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We had a gorgeous day for a plate shoot, and I want to thank everybody who came out to partake of it. We didn't have a lot of great scores on the main event this day. Nobody really burned it up. I don't know if the course was too hard, or if a lot of people had a bad day. A lot of hostages got nailed. More than usual (sucks to be them). Oh well, there's always next month. Mat Allen was the winner of the main event. His two runs were good enough to take first place. But Gary Rollenhagen wasn't very far behind. He was only 1.03 seconds behind Mat! If Gary was a little more accurate or had a faster mag change, the score would have been the other way around. Sometimes it's kind of scary how close some of these scores are.
The El Presidente was another event with a lot of disappointing scores. The main reason here was a lot of misses, which added a lot of time to the scores. There were a lot of runs in the low teens, but when you added in the misses, it just cranked the times out of sight. Since we started painting the targets after every run there is no controversy over whether it was a hit or not. The bullet hits are easy to see, so you can't argue the result. Gary Rollenhagen came out on top over Mat Allen. This time there was only
0.85 seconds difference between first and second place. That's cutting it close, friends. They both had one miss, but Gary's run of 9.82 seconds edged him over the top. Great shooting guys.
One problem we had was people who shot out of sequence. Rick, who ran it, decided which targets were to be hit 1st, 2nd, & 3rd. Apparently people were having trouble with the sequence he chose and were not shooting in that order. Everybody is going to have to use their
brain and not go into auto pilot. Whatever Rick decides, it is what it is. Sometimes in real life you have to think about what your doing and not just zone out and go into auto pilot. He's trying to keep everybody sharp, and on their toes. We endorse that concept 100%. I didn't add any penalty time to the people who shot out of sequence, mainly because it's never happened before, and we didn't know how to score it. But not to worry. We will come up with some sort of penalty to access you out of sequence shooters. You will not get off scott free in the future. I can't sleep at night knowing I can't penalize you for something you did wrong. It's not in my nature. People might think I'm starting to be mister nice guy. I've got to nip this in the bud.
We had the .22 drag race event going this match. It's been a long time since this made an appearance. We didn't have the manpower before to hold it, but we're getting better in that department, so we're going to have it pretty regular from now on. I encourage everybody who has a .22 handgun to come out and try it. It's a lot of fun and you don't spend a lot of money on ammo. It's a fun event right now, but if enough people shoot it we can have elimination tournaments to see who's the fastest gun. Come on out and give it a shot.
Our next and last match for the year will be Saturday, October 13. I hope everybody who shot this year will try and make it to this one. If you've never tried it, come on out and give it a try. You might have a good time and come back next year. This will be the last one till April of 2008. Of course, this depends on the weather. If it's raining or snowing (God forbid) the match will be canceled. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me
at pl8shootr@sbcglobal.net. .Keep that front sight in focus, and your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target. See
ya.
Chris Hackett
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