by Hap Rocketto Three weeks before my 18th birthday, in January of 1965, the poet Thomas Sterns Eliot died. Oddly enough his wife Vivian died in January of 1947 within a few days of my birthday. Regardless of these curious coincidences I was not particularly a fan of the author of ‘The Waste Land’ and [...]
Below is the squadding for the 2009 Fall Foliage Match. Squadding was done by sorting competitors by classification and filling the line in that order. 2009 Fall Foliage Squadding
Below is the tentative 2009 Fall Foliage Award Schedule. 2009 Fall Foliage Awards
Entries are now closed for the 2009 Fall Foliage Match. Squadding and the award schedule will be posted in the next few days. Competitors are reminded to stop at the clubhouse on the way to the range to pick up their competitor packet.
The purpose of the “Shooter Spotlight” is to help shooters get to know their fellow competitors a little bit better. We cover a wide range of shooters from “Marksman to Master.” This is the 6th interview in the series. Where to you call home? Near Newark New Jersey How long have you been shooting? Since [...]
The Over the Hill Match is an annual match that is open to shooters 50 years of age or older. Complete results are below: 2009-ct-over-the-hill Fellow Seasoned Competitors; Yesterday was a great day! The weather was great – just a little breeze at 100 yards to make things interesting. The food was great – thanks [...]
by Joe Graf UPDATE, final results are now available below: 2009-ri-prone-conventional-state-championship 17 shooters competed. This was a 1-day Regional and half of the course of fire was shot with irons sights and the other half with any sights. Conditions were 60 degrees and steady rain all day with 5-15mph winds with gusts to 25 mph. [...]
by Rick Johnson Chilly conditions (45 degrees) greeted the shooters Saturday morning (9/26/09) for the Harvard Sportsmen’s USA Shooting Prone match. This English Match was run using the USA Shooting rules and shot on the international A-50 target. Congratulations to Dan Holmes and Margot Lee for winning the Open and Junior matches. 2009-ma-usa-shooting-prone-sept Dan Holmes [...]
3P Results for the USA Shooting Fall Selection Match 1. Emmons 2440.9 2. Parker 2440.4 3. Hein 2433.8
2009 USA Shooting Fall Selection Match by Jason Squeglia Fort Benning Georgia is the site of this year’s USA Shooting Fall Selection and Day one of prone has proven to be a very competitive match. The weather was low nineties sunny and humid. Eric Uptagraft went clean with everyone hot on his tail. Day two [...]
Complete resuts from the GA Conventional Prone State Championship can be downloaded below: 2009-ga-prone-state-championship
by Hap Rocketto My loyal fans will remember that I am a classic movie fan. I have just finished watching the Marx Brothers’ A Day At The Races. While trying to regain my breath after the gut wrenching comedy a thought shot through my mind. One of the great comedic scenes is that of Chico [...]
Port Relay 1 Relay 2 1 Joe Graf NH Junior #1 2 Hap Rocketto NH Junior #2 3 Erik Hoskins NH Junior #3 4 Dan Holmes NH Junior #4 5 Sarah Downing Danielle Makucevich 6 Dan Makucevich Libby Mastert 7 Michele Makucevich Garreitt Magiera 8 Catherine Green Hunter Sheckley 9 Steve Rocketto Austin Collier 2009-RI-outdoor-conv-prone-bulletin
UPDATE: Last chance to register for this match…this Saturday 9/26/09. Harvard Sportsmen’s in Massachusetts will be hosting a USA Shooting sanctioned 60 shot prone match on September 26th. Relays are 9 and 11am. This is a good warm up match for the Fall Foliage 3200 the next weekend. The match program can be downloaded here.
The purpose of the “Shooter Spotlight” is to help shooters get to know their fellow competitors a little bit better. We cover a wide range of shooters from “Marksman to Master.” This is the fifth interview in the series. Kevin Nevius Gibsonburg, OH How long have you been shooting? Smallbore since 1989, Long Range HP [...]
Complete results to follow but here are the preliminary results for the Rotterdam 3200 Regional in New York this past weekend. Irons Winner: Justin Tracy 1598-117 Any Sights Winner: Peter Fiori 1600-134 Overall Results: Justin Tracy 3195-256x Erik Hoskins 3194-245x Terry Glenn 3192-225 [flickr-gallery mode="photoset" photoset="72157622424451810"]
by James Lee Congratulations to the overall smallbore match winner of the Taunton JR 3P Freedom Match Alex Zadrozny with a 556. Second overall went to Mackenzie Martin with a 545 and third overall went to Kelly Rosales with a 542. Awards for Juniors…Jessica Mondillo 1st with a 514, Jessica Liston 2nd with a 507, [...]
As of 9/21/09 12:00pm. There are 3 Two Day Spots left. 1 Jessica Levine Junior Expert Both 2 Mathew Murphy Int Junior Marksman Both 3 Jessica Liston Junior Marksman Both 4 Katelyn Kraft Sub Junior Marksman Both 5 Timothy Kraft Sub Junior Sharpshooter Both 6 Thomas Kraft Open Sharpshooter Both 7 Jacob Costa Junior Expert [...]
Today is the LAST day to Register for the Foliage Match and get a T-Shirt. http://pronematch.com/fall-foliage-regional/foliage-match-registration/
RT @NRAblog: Competitive Shooting unveils Welcome to Camp Perry video http://bit.ly/daOt11 Go team pronematch.com!! (Joe Graf, George Pantazelos, Erik Hoskins). Headin' westbound for Rotterdam Regional.
