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.

Monthly Pistol Shoot August 11th

So different from last month to enjoy the evening and just focus on shooting instead of chasing targets that the wind had torn off.

We shot some traditional targets like the 25yd slow fire and the 50yd SF but we also tried out the 6 bottle target @25 just to see who would be greedy going for the neck shots. Guilty and it cost me a zero.

In the end, Mike Grigsby took the title with a 199xxx followed by Steve Anderson with 189xx. Bart Topp and Tim Evers were neck and neck scoring 174xxx and 172x with Bart taking the lead. August Topp scored 165x and then Beans came next with 141 followed by Pat Butler with 126x.

Monthly Rifle Shoot August

Another great sunny day relaxing at the range. One more month outdoors on the 100 yard side before we move back indoors and everything becomes 25yds.

There were 7 shooters and we created some entertaining shooting with one target shot supported. I say supported because I got lazy and did not want to take turns with the bench so I broke out my tripod. Obviously there was no advantage shown by my poor score but at least I had one good target for the day.

After adding up scores and picking up my pride, Augustus Topp took top shot for the day with 215x for the 4 targets and a sweet 80 for the single buffalo @100yd. Bart Topp took second with a score of 203xxx with consistent scores and a score of 30 on the standing bear @100yd. That bear looks a bit thin with open sights. Beans took 3rd place with 171x and had high score of 36 with the standing bear. Time Evers was next with 153x followed by Steve Anderson at 133x, JP Wood with 52 and Mike Grigsby with 49. Mike was shooting postal targets so he did not shoot the single buffalo for score and his best target of 43xxx was for the crow that we did not score.

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?”