September 22

It appears the heat of summer and delayed or postponed outside work has caught up with a lot of our typically present crew! That was further compounded by a late season Grand Prix match on the same weekend having 6 more of our regulars up in Ashland, OR.

This left us with 11 shooters present for our September match and in no way did that dampen our enthusiasm for a fun and challenging club match!

Chris and Scott arrived on site a tad before 7, started setting the course, and had it 3/4's done by the time the next car drove in, being done with the 14 lanes inside of 35-40 minutes.

Today's match had a twist that by the time we finished that we had mixed feelings about it, though mostly positive:

* We had set out 3 full KZ 2" bell targets out on the 53/55 yard line having 1 each on lanes 3, 6, and 9. These were declared as a mandatory extra shot on these 2 lanes with the applied scoring rule as:

Take 2 shots at each, a HIT on the bell target scores 2 points, a Miss scores a negative 2 points. This in the simplest terms was hit 1st miss second a ZERO, hit bell BOTH times you gained 4 points  in addition to the 2 knock down targets score (8 possible points on these lanes). Or the bad way it ended for many being especially the low power or spring shooters was MISSING BOTH shots on the bells getting a negative 4 that wiped out any previous hits and score on the 2 previous knock down targets in the lane yielding an entire lane ZERO...OUCH!

Fun? Yes. Score number counters? Not so much. Challenging? ABSOLUTELY!

For today's match, knowing our shooter numbers were much reduced, we opted out of providing our typical lunch and extras, and everyone got a 1/2 price match fee to compensate.

MATCH RESULTS by Class, Name & Score (the 0 or +4 or - 4 are in the totals noted behind score as to lane 3/6/9 results )    XX/56 + extra shots

WFTF Piston

AJ K 32 (-4/-4/0)

Hunter Piston

Frank W 14 ( -4/0/-4)

WFTF PCP

Lonnie S 45 (-4/+4/+4)

Hunter PCP 

Chris K 58 (+4/+4/0)

Cameron W 57 (+4/0/0)

Scott S 54 (0/+4/0)

Zack L 53 (0/0/+4)

Conrad R 49 (0/0/+4)

Erick S 47 (0/0/+4)

Larry G 42 (-4/0/+4)

Bill C 39 (-4/0/+4)

It was noticed by many how quiet everyone was today with none of the typical giggling and laughing, but more serious...interesting? Nonetheless, all stated it was a great match, a challenging course, and fun. Our top shooters continue to set the bar pretty high which will continue to make for a more refined course set up in the future to have something for everyone.

The Ione, CA breeze was there from the start and steadily increased throughout the morning and even did a direction switch on us. So continue the lessons to be learned in shooting in the wind.

We cleaned up, packed up, and most were gone by 1:00pm or so, with 2 of us staying around till @ 3:00 shooting OR should we say ATTEMPTING to shoot 50 and 75 yards in a pretty good breeze with their higher power .22 PCP's.

That's it guys...another one on the books for 2024!! Thank you to those that made it out and don't hate the MD for a fun / not so fun lay out and scoring. It is a club fun match, after all.

Thank you,

Scott Schneider

SVFTC Match Director

Make note and mark your calendars for OCTOBER 27th which is the last Field Target Club match of 2024!

For those who enter and shoot this match, we will have a season’s end swap meet.

So gather up your gear that others can use, put some $$ away for this swap meet, and we'll see you all in October!