Somedoggy looking forward to the State Championships!
Contested in the most loverly December weather we could realistically have hoped for, the 2023 TEXtreme Rifle & Pistol State Championships weekend also went off not only according to schedule all weekend, but with nary a hitch, glitch, bobble or squabble. SAY WHAT?!?!
You heard it right. Contrary to some previous TEXtreme cluster-f… correction- ‘less than bobble-free’ events, somehow, miraculously, that senile OLD match director
apparently got it right (this time).
Yes, the Earth has reversed polarity… like TEXtreme winds on (any) match day.
The three match days included.
Precipitation having ended overnight before the Friday Pistol TFT match, the pistoleros did endure cool, wet, and muddy ground conditions early on. However that not only improved as Fridays match progressed, but put no damper whatsoever on the HOT pistol goings-on.
When the steam cleared, 2022 TEXtreme Field Target Pistol State Champion Pablo Bracaglia had successfully defended his title in no uncertain terms. Pablo’s perfect 60/60 score left little room for doubt about his pistol skills with ‘Ugly Stick’, a Benjamin Marauder rifle-to-pistol conversion of his own not-so-immaculate conception. Pablo’s perfect score ties the sixty-shot TEXtreme pistol course record. Ugly wears a UTG scope (the gun, not the shooter), and shoots 16 grain JSB pellets (the gun and shooter). For his efforts PB nabbed a $300 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate, $150 in Airguns Of Arizona CASH
, a TEXtreme Airgun Sports Pistol Champion gold(ish) medal
, a TEXtreme Airgun Sports Pistol Champion pellet tin, and a Match Winner hat-pin. Congratulations Pablo; AWESOME SHOOTING!
Sixty-shot course record co-holder Derrick Wall was hot on Pablo’s heels
with an awesome 59/60 for Second Place. Derrick shot a .20 caliber Brocock Commander P topped with an Athlon Talos scope, shooting 13.73 grain JSB pellets at 800 FPS. DW pocketed a $200 AoA gift certificate, $100 in AoA CASH , and a TEXtreme Airgun Sports Second Place pellet tin. Great shooting, Derrick!
Caleb Dickenson captured Third Place in the pistol championship with an excellent 57/60 score shooting a .177 Daystate(?) Pathfinder. Caleb’s Pathfinder wears an Athlon Talos 4-14X44 scope and shoots some kind of pellets 800 FPS. Caleb won a $150 AoA gift certificate and a TEXtreme Airgun Sports Third Place pellet tin for his pistol shooting. Good shooting, CD. (BTW, I report the information as written on scorecards.)
Since my partner in crime
Art Womack is going to assemble and publish spread-sheets on the RIFLE matches that include each rifle shooters’ equipment, for the sake of readers with low tolerance for my r-a-m-b-l-i-n-g, I won’t report the rifle equipment information here. I’m SO good to Y’all!
Aforementioned partner in crime
set a new TEXtreme sixty-shot rifle course record in Saturdays Rifle Match #1 with an incredible 58/60 score. Art negotiated the tricky NORTH winds in super-human
fashion in edging Extreme Field Target National Champion Caleb Dickinson by one point in Saturdays rifle match. Obviously the hot shooting didn’t end with the pistol match.
Not far behind in Rifle Match 1 came Jim Martin with a 55/60, followed closely by me with a 54. That mostly sets the stage for Rifle Match #2, and the final rifle podium results.
With Sundays Rifle Match #2 starting earlier than usual for TEXtreme matches
, for the first third to half of the match wind conditions were considerably less obnoxious than usual. However forecasts for winds arriving about mid-match proved accurate; unfortunately did not foretell how devious said winds could be! Swirling and shifting upon arrival, they then decided to be southerly; still swirling and shifting. Consequently totally different winds than Saturdays rifle match. Just how much the different winds had to do with a rearrangement of the podium is anybody’s guess, but rearrange the podium they did! 
