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Rifle Match Report April Match by Jim Groce

After all of the chilly Texas mornings of the past few months for the pistol matches, Saturday's weather was quite welcome, with mild temps and blue skies. The day started off just a tad cool but warmed up quickly. We had 13 shooters participate in the April match.

This month's four pistol stages each made use of the plate rack with the self healing round plates. That simple fact played a big factor in each shooter's completion of the stage. 

If you've ever shot such a plate rack with self healing targets, then you're familiar with how difficult it can be at times to actually knock down one of those targets. At times, the round can hit the target but go through so quickly that it doesn't motivate the plate to fall. Mother Nature also provided some real life participation with wind that occasionally caused one or more of the plates to fall after the shooter started the stage. Oh, we adjusted the set screws time and again to stave off the wind's effects. But the other side of that coin is that "falling motivation" mentioned earlier. So, we just went with what Mother Nature provided along the way. We got a few laughs due to it at times also, as you can see in the videos.

This month's stages required the shooter to concentrate on shot placement. We started with some "bowling" on Stage 1. The shooter is provided with up to 3 shots to get the 5 bowling pin paper targets, using a critical eye and a steady hand to shoot through multiple targets. Oh, it looked possible to accomplish. And we all tried our best, but in the end no one accomplished it.

Stage 2 took a different direction with holes in the targets from the onset. No one was going to get an "A" on this course of fire since the "A" zones had been cut out. Shot placement was obviously required if the shooter wanted to collect the few points left available on the target.

Stage 3 targets had a reduced target area, using printouts of vehicle license plates from famous movies. Simply double tap your way through the stage with some Ghostbusters, Tremors, Spaceballs, Dukes of Hazzard, Smokey and the Bandit, and Ferris Beuhler's Day Off.

Stage 4 reverted back to the full target size for scoring (although we didn't remove the license plate). But we had two new, smaller targets that allowed for scoring up to 10 points per hit instead of just the normal 5 points for an "A" zone hit. The shooter was given the option to shoot the stage with either pistol or pistol caliber carbine. About 5 of the crew choose to go with the PCC. However, since PCC's are such an overwhelming advantage over a standard pistol, PCC shooters were required to go to a firing line farther back from the targets. (It still turned out to be pretty easy, especially with a red dot!

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There is a lost and found for someone, thanks to Chip McClendon, on range F. A lost screw, like one for a scope mount maybe? Check Range F. See below.

We did have a slow turkey hunt; the toms were very reserved, that report is not just from our ranch but also many others. We have a couple harvests to brag about that came from experience and determination by a good hunter and long time friend of mine. At time of writing, we also have another hunter out at the ranch and he just sent me his picture with a full grown tom at near 20 lbs; Rio Grande turkey. He, too, hunted days to get to know the timing and location of this particular bird. My hat is off to both of my hunters this year. Even with season remaining, we are not taking any more turkey hunters as the population is too thin to harvest more this season.