submitted by Tommy Steadman
River Bend Gun Club, Dawsonville, GA, hosted the first metric 1600 of the 2010 season Saturday, April 17.
We enjoyed partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures but tricky winds from the northwest switching to both sides of the shooter’s 12 o’clock that gained in velocity during the day held scores down and stretched match segments to nearly the full 20 minutes. Those who failed to read the switches (or rare letups) frequently found themselves in the 9-ring or 8-ring or worse (I thought I was doing pretty well with one 8 until I shot a 7 out the left at 50 meters on the last stage of the match).
Congratulations to Steve Hardin on a superior job of wind doping and his first smallbore match win since returning to smallbore prone competition last year. In addition to Steve, medal winners included Vince Greiner, Wayne Forshee, Val Valentavicius and J.P. van Rooyen.
Our next NRA smallbore prone tournament at River Bend is the 46th Annual NRA Regional Dixieland Championship 3200 (conventional prone) on May 15 -16 and River Bend GC’s first NRA Light Right tournament will be held on MP2 on Saturday, May 1.
Regards,
Tommy
Complete results can be downloaded here: 2010-ga-metric-1600-4-17 (PDF, 66KB)
