Between the sunny shirt-sleeve temps and lighter than usual winds for TEXtreme events, eleven shooters couldn’t (realistically) have asked for nicer weather for Saturdays TEXreme Rifle Field Target match. Said lighter than usual winds played right into the match director’s hands, considering I set the highest Troyer difficulty in TEXtreme rifle course history. First priority in setting such a course is making it difficult enough that none of our super-human Field Target shooters could clean the course, yet not so difficult that humans can’t enjoy themselves. I achieved both goals beautifully in the Rifle match.
Not so much, the pistol match.
Brian ‘Souper-Human’ Stafford posted a fantastic 55/60 score with his NF NX8 scoped .30 Cricket Tac shooting 56 grain Zans at 900 FPS to capture the highly-coveted 24 karat solid gold (colored) Rifle Match Winner hat pin, and $350 Airguns Of Arizona Rifle Match Winner gift certificate! By the way, if we are to believe a note on his score-card, and I’ll not advise whether we should or shouldn’t, one of Brian’s five zeroes wasn’t a miss. Rather, Brian knocked down the target he shot at; that being the wrong target.
Now if we are to believe a very wise and ancient match director adage that goes something like this- “Experience is NOT the best teacher; BAD experience is a much better teacher”, I suspect Brian learned something from ‘the wrong target experience’ (that he likely won’t soon forget 
). By the way, I’ll also not advise whether we should or shouldn’t believe ANYTHING aforementioned match director says. Or writes. Or keyboards. However, regardless, and by the way, y’all CAN believe this- Fantastic shooting Brian!
Considering Paul Kocurek's relative lack of much experience in Extreme Field Target, in what I consider an impressive breakthrough performance Paul posted an excellent 52/60 to capture Second Place in the Rifle match. PK used an Athlon Heras scoped .30 Cricket II Tactical, shooting 56 grain Zans at 900 FPS. For his fine efforts, he pocketed a $200 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate. Great shooting, Paul!
JIm Clarke rounded out the Rifle podium by capturing Third Place with an excellent 47/60 score. Jim shot JTS pellets in his trusty .25 Red Wolf topped with Athlon Optics to pocket the $100 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate. Good shooting, Jim!
In the very wise and ancient match director’s efforts to insure no super-human Pistol shooter would clean the Pistol course, in his infinite wisdom he well understood that in the likelihood of match winds strong enough to justify the 1.25X Troyer wind multiplier, no Pistolero could hope to clean the pistol course. So in setting the highest difficulty Pistol Field Target course in human history, He also understood if the winds were much stronger than usual for TEXtreme matches no human could expect to achieve even 90% success.
Which, OF COURSE, is what happened! In fact, not only was the pistol match contested in the most extreme winds in TEXtreme history, but the most extreme winds the ancient match director has enjoyed in His quarter-century of Field Target competitions. Imagine what winds like that do to the flight of tiny leaden shuttlecocks.
Suffice to say seven Pistol Extreme FT shooters no longer have to imagine it. Also suffice to say the (only) Troyer Difficulty wind multiplier of 1.25X was woefully inadequate last Saturday! For perspective, applying the woefully inadequate 1.25X wind multiplier to aforementioned highest Troyer Pistol difficulty in TEXtreme history, the wind-adjusted Troyer Difficulty in Saturdays pistol match rose well into the 60s T!
But in confirming he isn’t human, the Pistol Match Winner was Paul ‘Pablo’ Bracaglia with a 54/60 for the $250 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate and TEXtreme Match Winner hat-pin. Pablo shot his Pablo-custom Marauder rifle-to-pistol conversion scoped with a Riton optic and shooting 15.9 grain JSBs. Unhumanly shooting, toboR!
I mean, olbaP.
Jim Clarke added a second $100 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate to his AoA account credit by nabbing Second Place in the Pistol competition with an excellent 48/60 score, shooting 16 grain AA pellets in his Hawke Optics scoped Brocock Atomic. Nice shooting, JC!
There was a reshuffling of Pistol Second Place after the awards ceremony when it was discovered a shooter inadvertently took a couple shots from behind a shooting line, before realizing his mistake and finishing that lane from the (correct) firing line. It being a totally inadvertent, honest mistake, the infinitely wise and ancient match director chose to convert the shooter's two Xs shot from behind the line to zeros, rather than impose harsher penalties than would be the case had the rule violation been in any way conscious. The match director also assumes some responsibility for the mistake, because the firing line markers could have been more obvious. Lesson learned. That confessed, any elaboration will be done only via conversation. Homey won't play keyboard on this.
On a lighter note, Athlon Optics is now officially a 2025 season TEXtreme sponsor. Although details remain unsettled, I think it safe to say their sponsorship support will be in the form of… Athlon Optics! (See what I did there?) And although the donations will be used as prizes for our June 6-8, 2025 TEXtreme Grand Prix & State Championships weekend, Athlon being a 2025 SEASON sponsor allows y’all almost ten months to express your gratitude by glomming onto some excellent Athlon Optics! (No, I’m not gonna repeat that corny, “see what I did there?” again.)
I’ll close by thanking Airguns Of Arizona for all their original and ongoing support of TEXtreme Airgun Sports… for the fifth season! THANK YOU!!!
