We had wonderful weather for our field target match this month. It was a bit cool when we arrived at the club at 8 am though it warmed up to the upper 80’s when we completed the match around 2:00 pm. Sunshine ruled the day and it made finding the targets very difficult, especially in the dark lanes, resulting in lots of missed targets.
I have been taking NRA instructors’ classes for the past two weeks at the club
and was just a
little worried about how I was going to get the prep work completed. Dan
Delproposto was a
great help to me this event as he had cut the shooting lanes, painted the
targets and had
everything ready for us on Sunday morning. I must complement him on an excellent
job in
target selection and placement. Rick Stewart, Fritz Sanders and Karen set up the
practice range
while Dan and I set up the field targets on the walk through range. Although we
started the
match a little later than usual everything worked out great. Our usual 60 shot
event was very
challenging this month and hopefully it will help Karen and I shoot better at
The Nationals next
month. Special thanks to Dan for all his hard work and to all the participants
for their help in
the set-up and clean up after the event.
| Shooter | Gun | Scope | Caliber | Pellet | Score |
| Dan Delproposto | Daystate X2FT | Bushnell 8-32X40 | .177 | JSBH | 41 |
| Tim Engelhardt | Air Arms Prosport | Bushnell 6-24X40 | .177 | JSBL | 39 |
| Rick Stewart | HW-97K | Swift 8-32X50 | .177 | CPL | 31 |
| Fritz Sanders | Air Arms TX200HC | Swift 8-32X50 | .177 | CPL | 30 |
| Karen Engelhardt | HW-97K | Nikko 10-50X60 | .177 | CPL | 15 |
We hope to see some more participants at our next field target match which is scheduled for
September 21, 2008. Please remember to pray for our troops and keep talking up our wonderful group.
Tim Engelhardt