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Volume 10,
Issue 1 - - - - - - - January - September, 2007
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With this issue we will attempt to bring the newsletter up to
date. Given the long time since the last news, there is a chance we
will miss some of the reports... for this we apologize. Additions
will be made to this issue thru September as required. Beginning in
October, we will attempt to resume normal newsletter publication.
Angelina Rifle and Pistol Club
March
Match Report
We had another good turn out this month. Some of our old shooters
and some new shooters showed up for the fun. We had 23 shooter who
shot 46 targets. The weather was almost perfect except for a little
wind occasionally. Here are the results.
Plinker Class Jrs
Robert Pivonka 166
Sporter Class
Carl Rosenberger 209 6-10s Chris McMillon 218
Jonanna McMillon 209 2-10s Ryan Huls 205
Brad Morton 202 Emily Hogg 199
Custom Class
Doyle Martin 233 Hunter McGuire 228
Billy McGuire 229 4-Xs Tayor Frazier 214
Brad Morton 229 2-Xs Justin Arrwood 205
Unlimited Class
Billy McGuire 236 Hunter McGuire 228
Jonanna McMillon 230 Ryan Huls 217
Doyle Martin 227 13-10s Chris McMillon 216
Charles Bailey 227 8-10s
High Score individual was Billy McGuire with a 236 and High Aggregate
Score was Brad Morton with a 644. The gift certificates to Bills were
won by Doyle Martin and Ryan Huls. The door prizes where won by Stan,
Carl Ferguson, Justin Airwood, Tayor Frazier, Mike Brooks, Mike
Hutchins and Ryan Huls. You guys are going to force me to start
practicing between matches, yall are making me look bad in front of
my kids. Ha Ha(reckon this psych. warfare will work?) We all seemed
to have a good time and Stan is going to have BBQ for everyone next
month after the shoot. Mike had a quick round of Black Death while
Amanda and I where finishing scoring, Stan tore them up with a 35,
thats the best score I've seen so far. We had two new shooters Robert
Pivonka and Justin Airwood. The weathers getting better and I'm
getting more fired up about shooting. The competition is getting
stiffer making it more of a challenge. See Ya'll next month-April 14
remember keep it in the 10 ring.
Emerald Empire Gun Club USBR
Report
March Match Report
Welcome to the St. Patrick's Day edition of "As The Powder
Burns". Once again this year the match fell on St. Paddy's day,
and what a glorious day it was. The dew glissened on the perfectly
manicured emerald green grass, a heavy fog drifted across the range
just like on the Irish moors in the movies. No wonder the Irish all
left Ireland and moved to Boston, how are shooters suppose to shoot
if you can't see the bloody target! But not to worry, just before
shooting time the sun peeked out above the hill and the fog began to
be dispersed by the now ever increasing wind.
At our last airgun match there were some comments that the
ingenious apparatus used by the match director to hook his airgun
directly to the scuba tank, while not against the rules, might be
giving him some sort of advantage. Well, being sensitive to the
feeling of others and all that other touchy feely stuff, this match
he dispensed with his superior technology and used nothing more
than the basic gun as it came out of the box. Well, that and his
secret pellet lube formula that virtually eliminates all bad shots,
even those caused by shooter error. This would give the other
competitors at least a fighting chance, and if they beat him then he
would go right back to his scuba tank hook up! As it turned out the
secret pellet lube was enough to put him over the top.
From this point things started to go down hill quickly, as the day
warmed up the winds picked up and the scores dropped off in direct
proportion to the spastic movements of the wind flags. Several
colorful comments were heard and the ancestry of either the ammo, the
gun, or the flags was brought into question depending on who was
blaming what for the last bad shot. Needless to say a good time was
had by all as there were multipule reasons to choose from for each
and every missed point. Creative excuse making is after all the
hallmark of a dedicated benchrest shooter.
Will we be so blessed weather wise at next months match? Want to
find out personally? Bring your favorite airgun or rimfire to a
match. I can't guarantee it will make you become a better shooter but
I'm sure we can help you choose the proper excuse for any shooting
occasion.
