03 - March 23, 2019

Friday night ... IT RAINED and we mean REALLY rained to the tune of nearly an inch in the evening before making for one heck of a slosh fest come 8 a.m. Saturday during set up. It was still drizzling driving out and the first 45 minutes or so of setting the course. Those crossing bridges midfield had water flowing over them and many shallow lakes across the entirety of the field .... but alas we're FIELD TARGET shooters and paid no mind. 8-)

Turnout was a bit light for our typical season opener (likely due to the weather), yet we still had 16 make it out for what ended up as a beautiful day of shooting.

We ended up setting 48 shots from under the cover (all string reset knock downs) and 6 offhand / kneeler shots for a match total of 54.

* I apologize for NOT GIVING due credit during the pre-match meeting to our club member FRED B who, over the winter, took ALL of the club's Gamo targets home, stripped off 4 years of paint and did a total repaint of them for our shooting and visual enjoyment! Thank you FRED.

We also had the pleasure of having Bob K take the drive down from Snowy SE Oregon to rejoin the group for much laughter and catching up. He left the area upon his retirement last fall. And John K came up from Southern CA to join in the fun. Nice to see you gentlemen!!

Saturday at Ione was our first, being years past we always shot on Sundays. Please make note of this as EVERY match at Ione this season will be a Saturday and ALL the Yolo matches on Sunday.

Today's scores are as follows:

OPEN PCP

Jack C 42

WFTF PISTON

Mark W 43

Bob K 35

Cameron K 32

WFTF PCP

Riz M 52 * Match high score

Robert S 46

Scott S 46

HUNTER PCP

Zack 51

Jim C 50

Fred b 49

Robb R 42

John K 41

Jim M 40

Russ 39

Frank W 36

Marty G 34

After the match we had a light lunch that the SVFTC provides, drinks and cookies, too. Picked up all but 3 lanes of targets and proceeded to spend the next few hours just screwing around with some sighting-in powder guns for the upcoming squirrel season up north. Rumor has it shooting FT makes us better squirrel shooters and shooting squirrels makes us better FT shooters? ... Seems to work.

Thanks to all who made it out, we all were treated to a wonderful day with just enough breeze to make you NEED TO correct for it, having few shots at the further distance hit where you aimed !! unless you did some wind doping. Hope those brave enough to aim outside the KZ learned something today as it is a skill set required when shooting in the wind, be it at a match or just shooting in general.

Scott S & Jim C

SVFTC Match Directors