Due to a conflict with the Scouts, we are moving the Halloween BSA Charity Match from the 26th of October to the 2nd of November.
The program is: 2019 Halloween BSA Charity Match
2019 Mid-Range Prone League Match 4 – Results
It was just about a perfect day to shoot. Somewhat cool, somewhat overcast. Temperature was hanging around 70. Winds were gentle (in fact I shot all three strings without ever looking at the wind, it was almost like shooting gallery).
Unfortunately, no one shot clean for the sixty shots, and the only twenty shot clean was fired by John Pierce shooting F-TR. Also, John had the high score for the day a 597-30X shooting F-TR. The high F-Open shooter was Jim Weinrich with a 590-26X. High any rifle shooter was Leo Cebula (me) with a 595-26X.
2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone Match 4
Our next league match is October 12, 2019. The program is here: 2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone Championship
2019 Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship Results
On a sunny, cool beginning of Labor Day weekend, thirty competitors took part in the 2019 Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship at the Midland County Sportsman’s Club.
The day resulted in some outstanding performances. Jack Abrams won the Any Rifle (Any sight sling shooters) with a 595-29X. Jack used a scoped rifle with LoaderMonkey ammunition. In second was Steve Bair with a 595-19X using an iron sighted Palma Rifle. A great performance by both.
In the F-TR Category, Sydnie Lipski, a Junior from Hubbard Lake bested the field with a 590-30X, beating second place shooter Austin Nelson with a 589-26X by a single point and four X’s.
F-Open was won by repeat winner Marcel Bollinger with a 595-29X leading Ed Gostomski’s 590-24X. Notably, the conditions must have been worse that last year, Marcel had posted a clean 600, a year ago.
We had a few bumps in the road during the match, but we may have learned from them. At 300 yards, we were unable to open the file folder on the running access point. So there was no way to see past strings. We were concerned that this might be the precursor of worse things to come, so we switched over to another access point for 500 yards. Unfortunately, for reasons that we suspect, but have not yet been confirmed, that access point was displaying shots 20-30 seconds after the round was fired. At 600 yards we went back to the original access point and performance once again jumped to 1-2 seconds for each shot. We still couldn’t open the files folder, but the performance was excellent. We are exploring with the Shot Marker manufacturer why that might be.
Way on the right on target eight, Ray Gross and Leo Cebula were getting wide unexplained shots at 500 yards. Since I’m old enough (Leo) to not always see well, I attributed it to my vision. However, Ray was using a scoped AR, and had no trouble seeing. After a little detective work we realized our bullets were penetrating the lower foliage of the tree on the far right of the range. Ray removed some lower branches and leaves before the 600, and I (Leo) was able to shoot a decent 600. Ray, firing an AR, that was likely not as flat as my 80.5 Bergers at 3050 fps, shot his string on target 3. Both of our scores were dramatically higher. I think this means its time for some more landscaping at Midland. At least on Target eight.
2019 Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship
Our next Suburban Mid-Range Prone League match is on September 21, 2019. The program is here: 2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone Championship
September League Match Date Change
Please note, the Suburban Mid-Range Prone League match scheduled for September 28, 2019 has been moved to September 21, 2019.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League Match 3 – July 4, 2019
On a bright, sunny day, seventeen shooters gathered for the third match of the 2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League. Three (3) sling, seven (7) F-Open, and seven (7) F-TR shooters enjoyed the gentle winds and pleasant temperatures.
High Sling (Any Rifle) shooter was Peter Church, with a perfect 600-33X. Pete can really shoot his “ratgun” (.223 Remington). High F-Open was Marcel Bollinger with a 598-26X. In the F-TR category, Tom Fisher almost had another clean, but got caught for a single nine in the third stage. As such, he completed with a 599-39X.
2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone Match 3
Our next match is the Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship scheduled for August 31, 2019. Program is 2019 Michigan Mid-Range Prone Championship.
2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone Match 3 rescheduled from July 6 to July 4
We have rescheduled Match 3 of the 2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League to July 4, 2019 vice July 6, 2019. Please make a note of it.
See you on the 4th!
2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League Match 2 – June 15, 2019
It was an odd day. It looked like it wanted to rain, so we put out the rain canopies. So I suppose that is why it didn’t rain. We had a good turn out (for a league match), of twelve (12) competitors.
Of note was a new shooter, Bruce Clothier, shooting F-Open who finished with a 600-36X. An outstanding score! High F-TR was Scott Burr with a 593-31. Ray Gross was high Target Rifle (Sling) shooter with a 598-34X. Compete results below:
2019 Michigan Fullbore Rifle Prone Championship Results
On May 25, 2019 the Michigan Fullbore Rifle Prone Championship was held. We had twenty competitors who chanced a poor weather report and came to shoot. Fortunately, we had nice weather, some overcast, gentle winds. However, it did rain. Shortly after the targets were put away we had some sprinkles.
Of the Twenty (20), we had nine (9) F-Open Competitors, four (4) F-TR, and surprisingly seven (7) Target Rifle (sling) competitors.
The Winner and State Champion for F-Open was Marcel Bollinger with a 445-18X. F-TR was won by Steve Goyette with a 437-14X. Target Rifle was won by Leo Cebula with a 447-21X.
Championship plaques will be available at the Suburban Mid-Range Prone June League Match on June 15, 2019. Program is available: 2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone Championship
2019 Fullbore Rifle Prone Championship
2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone Match 1 Results
On Saturday, May 11, 2019 the first match of the 2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone League was held. We had thirteen (13) competitors, who enjoyed a bright, sunny day with temperatures in the high 40’s and low 50’s. It was a delightful, Michigan Spring Day.
Of our crowd we had three (3) F-Open competitors, lead by M. Ruhlman with a 580-15X. Five (5) F-TR competitors ruled by Tom Fisher with a 589-23X. Lastly, there were five (5) Sling Shooters, all using metallic sights. Ray Gross continued his winning ways with a 593-34X.
2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone Match 1
The next match at the Midland County Sportsman’s Club is the 2019 Michigan Fullbore Rifle Championship on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, May 25, 2019.
The next match of the 2019 Suburban Mid-Range Prone Championship is on June 15, 2019.
2019 Winter Mid-Range Prone League is Finished
The 2019 Winter League is completed. Participation awards will be available at the first Suburban Mid-Range Prone League Match scheduled for May 11, 2019.
This summer league will fire 3 strings at 600 yards, and each match will start at 9:00 AM.