submitted by Haven Williams
(June 11 & 12) We had a nice gathering from the Midwestern states and Canada. Congratulations to Morgan Dietrich of Olivia, Minnesota in topping the field on a very windy weekend with a score of 3186-223x. Mike O’Connor came in second with 3183-191 and Steve Knutson of Andover, MN came in third with 3182-194x. Nice going for the two who traveled the longest distance to the match. Many times champion Jim Miller was 1st Master and also won the Saturday aggregate with 1596-108x as the winds kicked up for the last match at 100 yds. Steve Loudy won 1st Expert with 3173-171x a score well above a lot of masters.
The tourney started out with relatively calm winds for the first three matches. The winning scores for those matches were: 50 yds, Miller 400-36x; 50 M Steve Kern 400-30x; Dewar, O’Connor, 400.029. We took a lunch break and the winds started up: 100 yds, Expert Rod Severns, 399-016x.
The second day was just plain windy with a cold, Fall-like, fishtailing North wind to make things really tough. The first match at 50 yds was won with an excellent score of 400-32x by Knutson. There were only three 400 scores on Sunday all shot at 50 yds. The remaining winning individual match scores were: 50M 397-30x Dietrich, Dewar 398-27x Dietrich, and 100 yds 399-20x Eric Martin.
There were no team matches because of the weather and we had four dropouts on Sunday. We had one Junior competitor and one adult competitor returning to the shooting game after 30 years.
Our match director, Pete Swenson, told the folks at the award ceremony that he has been involved in this match most of his life as he grew up near the range which is now over 50 years. The author of this report remembers coming to the range as a junior and the roof was a removable tarp that was put up each time there was a match. There used to be two caboose railroad cars that were used for storage, hence, our logo still has a caboose on it.
Complete results can be downloaded here: 2011-IN-prone-regional (PDF, 41KB)
