With a welcome to 2025 and belated Happy new year to all present we start off the 2025 season on a Beautiful sunny and clear day !!!
The early bird crew arrives on site just past sunrise @ 7:20 am to get all required to pull off this match organized and ready for others to join in helping set up once on site.
By 8:00 or so we have plenty of help and finish up today's course configuration, which is a full 15 lanes. Plus an extra bell target on the offhand lane where we are doing a nice Extra Points addition ..... ( We'll state that in a bit )
This is a Match we do as our first every year in remembrance to our departed club Co-Founder Mr. Jim Cyran who passed away suddenly a few years ago.
So in the spirit of what Jim disliked most ... Lol The dreaded KNEELING Lane !!! We do what ? .... Yup set up a LOT of kneeling shots !
Lane 7 with knockdown targets was a 4 shot Mandatory Kneeling ( Or offhand if unable ) & was set up as a tough kneeler and super tough is having to offhand those shots.
Lane 15 had the clubs Bell targets of which we had 3 set and designated as an Offhand lane. It too was set as pretty dang difficult offhand shots, But .... "Extra Points" could be found here by ... Taking the shots at the bells by Kneeling and gaining double points per hit !!
* This took a 3 target lane from a 6 point possible to 12 points if taking them all on while kneeling !! ( Jim if watching would be crying or laughing )
Todays also provided a GREAT Lunch post match with Homemade Tri-tip sandwiches, Fruit salad, Potato salad, cookies & drinks. * Thank you to Sam R for all his pre-prep and work on this lunch. An hour or so before we finished up match out came out 2 trays of Shrimp Cocktails provided by Conrad R. Shoot, Munch & have some Lunch, whats not to love in that situation ?
Ok ... The match itself as stated was 15 lanes + 1 extra and with the bonus point had this match at 68 possible points ( 62 + 6 extra )
The set-up was biased towards medium / semi easy as a first match of the season expecting someone to perhaps clean it ? ... Tho a few stinker shots were there to really challenge even our best shooters !
Todays scores by CLASS and Finish position XX/68
WFTF PCP
Chang H 45
Tak A 17
WFTF Piston
Son L 57
Jim P 49
AJ K 26
Hunter Piston
Bill C 53
Dane 43
OPEN PCP
Tom K 45
Hunter PCP
Scott S 65 * Winner by shoot off
Chris K 65 *
Zack L 62
Erick S 59
Kevin H 55
Conrad R 53
Fred B 52
Sam R 50
John D 44
Alain D 43
Al P 40
Weiye Z 32
Larry G 42
We seldom do shoot offs, but with these two in recent years it is generally this way and the MD just could not pass on the chance to keep it serious and a teaching / learning opportunity.
2" pigeon at 55 yards !! OFFHAND ... Yea no joke there ! Both missed twice. Ok still tied, so Same target again "Kneeling"one shot each or we shake hands and it's over ... while we still shook hands afterwards it was over with the outcome on record.
EVERYONE IS HUNGRY and so the course is left as is and we get to the serving of lunch, where we get some help from Scotts wife "Dawn" and Conrads wife "Cheryl" all get a plate of food to enjoy !! We had expected a tad more shooters to make the match so seconds were there for those who wished to eat some more ! & we still had some left overs that went home with a few of us.
After most are done chowing down the now less enthusiastic crew waddles food full out to get the targets picked up, winders wound and bricks onto trailer. Speedy & efficient & I love it !!
We announce the results to all present and speak of the upcoming GP down in Southern cal, pay homage to Mr. Jim Cyran and we're done officially with the match. A few stay after and play freely with other air guns for a couple hours.
1st person there 7:20 am ( MD ) is also the last to leave @ 3:15 pm .... yea thats like a Fun work day and will do that any time !!!
SO UNTIL NEXT MONTHS SVFTC MATCH being on the 4th Sundays always, we land again on range #9 APRIL 27th at the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center in Slough House Ca.
Thank You to all who came out for the shoot, stay safe & well practiced until we do this Field Target thing we love to do together once more !!