Happy Shooting Friends,
Ron & Maggyy
Rifle Match Winner Brian Stafford receives his $350 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate in front of AoA's and Athlon Optics' billboards.
Pablo 'Tobor' Bracaglia receiving his $250 Airguns Of Arizona Pistol Match Winner gift certificate from the ancient TEXtreme match director.
Not so much, the pistol match.Brian ‘Souper-Human’ Stafford posted a fantastic 55/60 score with his NF NX8 scoped .30 Cricket Tac shooting 56 grain Zans at 900 FPS to capture the highly-coveted 24 karat solid gold (colored) Rifle Match Winner hat pin, and $350 Airguns Of Arizona Rifle Match Winner gift certificate! By the way, if we are to believe a note on his score-card, and I’ll not advise whether we should or shouldn’t, one of Brian’s five zeroes wasn’t a miss.
Rather, Brian knocked down the target he shot at; that being the wrong target. Now if we are to believe a very wise and ancient match director adage that goes something like this- “Experience is NOT the best teacher; BAD experience is a much better teacher”, I suspect Brian learned something from ‘the wrong target experience’ (that he likely won’t soon forget ). By the way, I’ll also not advise whether we should or shouldn’t believe ANYTHING aforementioned match director says. Or writes. Or keyboards. However, regardless, and by the way, y’all CAN believe this- Fantastic shooting Brian! Considering Paul Kocurek's relative lack of much experience in Extreme Field Target, in what I consider an impressive breakthrough performance Paul posted an excellent 52/60 to capture Second Place in the Rifle match. PK used an Athlon Heras scoped .30 Cricket II Tactical, shooting 56 grain Zans at 900 FPS. For his fine efforts, he pocketed a $200 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate. Great shooting, Paul!
JIm Clarke rounded out the Rifle podium by capturing Third Place with an excellent 47/60 score. Jim shot JTS pellets in his trusty .25 Red Wolf topped with Athlon Optics to pocket the $100 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate. Good shooting, Jim!
In the very wise and ancient match director’s efforts to insure no super-human Pistol shooter would clean the Pistol course, in his infinite wisdom he well understood that in the likelihood of match winds strong enough to justify the 1.25X Troyer wind multiplier, no Pistolero could hope to clean the pistol course. So in setting the highest difficulty Pistol Field Target course in human history, He also understood if the winds were much stronger than usual for TEXtreme matches no human could expect to achieve even 90% success.
Which, OF COURSE, is what happened! In fact, not only was the pistol match contested in the most extreme winds in TEXtreme history, but the most extreme winds the ancient match director has enjoyed in His quarter-century of Field Target competitions. Imagine what winds like that do to the flight of tiny leaden shuttlecocks.
Suffice to say seven Pistol Extreme FT shooters no longer have to imagine it. Also suffice to say the (only) Troyer Difficulty wind multiplier of 1.25X was woefully inadequate last Saturday! For perspective, applying the woefully inadequate 1.25X wind multiplier to aforementioned highest Troyer Pistol difficulty in TEXtreme history, the wind-adjusted Troyer Difficulty in Saturdays pistol match rose well into the 60s T!
But in confirming he isn’t human, the Pistol Match Winner was Paul ‘Pablo’ Bracaglia with a 54/60 for the $250 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate and TEXtreme Match Winner hat-pin. Pablo shot his Pablo-custom Marauder rifle-to-pistol conversion scoped with a Riton optic and shooting 15.9 grain JSBs. Unhumanly shooting, toboR!
I mean, olbaP.
Jim Clarke added a second $100 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate to his AoA account credit by nabbing Second Place in the Pistol competition with an excellent 48/60 score, shooting 16 grain AA pellets in his Hawke Optics scoped Brocock Atomic. Nice shooting, JC!
There was a reshuffling of Pistol Second Place after the awards ceremony when it was discovered a shooter inadvertently took a couple shots from behind a shooting line, before realizing his mistake and finishing that lane from the (correct) firing line. It being a totally inadvertent, honest mistake, the infinitely wise and ancient match director chose to convert the shooter's two Xs shot from behind the line to zeros, rather than impose harsher penalties than would be the case had the rule violation been in any way conscious. The match director also assumes some responsibility for the mistake, because the firing line markers could have been more obvious. Lesson learned. That confessed, any elaboration will be done only via conversation. Homey won't play keyboard on this.
On a lighter note, Athlon Optics is now officially a 2025 season TEXtreme sponsor. Although details remain unsettled, I think it safe to say their sponsorship support will be in the form of… Athlon Optics! (See what I did there?) And although the donations will be used as prizes for our June 6-8, 2025 TEXtreme Grand Prix & State Championships weekend, Athlon being a 2025 SEASON sponsor allows y’all almost ten months to express your gratitude by glomming onto some excellent Athlon Optics! (No, I’m not gonna repeat that corny, “see what I did there?” again.)
I’ll close by thanking Airguns Of Arizona for all their original and ongoing support of TEXtreme Airgun Sports… for the fifth season! THANK YOU!!!
Happy Shooting Friends,
Ron & Maggyy
Rifle Match Winner Brian Stafford receives his $350 Airguns Of Arizona gift certificate in front of AoA's and Athlon Optics' billboards.
Pablo 'Tobor' Bracaglia receiving his $250 Airguns Of Arizona Pistol Match Winner gift certificate from the ancient TEXtreme match director.
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