McKinley Mountainmen Muzzle Loading Rifle Club


Monthly Shoot Reports

Monthly Shoot Reports

Check out the action either on the 2nd Tuesday night Pistol shoot or at the 3rd Saturday Rifle shoots at MatValley Sportsmens Range in Palmer, on the Glenn Highway.

Let’s watch Pat

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JYm1OqdfkVI

Monthly Pistol Shoot February 11th

Well it was quite and no one was able to get in the range through the front door. Thanks to Larry White for coming to the rescue and getting us in to shoot.

In the end there were 6 shooters for record and one member almost broke over into 270 for 3 targets. A good night and nice to be inside nice and warm during the winter months.

Mike Grigsby pulled it out again tonight scoring a total of 269xx for 1st place shooting 91x, 88, and 90x for his three targets. Tim Evers took second shooting 87x, 86 and 89 for a total score of 262. Bart Topp took 3rd with a near perfect consistency totaling 260 with an 87, 87 and 86. Steve Anderson almost found a good load for that 10-ring shooting 75, 83x and 83x for a total of 241xx on the night. Pat Bulter shot a respectable 220 with scores of 73, 78 and 69. Pat Reed showed up with a bandaged finger from his latest garage sale finds being a pen flare. He managed to shoot though and scored a total of 212 with a 62, 72 and 78 for the night.

Tim showed off his photos of his recent trip to Arizona to shoot in the territorials there. He even managed to score a medal in the long hunter aggregate so nice work.

Getting in the zone.

Monthly Rifle Shoot December 20th

Wow, 10 shooters on Saturday and almost had a perfect 100 on a target. (yep we kept an eye on him and he was not cheating).

The standard 6 bull to start then a single bull (8-ring, I believe?) then the dreaded bunny target which is almost too pretty to shoot but also hard to see at 60′. I still think I should get some consolation points for shooting their ears off but oh well.

In the end Augustas Topp took top honors as he should after shooting a 98 on the single bull, 84 on the 6-bull and 55 on the bunnies for a total score of 237. Mike Grigsby shot a close second with a 94 on the single bull and 71 and 55 on the bunnies for a total of 220. Bart Topp took 3rd with a 97 on the single bull and 65 on the 6-bull and 45 on the bunnies. Steve Anderson took 4th scoring 90, 81 and 30 on those bunnies with the big ears for a total of 201. Beans scored 177 shooting 88, 54 and 35. Tim Evers was close behind with a 174 shooting 83, 51 and 40. Next came Scott Crocket with a total score of 167 shooting 80, 62 and 25 for the bunnies. Paul Brown was next scoring 73, 10 and 60 for the top score in bunny hunting but a total of 143. (perhaps we got the bunny score and 6-bull switched?) Pat Reed did not finish the bunnies because they were too cute? So his total score was a 125 but his rifle is now dialed in for next time. Pat scored 76 on the single bull and 49 on the 6-bull. JP shot Saturday as well but did not turn in targets for scoring so he remains anonymous or is that infamous?

Reviews

Steve A.

“It is really great to get together with the guys from the club and swap stories and get advice on loads and different powder patch combinations. It appears that there are as many different combinations as there are shooters”

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Jeff B. “Beans”

“I just come to burn powder and have a good time”

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Pat R.

“Did someone say smoothbore?”

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.