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We had twelve (12) competitors come out for the 2024 Halloween BSA Charity Match. Venturing Crew 7772 of Midland, Michigan had over ten (10) explorers come out to support the match, earning their Crew $750.00.Leo Cebula presenting the checks from Solomon Diving, Pierce Engineering and MCSC to the Venturing Crew 7772

The conditions started out quite gentle. However, they the time the final stage was being fired for the targets with two relays, it became quite sporty.

In F-Open, Nick Nadenhoff posted a 600-42X to win the category. He was followed by Peter Stumpo with a 596-30X, and Seth Stoneburner with a 595-25X.

In F-TR, Richard Dixon set the goal with a 594-34X. Followed by Leo Cebula with a 589-17X, and Mike Boughner with a 586-24X.

2024 Halloween BSA Charity Match

The next match will be the 2024 Annual Foul Weather on Saturday, November 30, 2024.

On probably the last time I will be able to wear shorts to a match in Michigan this year,  we had ten (10) competitors suffering  a foggy morning. It was really foggy, enough that even the F-Open shooters held fire for about five (5) minutes hoping  for a clearing.

The visibility notwithstanding, our high F-Open competitor, Cruz Stoneburner cleaned both of his first two (2) strings and finished with a 598-40X. Followed by Dave Strycharz with a 595-36X and Mike Ruhlman with a 595-31X.

F-TR as led by Seth Stoneburner with a 592-25X. Notably, Seth was firing a new .223 Remington.

Only one service rifle and one any rifle shooter today.

2024 SMRP Match 4

Our next match will be on October 5, 2024. That will be the last Suburban Mid-Range Prone league for 2024.  Program is: 2024 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League 2

We have posted the preliminary program for the 2024-2025 Snow Country English Match Series. Not all dates have been added, but the three of the four venues from last year have provided their dates.  Still waiting on Muskegon, and a potential new site:  Blue Water.

Program as of September 10, 2024: 2024-2025 Snow Country English Match Series

On a beautiful August day the Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship was held at the Midland County Sportsman’s Club. With a record thirty-three (33) competitors the match was a success.

We had sixteen (16) F-Open competitors. Of that number Seth Stoneburner won the F-Open Championship with a 597-36X. He was trailed closely by Mike Facchini with a 596-37X, and Nick Nadenoff with a 596-35X. An individual score of note was Mike Facchini’s 200-18X.

F-TR had eight (8) competitors. Steve Beebe was the winner with a 594-36X. He was chased by Jim Grissom with a 589-23X, and Mike Boughner with a 588-22X.

In the sling arena we had a combination of eight (8) competitors made up of Service Rifle, Palma Rifle and Any Rifle. Jamie Root using a Palma Rifle was winner with a 593-29X, followed by Hanne Brantner with a 591-21X. Third was Gary Duda with an Any Rifle with a 587-19X.

Lastly we had one (1) lonely AR-Tactical shooter, Lance Espinosa who posted a 591-25X.

All the scores are available:

2024 Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship

The next match at Midland Sportsman’s Club will be a Suburban Mid-Range League match on September 21, 2024. Program is: 2024 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League 2

Fourteen (14) shooters came out on a glorious summer day to fire the third Mid-Range Prone league match for 2024.  No rain, hail, snow or any of the other things that Michigan periodically does to us.

Five (5) F-Open shooters were led by Cruz Stoneburner with a 593-21X. He was followed closely by Dave Monette with a 592-29X.

In F-TR we had three (3) shooters. Peter Church was high with a 584-19X.

For Service Rifle we also, had three (3) shooters. The high was David Richmond with a 588-23X.

2024 SMRP Match 3

The next match at Midland will be the Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship on August 31, 2024. You can see the program and enter at the Michigan Rifle and Pistol Association website:  https://michrpa.org/event-5536286.

On a beautiful June day fifteen (15) shooters came out to the Midland County Sportsman’s Club for their second Suburban Mid-Range Prone League match of 2024.

Of the fifteen (15) competitors ten (10) shooters were  F-Open. The high shooter of that group was Seth Stoneburner with a 596-37X followed closely by Nick Nadenoff with a 595-26X.

For Any Rifle we had three shooters, the high scorer was Roger Franklin with a 572-13X.

In F-TR we had only two shooters, the high was Leo Cebula with a 577-16X.

2024 SMRP Match 2

The next Suburban Mid-Range Prone League  match is on July 27, 2024. Program is: 2024 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League 2

Note the Michigan Long Range State Championship is being held at the Marksmanship Training Center on July 6 and 7, 2024. The program and registration is: https://michrpa.org/event-5554064.

On a day where the weather man dumped a good deal of rain on the club up to about 15 minutes prior to our scheduled starting time, the day turned out basically nice. Although mostly overcast the temperatures were nice and occasionally the sun actually came out.

Sixteen shooters fired the match with Nine (9) F-open competitors. Seth Stoneburner was the winner with a 449-34X, followed by Dave Monette with a 447-27X and Cruz Stoneburner with a 446-23X.

In the F-TR category there were five (5) competitors with Jim Grissom winning with a 446-20X followed by Mike Boughner with a 445-24X, and Richard Dixon with a 445-23X.

2024 Michigan Fullbore Rifle Championship

Our next match is a Suburban Mid-Range prone championship on June 15, 2024.  The program is:  2024 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League 2

On a sunny late April day the last of the 2024 Winter Mid-Range Prone matches was held. Seven (7) shooters came out.

High Any Rifle shooter was Pete Church with a 396-19X. High Service Rifle was Tom Feige with a 383-7X. High F-Open was Cruz Stoneburner with a 399-24X.

2024 WMRP Match 5

This was the end of the Winter Mid-Range Prone matches for 2024. Next up is the Suburban Mid-Range Prone League. The first match is on May 11th. Program is: 2024 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League 2. Please note squadding for the Suburban starts at 8:15 AM, and match commences at 9:00 AM Eastern time for both.

Ten (10) Competitors were invited to and competed in the 2023-2024 Snow Country Shoot-Off. Steve Jones with a 1278.3 won the F-Class and Cameron Swart won the Sling with a 1241.0.

Bret Solomon presents the $50 check to Steve Jones, winner of the F-Class Snow Country Shoot-Off

Bret presenting a $50 check to Cameron Swart, winner of the Sling Snow Country Shoot-Off

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