The 2025-2026 Snow Country English Match Series is about to begin for the new season.
I don’t have all of the dates for each location, but we had enough to publish a new program.
2025 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League Match 3 Results
We had only five (5) competitors come out for the Saturday, July 26, 2025 league match. People were staying away in droves. For no particularly good reason.
The start of the match:
Notice there was no precipitation. However, as we got going we developed a little drizzle. So, we put up our rain flys:
Then we had remarkably gentle conditions, and frankly, dry conditions. I rested on the benches behind the firing line outside of the rain fly’s between strings.
Finally, just as we finished firing, and had put all of the targets away, it rained hard. Click the link below:
Only one Palma Shooter, Ray Gross. He posted a 599-35X. One F-Open shooter, Nick Nadenoff. He posted a 598-31X.
There were three (3) F-TR shooters, Leo Cebula finished with a 599-38X. As one of my Marine Corps coaches said: “Even a blind sow finds an acorn now and then”. Maybe it will carry over to the F-Class Nationals.
Our next match will be the 2025 Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship sanctioned by the Civilian Marksmanship Program. You can see the program and enter here: 2025 Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship.
2025 Winter Mid-Range Program Match 6 Results
We had fourteen (14) competitors come out for the sixth and last Winter Mid-Range Prone league on Saturday, April 19, 2025.
In F-Open it was a contest between the Stoneburner’s. Seth came out on top with a 397-22X over Cruz with a 397-17X. In third was Scott Rehkopf with a 396-19X.
In service rifle the high shooter was Kyle Matzelle with a 394-14X.
For Palma Rifle, Any Rifle, and F-TR we had only one shooter in each category. However, Ray Gross posted a 399-29X with his Palma Rifle.
Now the Winter league matches are complete. However, the Suburban Mid-Range Prone matches are about to start. Program is: 2025 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League 2. The first match is on May 17, 2025. Remember, the Suburban starts at 9:00 AM with squadding at about 8:15 AM. Additionally, the Suburban is three twenty shot strings.
2025 Winter Mid-Range Prone Match 5 Results
Twelve (12) Shooters came out for Match 5 of the Winter Mid-Range Prone League on April 5, 2025.
Nick Nadenoff firing F-Open led the pack with a 397-25X followed by Randy Budde and Marcel Bollinger both with a 396-17X,
In F-TR, Mike Boughner set the pace with a 396-20X followed by Rich Dixon with a 390-10X.
One more Winter Mid-Range Match is scheduled for April 19, 2025.
2024-2025 Snow Country English Match Series – Shoot-Off Competitors
F-Class:
| Dave | Strycharz |
| Wayne | Haase |
| Eric | Moe |
| Steve | Jones |
| Ed | Gostomski |
| Bret | Solomon |
Sling
| Timothy | Sarchett |
| Cameron | Zwart |
| Jamie | Root |
| Joe | Bakies |
| Matthew | Wieczorek |
| Baron | Whateley |
Reminder: The Shoot-Off will be held at the Jackson County Sportsman’s Club at 500 Mantle, Jackson, Michigan on April 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM. The range will open at 8:00 AM and shooting will commence at 9:00 AM or when everyone is ready if earlier.
Corrected 3/30/25.