Caleb Dickenson’s third 57/60 score of the weekend was excellent enough to secure him the 2023 TEXtreme Field Target Rifle State Champion title, to add to his 2023 Extreme FT National Champion title. His 114/120 aggregate rifle score proved a comfortable margin of victory.
Caleb nabbed the Sightron SIII rifle scope, a $100 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate, the 2023 TEXtreme Field Target Rifle Champion gold(ish) medal, the 2023 TEXtreme Field Target Rifle Champion pellet tin, and a Match Winner hat-pin for his fine shooting. Great shooting, Caleb!
Having hoped to hang on to Fourth Place or jump into Third with my Match 2 result, although my 53/60 in Rifle Match #2 isn’t particularly impressive, my 107/120 weekend rifle aggregate proved just enough to leap-frog
two places from my Match 1 standing by the hair on my froggy chin-chin. And though I usually consider Second Place an ungratifying consolation prize
, this is one of the most gratifying First Loser
titles I’ve captured in decades of competition airgunning. The $400 AoA gift certificate has much to do with that. However I won’t be embarrassed to wear the Second Place silver(ish) medal
to the Old Geezers Disco
, nor put the Second Place TEXtreme pellet tin to good use. Maybe even in public.
Jim Martin’s 106/120 aggregate score was good for Third Place. Jim pocketed a $300 AoA gift certificate, a Third Place bronze(ish) medal
, and a TEXtreme Airgun Sports Third Place pellet tin for his efforts. Excellent shooting, Jim.
Tied for the fourth podium place after Sundays Rifle Match #2 with aggregate scores of 104/120 were Art Womack and Derrick Wall. Derrick prevailed in the one-round shoot-off to capture the Fourth Place $200 AoA gift certificate and a TEXtreme Airgun Sports pellet tin. Good shooting, D.
For the first time in TEXtreme history we crowned a two-gun Rifle/Pistol TEXtreme State Champion based on the aggregate of each shooter’s weekend match scores. Consequently Caleb Dickenson added yet another title to his relatively short Field Target career with an impressive 171/180 weekend aggregate. Also a solid 24 karat gold (colored) TEXtreme Rifle/Pistol State Champion pellet tin. BIG CONGRATULATIONS, CALEB!
Although there were no other aggregate awards, for interest sake Derrick finished second in the two-gun aggregate competition with a fine 163/180, and I was third with 160.
Prior to Saturday’s shooters meeting we had door
prize drawings. What we lacked in quality door prizes we made up for in quantity and ‘differnt’. Most of the weekends seventeen shooters won door prizes.
Besides the most-generous donation of the SIII Field Target model rifle scope awarded to the 2023 TEXtreme Field Target Rifle State Champion, Sightron Optics also donated very nice Sightron caps, boxes of 50 Sightron lens wipes, and Sightron catalogs for our schwag-bags. MANY THANKS, SIGHTRON!
Strangely, Caleb’s Sightron cap that fit with room to spare Saturday wouldn’t fit at all Sunday evening.
Must’a shrunk overnight… or something.
Of course we want to thank Airguns Of Arizona not only for the gift certificates and $250 cash distributed to the top shooters, but their sponsorship and support for TEXtreme efforts all along. THANK YOU, AoA!
And thanks to Jerry Cupples for the PelletGage notebooks used in our schwag-bags. And your ongoing support.
Lastly, thanks to Worm’s Smokehouse for catering the Saturday and Sunday hot lunches. They were great!
With the State Championships now behind us, it’s time to start pondering the 2024 TEXtreme Airgun Sports competition season. Stay tuned, Y’all.
And Hoppy Shooting,
Ron & Maggyy
Caleb Dickinson stealing the TEXtreme Rifle State Champion Sightron SIII scope and associated bounty.
Pablo reaping rewards of successfully defending his TEXtreme Pistol State Champion title.
Suffering TEXtreme levels of SMBAOS (Squad-Mates-Belly-Aching-OVERLOAD-Syndrome) about a 2" short winder cord, the Filed Tagret Genuis Macth Durecktor
invented a quick-release, ergonomically-correct winder-extension handle in real time on the spot to correct the 2" deficit. (Patent pending; investment opportunities available
)
Contested in the most loverly December weather we could realistically have hoped for, the 2023 TEXtreme Rifle & Pistol State Championships weekend also went off not only according to schedule all weekend, but with nary a hitch, glitch, bobble or squabble. SAY WHAT?!?!
