Results Decembers Christmas FT Results, Concord Ca

[0akhonor]

The morning started with the sun breaking over the hills, and a light dusting of valley fog. The dashboard on the Subaru read 25 degree's, but there wouldn't be much wind today.
Reaching the MPR, expecting a light wind to come along and push the fog out, we opted to paint the targets with a white faceplate. NY's eve, we are doing a night FT shoot, and we thought we'd get ahead of the setup with today's preparations.
The enclosed roof and walls seemed to trap the cold within the concrete floor, leaching any body heat one might have arrived with. Fortunately, we were able to wrap up in a nice thick layer of fog that obliterated targets beyond 35 yards. Hitting the targets didn't reveal any information about your miss and the paddle was just as unrevealing- except the target would fall.
Nary a complaint among the shooters, all were committed ( or perhaps, should be committed) to doing their utmost. We had two plug in heaters to help with morale as well as the joy of watching others suffer as much as we were .
It was great .
Come on out if you are in the area and if you aren't in the area, you now have reason to travel and shoot!

 

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[qball]

Thanks again for all the work setting up the matches Martin. It was indeed very cold, made the match trying but interesting. Although the cold was getting to me last 4-5 lanes and crumpled and trashed my score. The unpredictable wind and insanely small KZs didn’t help at all. Still a great time was had by all! Merry Christmas!

 

[0akhonor]

Great comment on target placements- we've an egalitarian program on target setting.
For setup, I generally trust each volunteer to setup their lane fairly ( except for Son setting up the offhand lane- you have to watch him! )

I enjoy seeing Jim P. setting up targets with a real high troyer difficulty and then talking all match about how unreasonable the course is-
This course had some real difficult mid range targets for sure! My preference is for BIG and CLOSE!

 

[qball]

so Jim was the one setup those TINY KZ targets?

Btw I ordered gloves with removable finger tips pronto! My finger tips were numb. Loading pellets and feeling the trigger were a struggle! I know, I’m a weak Californian!

 

[r1lover]

It was about as comfortable as sitting in a duck blind in January. Brrrrr! Hard to shoot precisely when you're shivering, lol! Uh-oh, my gun went BANG! My frozen finger must have touched the trigger. Aaaaargh! Would we need a permit to have a bonfire next time? I'll bring the wood!

 

[Motorhead]

So sorry to have missed it .. Fred & I were planning on it .. forecast of HEAVY fog had us reevaluate making the drive and we folded on the idea sat evening

 

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[Motorhead]

WAG & knowing these guys ... 4 or 6 shots most likely offhand and perhaps allowing 1 target taken kneeling ?

 

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[qball]

WAG & knowing these guys ... 4 or 6 shots most likely offhand and perhaps allowing 1 target taken kneeling ?

We had 4 forced position shots with option of taking 2 kneeling.