2023-2024 Snow Country Preliminary Final Standings
These should be the aggregate of the high four matches fired updated to March 24, 2025
| First | Last | Category | High 4 |
| Adam | Radomski | Collegiate/Junior | 2059.2 |
| Dave | Strycharz | F-Class Prone | 2556.7 |
| Eric | Moe | F-Class Prone | 2554.2 |
| Steve | Jones | F-Class Prone | 2553.4 |
| Wayne | Haase | F-Class Prone | 2553.3 |
| Ed | Gostomski | F-Class Prone | 2548.1 |
| Leo | Cebula | F-Class Prone | 2540.6 |
| Bret | Solomon | F-Class Prone | 2539.7 |
| Jim | Kampman | F-Class Prone | 2530.3 |
| David | Kottke | F-Class Prone | 2525.4 |
| Mark | Javit | F-Class Prone | 2524.5 |
| Randy | Budde | F-Class Prone | 2512.4 |
| Steve | Fenske | F-Class Prone | 2493.6 |
| Jack | Baker | F-Class Prone | 2471.5 |
| Mark | Achatz | F-Class Prone | 1820.7 |
| Timothy | Sarchett | Sling Prone | 2504.4 |
| Cameron | Zwart | Sling Prone | 2493.3 |
| Jamie | Root | Sling Prone | 2483.8 |
| Joe | Bakies | Sling Prone | 2466.1 |
| Matthew | Wieczorek | Sling Prone | 2458.1 |
| Baron | Whateley | Sling Prone | 2450.6 |
| Gary | Duda | Sling Prone | 2445.1 |
| Dan | Altman | Sling Prone | 2440.5 |
| Larry | Remsnyder | Sling Prone | 2432.0 |
| Timothy | Knapp | Sling Prone | 2391.2 |
| Fred | Juziuk | Sling Prone | 2362.6 |
| Trevor | Gersch | Sling Prone | 2332.6 |
| Timothy | Rinker | Sling Prone | 2277.1 |
| Bob | Grove | Sling Prone | 2225.9 |
| Jeremy | Jahr | Sling Prone | 2126.7 |
| Charlie | Reynolds | Sling Prone | 1735.7 |
| Steve | Fenske | Sling Prone | 1688.6 |
| Roger | Franklin | Sling Prone | 1554.1 |
| Adam | Baker | Sling Prone | 1547.0 |
| Robert | O’Donnel | Sling Prone | 617.5 |
| Aron | Freitag | Sling Prone | 597.2 |
| Matt | Kelgreen | Sling Prone | 591.7 |
| Vallee | Hennebohn | Sling Prone | 529.8 |
| Don | Morgan | Sling Prone | 518.8 |
| Tony | Smith | Sling Prone | 179.8 |
The final composition of the Shoot-off will be announced at the end of March, but it will consist of 6 sling shooters, and 6 F-Class Shooters. The Shoot-off will be held at the Jackson Sportsmans Club, 500 Mantle, Jackson, MI on April 12, 2025. The range will open at 8:00 AM and firing will commence not later than 9:00 AM (if everyone is ready and available it will start sooner).
2024-2025 Snow Country English Match Series Results
Results of the Snow Country up to March 18 (less Muskegon):
Next March matches are: 22 Monroe, 29 Muskegon. Program is: 2024-2025 Snow Country English Match Series
2025 Winter Mid-Range Prone Match 3 Results
Eighteen (18) shooters came out for the third Winter Mid-Range Prone League Match of 2025.
Seth Stoneburner led the F-Open category with a 397-16X besting Scott Rehkopf with 15X. A close finish.
David Richmond won the Service Rifle with a 386-10X. Matt Wein was high F-TR with a 388-12X.
The next potential Winter Mid-Range match is scheduled for March 22, 2025. The program is: 2025 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program 2.
2025 Winter Mid-Range Prone Match 2 Results
Thirteen (13) shooters came out for the second Winter Mid-Range prone match of 2025. The outside temperature was a balmy 27 degrees F. However, as always it was toasty in the tent.
Top F-Open was Peter Stumpo with a 397-17X. In F-TR Robin Retzloff was high with a 391-15X. In Service Rifle Kyle Matzelle was top with a 392-15X.
The next match will be on March 8, 2025. Program is: 2025 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program 2
2024-2025 Snow Country English Match Series Results
Okay, up to date through February 15, 2025:
Local Color from Blue Water:
Next matches are March 6 – Grand Rapids; 8 – Blue Water, Monroe, Howell; 15 – Muskegon; 22 – Monroe; 27 – Grand Rapids. Program is here: 2024-2025 Snow Country English Match Series