FT Match Report Arlington Sportsman’s Club 03/27/2021
The March FT match was the largest one, with 16 shooters, since January of 2020! Friends are coming back to join us for matches now that they’ve got their COVID vaccinations and Texas has lifted the mask mandate. It sure made me smile to see so many friends gathered together (no closer than 6 feet!) doing something we all love. John Tafoya (JT) from Kennedy TX joined us in his second FT match. John shoots Silhouette, Extreme FT, NRL, and other things with his airguns, but recently caught the FT bug. Welcome JT, and we hope to see you often. This match used 10 of the 15 lanes in our wooded 3D archery course with 3 targets per lane including the offhand and kneeling lanes. In preparation for the Cajun Grand Prix match in April, I increased the average Troyer to 33.0, SD 5.43, Avg Dist 32.6 yds, and Avg KZ 1.07”. Once again, Terry, Scott and I placed many targets in locations that required the shooter to fire through and between trees, under and through dark branches and barrels, and also required them to relocate their seating position to shoot at all 3 targets on a lane. I also placed some targets in shaded areas, one of them in a completely dark barrel, to replicate lanes from the Cajuns. I heard more than a few complaints about the dark target and not being able to see it, and that meant I had done my job. The first kneeling shots at 14 yards on a target with 5/8” KZ’s also elicited lots of comments from shooters.
At the end of the match, we gathered under the awning to write down the scores and commiserate on the difficulty of the course. Ron Robinson finished 1st in Hunter PCP with a 46/56, besting Terry Vanpool with a 43/56 and Jim Clarke with a 40/56. Faisal Kahn finished 1st in Hunter Piston with a 27/56, Cliff Montgomery finished 1st in WFTF Piston with a 25/56, I finished 1st in WFTF PCP with a 33/56, and finally Mike Vredenburg finished 1st in Open PCP and Overall High score of 48/56 after having not shot his air rifle in over 1 year. Amazing shooting Mike! View the full list of all competitors’ scores and equipment below.
Once again, for all of you that couldn’t make it out this time, I want you to know that we maintain social distancing while shooting and take other precautions to keep everyone safe. If there is anything missing or something that could be improved for an upcoming match, please let me know. I’d like to invite any of you reading this out to shoot and try field target even if you don’t own an air rifle, because we have some to loan you to shoot with. Just let me know ahead of time and we can plan for you to shoot with someone experienced. We’d love to have you join us. We will have our next match the 4th Saturday in April (24th).
See you at the next match,
Jeff Cloud
Field Target Match Director
Arlington Sportsman’s Club
The March FT match was the largest one, with 16 shooters, since January of 2020! Friends are coming back to join us for matches now that they’ve got their COVID vaccinations and Texas has lifted the mask mandate. It sure made me smile to see so many friends gathered together (no closer than 6 feet!) doing something we all love. John Tafoya (JT) from Kennedy TX joined us in his second FT match. John shoots Silhouette, Extreme FT, NRL, and other things with his airguns, but recently caught the FT bug. Welcome JT, and we hope to see you often. This match used 10 of the 15 lanes in our wooded 3D archery course with 3 targets per lane including the offhand and kneeling lanes. In preparation for the Cajun Grand Prix match in April, I increased the average Troyer to 33.0, SD 5.43, Avg Dist 32.6 yds, and Avg KZ 1.07”. Once again, Terry, Scott and I placed many targets in locations that required the shooter to fire through and between trees, under and through dark branches and barrels, and also required them to relocate their seating position to shoot at all 3 targets on a lane. I also placed some targets in shaded areas, one of them in a completely dark barrel, to replicate lanes from the Cajuns. I heard more than a few complaints about the dark target and not being able to see it, and that meant I had done my job. The first kneeling shots at 14 yards on a target with 5/8” KZ’s also elicited lots of comments from shooters.
At the end of the match, we gathered under the awning to write down the scores and commiserate on the difficulty of the course. Ron Robinson finished 1st in Hunter PCP with a 46/56, besting Terry Vanpool with a 43/56 and Jim Clarke with a 40/56. Faisal Kahn finished 1st in Hunter Piston with a 27/56, Cliff Montgomery finished 1st in WFTF Piston with a 25/56, I finished 1st in WFTF PCP with a 33/56, and finally Mike Vredenburg finished 1st in Open PCP and Overall High score of 48/56 after having not shot his air rifle in over 1 year. Amazing shooting Mike! View the full list of all competitors’ scores and equipment below.
Once again, for all of you that couldn’t make it out this time, I want you to know that we maintain social distancing while shooting and take other precautions to keep everyone safe. If there is anything missing or something that could be improved for an upcoming match, please let me know. I’d like to invite any of you reading this out to shoot and try field target even if you don’t own an air rifle, because we have some to loan you to shoot with. Just let me know ahead of time and we can plan for you to shoot with someone experienced. We’d love to have you join us. We will have our next match the 4th Saturday in April (24th).
See you at the next match,
Jeff Cloud
Field Target Match Director
Arlington Sportsman’s Club