Airgun #1 Airgun #2
Dennis DiFeo 248 2X 247 5X
Arlin Brewer 244 3X 242 6X
Bob Springstead 243 3X 245 3X
Sporter Custom Unlimited
Dennis DiFeo 239 5X 240 5X 239 4X
Arlin Brewer 228 1X 223 2X
Charlie Hawkins 223 2X 233 2X 226 2X
Wes King 234 2X 232 2X
Ben Bock 204 3X 240 5X 237 5X
Jerry Snider 227 5X 240 3X 243 3X
Dennis DiFeo, Match Director
Angelina Rifle and Pistol Club
April
Match Report
So much for Winter being over with.
We had perfect shooting weather this month- cold and the wind blowing
25 mph, what more could you ask for. Saying that we still had
some good scores shot and the eats where great thanks to Stan Scheel
and his family. We had 19 shooters this month who shoot 39
targets. Here are the results:
Plinker Class Jrs
Jay Judge 222
Mike Motley 142
Sporter Class
Doyle Martin 216 1-x Chris McMillon 216
Jay Judge 216 Emily Hogg
Brad Morton 209
Custom Class
Billy McGuire 222 Hunter McGuire 235
Stan Scheel 221 Emily Hogg 188 4-10
Doyle Martin 218 Brandon Baker 188 3-10
Unlimited Classs
Billy Mcguire 231 Chris McMillon 229
Doyle Martin 228 Brandon Baker 225
Charles Bailey 225 Hunter McGuire 217
As you can see by the results wind is still a big factor on this new
range but the scores are getting on an average higher even when its
bad weather. Young Hunter McGuire showed us all how to shoot
this Month with a new Jr High Score, he wanted to keep his target to
show his mom but I talked him out of it when I told him we would hang
it on the bulletine board beside the Srs high score. The
Aggregate score winner this month was Doyle Martin with a 662 for the
3 classes. The gift certificates where won by Emily and Bryan
Hawthorne. Chris, Brad,Hunter, Eugene,Emily and Mike won the
door prizes. The Pots were won by Mike Motley, Doyle Martin and
Billy McGuire who won 2 pots. We had three new shooters Bryan
Hawthorne, Mike Motley and Brandon Baker, Eugene Crawfords grandson.
The BBQ was great, I don't know how we will be able to eat hamburgers
this year at out final shoot. Thanks to everyone who helped
this month with the match and the BBQ. See everyone May 12 at
our next match. Remember keep it in the 10.
PS Next Saturday is the
club work day show up if at alll possible we have a lot that needs to
be done. If you have any questions about it contact Mike or
Stan and they will get you lined out.
Emerald
Empire Gun Club USBR Report
April Match Report
A new record was set... or was it? The
weather man was right... or was he? These are the burning questions
that will be answered in this months episode of As The Powder Burns!
As our Match Director drove home on a
beautiful Friday evening, 72 degrees, big white puffy clouds lazily
drifting across the bright blue sky he could scarcely believe his
ears as the weather man predicted a chance of a "spring
shower" and a high of only 55 degrees for Saturdays
match. "Those weather men never get it right anyway."
he thought to himself. A quick look out the window before going
to bed at the black, star studded sky showed nothing to make him
change his mind. At 5AM he was awakened by the sound of droplets on
the patio. "Well, at least it got here early and should be gone
by shooting time." he though as he went back to sleep. Ten
straight hours of "showers" followed. Now at what point
does a shower become rain? Surely this had certainly approached that
threshold. Now we all know that the water that falls in the spring is
much purer than the water that falls in the winter, after all, have
you ever heard of anyone paying a buck twentyfive f or twelve ounces
of "pure winter water"? Of course not. But it sure gets
you, your gear and the targets just as wet.
There was a little excitement during
the Sporter match, Wes King shot a 243 4X, now the old record,
also set by Wes, was a 242. This would be a new USBR record. That is,
until it was discovered that Wes hadn't really shot in the Sporter
class, he was just using that time to set up his new custom built
IR50/50 sporter to be used in the Custom class that was to follow.