You heard it right. Contrary to some previous TEXtreme cluster-f… correction- ‘less than bobble-free’ events, somehow, miraculously, that senile OLD match director
apparently got it right (this time).Yes, the Earth has reversed polarity… like TEXtreme winds on (any) match day.
The three match days included.Precipitation having ended overnight before the Friday Pistol TFT match, the pistoleros did endure cool, wet, and muddy ground conditions early on. However that not only improved as Fridays match progressed, but put no damper whatsoever on the HOT pistol goings-on.
When the steam cleared, 2022 TEXtreme Field Target Pistol State Champion Pablo Bracaglia had successfully defended his title in no uncertain terms. Pablo’s perfect 60/60 score left little room for doubt about his pistol skills with ‘Ugly Stick’, a Benjamin Marauder rifle-to-pistol conversion of his own not-so-immaculate conception. Pablo’s perfect score ties the sixty-shot TEXtreme pistol course record. Ugly wears a UTG scope (the gun, not the shooter), and shoots 16 grain JSB pellets (the gun and shooter). For his efforts PB nabbed a $300 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate, $150 in Airguns Of Arizona CASH
, a TEXtreme Airgun Sports Pistol Champion gold(ish) medal, a TEXtreme Airgun Sports Pistol Champion pellet tin, and a Match Winner hat-pin. Congratulations Pablo; AWESOME SHOOTING!Sixty-shot course record co-holder Derrick Wall was hot on Pablo’s heels
with an awesome 59/60 for Second Place. Derrick shot a .20 caliber Brocock Commander P topped with an Athlon Talos scope, shooting 13.73 grain JSB pellets at 800 FPS. DW pocketed a $200 AoA gift certificate, $100 in AoA CASH , and a TEXtreme Airgun Sports Second Place pellet tin. Great shooting, Derrick!Caleb Dickenson captured Third Place in the pistol championship with an excellent 57/60 score shooting a .177 Daystate(?) Pathfinder. Caleb’s Pathfinder wears an Athlon Talos 4-14X44 scope and shoots some kind of pellets 800 FPS. Caleb won a $150 AoA gift certificate and a TEXtreme Airgun Sports Third Place pellet tin for his pistol shooting. Good shooting, CD. (BTW, I report the information as written on scorecards.)
Since my partner in crime
Art Womack is going to assemble and publish spread-sheets on the RIFLE matches that include each rifle shooters’ equipment, for the sake of readers with low tolerance for my r-a-m-b-l-i-n-g, I won’t report the rifle equipment information here. I’m SO good to Y’all! Aforementioned partner in crime
set a new TEXtreme sixty-shot rifle course record in Saturdays Rifle Match #1 with an incredible 58/60 score. Art negotiated the tricky NORTH winds in super-human fashion in edging Extreme Field Target National Champion Caleb Dickinson by one point in Saturdays rifle match. Obviously the hot shooting didn’t end with the pistol match.Not far behind in Rifle Match 1 came Jim Martin with a 55/60, followed closely by me with a 54. That mostly sets the stage for Rifle Match #2, and the final rifle podium results.
With Sundays Rifle Match #2 starting earlier than usual for TEXtreme matches
, for the first third to half of the match wind conditions were considerably less obnoxious than usual. However forecasts for winds arriving about mid-match proved accurate; unfortunately did not foretell how devious said winds could be! Swirling and shifting upon arrival, they then decided to be southerly; still swirling and shifting. Consequently totally different winds than Saturdays rifle match. Just how much the different winds had to do with a rearrangement of the podium is anybody’s guess, but rearrange the podium they did! Caleb Dickenson’s third 57/60 score of the weekend was excellent enough to secure him the 2023 TEXtreme Field Target Rifle State Champion title, to add to his 2023 Extreme FT National Champion title. His 114/120 aggregate rifle score proved a comfortable margin of victory.
