THANK YOU PRGC for sharing your facilities with us!
HUGE thanks to Airguns of Arizona for their awesome prize money, merchandise AND gift card donations!!! AOA's level of support for these matches is quite evident through this high level of generosity.
Longstanding sponsor JDs Custom Designs also deserves public recognition and appreciation. Thank you Joe!
Much appreciation to NSA ammo as well! Thanks Nick, great to have you on board.
Also thank you to Van, Ben, Sandy, Peykan and whoever else sent photos for this match report. I personally really appreciate you guys getting photos throughout the event, I'm not as trigger happy with the camera as I am with a real trigger, so often end up with very few photos when I sit down for reports. Because the photos came from so many sources, there are various sizes and formats that needed converted, etc. After looking through the folder of photos I liked the final result since it gives us a good idea of the match through various people's eyes.
Sight In
Pre-match Meeting
Weather
Forecasts were calling for high 90s but we were fortunate on Saturday to have quite a bit of cloud cover that really helped the temps from getting too high. I'd guess it was in the low 90s. Saturday wind's were from all directions at times, but seemed to predominately be from the northwest, which would be a wind going outward to the targets from about 7 or 8 o'clock, (coming over the left shoulder). I'd be surprised if the wind got over 5 or 6 mph even at the gusts on Saturday. I wasn't present on Sunday but from the video I'll link later on in the report, it looked like shooters had lots more wind to contend with on Sun.
Post Match
Ben had some sub sandwiches catered and it looks like folks were pretty happy to get back under the shade and enjoy a bite.
Ben compiling scores here.....
Shoot off!!!
Bobby and John were tied for 2nd so they had to settle it by field target duel. Check out all the air movement in the vegetation in the short video clips!!! LOTS of wind to account for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVHDfF6jzt8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGfYLpapPNg
Final scores and equipment list
Looks like Bobby won the shoot off, I'm assuming John's miss in the short video clip they sent me was the deciding factor.
I was excited to see field target newcomers (relatively) Wes and Martin in the top 3 slots on Saturday but some of competitive airgunning's most recognized names put together a very impressive second day to pull ahead just enough. And Ben is a on a role now in the high profile Extreme Field Target arena, having won the EFT event at EBR last year. and now the first ever Xtreme Field Target Grand Prix match. Seems like John and Bobby were up there near the top at EBR last year too. These shooters deserved that AOA prize money because Xtreme FT is a CHALLENGE! Congrats to all the shooters.
Team Daystate
Random event photos
Thanks to all the shooters who came out. Interested shooters are the most important aspect and we're glad that you made the effort to come play.
And the final and biggest thank you needs to go to Ben. He has put his heart and soul into this endeavor, with the sole intent of simply sharing what he enjoys with others so that they can enjoy it too. Lots and lots of time and work and stress goes on behind the scenes. I was squadded with him and 99% of his attention throughout the match was on making sure everything ran smoothly so that shooters would have a good time. He was running around, checking targets and working with all the shooters, even during the match. I was surprised to see he was remembering to put a pellet in before he shot! I bet he asked me at 6 different lanes what he said he'd just read off his dope chart cuz he was so distracted. It's probably a good thing we kept getting his heart rate up because if he can win a match with that much cardio and distractions while shooting, he'd be winning by much larger margins if he just got to show up and shoot like the rest of us do. Please thank him the next time you see or talk to him.
Just another fun XFT event, enjoying airguns and spending time with friends, old and new. That's what this it all about.
(As previously stated, I was not present on Sunday so was making some assumptions, based on photos, about how it all played out. It is a little difficult to write a match report when not present for at least half of the match. So, please feel free to comment with any corrections that need made.)
HUGE thanks to Airguns of Arizona for their awesome prize money, merchandise AND gift card donations!!! AOA's level of support for these matches is quite evident through this high level of generosity.
Longstanding sponsor JDs Custom Designs also deserves public recognition and appreciation. Thank you Joe!
Much appreciation to NSA ammo as well! Thanks Nick, great to have you on board.
Also thank you to Van, Ben, Sandy, Peykan and whoever else sent photos for this match report. I personally really appreciate you guys getting photos throughout the event, I'm not as trigger happy with the camera as I am with a real trigger, so often end up with very few photos when I sit down for reports. Because the photos came from so many sources, there are various sizes and formats that needed converted, etc. After looking through the folder of photos I liked the final result since it gives us a good idea of the match through various people's eyes.
Sight In
Pre-match Meeting
Weather
Forecasts were calling for high 90s but we were fortunate on Saturday to have quite a bit of cloud cover that really helped the temps from getting too high. I'd guess it was in the low 90s. Saturday wind's were from all directions at times, but seemed to predominately be from the northwest, which would be a wind going outward to the targets from about 7 or 8 o'clock, (coming over the left shoulder). I'd be surprised if the wind got over 5 or 6 mph even at the gusts on Saturday. I wasn't present on Sunday but from the video I'll link later on in the report, it looked like shooters had lots more wind to contend with on Sun.
Post Match
Ben had some sub sandwiches catered and it looks like folks were pretty happy to get back under the shade and enjoy a bite.
Ben compiling scores here.....
Shoot off!!!
Bobby and John were tied for 2nd so they had to settle it by field target duel. Check out all the air movement in the vegetation in the short video clips!!! LOTS of wind to account for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVHDfF6jzt8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGfYLpapPNg
Final scores and equipment list
Looks like Bobby won the shoot off, I'm assuming John's miss in the short video clip they sent me was the deciding factor.
I was excited to see field target newcomers (relatively) Wes and Martin in the top 3 slots on Saturday but some of competitive airgunning's most recognized names put together a very impressive second day to pull ahead just enough. And Ben is a on a role now in the high profile Extreme Field Target arena, having won the EFT event at EBR last year. and now the first ever Xtreme Field Target Grand Prix match. Seems like John and Bobby were up there near the top at EBR last year too. These shooters deserved that AOA prize money because Xtreme FT is a CHALLENGE! Congrats to all the shooters.
Team Daystate
Random event photos
Thanks to all the shooters who came out. Interested shooters are the most important aspect and we're glad that you made the effort to come play.
And the final and biggest thank you needs to go to Ben. He has put his heart and soul into this endeavor, with the sole intent of simply sharing what he enjoys with others so that they can enjoy it too. Lots and lots of time and work and stress goes on behind the scenes. I was squadded with him and 99% of his attention throughout the match was on making sure everything ran smoothly so that shooters would have a good time. He was running around, checking targets and working with all the shooters, even during the match. I was surprised to see he was remembering to put a pellet in before he shot! I bet he asked me at 6 different lanes what he said he'd just read off his dope chart cuz he was so distracted. It's probably a good thing we kept getting his heart rate up because if he can win a match with that much cardio and distractions while shooting, he'd be winning by much larger margins if he just got to show up and shoot like the rest of us do. Please thank him the next time you see or talk to him.
Just another fun XFT event, enjoying airguns and spending time with friends, old and new. That's what this it all about.
(As previously stated, I was not present on Sunday so was making some assumptions, based on photos, about how it all played out. It is a little difficult to write a match report when not present for at least half of the match. So, please feel free to comment with any corrections that need made.)