USBR rules do not allow custom guns in the stock Sporter class. Other
than that the match went pretty well for our shooters. The rain
didn't seem to affect the scores much, well, except for the Match
Director. It seem that the rain drops coming down in his lane were
much bigger than the ones falling in Jerry's lane right next to him.
How else can the two point difference in scores be explained? David
Norton came down from Albany to shoot with us, his first USBR match,
we hope to see him again.
As always, our matches are open
to anyone with a rimfire, .22 or .17, 25yards or 50 yards. If your
interested just give me a call.
Dennis DiFeo
Sporter Custom Unlimited
Dennis DiFeo 237 7X 240 2X 241 4X
Wes King 239 2X 241 4X
Charlie Hawkins 216 1X 228 1X 241 8X
David Norton 128 202 1X 224 3X
Jerry Snider 243 7X
Angelina
Rifle and Pistol Club
May Match Report
We had 15 shooters who shot 33
targets. We were down a few shooters which is probably because
it was Mothers Day Weekend. We had a couple of shooters e-mail
us saying they weren't going to be able to make it and some we just
missed. Those of us that made it had a good time and I was told
to mention that the steaks were great. We had one new shooter
this month- Cecil Brewer.
Plinker Class Jrs
Bryan Hatthorne
Eugene Carawford
Sporter Class
Jay Judge 222 Emily Hogg
Charles Bailey 220 Mitch Hogg
Doyle Martin 207
Custom Class
Billy McGuire 238 Hunter McGuire 228
Richard Adams 233 Mitch Hogg 203
Richard Bumpus 230 Emily Hogg 195
Unlimited Class
Doyle Martin 235 Hunter McGuire 229
Richard Adams 234 Emily Hogg 204
Charles Bailey 232 Mitch Hogg 201
Billy Mcguire won High Score this month with a 238 and
Aggregate winner was Charles Bailey with a 667. The gift
certificates to Bill's Gun Shop were won by Jay Judge and Mitchell.
The door prizes were won by Richard Bumpus, Eugene Crawford, Mitch,
Emily and Richard Adams. We had perfect shooting weather this
month with just a little breeze, I was looking for one of those 240s
to pop up but it didn't. Billy and Hunter are getting awfully
hard to beat. but I got good news for the rest of us Billy said that
they were probly going on vaction next month. That leaves a
first place trophy for me next month. We are going to miss them
but that trophy will look good at my house. Rember keep it in
the 10. See yall June 9.
Angelina
Rifle and Pistol Club
June Match Report
Hello fellow Benchrest Shooters.
We had a good shot this month for those who wheren't there. The
weather was great, just getting a little warm now. We had
15 shooters who shot 30 targets. Carl and Mike where the
fartherest drivers this month from Kingwood. Here are the
results.
Plinker Class Jrs
Chris Englert 204
Sporter Class
Chris Englert 225 Ryan Huls 210
Charles Bailey 222
Richard Bumpus 221
Custom Class
Charles Bailey 239 Ryan Huls 208
Doyle Martin 231 Mitchell Hogg 192
Richard Adams 228 Emily Hogg 177
Unlimited Class
Richard Bumpus 228 Mitchell Hogg 218
Mike Hutchins 222 Emily Hogg 206
Stan Scheel 220 Ryan Huls 204
Overall high score was Charles Bailey with a impressive 239 and the
Aggregate High score was also Charles Bailey with a total fo 678 over
Richard Bumpus and Doyle who shot combined scores of 669 and 652.
Emily and I won the gift certificates to Bills Gun Shop and Mitchell,
Richard B. Ryan, Doyle and Charles won all the door prizes. The
money pots were won by Mike Hutchins and Charles who won the
Custom and Sporter Pots. Mitchell won a highly contested
Blackdeath Match. This match ended on a sad note with us losing
two of our shooters. Stan Scheel, a recent Board Member and
a great help to Amanda and I, is moving to Round Rock.
