Friends,
Due to some Wanky Eye issues
, I’m hoping to keep this Match Report relatively short.
Our March TEXtreme Field Target matches, enjoyed in fine Spring-like weather conditions, attracted seventeen Rifle Match shooters, five Pistol Match shooters, and two Fun Gun shooters. All were contested on the most challenging TFT courses to date. Additionally, Saturdays rifle match had low to medium Ranchito Robinson winds, and Sundays Pistol/Fun Gun match had what I consider somewhat extreme winds. I’m a-guessin’ the pistol shooters would agree.
That assessment might have something to do with the sadistic Match Director setting perhaps the most challenging pistol field target match I’ve ever set in his years of match directing and competition since founding Pistol Field Target. Applying a conservative wind difficulty-multiplier of 1.25X to the mid-thirties Troyer factor in Sundays pistol match raises the true difficulty well into the 40s.
The scores reflected that reality, as also did post-match “exclamations” of butt-hurting pistol shooters directed at Your’s Truly.
On the slight possibility that some pistol FT shooters might NOT (also) be sadistic and/or masochistic, they might not realize their swearing only encourages (my) bad behavior.
John Tafoya’s impressive performance in Saturdays Rifle Match leaves little doubt he was the best man on the day. With second through sixth places separated by exactly ZERO POINTS, JT’S four point gap on the rest of the field can only be described as an EPIC dominance. He posted an awesome 46/54 with his Tract Optics equipped .25 Daystate Red Wolf Heritage edition, shooting 34 grain JSB Mark 2 pellets at 930 FPS. I suspect that $250 Airguns Of Arizona Match Winner gift certificate made JT’s seven hour round-trip feel considerably more worthwhile. Fantastic shooting, John!
Aforementioned five-way tie for second place was decided by applying five possible tie-breakers to the score-cards turned in with 42/54 scores. Oh, AND some “creative” monkeying
on the part of the Match Director.
“Birthday-Boy”
Derrick Wall prevailed for the Airguns Of Arizona second-place $150 gift certificate with his Athlon-scoped .30 Kalibrgun Cricket 2 Tac, shooting 50.15 grain JSBs 870 FPS. Great shooting Derrick!
Ron “Og” Robinson captured the $100 AoA third-place gift certificate with his .25 Daystate Red Wolf, shooting 33.95 grain JSB King Heavy pellets at 915 FPS. The Neanderthal’s ELECTRONIC Red Wolf wears a Weaver V-24 scope… in tribute to prehistoric “technology”.
Given the Pistol Match winds on Sunday, the sicko Match Director was feeling a bit excessively brutal to my shooters. Especially when my squad emerged from our first four (most wind-protected) lanes to engage the next four lanes notorious for amplifying winds into whirlwinds impossible to be accurately read by humans… including Neanderthals!
When squad-mate Derrick cleaned the next two tornadic-winded lanes, he had me psychologically whipped
with that display of superhuman pistol shooting prowess. Especially after I dropped FIVE POINTS on those two lanes.
However my “NEVER give up” credo served well (again) to claw back even with the space alien
by our last lane.
With our last lane (#9) being the lowest Troyer difficulty of the whole pistol course, I figured we’d be settling a tie in a shoot-off. However, and belying common-knowledge that my opponent is an alien, on his final shot of the match he (finally) succumbed to my mental-telepathic attacks
(“miss, MISS, MISS!”) and missed his last shot!
Mustering every iota of my sub-human… I mean, SUPER-HUMAN powers of mind-control, I cleaned the first five shots. Then (purposely) took my time, and more time, and MORE time; fine-scrooching my shooting position, monkeying with my scope, picking my nose, and scratching my butt, before settling in for my last shot. Apparently all those cave-manly special techniques actually work, as the 55 yard, 3” kill-zone elk fell to a perfect center-punch shot
. Apparently I reacted, because Derrick and his lovely wife’s comment on it included the term ‘GUTTERAL’.
However, there was another pistol squad also finishing up.
All my efforts to discriminate against the reigning Extreme Pistol FT State Champion's contortionistic LOW shooting position by constructing brush blinds in front of some firing lines proved inadequate. Paul “Pablo BASTARDO!” Bracaglia prevailed for the $150 Airguns Of Arizona Pistol Match Winner gift certificate with an outstanding 49/54 score. Pablo’s UTG-scoped .22 Benjamin Marauder rifle to “pistol” conversion also consistently wins the Fugliest Pistol award, GOING AWAY! However it is also the most functional gun on the Extreme PFT firing lines. Pablo shoots 15.9 grain JSB pellets in F- - - - - - - Ugly; VERY WELL! Fantastic shooting, Pablo. BASTARDO!
Match Director Og Robinson prevailed for second place in the pistol match with my antique 4-12X Bushnell Legend scoped .177 RonCo BroCo rifle-to-pistol conversion. The BroCo shoots 13.43 grain JSB Monster pellets 808 FPS, more accurately than it did before I lopped 2” off the choked barrel to meet the 15” PFT maximum limit. My 45/54 score just nudged Derrick out of the $100 AoA second-place gift certificate by one point.
Derrick’s 44/54 was posted with his .20 BRK Commander rifle-to-pistol conversion topped with an Athlon Talos scope. His Commander shoots 13.73 grain JSB’s 805 FPS, the third place adding a $100 AoA gift certificate to his weekend take. Great shooting, Bud!
How many readers noticed a common theme among the pistol podium placers? Interestingly, all three used rifle-to-pistol conversions. Also interestingly, all three “ain’t ‘zactly normal”!
Coincidence?
