50/25 Match Report - April 7, 2012

[Danny Creasy]

44 scores were posted today in three classes as 4 shooters took the line in each of 11 strings. What a turnout! What a gorgeous spring day!

Perennial top guns, Dwight and James, stealthily negotiated their 25 critters shooting side by side in the same string to both leave only two little chickens standing for a first place tie in scoped class. Great shooting men. I enjoyed watching this head to head race. A contrast in forms. Dwight, with his self customized Ruger 10/22 semi-auto and James with his self customized CZ 452 Varmint bolt action. James shouldering and shooting for each shot and Dwight taking two or thee shots and then pausing for a few seconds.

In our open sight class, the ole cop, Mike, tied the "B Movie Monster", Randy, with both posting fine scores of 9X5 for first place.

James Day won the peep sight class with an awesome score of 5X5. The "Monster" didn't grab him but he got close with a 6X6 score.

Peary and James, thank you so much for running so many of the strings for me as I got pulled away to the "Gun Show". Karen, thanks for minding our parking lot display tables while I shot and at least, ran a few strings.

Good to see the young men there today. Way to represent - Grayson and Robby!

Randy didn't want to let such a big and enthusiastic bunch get away without throwing together a fun match at the end. Wow and fun it was. Especially when James Day draws your name for his team. 14 shooters participated in this side event. James drew names from a hat and seven two man teams were established. Each "element" (that's what we called two planes in the Air Force) engaged a single 25 count rack of silhouettes with only four minutes and 50 rounds (each shooter could have 25 cartridges on the table at the start). James and I cleaned the rack in three minutes and 46 seconds to take the match. Bart and Peary came in second as they left only four silos standing.

Here are the scores:

Scoped Class

1st 2x2, James Day, CZ Varmint, CCI Select
1st 2x2, Dwight Pilkilton, Ruger 10/22, Wolf MT
2nd 4x4, Randy King, Savage Mk II, SK Std Plus
2nd 4x4, Ricky King, Ruger 10/22, Federal 510
3rd 7x7, Danny Creasy, CZ American, CMP White Box
4th 8X3, Jerry Oliver Jr., Marlin 60, CCI Scope
5th 8X7, David Malone, Ruger 10/22, CCI SV
6thth 8x6, Paul Enlow, CZ American, Tribal, CCI MM HP
7th 9x5, Robert Patterson, Winchester Wildcat, CCI SV
8th 10x6, David Hollimon, CZ American, Wolf MT
8th 10x6, Willie Rhodes, CZ American, CCI Blazer
9th 10X7, Bart Harkins, Anschutz 54, SK Std Plus
10th 11x6, Ulus Farris, CZ 452 American, CCI SV
10th 11x6, Mike, Savage Mk II, Federal Automatch
11th 12x6, Peary Willard, Savage Mk II FV, Federal 510B
12th 12x7, J. W. Medlin, Ruger 10/22, Wolf MT
12th 12x7, John Werffell, Remington 597, CCI SV
13th 13x6, Thomas A. Reed, Ruger 10/22, CCI SV
13th 13x6, Joe Caldwell, CZ 452 American, Eli Club
14th 14x7, Bill Parkhurst, CZ 455 American, Winchester
14th 14x7,Grayson, CZ Scout, Wolf MT
15th 15x7, Reece Stewart, Ruger 10/22, Wolf MT
16th 16x6, Travis Burk, Marlin 60, CCI MM

Open Sight Class

1st 9x5, Mike, Marlin 39, Federal
1st 9x5, Randy King, CZ 452 Trainer, SK Std Plus
2nd 10x2, Thomas A. Reed, CZ UltraLux, CCI SB
3rd 10x6, Andrew Butler, CZ UltraLux, CMP WhiteBox
3rd 10x6, Willie Rhodes, CZ 452 Trainer, CCI Blazer
4th 11x6, Ricky King, Ruger 10/22, Federal 510
4th 11x6, James Day, CZ 452 Trainer, Federal Champion
5th 12x6, Bill Parkhurst, Henry Lever Action, CCI Blazer
5th 12x6, Danny Creasy, CZ 452 FS, CMP White Box
6th 13x7, David Hollimon, CZ UltraLux, CCI SV
7th 14x6, Robert Patterson, CZ UltraLux, CCI SV
8th 15x7, Peary Willard, CZ 452 Lux, Federal 510B
9th 16x7, David Malone, CZ UltraLux, CMP WhiteBox
10th 20x7, John Werffell, Marlin 80, CCI SV
11th 23x7, Robby Ahlstrom, Henry Lever Action, Federal American Eagle

Peep Sight Class

1st 5x5, James Day, Mossberg US44, Wolf MT
2nd 6x6, Randy King, Marlin 60, Federal Lightning
3rd 11x6, Willie Rhodes, Mossberg US44, CCI Blazer
4th 13x6, Ricky King, Savage Mk II, CCI
5th 16x7, Bill Parkhurst, Remington 211-P, CCI SV
6th 19x7, Rob Ahlstrom, Remington 511, CCI SV

Fun Team Match

1st James Day / Danny Creasy with 0 silos left standing (3 minutes 46 seconds)
2nd Bart Harkins / Peary Willard 4
3rd J. W. Medlin / David Hollimon 5
4th Randy King / Reece Stewart 6
5th Bill Parkhurst / Thomas A. Reed 9
6th Grayson / Andrew Butler 11
7th Robert Patterson / Mike 13

[randy king]

Good Morning NASA and Happy Easter! Just wanted to say thanks to everybody who played my little game yesterday! I had a lot of fun and hope each of you did as well. Plus I want to send out a big CONGRATS to the winners James and Danny! Great shooting guys.

P.S. I still don't know how James knew which little ball of paper had Dannys name on it mmmm. Lol

[jessejames]

One of these days I will teach you the "slight of hand" trick I used to do that.

James

[Danny Creasy]

All kidding aside, I had posted this suggestion over on RFS on this same subject.

I think the teaming procedure needs some tweaking. How about quickly ranking the regular match scores. Gather the participating shooters and then let the lowest scoring half draw from the names of the top scoring half. Oh and if we have an odd number of shooters, simply let one team have three shooters with 15, 15, and 20 rounds. If an odd numbered pool exists at said match, just put the high count in the hat and the last drawer will get both names. The three man team needs to stop shooting at the 3 minute mark.

[randy king]

Hey, sounds like we may play this little team game again! Sounds good to me. Great suggestions Danny. Signed the "B Movie Monster". LOL don't know if I want to know where that came from.

[Danny Creasy]

Dwight started it a couple of months ago. He compared you and Ricky to those B Movie monsters. Right when you think they are down they arise from the ashes, the swamp, the lagoon, the piney woods, or whatever and are stronger than ever.