Richard Adams, the Ironman of the Benchrest Shooters(he has never
missed a Benchrest Match), is also moving to Stephenville. They
both where a great help in building the new range and getting the
Brenchrest matches to where they are today. They are
also some our best shooters. Richard still holds high score
record for this new Range. They will both be greatly
missed. Both have promised to try and come back for the
matches, but both will have to drive 3 to 4 hours to get here.
We can still hope to see them on the second Saturday of the month
anyway.
Next match is July 14, plan on it
being HOT! Hope to see you then.
Emerald
Empire Gun Club USBR Report
June Match Report
In this months episode of As The Powder
Burns two out of town gun slingers show up, the weather man is
wrong, again, and an evoloutionary new wind reading device is
introduced that's sure to revoloutionize all catagories of benchrest
shooting!
As our Match Director loaded his
pickup at 6AM he glanced up at the gray, overcast sky, "not
exactly the clear sunny skies the paper was calling for but I'm sure
it will clear up by shooting time, after all, it's summer right?"
Needless to say the sun failed to appear at all during the match.
This was not of any great concern to the Match Director for
today he planned to unveil the biggest advance in wind reading
technology since, well, since wind was invented. Half way through the
Airgun match a vaguely familiar van pulled up to the range. Del
Martin and Willis Leathers had driven down from Albany to take a
crack at both the USBR match and the ARA match to be held later that
day. It was rumored that Del had a new rifle that was a real shooter.
Things went with out incident through the Sporter and Custom class
matches as expected, as the Match Director set up for the Unlimited
class he decided now was the time!
No great mind is ever recognized
in his own time. They laughed at Copurnicus, they laughed at Galeleo,
they laughed at Lawrence Welk! Well with the introduction of the
Bubblecator Omini Directional Wind Current Devining Machine everyone
took notice! Howls of protest from the other competitors could be
heard, this despite the offer of letting them look at the non
stop stream of bubbles drifting down the range for the most
reasonable sum of only ten cents per bubble.
Now, as with the introduction of
any new invention there were a few minor bugs to work out. Keeping
the stream of bubbles in his own shooting lane proved to be
difficult. He briefly though about shooting every bubble that driffed
astray but that didn't seem like a reasonable use of his exspensive
match ammo, not to mention the fact that the holes he put in the
others shooters targets probably wouldn't go over to well. In the end
he would just have to let the stray ones go for the other shooters to
watch free of charge. Did it give him the advantage he needed? Just
look at the scores, he won the Unlimited class by one X, proof
positive that his invention has merit. While the other shooters all
laughed when the machine was first turned on it was noted that Jerry
lifted the lid on his shooting box to keep Wes from being able
to see the bubbles during the match, note the scores carefully
and you decide!
Will the Albany boys return?
Will the BODWCDM prove to be a boon to benchresters everywhere? Will
Jerry let Wes see the bubbles next time? Only one way to find out,
the next episode of As The Powder Burns! Copyright not needed as
no one in their right mind would steel it.
Airgun 1 Airgun 2
Dennis DiFeo 243 3X 240
Arlin Brewer 241 4X 242 6X
Sporter Custom Unlimited
Dennis DiFeo 229 2X 246 9X 243 4X
Del Martin 219 6X 243 6X 242 6X
Willis Leathers 224 5X 232 3X 234 3X
Charlie Hawkins 226 229 2X 242 4X
Ben Bock 209 245 9X 243 3X
Wes King 241 3X
Melisa Monson 232 4X 228
Jerry Snider 242 6X 241 6X
Dennis DiFeo, Match Director
Angelina
Rifle and Pistol Club
July Match Report
We had a good turn out despite the weather.
It was rainy but nice and cool compared to the recent 95
degree days. The new range is nice in bad weather there is
plenty of room for
everyone to get out of the rain and have
a good time. We had 20 shooters this month who shot 38
targets. We had 5 Jrs this month. We also had 1 new
shooter this month Micheal Rosenberger, Carls son, drove in
from Dallas to watch his dad and decided to shoot with us.
