11 - November 23, 2019

What a 2019 season it has been for the SVFTC. We were able to put on a match every month from March until November with attendance running between 15 to 27 shooters every month!

It does appear the club's format of alternating match sites has helped as has the Saturday / Sunday split each month.

Onto the this month's match held in IONE, where 17 shooters came out on what was the weekend before Thanksgiving, which I'm sure put a damper on some making it out to shoot one last match with the SVFTC in 2019.

Even heard we had a Birthday .... HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Jessica K who not surprisingly opted to not join us ... jeez !!

Today's course of fire was 14 lanes of which lane 7 became offhand with three bell target making for a 58 shot match. As we typically do one of the bells can be shot kneeling (if you can kneel?) ... if not offhand.

We had plenty of help arriving shortly after 8 a.m. which had the set up happen without a hitch ... Thanks guys !!

Practice was up and running by 8:45 and continued until 9:30 when we called the shooters meeting, crew cleaned out the practice targets and we then assigned squads. We were shooting the match by @ 9:45.

Today's results: XX/58

WFTF PCP

Tom K 42

WFTF Piston

Mark W 37

Hunter Piston

Zack L 43

Frank W 23

Jesse A 15

WFTF PCP

Gabriel L 56 * High Match Score

Riz M 55

Son L 53

Dave C 49

Tak 32

Hunter PCP

John B 50

Scott S 50

Jim C 48

Jim M 41

Conrad R 39

Larry G 28

Ahmed G 10 * Oops, forgot to look at his magnification ring and shot match at a lower X making his dope incorrect. New shooter and a learning event to be sure. We've ALL done it !

After the match had a good lunch enjoying what was a simply VERY pleasant day for late November being in the low 60s with just a very light breeze. Course got torn down with all in a nice pile midfield making the final packing it up easy peezy. Again THANK YOU to all who help with these duties!

There was a 1/2 dozen or so who stayed and played within the 100 yards of shooting bay having some just doing more practice with their FT gun or other lower power AGs.

Then there were "THOSE GUYS" who set up miscellaneous metal targets at 50 - 75 - 100 yards and brought out their HIGH POWER PCPs shooting either HEAVY PELLETS or SLUGS and simply were having a blast banging away on mostly the 100 yards set quadrant or tree targets.

Have to say there is BUZZ about a future in shooting EXTREME Field Target or Benchrest in our ranks. As one of those "Guys" it is quite fun and really difficult to shoot 100 yards with an air rifle, slugs or not! Those staying after shot for a few hours more and everyone left going on the 4 p.m. hour.

That concludes the 2019 season for the SVFTC ... We had a great year, great times had by all at each match. Many in our ranks also competed nationally, went abroad for International events doing very well.

Wishing everyone a great and safe winter until next spring when we will try and get the 2020 season rolling @ March.

Thank you to all who joined us in 2019 and we hope to see you once again in 2020! Tell your like-minded buddies to come out and try FT .. They just might like it?

Scott Schneider

Jim Cyran