07 - July 27, 2019

Sacramento Valley Field Target Club is GROWING with our membership and participation levels increasing monthly. Saturday was forecast as a +/- 100F day and many of our regulars stayed home or up in the cooler mountains with family for the weekend. YET we still had 26 shooters attend this month's match! When we finger count what regulars were not present, we would have easily eclipsed 30 ... WOW!

Okay -- the match.

As keeper of the targets and match director, I got up early and was on site at 7 a.m. to make a major run at getting the set up done and match started timely and finished by noon. By the time the first folks were rolling in, 9 of the 12 lanes were set with strings out. Another 15 minutes or so and we had our 12-lane 50-shot course ready for the pending assault. (Done by 8 a.m.)

Check-in was started and after signing in and filling out score cards, shooters were allowed to go practice on the supplied paper targets scattered at differing ranges. As the next hour rolled by we just kept getting more folks with that trend getting on site and folks looking to find a close in parking space as we eclipsed the 9 a.m. hour. WHOA full house and whole lot of able and willing shooters!

The safety meeting was conducted; there was some more conversation regarding the SVFTC hosting the 2019 California State Field Target Championship in Morro Bay this September; some questions from the five NEW shooters and we were off and shooting!

With 12 lanes and 26 shooters, we had ALL lanes full with 2 squads of 3. (Generally we run 13-15 lanes which would accommodate 30 shooters in pairs. )

The morning's shooting results are as follows:

WFTF Piston

Cameron K 39 * Headed to the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS as part of Team USA with wife Jessica ( absent this match )

Jim P 25

WFTF PCP

Son L 45

Riz M 43 * Headed to the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS as part of Team USA

Dave C 39 *Also headed to the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS as an Individual

Darren T 25

Hunter Piston

Mark W 43

Bill C 32

Ken D 20

AJ 7

Jesse A 5

Hunter PCP

Fred B 44

John B 43

Martin O 43

Jim C 42

Tom K 40

Conrad R 39

Marty G 33

Jim M 33

Scott S 32 * Shot a Pistol

Tyson F 31

Russ 31

Emil E 29

Noel S 26

Larry G 19

Frank W 13 * Shot a Pistol

As the match was winding down, we had lunch set out with meat/cheese wraps, fruit salad and cookies. Those still present after the meal went out into the scorching sun and did a speedy tear down of the course.

So there we have it ANOTHER very successful club match of the SVFTC. A Big Thank You to all who came out, shot a very deceptively hard course hopefully having FUN the whole time! All the help breaking it all down had us DONE by 1 p.m. as planned.

** Next month's (August) match will be on SUNDAY the 25th at the YOLO shooting facility in Davis. Looking forward to seeing you all again then! Be Safe, Shoot Straight until next time.

Thank you,

Scott S

Jim C

SVFTC Match Directors