Plinker Class Jrs.
Micheal Rosenberger 195 Ryan Huls 204
Sporter Class
Richard Bumpus 216 Ryan Huls 207
Charles Bailey 213
Doyle Martin 203
Custom Class
Charles Bailey 229 Hunter McGuire 223
Billy McGuire 222 Taylor Frazier 214
Doyle Martin 215 Ryan Huls 210
Unlimited Class
Eugene Crawford 229 Hunter McGuire 235
Mike Hutchins 223 Ryan Huls 221
Steve Kullback 222 Emily Hogg 219
The Overall High Score this month went to 10 year old Hunter
McGuire-this young man is quickly becoming the one to try to outshoot
each month! The cash pots went to Charles Bailey-2 pots, and Mike
Hutchins. The Aggregate Score trophy was won by Charles Bailey with a
combined score of 659. Mike held a Black Death Round while we were
totaling our scores and Billy McGuire won with a 28. He won a $45.00
pot this month. This months door prizes were won by Mitch, Jay Judge,
Taylor Frazier, Richard Bumpus, Hunter and Billy McGuire. We forgot
to give away the $20.00 Gift Certificates to Bills Gun Trader! So
next month we will give away 4 gift certificates instead of 2. The
next match will be August 11, until then keep it in the ten.
Rusty Hogg
Angelina
Rifle and Pistol Club
August Match Report
We had a good shoot this month. We had 16 shooters who shot
32 targets. It ws pretty hot but the big fan helped a lot.
The wind was light but still seemed to swirl and cause some
interesting shooting. No one shot Plinker Class this month,
most everyone shot Custom and Unlimited.
Sporter Class Jr.
Charles Bailey 223 Ryan Huls 206
Richard Bumpus 208
Doyle Martin 204
Custom Class
Charles Bailey 237 Hunter McGuire 228
Doyle Martin 234 Mitchell Hogg 218
Eugene Crawford 234 Ryan Huls 214
Unlimited Class
Charles Bailey 234 Mitchell Hogg 213
Carl Ferguson 233 Hunter McGuire 212
Clayton Smith 231 3-x Ryan Huls 211
Eugene Crawford 231 1-x
Charles Bailey won the Aggrate score with a 694. For those of you who
don't know what what the aggragate total is, its the total of
Sporter, Custom and Unlimited Class. Charles shot an impressive 694
out of a possible 750 with 2 different guns. He shot the overall high
score of 237. I would say Charles was on top of his game yesterday.
He also won all the money pots, if any one needs to borrow some money
see Charles. We shot two fun shoots while Amanda totalled up the
results. Kole Smith won the Speed shoot and Mike Hutchins won the
Blackdeath. There will be a workday to run electricity to the RV
spots, the 22 cal Benchrest range and the front gate. It will be
August 25 all the help we can get will be greatly appreciated. The
next match will be Sept. 8 . There are only 2 more matches left in
this years season, some of the Classes are real close, it looks like
the overalls will go down to the last shoot again this year. For
myself there is always next year. At least we are having fun right.
Remember, keep it in the 10.
Rusty
Emerald
Empire Gun Club USBR Report
August Match Report
After a one month hiatus to let the ARA director have a club
championship match "As The Powder Burns" returns! In an
unusal turn of events for our competitors it didn't rain! Oh sure the
weather man predicted showers for the evening but all day was to be
dry. This unusual situation was not without it's difficulties as the
transitional period during which the weather front moved into the
area brought with it some strange wind conditions. In fact the Omni
Directional Wind Indicating Device (that would be the bubble machine
for those who have been following along) showed that the wind
currents were changing so fast that one of the competitors complained
of whiplash trying to follow their path. As a result scores were well
below average and were the subject of much discussion. The match
director briefly considered a formula to apply to the scores that
averages them out with consideration to weather conditions, time of
year, earth rotation and planetary alignment but it was rejected as
it might bring copyright violation claims from ARA with respect to
the formula used to determine their rankings.
