2018 F-Class America Match: The America Match is fired every two years at the Connaught Rifle Range in Ottawa, Canada. The teams consist of 4 F-TR shooters and 4 F-Open shooters. Two wind coaches on each team will each run a shooter at the same time. The wind coaches are wired to each other and a back coach so there is a lot of talking going on. As a shooter…
Winnequah Gun Club was up to its usual tricks today. Seeming light winds from 4 to about 7, but sometimes seeming to switch from 2 to 10. Did I mention the flags and the mirage rarely matched! It got worse as the morning went on. Only two relays, but with hot and humid…
There were 30 shooters with only 2 or 3 shooting match rifle, myself and 1 or 2 others. The rest was shooting AR15’s in preparation for the July 8th EIC match. The service rifles dominated with at least 1 expert and 1 master shooting 781 & 787 scores. The highlight of the day was…
Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2018 North Dakota Long Range State Championship and Palma matches on June 9 and 10. We had 21 competitors fire the Registered Palma match (we also had 21 last year) and 21 competitors fire in the State Championship Match (compared to…
Way back 6 weeks ago on April 13th, the Twin Cities area of Minnesota got 14.9 inches of snow in the largest April blizzard in MN history. Fast-forward 6 weeks to late May, and we are in the middle of record high temperatures for the month. In my experience, people who haven’t spent time in the Upper Midwest just think of MN as…