Category: Suburban Mid-Range Prone League

On a really pleasant day we held the 2022 Halloween BSA Charity Match at the Midland County Sportsman’s Club.  We had ten (10) shooters.  With the help of donations from Solomon Diving and Pierce Engineering we were able to raise $700 for Venturing Crew 7772.

The winning F-Open Shooter was Nick Nadenoff with a 600-39X.  600s with Any Rifles or F-Class are rare occurrences.  Congratulations to Nick on fine performance. Second in F-Open was Mike Ruhlman with a 595-26X, third was Bret Solomon with a 594-26X.

In F-TR William Gravatt was winning shooter with a 582-21X, besting Leo Cebula with a 577-17X, and Jeremy Jahr with a 550-10X.

Roger Franklin was the sole Service Rifle Shooter, so he was high Any Rifle with a 577-13X

We had one new shooter Oliver Barnes, a Junior who fired a 539-3 in his first match.  We hope to see him back again.

Complete results:

2022 Halloween BSA Charity Match

The next match for 2022 will be the Annual Foul Weather Rifle Match on the Saturday following Thanksgiving. A great opportunity to get away from the in-laws or other relatives that are causing tension over the holidays.  Come home refreshed and ready for Christmas….

On a cool rainy Saturday in October, the Midland Sportsman’s Club conducted their annual Halloween BSA Charity match.  We have eleven (11) shooters who actually fired, and a few others who were almost rans, but chickened out with the rain.

Truthfully, we ended up not getting wet (unless you knelt in the wet grass), and had relatively calm conditions.  Conditions so calm that Bret Solomon fired an F-Open score of 600-53X, which equalled the F-Open record (which Bret holds) for a 3×600.  Needless to say, Bret was high F-Open.  He was chased by Dave Monette with a 599-46X.

A notable achievement was her first clean.  Marisa Tundo fired her first F-Open clean target on Saturday.

In the F-TR Category, Tom Fisher fired a 599-33X, second was Dale Lucy with a 596-29X.

For the sling shooters, we had three.  I know I shot a legal Palma Rifle, but wasn’t sure about the other two.  At any rate I was high with a 586-29X, followed by Mike Quillinan with a 585-24X.

2021 Suburban Mid-Range Prone Match 6

In terms of contributions to the Explorer Crew, we had contributions from Solomon Diving (Bret Solomon) and Pierce Engineering (John Pierce) as well as unsolicited contributions from Mike Ruhlman, and John Luitink.  Adding to that the MCSC contribution of $10/competitor the Crew left with $740.00.

Its that time of the year where we move indoors.  Look at the “Snow Country” matches (indoor F-Class and sling with .22RF Rifles), this year’s program:  2021-2022 Snow Country English Match Series.

The next match at Midland is tentatively scheduled for November 27, 2021 (the Saturday after Thanksgiving).  We will watch the weather closely that date and decide whether to run the match or not.  Program is:  2021 Annual Foul Weather.

Well, it was an interesting day.  The weather guessers said it would be overcast and cool.  They were pretty much correct except the the last minute torrential down pour that was forecasted.  So we waited, and Ray Gross stood up and said “Let it be dry”.  The storm split and went on either side of us, and we only felt a little drizzle.  Well, the part about the storm going around us is true, I made up the part about Ray causing it.

In general the day had gentle conditions for the thirteen (13) shooters who came out.  We had five (5) Any Rifle shooters (combination of Palma, any rifle, and service rifle), representing the “sling” shooters, and eight (8) F-Open Shooters.

The high F-Open shooter was Ed Gostomski with a 592-30X.  Interestingly, we had two other F-Open 592’s.  Dave Strycharz and 29X, and Jim Weinrich with 24X.

In the Any Rifle category, Mike Quillinan was high shooter with a 586-22X, followed by John Luitink with a 584-20X.  The remainder of the category was subject to varying levels of disaster.  Ray Gross cross-fired and “X” (on a F-Class target, I might add), and Leo Cebula and Peter Church kept wondering why their shots were off call as their bullets passed through the low hanging branches of a tree on the high end of the range.  Time to squad the F-Classers down there….

2021 Suburban Mid-Range Prone Match 3

Our next match is scheduled for September 4, 2021, and will be the Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship:  2021 Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship.

On a sunny, but surprisingly cool morning (try 33 F in September), we had twelve (12) shooters compete in the third Suburban Mid-Range Prone match of 2020.

Ray Gross shot the score he should have shot two weeks ago in the State Mid-Range Prone Championship. However, today he busted a 600-39Xs. It certainly wasn’t Ray’s first 600, and hopefully not his last either. It was a very nice score from a .223 Palma Rifle.

Mike Ruhlman was high F-Open with a 597-34X. Lastly Doug Boyer was the only F-TR shooter, and finished with a 573-8X, a far cry from his State Championship finish. We have to wonder what broke.