April 22, 2012 Old Soldier's Match Results
Good Evening High Power Riflemen,
Thank you for the great turnout today – we had 15 shooters on the line. Sunny weather. Surplus rifles. Surplus ammo. Surplus shooters. It doesn’t get any better than that!
Despite the fact that Tony Minerd literally had a target taped on his back ( thanks to Harvey J ), he pulled out another match win. Tony shot his Swiss K31, and scored 296-12X (out of a possible 300). Where did those other 4 go?
We had 3 new shooters come out today: Mike Pribbanow, Ron Round, and Robert Swift. Welcome, guys! We hope you had fun, and look forward to seeing you next time. We guarantee, the more you come, the more fun you’ll have!
Following the Old Soldier’s Match, we had our Carbine Match. Match Director Gary Thorson got everybody’s anxiety up with a new course of fire – but it proved to be a lot of fun for everyone. The devious course of fire was:
• Come to the line with 2 magazines loaded with 10 rounds each
• At the command to fire, shoot 5 rounds offhand at 50 yards
• Then go to kneeling and fire 5 more rounds at 50 yards
• Then go to prone, do a magazine change, and fire 10 rounds prone at 100 yards
• Time limit for all this was 2 minutes.
• We repeated this course of fire twice, for a total of 40 rounds expended
And Harvey impressed us all by shooting the carbine match with a lever action Marlin 1894 in .38 Special. Harvey knows how to speed load a lever gun!
Here are the scores:
TGT RELAY NAME RIFLE TYPE 1st Prone Stage 2nd Prone Stage TOTAL Match Place Distinguished Points
1 Gary Baldwin British #4 Mk II 137-1X 133-2X 270-3X 6
2 Tony Minerd Swiss K31 150-8X 146-4X 296-12X 1 7
3 Fran Huntington U.S. Model 03-A3 140-2X 139-1X 279-3X 4 2
4 Mike Pribbanow U.S. M1 Garand 93 93 186 13
5 Harvey Gertson Swiss 1911 Carbine 108-2X 105 213-2X 12
6 Bruce Fockler U.S. Model of 1917 121-1X 124 245-1X 9
7 Gary Thorson U.S. Model of 1917 139-1X 137-2X 276-3X 5 1
8 Ron Round U.S. M1 Garand 67-1X 57 124-1X 15
9 Rod McDonald U.S. M1 Garand 140-1X 145-1X 285-2X 3 3
10 Robert Swift U.S. Model 03-A3 122 103 225 11
11 Ken Horton Swiss K31 143-5X 143-2X 286-7X 2 4
12 Joe Horton U.S. M1 Garand 117-2X 134-1X 251-3X 8
13 Bill Stull U.S. M1 Garand 136 133-1X 269-1X 7
14 Bill Englund U.S. M1 Garand 124 109 233 10
15 Jeff Young Swedish M-96 Mauser 67 82 149 14
Carbine Match
1 Gary Baldwin High Point 9mm 82-1V 41 123-1V 6
2 Rod McDonald AR-15 Carbine 93-3V 97-3V 190-6V 1
3 Fran Huntington M1 Carbine 82-1V 71 153-1V 4
4 Mike Pribbanow M1 Carbine N/A N/A N/A 8
5 Ken Horton AR-15 Carbine 95-3V 93-4V 188-7V 2
6 Harvey Gertson Marlin 1894 Lever Carbine 58 69 127 5
7 Joe Horton SKS 53-2V 29 82-2V 7
8 Gary Thorson M1 Carbine 96-4V 85 181-5V 3
Here are the running points totals for the CCR&P Distinguished Rifleman. Tony Minerd passed the 20 point mark today to be the first to qualify as a CCR&P Distinguished Rifleman. Good shooting, Tony!
Old Soldier CMP M1 Garand Old Soldier Total
Name 2/26/2012 3/25/2012 4/8/2012 4/22/2012
Tony Minerd 7 6 6 7 26
Gary Baldwin 4 1 5
Gary Thorson 3 3 5 1 12
Ken Horton 2 1 4 7
Rod McDonald 1 2 3 6
Fran Huntington 2 2
The next High Power Match will be the M1 Garand Match on the 2nd Sunday, May 13th. Following the M1 Garand Match will be a Lever Action / Single Shot rifle match.
Gary Thorson