Category: Winter Mid-Range

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2024 New Year’s Eve Rifle Match Final Results

We had eleven (11) competitors come out to brave the rain and fire the 2024 New Year’s Eve Rifle Match.

Winners with a bottle of bubbly, (l-r) Kyle Matzelle – Service Rifle, Cruz Stoneburner – F-Open, and Matt Wein – F-TR

In F-Open we had two 400 possibles fired. Cruz Stoneburner placed first with a 400-29, followed closely by Randy Budde with a 400-26.

In F-TR Matt Wein finished first with a 397-10, followed by Leo Cebula with a 392-22.

In Service Rifle we had Kyle Matzelle placing the high score over his dad, Al. Kyle had a 394-12.

2024 New Years Eve Rifle Match

The question was asked at the end of the awards ceremony:  “When is the next Match?” We didn’t have an answer at that time. However, today we do. It will be February 8, 2025. The program is: 2025 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program 2.

 

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2024 Annual Foul Weather Rifle Match Final Results

Fourteen (14) stalwart competitors braved the cold and snow to attend the Annual Foul Weather Rifle Match, aka “Get away from the in-laws match”.

Ray Gross (r) congratulates Pete Stumpo for the high score for the day.

We had three (3) 400’s posted. Peter Stumpo, who was the high shooter for all categories had a 400-28, followed by Nick Nadenoff with a 400-24. Both were firing F-Open. Additionally, Ray Gross fired a 400-27 with his Palma Rifle. All impressive scores.

In F-TR the top two scores were Robin Retzloff with a 399-19 and Mike Boughner with a 395-21.

All the scores:

2024 Annual Foul Weather Rifle Match

Strictly speaking this ends the outdoor Mid-Range for the year, but there is always the potential of a New Years Eve match. Watch this spot for details!

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2023 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Match 4

Nine (9) competitors came out for the fourth Winter Mid-Range Prone Championship.

We had four (4) F-Open shooters lead by Don Hicks with a 396-10X.  Two (2) Service Rifle shooters lead by Kyle Matzelle with a 392-20X.  Then there were a group of cats and dogs with one each:  Ray Gross 394-13X with Palma, Mike Quillinan with a  384-7X with Any Rifle, and Charles Hayes with a 390-10X shooting F-TR.

2023 WMRP Match 42023 WMRP Match 4

The last Winter Mid-Range prone match will be held on April 29, 2023. Great time to tune up for the summer matches.

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2023 Winter Mid-Range Prone Match 3 Results

Nine (9) competitors turned out for the April Fool’s Day Winter Mid-Range League at the Midland County Sportsman’s Club.

We had three (3) F-Open, two (2) F-TR, two (2) Service Rifle, one (1) Palma, and one (1) Any Rifle.  The high F-Open was Dave Monette with a 395-20X. High F-TR was Jeremy Jahr with a 370-4X. High Service Rifle was Kyle Matzelle 387-12X. High Palma (and only) was Ray Gross with a 387-15X. High Any Rifle (and only) was Roger Franklin with a 370-11X.

2023 WMRP Match 3

The next Winter Mid-Range will be held on April 15, 2023.

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2021 New Year’s Eve Rifle Match Results

On a relatively nice day (for December 31, in Michigan) twelve competitors came out to wish 2021 off into history.

High F-Open Shooter was Don Hicks with a 400-29X.  High Service Rifle was Kyle Matzelle with a 386-8X.

2021 New Year’s Eve Rifle Match

And a couple of pictures:

In the tent at MCSC
Another shot inside the Tent
The Winners of a bottle of Brut: L-R: Mike Ruhlman, Don Hicks, Kyle Matzelle, Al Matzelle

This ends the matches for 2021.  Watch this spot for information about matches in 2022.  The Winter league generally starts in March and runs through April.

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2021 Annual Foul Weather Rifle Match Results

Eleven stalwart shooters came out on a cold (28 degrees F) overcast day.  Fortunately, other than contending with cold fingers and feet, the wind Gods were docile.

The high shooter amongst the seven (7)  F-Open shooters was Dave Monette with a 399-25X, besting Tony Dekelaita who posted a 396-17X.

In the small end of the range we had four (4) sling shooters.  Three (3) were scoped service rifles, and one (1) lonely Palma rifle.  Of the service rifles the high score was Tom Feige with a 384-10X.  The lonely Palma rifle was Leo Cebula with a 386-11X.  Leo was sorry he wasn’t at his winter home in Arizona….

2021 Annual Foul Weather Rifle Match

The next match is tentatively the 2021 New Year’s Eve Rifle Match.  Watch this site for information on its schedule.

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2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Match 5 Results

On a sunny April Saturday, we had ten (10) competitors for Match 5 of the Winter Mid-Range Prone League. We had four (4) F-Open shooters, three (3) F-TR shooters (including one new gentleman, Robert Burner), two (2) Palma shooters, and one (1) lonely any rifle competitor.

The high F-Open was Marcel Bollinger with a 392-14X, he was chased by Tony DeKelaita with a 390-16, and Dave Monette with a 390-13.

In F-TR the high shooter was Donald Hicks with a 389-7, followed by Charley Hayes with a 387-8.

In Palma, Ray Gross was high with a 394-19 followed by Leo Cebula with a 391-14.

The sole any rifle competitor was Mike Quillinan with a 393-23.

2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League – Match 5

The next and final Winter Mid-Range Prone League scheduled for 4/24/21.  The program is: 2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program.  Watch this spot for updates regarding weather for the match on the 24th.

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2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Match 3 Results

We had seven (7) competitors out for the Winter Mid-Range Prone League at the Midland County Sportsman’s Club.  The weather was only slightly cool.  The good news was the tent was down.  The bad news was the tent was down.  You can take that however, you might like.

Of the seven (7) competitors we had four (4) different categories represented.  The high and only Any Rifle was Mike Quillinan with a 391-16.  High F-Open was Marcel Bollinger with a 398-25.  High and only F-TR was Charles Hayes with a 377-3.  High Palma Rifle by outlasting the second Palma shooter was Leo Cebula, with a 387-11.

2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League – Match 3

The next League match is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, April 3, 2021.  Shooting starts at 10:00 AM with squadding at 9:15 AM.  Program is:  2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program

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2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Results – Match 2

On a cool, sunny Saturday morning, we had five (5) shooters compete in the second Winter League Match of 2021.  Of the five (5), there were three (3) F-Open Shooters, one (1) each of F-TR and Palma Rifle.

The high shooter in F-Open was Marcel Bollinger with a 390-19X, High F-TR was Charley Hayes with a 389-11X, and high Palma rifle was Leo Cebula with a 193-8X with a damaged rifle.

2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League – Match 2

The next match will be:  March 27, 2021.  The Program is:  2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program

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2021 Winter Mid-Range League Match 1 Results

We had seven (7) shooters this morning.  A good turnout for a day that started at about 16 degrees F.  Surprisingly, the sling shooters outnumbered the F-Class shooters.  That doesn’t happen very often.

We had four (4) categories represented, with just a couple shooters in each.  High (and only) Any Rifle was Matt Wieczorek with a 395-18, High F-Open was Tony Dekelaita with a 390-12, High Palma Rifle was Ray Gross with a 395-21, and high Service Rifle was Jason Quayle with a 358-2.

In notable performances, Matt Wieczorek had the only clean for the day in his second string, a 200-10.

Complete Results:

2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League

Next match will be March 6, 2021.  As always, watch his site for a notice indicating if the match will be held.

Program is:  2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program