April 28
What a season opener!!! Beautiful sunny day, low winds at 70 degrees!
After March's rain out, our season opener / Jim Cyran Memorial Match is in the books having a great turn out of no less than 28 shooters!
Our morning started about 7am getting all the gear out of storage box, bricks. etc. Others started showing up shortly thereafter and we get the course all established by 8:00.
As the crew starts arriving the tables start filling up with stuff for sale...rifles, optics, etc.! Some really killer stuff and great deals to be had if you were packing some $$$.
We let the swap meet run as we also opened up the practice range. The shooters safety meeting was called at 9:25 when squad assignments were handed out.
28 folks on 15 lanes pretty much filled out the course...and away they went getting after the steel quarry
Today's event being the first of the 2024 season was set at a lower Troyer value and was by estimate a cleanable course, though as is typical a few real stinkers (small KZ) targets were in play to catch those without good dope data and too much "I got this" feeling...yea that evil match director strikes again.
On our offhand lane (in memory of Jim C and his disliking kneeling) lol...if you could take all 4 shots kneeling there were double points for the second target above day's potential of 62 points possible. Many, but not all, took on the challenge.
MATCH RESULTS by Class & Finish Position XX/62
WFTF PISTON
Jim P 56
Mark W 42
AJ 19
HUNTER PISTON
Bill C 50
Bill R 22
WFTF PCP
Dave C 54
Chang 50
Ahmed 40
Tak A N/S
HUNTER PCP
Chris K 61
John B 60
Zach 59
Scott S 58
Darren T 56
Fred B 51
Erick 51
Pete P 50
Conrad R 49
John D 48
Dane S 47
Marty G 46
Kevin H 43
Weiye 40
Larry G 38
Jeff S 35
Grant 18
Jon Z N/S
Sam R N/S
Our morning started out with some wonderful breakfast muffins provided by Darren T, with thanks to his wife Julie.
With lunch provided post-match, everyone got to get fed as they finished up their match. This took near half an hour as the stragglers finished up.
Pulled pork sandwiches and fixins were provided by Sam R, with hotdogs and fixins, mac and potato salads, chips, and drinks. It appeared that all present had a great time as there was much laughter and expressed words of having a great time!! A Thank You goes out to my wife Dawn who helped in the area prep and food serving activities.
Once we all had some lunch in us the crew quickly broke down the course and packed it back up for next month.
With stuff for sale still lingering on the tables those last minuet deals were made and gear left with new owners ... it was all good stuff!
THANK YOU to all those who came out today for our season opener and Memorial match for Jim Cyran, may his memory stay with us.
Until next month's match, stay well, practice and have dreams of knocking down the steel when we converge once more using range #9 on May 26th 2024
Scott Schneider
SVFTC Match Director