Larry Bock was once again visiting his son Ben and came out to
shoot with us again, last time Ben let him use his best guns and he
did rather well, Ben didn't make that mistake this time. The Match
Director brought out Mrs. Match
Directors newly built 40X to test in the unlimited class, it
appears to be a shooter and could upset the balance of power if Mrs.
Match Director ever comes out to shoot it.
The overall aggregate came down to X count and Charlie Hawkins had
more of them, good shooting.
Next month there will be no USBR as we will be having the Oregon
State ARA contest, we will return Oct. 20th.
Sporter Custom Unlimited Agg.
Dennis DiFeo 217 1X 237 2X 240 4X 694 7X
Charlie Hawkins 221 1X 235 4X 238 4X 694 9X
Ben Bock 197 239 2X 238 4X 574 7X
Jerry Snider 238 4X 234 5X
Larry Bock 126 2X 232 5X 236 3X 594 10X
Dennis DiFeo Match Director
Buckcreek
Gun Club
July Center Fire Match Report
30 cal
1. Danny Hensley 249-11x * New USBR Record
2. Bob Poindexter 247-5x
3. John Thomas 246-13x
4. Lee Bullock 245-10x
5. Jackie Stogsdill 244-12x
6. Bill Goddard 242-3x
6 mm
1. Jason Garrett 248-9x * New USBR Record
2. Shawn Harris 243-4x
3. Moses Fugate 236-2x
4. Terry Moore 228-3x
5. George Coleman 206-1x
George Coleman - Match Director
Buckcreek
Gun Club
August Center Fire Match Report
30 cal
1. Danny Hensley 249-17x * New USBR Record
2. Moses Fugate 246-8x
3. Jim Campbell 244-9x
4. Terry Moore 243-5x
5. Jerry Nettles 243-5x
6. Jackie Stogsdill 242-6x
7. Lee Bullock 234-6x
8. Shawn Harris 231-4x
6 mm
1. Anthony Livesay 229-2x
Factory
1. Tom Nikitas 201-0x
2. Donnie Harbor 182-0x
3. Curtis Angel 179-0x Factory 30 cal.
George Coleman - Match Director
Braxton
County Gun Owners Association
Nationals Center Fire Match Report
Varmint
1. Lee Lee Rose 236 1x
2. Dale Lynch 232 5x
3. Steve Sartin 229 5x
4. Mike Hibbs 228 5x
5. Johnny Johnson 226 4x
6. John Thomas 225 4x
7. Randy Courney 221 3x
Unlimited
1. John Thomas 246 13x
2. Randy Gibson 242 7x
3. Ashley Carr 237 7x
Factory
1. L W Moore 233 3x
2. John Eason 212 2x
L W Moore - Match Director
Angelina
Rifle and Pistol Club
September Match Report
We had a good shoot this month, not too hot but pretty warm. We
had 12 shooters who shot 27 targets. The scores this month were
pretty high. We had a slight breeze some of the time. This new range
really shows itself off when there is no wind, with the good benches
and stools. Here're the results.
Plinker Class Jrs
Jay Judge 216
Richard Bumpus 178
Sporter Class
Doyle Martin 215 Mitchell Hogg 212
Richard Bumpus 211
Jay Judge 205
Custom Class
Richard Bumpus 238 Mitch Hogg 190
Charles Bailey 236
Eugene Crawford 228 12-10s
Cecil Brewer 228 9-10s
Unlimited Class
Richard Bumpus 239 Mitch Hogg 226
Richard Adams 236
Rusty Hogg 232 2-Xs
Charles Bailey 232 0-Xs
Aggregate
Richard Bumpus 688
We are down to the final match of the season next month. Its on Sat.
October 13, we will have Hamburgers again this year after the final
relay, when we present the awards for the Oct. match and the Overalls
for the year. Its coming down to the last match again this year in
the Custom and Unlimited Classes with only a few points seperating
the leaders after 8 matches. Attendence was down a little this month,
be sure and make this last one- it'll be Feb. before we have another
one.
Remember keep it in the 10.
Rusty
Hogg
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