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About H

Dan started shooting competitive smallbore in 1986. During his Junior career, he earned two national junior team titles as well as local and regional wins. After a 10 year year hiatus to attend college and start a family, Dan returned to the sport and has added local, sectional and regional wins to his shooting resume. Dan is a Distinguished Rifleman, National Record Holder, U.S Dewar Team Member, Black Hawk Rifle Club Member, Digby Hand Schützenverein member, and is the founder of pronematch.com. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and 2 children.

Last HPM match of the season + steak

This Thursday is the last Hopkinton Prone Match of the season. To reward you for all your hard work–or lack of–we are going to do a steak dinner after the match. The cost for the match and dinner will be … Continue reading

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Nite Owl Match #16 Results

Nite Owl league match #16 results have been posted on the league page here.

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Pimpin’

Erik and I decided to do a little “mental training” this weekend.

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Home-owner’s Insurance and Firearms

The other day I learned that my home-owner’s insurance (Arbella Mutual) has a cap of $2,000 on stolen firearms. My agent told me that it is quite common for many insurance companies to do this and if you have firearms … Continue reading

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HPM 8/21 Results Posted

We had great conditions last night, clear and calm. It’s beginning to get darker earlier so plan on starting to shoot at 6pm next week (the last match). Erik Hoskins won last night with a 400-36x and I was second … Continue reading

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2008 RI Prone Regional and State Championship

The 2008 Rhode Island Outdoor Conventional Smallbore Prone Regional and State Championship will be held at the Newport Rifle Club on September 7 this year. You can register for the match by contacting Joe Graf at jrgrafATacm.org. The match bulletin is below.  2008 … Continue reading

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Match tonight

Tonight (8/21) is the second to last HPM match of the season. After the match we’ll be ordering pizza (I’m too lazy to cook this week). The weather is going to be beautiful, see you there!

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New look to pronematch.com

I’m currently making some changes to the software and the style sheets that drive pronematch.com. I think you’ll like the the new look and it should be easier to navigate. I’m also in the process of merging foliagematch.com website INTO … Continue reading

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8/14 Results Posted

Last night we had some great conditions…no wind and flat light. Erik Hoskins won with a 400-32x and I came in second with a 399-31x. Complete results can be viewed here.

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Match Tonight

Match tonight at 6pm, see you there. Weather forecast for today is: Today Cloudy early with isolated thunderstorms developing this afternoon. High 76F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30%. Tonight Cloudy with a few showers. Low 61F. Winds light … Continue reading

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Nite Owl Match #15 Results

Nite Owl league match #15 results have been posted on the league page here.

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Match this Thursday, 8/14

We’ll be shootin’ from our bellies again this Thursday at Hopkinton Sportsmen’s. You’re running out of time if you’ve been wanting to come out and shoot but haven’t been able to make it…there’s only 3 matches left! So why not … Continue reading

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Olympic Coverage

Both Erik Hoskins and Rich Girvin sent me this link for coverage of the shooting sports at the olympics. http://www.odcmp.com/OlympicShooting.htm Gary Anderson is posting the daily updates from Beijing.

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Let the games begin!

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games begin today. Below is the NBC schedule for airing of all the shooting sports. Word on the street is that Lones Wigger will be narrating a live feed from China daily on the internet…most likely the … Continue reading

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Hilarious Recoil Videos

I’m sure a lot of you have seen these before, but they are definitely worth watching again!  

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8/7 Results

We managed to squeeze in the match last night, starting at about 6:30pm. There was some lingering showers but all of the severe weather had passed through (thanks go to Rick Johnson, our pronematch.com meteorologist). The conditions were pretty good … Continue reading

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Match Tonight, 8/6

4:51pm UPDATE: We’re going to give it a try. 3:45pm UPDATE: A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for Hopkinton. The storms are moving very slowly through the area but are quite severe with some hail reported. If I need … Continue reading

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Blue Trail Range Update

The Lymans have been making some range improvements to Blue Trail over the last few months to increase safety and to help ease concerns of residents in the Wallingford area. It seems the range is poised to re-open but the … Continue reading

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Nite Owl Match #14 Results

Nite Owl league match #14 results have been posted on the league page here.

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Summer Biathlon

Fred Beihold in Harvard, MA runs a summer biathlon league and is looking for some smallbore shooters for his team. If you’d like to participate or learn more about biathlon, you can contact Fred at his website http://www.hscbiathlon.org/

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Stephen Scherer off to Beijing

There was an article in the Boston Globe back in July about Stephen Scherer (from Massachusetts) and his qualification for the Olympic team. You can read it here.

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