The Over the Hill Match is an annual match that is open to shooters 50 years of age or older. Complete results are below:
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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 to my personal chef, Ron. The range officer was great – Jeff, thanks for taking some of the precious time you have left here in CT to help us out (to those who don’t know, Jeff Mendyka will be deployed on Nov 15 for training which will lead to his assignment to Afganistan in January). The keyboarding assistant was great – thanks to Katelyn Kraft (one of our Bell City Junior shooters). And of course, all the Seasoned Competitors were GREAT, as usual. That’s why I love putting this match on, no whining, no challenges – just happy friends doing what they love to do!
Match Winner Chet remarked to me that he’d been waiting “12 years to win this match”, which just shows what a persistant cuss he is. But it also forced me to look back because I couldn’t believe it’s been that long. Sure enough, he’s not only persistant, he’s correct. Our first match was part of the Senior Olympics and it was held in June 1997. After several years of attending their meetings and participating wholeheartedly in their program, we concluded that future participation would mean we’d continue to contribute in the monetary and timewise sense; but we’d get the same recognition from the organization: ZERO. We figured we could get the same level of recognition at less cost to the competitor; and that’s when we became the Over the Hill Gang of Seasoned Competitors and started shooting it in September.
Thanks again to everyone for pitching in and getting things done. Hap, sorry we didn’t get the full viewing of the Roberts Team footage, but now we’ll all just have to wait for the Academy Award version to come to our local theaters soon!
Until next year – shoot well and have fun!
-Sharon Sekellick
