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.

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Monthly Pistol Shoot May 12th

Great evening of shooting outdoors rain-free and virtually bug-free too. Only thing that could have been better was more shooters but the 4 of us told enough stories and pushed each other to shoot our best in spite of a bit of wind making the 50 yard target a bit more of a challenge.

Once the smoke settled and I added up the scores, I realized that I need more practice at 50 yards if I’m going to keep shooting with this group. Mike Grigsby took overall honors with a total score of 264xxx and his best ever target of 96xx LTF, 89x 25SF and banging 79 @50. Nice job Mike. Bart Topp also had a great night shooting 90SF, 93xLTF and 70@50yds for a total of 253x. That would have been the winner most nights, just not tonight. Tim Evers also averaged 90@25yds scoring 88SF, 92xxLTF and 67@50 for a total score of 247xx. I also averaged 90@25yds but my 50 target let me down. I scored 88SF, 92LTF and 54X@50yds for a total of 234x and 4th place for the night.

Monthly Rifle Shoot May 16th

He we are trying out at 50 and 100 yards, wow it is so not 25… It was a beautiful day with a bit of wind and we had a great day. Tim broke out some amazing salmon chowder after the shoot and we sat around and talked about dogs and shooting and ate amazing food. Thanks to all that came out and Paul for running the till and opening up so we could shoot.

In the end we had to pick out targets since we dont have Pat right now but I did ask him what he thought.

Augustus Topp came out on top by a good margin over the rest of us shooting 202/300 for the 4 targets with 2 #50 and 2 @100 yds. Tim Evers shot next with 176 even without shooting the 4th target @100yds. Steve Anderson took home bronze with 164 and Mike Grigsby came next with 154. Paul Brown was sighting in and only shot the 2 50 yard targets so his score of 45 does not really reflect how well he was shooting as much as just shooting a new rifle and getting practice outdoors.

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”

Jeff B. “Beans”

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

Pat R.

“Did someone say smoothbore?”