Post by manofsteel on May 28, 2018 16:03:59 GMT -7
Oh what a Match, the three of us (Mitch, William, and Kurtis) Traveled to Price Utah. William and Kurtis were competing, I was just an RO. We got there Friday evening, so William and Kurtis could check in and have their base class rifles inspected and then warm up and confirm zero. The match would be that Saturday and Sunday, and shooters would not be allowed to confirm their zeros those days.
Saturday started off with a "bang" but a quite one. Everyone started with a paper stage and cold bore target at 100 yards, after that everyone dispersed. The goal was to shoot 11 stages on Saturday (only 8 squads) and the final 4 stages on Sunday. All 11 stages were completed with a little rain in the mix
Sunday the final 4 stages were shot. Then on to the prizes and BBQ foods and stuff. Kurtis took 1st in Base class (8th overall) and William took 4th in base (I think 15th overall). There were 67 competitors.
The President of the NRL22 took 1st overall and promptly took the nicest gun off the table, went to the score sheet and folded it in half and gave that guy the rifle, Tyler is a pretty cool dude.
Now for what I thought was the best thing of the whole match. The trophies were made by a bunch of kids at a special school for downs syndrome. The MD Ron has worked with these kids for years and the proceeds from the trophies went to help them fund some trips and a dance and some other things. WHAT A COOL THING THIS WAS!!!! The trophies were awesome. I would highly recommend that if we ever have a match that we have time to get trophies made for I say we get in contact with Ron (or see what Wyoming has) because this was a great cause for the shooting community to support and how they selected not just what the trophies looked like but who made them was quite touching. I hate paying the big entry fees for matches but if I knew this is where the money went I would not think twice about paying the fee.
As a note from the RO's perspective. HOLY COW!!!! People and their gun handling skills. I almost had to DQ several people for pointing their guns at people and loading them before they were to the line. We had all ages from 7 on up to OG's (old guys) and the kids all did great! It was the sponsored shooters and match directors from other clubs that were the worst. I want to give huge props for our MD's at otto road for constantly pounding safety into our heads because it was clear that most clubs do not show that kind of discipline for safety. Ok Rant over!
We got done late enough on Sunday we decided to stay the night and head home the next day so we could get some Fuzzy's Taco's in Ft Collins.
I would highly suggest getting registered for this years NRL22 league if you have not already, by far the most fun event out there.
I am going to run a base class gun and an open gun in the 2018/2019 season, I think that William and Kurtis are going to make the best shooting savages that they can make from the TB shop.
I think that the Nationals are going to be in Vegas next year, so who is in!
Saturday started off with a "bang" but a quite one. Everyone started with a paper stage and cold bore target at 100 yards, after that everyone dispersed. The goal was to shoot 11 stages on Saturday (only 8 squads) and the final 4 stages on Sunday. All 11 stages were completed with a little rain in the mix
Sunday the final 4 stages were shot. Then on to the prizes and BBQ foods and stuff. Kurtis took 1st in Base class (8th overall) and William took 4th in base (I think 15th overall). There were 67 competitors.
The President of the NRL22 took 1st overall and promptly took the nicest gun off the table, went to the score sheet and folded it in half and gave that guy the rifle, Tyler is a pretty cool dude.
Now for what I thought was the best thing of the whole match. The trophies were made by a bunch of kids at a special school for downs syndrome. The MD Ron has worked with these kids for years and the proceeds from the trophies went to help them fund some trips and a dance and some other things. WHAT A COOL THING THIS WAS!!!! The trophies were awesome. I would highly recommend that if we ever have a match that we have time to get trophies made for I say we get in contact with Ron (or see what Wyoming has) because this was a great cause for the shooting community to support and how they selected not just what the trophies looked like but who made them was quite touching. I hate paying the big entry fees for matches but if I knew this is where the money went I would not think twice about paying the fee.
As a note from the RO's perspective. HOLY COW!!!! People and their gun handling skills. I almost had to DQ several people for pointing their guns at people and loading them before they were to the line. We had all ages from 7 on up to OG's (old guys) and the kids all did great! It was the sponsored shooters and match directors from other clubs that were the worst. I want to give huge props for our MD's at otto road for constantly pounding safety into our heads because it was clear that most clubs do not show that kind of discipline for safety. Ok Rant over!
We got done late enough on Sunday we decided to stay the night and head home the next day so we could get some Fuzzy's Taco's in Ft Collins.
I would highly suggest getting registered for this years NRL22 league if you have not already, by far the most fun event out there.
I am going to run a base class gun and an open gun in the 2018/2019 season, I think that William and Kurtis are going to make the best shooting savages that they can make from the TB shop.
I think that the Nationals are going to be in Vegas next year, so who is in!
