If you’re heading to the USA Shooting National Championship in GA and you’re not shooting prone, why not head an hour north and shoot the River Bend Metric 1600? The match is June 20th and you can download the match program here. To learn more about the River Bend Gun Club you can visit there website here.
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The South Summer League kicked off last night in North Easton, MA. The league is 22 shots standing at 200 yards with any caliber rifle. Several of us shoot our .22 caliber rifles at this distance and you would be surprised at how well a .22 can group at 200 yards. After the match, a number of us head over to the Great American Pub for some pizza and a beer.
Gennaro Ciatto, 12 years old, settles in to shoot 200 yards standing.
30 shot group shot by Erik Hoskins last night in prone (we were testing to see how well a particular lot of ammo would shoot at 200 yards). The 10 ring (which includes the smaller X ring) is about 6 inches across so this group is about 4 inches.
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Every time someone types a keyword into Google and ends up at pronematch.com, Google Analytics makes a note of it. So over the last year or so, you can imagine we’ve accumulated a fair number of these keywords. Most of them are what you would expect…prone, prone shooting, smallbore, etc. But every once in a while there is a funny or strange keyword that leads someone to this site. I think my favorite from last year was “camp perry evil.” Download the PDF below to take a look at all of the keywords…see if you made the list.
An Army Breakfast is no Mess to Haul….
by Hap Rocketto
In my salad days, when I was green in judgment, I did a cruise in the Navy and a hitch in the Army. The one consistent element, other than the fact that no uniform ever tailored could make me look any more lean, mean, and warlike than a sack of Maine potatoes, was the quality and quantity of breakfast. In those days the military nutritional pyramid was based upon four food groups; starch, fat, sugar, and caffeine.
I never had a bad meal in the Navy but I can’t say as much for the Army. However, nothing can beat an Army breakfast and the demise of the Camp Perry Mess Hall has pretty much left that gustatory delight a memory for me. Mornings when I knew I wasn’t going to have to shoot rapid fire sitting, I side stepped through the chow line and smiled as a heap of cottage fried potatoes were plopped onto my plate and watched with delight as an aluminum ladle full of bisque colored sausage gravy or creamed beef burst over a fresh baked biscuit like a tsunami surging ashore on an Indian Ocean seafront. Next came the jewel in the crown: eggs to order. Continue reading
2009 CT Presidents Match Results. Conventional Prone.
Erik Hoskins settles in to shoot some Xs at the HPM Wow, was the weather crappy at last night’s HPM. Cold, raw, and 47 degrees at match time with a 5mph breeze in your face made it feel like winter. Erik Hoskins and myself were joking that is was warmer when we shot the New Year’s Dewar match in January in 2008! Despite the miserable weather we had 13 hearty shooters show up to freeze their butts off.
Despite the conditions there were a number of high scores…but nobody could compete with Don Norris who turned in an impressive 400-32x. What makes Don’s score even more impressive is that he had lost all feeling in his fingers since his blood had long since evacuated his appendages in order to “survive” the cold temperatures and keep his vital organs warm. You can see complete results here.
We WILL be shooting tonight’s HPM match regardless of weather.
50m Rifle Prone Men Awards: 2nd Vebjoern BERG (NOR) 701,7 - 1st Warren POTENT (AUS) 702,4 - 3rd Marco DE NICOLO (ITA) 699,3 ©2009 ISSF | Photo: Wolfgang Schreiber, reprinted with permission
Final results World Cup Milan for Men’s Prone:
The Mid Atlantic 6400 prone match (and Regional) is just around the corner from June 11th through the 14th in Palmyra, PA. You can download the match bulletin as well as browse last year’s results below.
The latest issue of “Shooting Sports USA” is now available for download here.
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women Awards: 2nd Lidija MIHAJLOVIC (SRB) 685,3 - 1st Sonja PFEILSCHIFTER (GER) 686,9 - 3rd Xiangyan WAN (CHN) 684,1 ©2009 ISSF | Photo: Wolfgang Schreiber, reprinted with permission
Final results World Cup Milan for Women’s 3-position:
50m Rifle 3 Positions Men Awards: 2nd Niccolo CAMPRIANI (ITA) 1269.6 - 1st HE Zhaohui (CHN) 1284.8 - 3rd Anders JOHANSON (SWE) 1268.5©2009 ISSF | Photo: Wolfgang Schreiber, reprinted with permission
Final results World Cup Milan for Men’s 3-position:
10m Air Rifle Women Awards: 2nd Petra ZUBLASING (ITA) 501,5 – 1st Sonja PFEILSCHIFTER (GER) 502,0 – 3rd Jieqiong XIE (CHN) 501,4 ©2009 ISSF | Photo: Wolfgang Schreiber, reprinted with permissionFinal results World Cup Milan for Women’s Air and Men’s Air:
FINAL RESULTS Women’s Air Rifle
FINAL RESULTS Men’s Air Rifle
The last leg of the Rifle and Pistol World Cup series is under way in Milan, Italy. Results will be posted on pronematch.com after the final of each event.
