Results Fathers Day Shoot Holbrook AGBR

[Paul Bendix]

We had 9 shooters on the gusting swirling rain soaked conditions I have ever shot in. Thanks for all the help setting up the range and cleaning up. Also to David and Todd that did the scoring. Doug and Norm with moving the target frams after the rimfire match.
Warm up house is almost finished. Picture of several shooters trying to get warm around a wood stove. (no flue yet)

Fred Blanck Won Springer Class taking all three targets with his RWS 54

Bill Harmon won second place with his Beeman RS2

Unlimited Class was a close race with Dave Shattuck winning the first target and Mitch Hill winning targets two and three.
Todd Banks Won the 3 target Agg with a 694 3X

Dave Shattuck second by 1X 694 2X
Mitch Hill thrid 686 3X

Norm Lieber with his new rest

Range Picture

Ross Lloyd Phone book rest

 

[Dave Shattuck]

I figured the best response I could give was a Copy-N-Paste of an email I sent out to Al Hadfield this morning which read:

Al,
You wouldn't have believed how much worse things got for our afternoon session. According to Weather Underground we were all facing into (literally) a 9 to 12 MPH breeze with gusts as high as 16 MPH during the morning. But, that quickly got turned up to a more than miserable 13 to 17 MPH wind, with gusts as high as 30 MPH, for us Puffgunners in the afternoon. And guess what? These little 10 to 18 grainers kind of get blown around a little more than those 40 grainers we were shooting in the morning!
Thank God we weren't trying to stretch the Airguns out to a full 50 Yards as I'm afraid we'd have had trouble finding the paper, let alone each individual target. Plus, during the afternoon it got to raining one heck of a lot more than in the A.M, meaning everything got that much wetter and making it so that the word "fun" almost got dripped right out of the equation.
By the end, the range was covered with puddles, and the targets got so mushy that their own weight and weakness began to cause them to fall off of the backers. And those last few targets sure were fun to score!
Oh well, it was still more fun than just sitting around the house on Father's Day, that's for sure. Now everything's lying around the shop all disassembled and spread out to dry. But, the good news is: they're saying that for our Pinnacle match next Saturday it's supposed to be sunny and in the mid-80's. We'll see!
See you then.
Dave

Now, as for those pictures Paul posted, especially the one showing the range: that stuff that looks like fog isn't! What it is is RAIN that was blowing straight into our faces, and all over our equipment, all day long. And, I have to agree with Paul. In my 15 years of shooting these were the worse combination of conditions that I've ever been faced with. The weather men actually had it right for a change as they had perdicted a true Nor'Easter, that is other than for having rain instead of snow.

 

[Ross Lloyd]

I had rust on the inside of my benchrest base by the time I got home. I'm very glad I didn't bring a blued gun.

Luckily it was fathers day or I never would have got away with this mess in the dining room to get everything dry again.

 

[nlieber]

Cheap scope = you get what you pay for!

My lesson was to not expect a cheap BSA scope to hold up in a Nor'easter. I only had a watery blurred image most of the match and could not tell on the last 2 targets where a shot hit. I had to depend on just keeping a count in my head to figure out what "box" to shoot at. I lost count a couple of times when I had to wipe the rain from my glasses and didn't even shot at a "box" a few times for a net-10 lol.
It was fun seeing most everyone struggle with the conditions. Dave, Todd, and Mitch shot tremendous for what was almost a whiteout at times lol. That the springer guys could hit paper never mind shoot as well as Fred did was to me a miracle!
I think I will turn the truck around and stay home if it's ever quite that bad again or at lease invest in a good rainsuit and a rifle/periscope combination!!

Terrific time and good shooting by all the "Survivors" of the June 2009 Nor'easter.

 

[Paul Bendix]

Didn't get home until 10:00 PM. Gave both guns a good cleaning. This morning in the rain, unpacked the truck and oiled seat,windflags. Didn't give the rest a good cleaning until I saw Ross's picture. Stainless isn't like the old stainless.
Going to rain all week. Will try to get to Salem for Todd's shoot Tue. night for some dry weather.
Norm, I bet Doug is making wipers for his scope. I will buy one as I missed 4 bulls on one target.
Thanks again for coming to the shoots.
Paul

 

[Renegade]

I can honestly say that those were the worst conditions I've ever shot in. I've shot in wind that bad before, and I've shot in rain before, but never rain that was blowing that hard right in our faces. Notice in the pics that the concrete pad is wet all the way to the parking lot? That water came from the range side I'm really glad that the new range house was close enough to completion to give us someplace dry to go between targets!

Paul, I haven't checked the weather report for Tue. evening, but I'm pretty sure I can guarantee better conditions for our match at Salem
Todd