Caleb nabbed the Sightron SIII rifle scope, a $100 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate, the 2023 TEXtreme Field Target Rifle Champion gold(ish) medal, the 2023 TEXtreme Field Target Rifle Champion pellet tin, and a Match Winner hat-pin for his fine shooting. Great shooting, Caleb!Having hoped to hang on to Fourth Place or jump into Third with my Match 2 result, although my 53/60 in Rifle Match #2 isn’t particularly impressive, my 107/120 weekend rifle aggregate proved just enough to leap-frog
two places from my Match 1 standing by the hair on my froggy chin-chin. And though I usually consider Second Place an ungratifying consolation prize, this is one of the most gratifying First Loser titles I’ve captured in decades of competition airgunning. The $400 AoA gift certificate has much to do with that. However I won’t be embarrassed to wear the Second Place silver(ish) medal to the Old Geezers Disco, nor put the Second Place TEXtreme pellet tin to good use. Maybe even in public.Jim Martin’s 106/120 aggregate score was good for Third Place. Jim pocketed a $300 AoA gift certificate, a Third Place bronze(ish) medal
, and a TEXtreme Airgun Sports Third Place pellet tin for his efforts. Excellent shooting, Jim.Tied for the fourth podium place after Sundays Rifle Match #2 with aggregate scores of 104/120 were Art Womack and Derrick Wall. Derrick prevailed in the one-round shoot-off to capture the Fourth Place $200 AoA gift certificate and a TEXtreme Airgun Sports pellet tin. Good shooting, D.
For the first time in TEXtreme history we crowned a two-gun Rifle/Pistol TEXtreme State Champion based on the aggregate of each shooter’s weekend match scores. Consequently Caleb Dickenson added yet another title to his relatively short Field Target career with an impressive 171/180 weekend aggregate. Also a solid 24 karat gold (colored) TEXtreme Rifle/Pistol State Champion pellet tin. BIG CONGRATULATIONS, CALEB!
Although there were no other aggregate awards, for interest sake Derrick finished second in the two-gun aggregate competition with a fine 163/180, and I was third with 160.
Prior to Saturday’s shooters meeting we had door
prize drawings. What we lacked in quality door prizes we made up for in quantity and ‘differnt’. Most of the weekends seventeen shooters won door prizes.Besides the most-generous donation of the SIII Field Target model rifle scope awarded to the 2023 TEXtreme Field Target Rifle State Champion, Sightron Optics also donated very nice Sightron caps, boxes of 50 Sightron lens wipes, and Sightron catalogs for our schwag-bags. MANY THANKS, SIGHTRON!
Strangely, Caleb’s Sightron cap that fit with room to spare Saturday wouldn’t fit at all Sunday evening.
Must’a shrunk overnight… or something.Of course we want to thank Airguns Of Arizona not only for the gift certificates and $250 cash
distributed to the top shooters, but their sponsorship and support for TEXtreme efforts all along. THANK YOU, AoA! And thanks to Jerry Cupples for the PelletGage notebooks used in our schwag-bags. And your ongoing support.
Lastly, thanks to Worm’s Smokehouse for catering the Saturday and Sunday hot lunches. They were great!
With the State Championships now behind us, it’s time to start pondering the 2024 TEXtreme Airgun Sports competition season. Stay tuned, Y’all.
And Hoppy
Shooting,Ron & Maggyy
Caleb Dickinson stealing the TEXtreme Rifle State Champion Sightron SIII scope and associated bounty.
Pablo reaping rewards of successfully defending his TEXtreme Pistol State Champion title.
Suffering TEXtreme levels of SMBAOS (Squad-Mates-Belly-Aching-OVERLOAD-Syndrome) about a 2" short winder cord, the Filed Tagret Genuis Macth Durecktor
invented a quick-release, ergonomically-correct winder-extension handle in real time on the spot to correct the 2" deficit. (Patent pending; investment opportunities available) Last edited:
