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On a remarkably warm day for Michigan at the end of December, ten (10) competitors came out for the annual New Year’s Eve Rifle Match.

Beating a surprising number of service rifle shooters, Kyle Matzelle fired a 394-17X to lead the category.  For F-Open, Mike Ruhlman was the only competitor; he fired a 393-12X.  Charles Hayes was the only F-TR competitor and fired a 383-10X. There were two (2) Palma Rifle shooters, and one of them cross fired two times, allowing Leo Cebula to post the high Score of 383-9X.

2022 New Year’s Eve Rifle Match

We will announce the matches for 2023 shortly.  However, it is likely that we will allocate every weekend in March and April as potential matches.  Watch this spot for details.

We will be running the New Year’s Eve Rifle Match again this year.  As in the past the course of fire is a 2×600 on electronic targets.

We will begin squadding at approximately 9:15 AM.

Remember watch this site for information about whether the match will be run or not.  Whether this time of year in Michigan can be threatening.  If it appears we will be having a bomb cyclone, tornadoes or fiery hail, we will cancel this match.

2022 New Year’s Eve Rifle Match

A couple of days late, but available nonetheless: Final Results of the 2022 Foul Weather Rifle Match.

Six (6) shooters chose to compete in cool temperatures.  In F-Open Mike Ruhlman posted a 392-11 for high and only shooter. In Target Rifle Matt Wieczorek finished with a 375-5 for high and only shooter.

In Service Rifle we had four (4) competitors.  Tom Feige was high with a 389-15 besting second place Kyle Matzelle who finished with a 389-8.

2022 Foul Weather Rifle Match

Thanks to Ray Gross who ran this event.  The next event, might be the New Year’s Eve Rifle Match.  Watch this site for details.

The 2022-2023 Snow Country has started.  All firing for November and the first shoot of December are compete

2022-2023 Snow Country Match 1

2022-2023 Snow Country Match 2

2022-2023 Snow Country Match 3

Match dates for December:  December 10, Muskegon; December 17, Monroe.  Program for additional matches is:  2022-2023 Snow Country English Match Series

As some of you noticed during the past week to ten days semno.org has been up, down, and sometimes simply non-responsive.  This was due a hacker attack that caused semno.org and five other related sites to be infected with a Bot.

It required a good deal of effort to first remove the Bot, and secondly to repair the damage that it caused.

However, we are back up, and running.  We now have new firewalls that hopefully will prevent another infection.

On a cool, maybe cold day (one shooter’s lady friend was wearing enough winter gear to go skiing), 15 shooters competed in the fifth of the Mid-Range Prone league matches for 2022.

Even with some challenging wind Pete Vansumeren posted a 600-37X besting the seven (7) F-Open competitors.  In F-TR sometime F-TR shooter Leo Cebula lead the four (4) F-TR shooters with a 584-17X.  Three (3) Any Rifle shooters were bested by Peter Church with a 596-28X.  Lastly, Tom Feige lead the service rifle shooters with a 570-15X.  

2022 SMRP Match 5

This was the last Suburban Mid-Range Prone League matches for 2022.  Our next match is the Annual Halloween BSA Charity Match on October 22, 2022.  Program: 2022 Halloween BSA Charity Match

Eleven (11) shooters came out for the fourth installment of the Suburban Mid-Range Prone League for 2022.  The weather was close to still, and comfortable, but cool.

The high Any Rifle Shooter was Peter Church with a 598-40, followed by Mike Quillinan with a 593-24. For F-Open the high shooter was Dave Strycharz with a 589-29.  High F-TR was Leo Cebula with a 576-12.  Lastly, high Service Rifle was Tom Fiege with a 559-15.

2022 SMRP Match 4

The next Suburban Mid-Range Prone Match will be held on October 8, 2022.  Program:  2022 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League.

Two updates, the Suburban Mid-Range Prone league match scheduled for October 15, 2022 has been moved to October 8, 2022 (it was conflicting with the MSU Homecoming game, to which I have tickets). The Halloween BSA Charity match is scheduled for October 22, 2022 (which is before I leave for the winter).

Program: 2022 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League

Program: 2022 Halloween BSA Charity Match

On a calm, still day we had eleven (11) competitors see two (2) F-Class 600’s fired.

In F-Open, Marcel Bollinger fired a 600-37 to lead the field.  In F-TR Charles Hayes fired a 600-41using a 223 Remington with Hornady A-Tip 90 grain bullets. I had to look back to the Halloween Match of 2021 to find another 600 in F-Class.  That was Bret Solomon with a 600-53 (which would have been an National Record, except for the fact that the match wasn’t registered).

Along with firing his 600, Charley also shepherded his grand son, Nikhil Datta who produced the third highest F-Class score with a 594-36 in F-TR.

2022 SMRP Match 3

The next match is Saturday, September 3, 2022 and will be the 2022 Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship-2.

On Saturday, June 4, 2022, nine (9) competitors fired the Suburban Mid-Range Prone match 2.

High F-Open was Dave Strycharz with a 586-22X.  High F-TR was Charles Hayes with a 588-26X. High and only Any Rifle was Peter Church with a 593-27X.  High Palma Rifle was John Luitnik witha 594-35X.

2022 SMRP Match 2

The next Suburban Mid-Range Prone is on July 16, 2022. Program is:  2022 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League-2