaglia with a 46/56. Paul whipped everyone. The shots he did miss were primarily in the standing & kneeling lanes. Great shooting Paul! Second place, for the 3rd year in a row with a 39/46, was Terry Vanpool. Third place, with a 37/56, was Jim Clarke. Except for Paul’s score the overall scores were down about 10 points from our past 2 piston championships and this match had the lowest Troyer at 27 (previous Troyer’s were 30.0 & 29.3). So I figured it was the wind. Thanks for all those that came out and we will try it again next year.



Craig





3rd ANNUAL TEXAS STATE PISTON RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIP

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

PECAN PLANTATION ARCHERY/AIRGUN ASSOCIATION

TROYER RATING – 27.0

56 SHOT MATCH

1. Paul Bracaglia – 46 (Hunter, RWS 54, Hawk 12x, JSB)
2. Terry Vanpool – 39 (Hunter, Walther LGU, Bushnell 4-16x, AA 8.4)
3. Jim Clarke – 37 (Hunter, AA Prosport, Hawke 10-50x, AA 8.4)
4. Scott Cotton – 36 (Hunter, Walther LGV, Falcon Menace, JSB 10.3)
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   Craig Martin – 36 (Open, AA TX200, Sightron 10-50x, AA 8.4)
   
   5. Cliff Montgomery – 35 (Open, HW97K, Toko 40x, HN FTT)
   
   Randy Smith – 35 (WFTF, Walther LGU, Sightron SIII, JSB 8.44)
   6. Jentry Powell – 34 (Hunter, HW97, Hawke 4-16x, H&N 14.6, .22)
   
   7. Mark Perdue – 31 (Hunter, HW97K, Tac Vector 10-40x, HN FTT)
   
   8. Bob Pacatte – 30 (Hunter, TX200, Hawke 10-50x, JSB 7.87)
   
   9. Jim Leggett – 27 (Hunter, HW97, UTG 4-12x, CPL)
   Robert Droege – 27 (WFTF, AA TX200, Hawke 8-32x, JSB 7.87)
   Kevin Enzian – 27 (Hunter, HW97, Hawke, H&N FTT)
   
   10. Paul Walker – 25 (Hunter, AA TX200, Hawke, JSB 8.4)
   
   11. Jim Martin – 22 (Hunter, Beeman R11, Bushnell 4-12x, HN FTT)
   Jim Tenpenny – 22 (Hunter, Beeman R11, Hawke 8-32x, HN FTT)
   
   12. David Carlile – 18 (Hunter, HW97, Tac Vector 8-32x, HN FTT)