The following U.S. Rifle shooters are competing in Milan:
Rifle – Women
Jamie Beyerle (Lebanon, Pa.) – air, 3 position
Abigail Fong (New York, N.Y.) – 3 position
Amanda Furrer (Spokane, Wash.) – 3 position
Meghann Morrill (Verdi, Nev.) – air
Amy Sowash (Richmond, Ky.) – air
Rifle – Men
Hank Gray (Belgrade, Mont.) – 3 position, prone
Joe Hein (Mason, Mich.) – 3 position, prone
George Norton (Spring, Texas) – air, 3 position, prone
Matt Rawlings (Wharton, Texas) – air
Matthew Wallace (Fairbanks, Alaska) – air Continue reading
Senior 3P National Champion, Len Remaly, basks in the sun as he posts his first stage target.
It was a beautiful evening last night in Hopkinton. Clear skies, warm temperatures, and milder than forcasted winds set the stage for a very enjoyable evening of prone shooting and stories by the campfire. Despite the wind’s slower than forecasted velocity, it did prove difficult to read the wind correctly. The 75 yard wind flags seemed to be the best bet for gauging the wind last night but even then, there were some wind changes that did not register on the flags until it was too late. John Payton saved me a certain scratch 9 when he exclaimed “Oh Fu@%!” after an errant shot out at 9 o’clock. I didn’t see anything on the wind flags that suggested there had been a change, but I decided to sit tight for awhile to be safe. Chuck Cannon–the hard holder that he is–felt confident that he could handle the wind change, but the fantom wind sucked his shot into the 9 ring, as well, right after a long string of Xs. I waited a bit longer, took my shot when conditions seemed back to normal, and shot a “nipper” ten at 9 o’clock…it was close! You can view the complete results here.
After the match we dined on what is now our traditional fare of 6 large pizzas (2 plain, 2 pepperoni, and 2 Hawaiian). But the highlight of the evening was when James and Margot Lee busted out the S’mores fixins complete with hand-crafted marshmallow sticks made from election-year yard signs!
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If you’re a USA Shooting member, you can get 20% off your stay at any La Quinta hotel. Your trip doesn’t need to be shooting related, it can be business, pleasure, or sport. All you have to do is call USA Shooting membership at 719-866-4743 for the online registration code and enter the code when you book your reservation online. That’s it, not bad! USA Shooting also offers 5% off United Airlines airfare to all USAS sanctioned events. Just follow the same process as above to get your discount code.
50m Rifle Prone Men Awards: 2nd Matthew EMMONS (USA) 702,0 - 1st Guy STARIK (ISR) 703,3 - 3rd Michael MCPHAIL (USA) 701,0 ©2009 ISSF | Photo: Wolfgang Schreiber, reprinted with permission
We’ve launched a new forum at http://forum.pronematch.com
If you’ve got something related to competitive smallbore rifle to discuss (or something to sell), this is the place to do it.
The 200 yard targets at Bell City Rifle Club in Southington CT
The 2009 Brophy Trophy Match
By Digby Hand
The Brophy Trophy, a stunning copper Revere bowl mounted upon a wooden base, is awarded annually to the winner of a two hundred yard smallbore prone rifle match. Legendary author, firearms expert, researcher, Palma Team member, and Distinguished Marksman Bill Brophy won the bowl in 1938, at St Petersburg, Florida, in a 200 yard prone match. The trophy was recovered from the Brophy Estate and restored by Art Jackson, Olympic medalist, World Champion, and long time friend of Brophy and donated to the Cpl Digby Hand Schützenverein to be placed in competition in honor and memory of Brophy. The winner or the match also receives a lion’s share of the entry fees, the rest being distributed, hyena-like to class winners. Continue reading
Last night’s match was tough! Winds gusted up into the 30MPH range and was coming from all directions. The storm clouds also made it quite hard to see the target. Nonetheless, we had 11 hearty souls show up to hone their wind doping skills. I managed to come out on top with a 397-21x. You can view the complete results here.
We will be shooting tonight despite the dismal forecast. Bring a windbreaker because they are forecasting 40mph gusts. Fun!