Scott Schneider ( Match Director )
Sam Russo ( Food Master )
The early bird crew arrives on site just past sunrise @ 7:20 am to get all required to pull off this match organized and ready for others to join in helping set up once on site.
By 8:00 or so we have plenty of help and finish up today's course configuration, which is a full 15 lanes. Plus an extra bell target on the offhand lane where we are doing a nice Extra Points addition ..... ( We'll state that in a bit )
This is a Match we do as our first every year in remembrance to our departed club Co-Founder Mr. Jim Cyran who passed away suddenly a few years ago.
So in the spirit of what Jim disliked most ... Lol The dreaded KNEELING Lane !!! We do what ? .... Yup set up a LOT of kneeling shots !
Lane 7 with knockdown targets was a 4 shot Mandatory Kneeling ( Or offhand if unable ) & was set up as a tough kneeler and super tough is having to offhand those shots.
Lane 15 had the clubs Bell targets of which we had 3 set and designated as an Offhand lane. It too was set as pretty dang difficult offhand shots, But .... "Extra Points" could be found here by ... Taking the shots at the bells by Kneeling and gaining double points per hit !!
* This took a 3 target lane from a 6 point possible to 12 points if taking them all on while kneeling !! ( Jim if watching would be crying or laughing )
Todays also provided a GREAT Lunch post match with Homemade Tri-tip sandwiches, Fruit salad, Potato salad, cookies & drinks. * Thank you to Sam R for all his pre-prep and work on this lunch. An hour or so before we finished up match out came out 2 trays of Shrimp Cocktails provided by Conrad R. Shoot, Munch & have some Lunch, whats not to love in that situation ?
Ok ... The match itself as stated was 15 lanes + 1 extra and with the bonus point had this match at 68 possible points ( 62 + 6 extra )
The set-up was biased towards medium / semi easy as a first match of the season expecting someone to perhaps clean it ? ... Tho a few stinker shots were there to really challenge even our best shooters !
Todays scores by CLASS and Finish position XX/68
WFTF PCP
Chang H 45
Tak A 17
WFTF Piston
Son L 57
Jim P 49
AJ K 26
Hunter Piston
Bill C 53
Dane 43
OPEN PCP
Tom K 45
Hunter PCP
Scott S 65 * Winner by shoot off
Chris K 65 *
Zack L 62
Erick S 59
Kevin H 55
Conrad R 53
Fred B 52
Sam R 50
John D 44
Alain D 43
Al P 40
Weiye Z 32
Larry G 42
We seldom do shoot offs, but with these two in recent years it is generally this way and the MD just could not pass on the chance to keep it serious and a teaching / learning opportunity.
2" pigeon at 55 yards !! OFFHAND ... Yea no joke there ! Both missed twice. Ok still tied, so Same target again "Kneeling"one shot each or we shake hands and it's over ... while we still shook hands afterwards it was over with the outcome on record.
EVERYONE IS HUNGRY and so the course is left as is and we get to the serving of lunch, where we get some help from Scotts wife "Dawn" and Conrads wife "Cheryl" all get a plate of food to enjoy !! We had expected a tad more shooters to make the match so seconds were there for those who wished to eat some more ! & we still had some left overs that went home with a few of us.
After most are done chowing down the now less enthusiastic crew waddles food full out to get the targets picked up, winders wound and bricks onto trailer. Speedy & efficient & I love it !!
We announce the results to all present and speak of the upcoming GP down in Southern cal, pay homage to Mr. Jim Cyran and we're done officially with the match. A few stay after and play freely with other air guns for a couple hours.
1st person there 7:20 am ( MD ) is also the last to leave @ 3:15 pm .... yea thats like a Fun work day and will do that any time !!!
SO UNTIL NEXT MONTHS SVFTC MATCH being on the 4th Sundays always, we land again on range #9 APRIL 27th at the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center in Slough House Ca.
Thank You to all who came out for the shoot, stay safe & well practiced until we do this Field Target thing we love to do together once more !!
Scott Schneider ( Match Director )
Sam Russo ( Food Master )
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