Happy Shooting Y'all,
Ron & Maggyy
Due to some Wanky Eye issues
, I’m hoping to keep this Match Report relatively short.Our March TEXtreme Field Target matches, enjoyed in fine Spring-like weather conditions, attracted seventeen Rifle Match shooters, five Pistol Match shooters, and two Fun Gun shooters. All were contested on the most challenging TFT courses to date. Additionally, Saturdays rifle match had low to medium Ranchito Robinson winds, and Sundays Pistol/Fun Gun match had what I consider somewhat extreme winds. I’m a-guessin’ the pistol shooters would agree.
That assessment might have something to do with the sadistic Match Director setting perhaps the most challenging pistol field target match I’ve ever set in his years of match directing and competition since founding Pistol Field Target. Applying a conservative wind difficulty-multiplier of 1.25X to the mid-thirties Troyer factor in Sundays pistol match raises the true difficulty well into the 40s.
The scores reflected that reality, as also did post-match “exclamations” of butt-hurting pistol shooters directed at Your’s Truly. On the slight possibility that some pistol FT shooters might NOT (also) be sadistic and/or masochistic, they might not realize their swearing only encourages (my) bad behavior.John Tafoya’s impressive performance in Saturdays Rifle Match leaves little doubt he was the best man on the day. With second through sixth places separated by exactly ZERO POINTS, JT’S four point gap on the rest of the field can only be described as an EPIC dominance. He posted an awesome 46/54 with his Tract Optics equipped .25 Daystate Red Wolf Heritage edition, shooting 34 grain JSB Mark 2 pellets at 930 FPS. I suspect that $250 Airguns Of Arizona Match Winner gift certificate made JT’s seven hour round-trip feel considerably more worthwhile. Fantastic shooting, John!
Aforementioned five-way tie for second place was decided by applying five possible tie-breakers to the score-cards turned in with 42/54 scores. Oh, AND some “creative” monkeying
on the part of the Match Director.“Birthday-Boy”
Derrick Wall prevailed for the Airguns Of Arizona second-place $150 gift certificate with his Athlon-scoped .30 Kalibrgun Cricket 2 Tac, shooting 50.15 grain JSBs 870 FPS. Great shooting Derrick!Ron “Og” Robinson captured the $100 AoA third-place gift certificate with his .25 Daystate Red Wolf, shooting 33.95 grain JSB King Heavy pellets at 915 FPS. The Neanderthal’s ELECTRONIC Red Wolf wears a Weaver V-24 scope… in tribute to prehistoric “technology”.
Given the Pistol Match winds on Sunday, the sicko Match Director was feeling a bit excessively brutal to my shooters. Especially when my squad emerged from our first four (most wind-protected) lanes to engage the next four lanes notorious for amplifying winds into whirlwinds impossible to be accurately read by humans… including Neanderthals!
When squad-mate Derrick cleaned the next two tornadic-winded lanes, he had me psychologically whipped
with that display of superhuman pistol shooting prowess. Especially after I dropped FIVE POINTS on those two lanes. However my “NEVER give up” credo served well (again) to claw back even with the space alien by our last lane.With our last lane (#9) being the lowest Troyer difficulty of the whole pistol course, I figured we’d be settling a tie in a shoot-off. However, and belying common-knowledge that my opponent is an alien, on his final shot of the match he (finally) succumbed to my mental-telepathic attacks
(“miss, MISS, MISS!”) and missed his last shot!Mustering every iota of my sub-human… I mean, SUPER-HUMAN powers of mind-control
, I cleaned the first five shots. Then (purposely) took my time, and more time, and MORE time; fine-scrooching my shooting position, monkeying with my scope, picking my nose, and scratching my butt, before settling in for my last shot. Apparently all those cave-manly special techniques actually work, as the 55 yard, 3” kill-zone elk fell to a perfect center-punch shot. Apparently I reacted, because Derrick and his lovely wife’s comment on it included the term ‘GUTTERAL’. However, there was another pistol squad also finishing up.All my efforts to discriminate against the reigning Extreme Pistol FT State Champion's contortionistic LOW shooting position by constructing brush blinds in front of some firing lines proved inadequate. Paul “Pablo BASTARDO!” Bracaglia prevailed for the $150 Airguns Of Arizona Pistol Match Winner gift certificate with an outstanding 49/54 score. Pablo’s UTG-scoped .22 Benjamin Marauder rifle to “pistol” conversion also consistently wins the Fugliest Pistol award, GOING AWAY! However it is also the most functional gun on the Extreme PFT firing lines. Pablo shoots 15.9 grain JSB pellets in F- - - - - - - Ugly; VERY WELL! Fantastic shooting, Pablo. BASTARDO!
Match Director Og Robinson prevailed for second place in the pistol match with my antique 4-12X Bushnell Legend scoped .177 RonCo BroCo rifle-to-pistol conversion. The BroCo shoots 13.43 grain JSB Monster pellets 808 FPS, more accurately than it did before I lopped 2” off the choked barrel to meet the 15” PFT maximum limit. My 45/54 score just nudged Derrick out of the $100 AoA second-place gift certificate by one point.
Derrick’s 44/54 was posted with his .20 BRK Commander rifle-to-pistol conversion topped with an Athlon Talos scope. His Commander shoots 13.73 grain JSB’s 805 FPS, the third place adding a $100 AoA gift certificate to his weekend take. Great shooting, Bud!
How many readers noticed a common theme among the pistol podium placers? Interestingly, all three used rifle-to-pistol conversions. Also interestingly, all three “ain’t ‘zactly normal”!
Coincidence?Happy Shooting Y'all,
Ron & Maggyy
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Of course I won't let that get out, 'cause I know it would ruin your reputation with the ladies.
Your charts are invaluable information for a match director and shooters alike. We missed you Bud. However we took full advantage of the opportunity to talk about you (behind your back).
