2010 Machias Pistol Cartridge and Smallbore Cowboy Rifle Silhouette Championship




Dates

• August 14, Smallbore Cowboy Rifle Championship (two 40-shot matches, total aggregate 80 shots)
• August 15, Pistol Cartridge Cowboy Rifle Championship (two 40-shot matches, total aggregate 80 shots)

Location
Seattle Rifle & Pistol Association's "Evergreen Range" is located at 725 135 Ave SE in Snohomish, WA, near the community of Machias.. From I-5 north or south in Everett, take the exit for state route 2 east across Ebey Island Slough Bridge (commonly called "the trestle"). From the right lane, exit left to 20th St SE. Continue east up the hill through the light at SR 9 and through the 4-way stop by the Tom Thumb store. Continue over the hill the stop sign at the bottom. Turn right and follow the road about 1/2 mile to Division Street. Turn left there on Division Street at the fire station and follow the road up the hill past the cemetery. The range will be on the right. Look for the sign and driveway in the middle of a the chainlink fence on the right side of the road.

Entry Fee

• $15.00 per day
• An NRA score record book will be required. Record books will be available at the NRA price.

Registration
Open to all competitors. Limited to 32 entries per day. Advance entries are requested. Cutoff date for advance entry is July 31, 2010. Entries will be accepted between 8:00am and 9:00am each match day if space is available. Sight-in starts at 9:30am each day. Matches start at 10:00am each day.

Rules
Current NRA rules will apply. Open bolt indicators are mandatory.

Classification
Current NRA classifications will be used for all competitors.

Course of Fire
Each of the two matches each day match will consist of:

• 10 shots (2 strings of 5 shots each) at chickens at 40 meters
• 10 shots (2 strings of 5 shots each) at pigs at 50 meters
• 10 shots (2 strings of 5 shots each) at turkeys at 75 meters
• 10 shots (2 strings of 5 shots each) at rams at 100 meters

Scoring
Competitors will be required to score for the next relay

Awards
Cash awards will be based on the number of entries in each class

• 1st - 3 entries in a class
• 2nd - 4 to 6 entries in a class
• 3rd - 7 to 9 entries in a class
• 4th - 10 to 12 entries in a class
• If there are less than 3 competitors in a class, that class will be combined with the next higher class
• Masters will compete for match winner only if there are less than three competitors in that class

Information
Please contact any of the following people for more information, or you can contact me here via IM or by email at jason(at)themccurrys.com (replace the (at) with @).

• John Martinis: 425-488-6885 or 1007 Harvest Rd., Bothell, WA 98012
• Kevin Knowles: 425-508-6005 or 18518 48th St NE, Snohomish WA 98290

You can also go to our website for more information about the club and the range.

Notes
Please note that we will not be hosting our normal "third Sunday of the month" smallbore and hunter rifle silhouette matches due to hosting this cowboy rifle championship.

Quick reminder that this starts tomorrow morning. See everyone there!

Thanks to everyone that came out. It was a great first day, and the smallbore scores are in the books. Turnout was lighter than expected, most likely due to the forecast of hot (for western WA) temperatures of over 90. It turned out to be nice and cool with just enough breeze under the covered firing line and some good scores were shot. Here are a few shots as we prepared for the match and of the scoreboard at the end. I'll try to get more shots during the match tomorrow.











We'd also like to thank Wolf Performance Ammunition for sending out a few prizes for both door prize drawings and prizes for winners. Tomorrow we'll have more Wolf items, as well as the coveted Steel Chickens hats!







See everyone tomorrow the pistol cartridge matches!

Congratulations on your great shooting Jason, your score would have tied for MW at Raton last week. You have to make plans for attending the Nationals next year.
For the first time the NRA gave money to the 1st three places in every match including the three gun aggregate, hopefully they will continue doing that since Cowboy Lever Action is drawing the largest participation of any of the silhouette disciplines.

Thanks, Tony. I really shouldn't have missed the chicken in the afternoon match. I started on pigs and got excited when I cleaned rams and finished my smallbore cowboy grand slam, as the rams are all I have needed for that for over two years now. I totally lost focus and struggled through chickens after that. I'm really surpised that I got nine of them. Conditions, including lighting, were as close to perfect as I've seen for a cowboy match this afternoon, and it shows in the scores everyone put, not just me.

Go Team Kitty. Good shooting Jason and good luck today, plan on shooting the nationals next year, rumors are that it will be July 4th week at Raton.

Innocent

My apologies to the two who sent me PMs and everyone else. It was hotter today than yesterday and I haven't spent enough time in my non-air conditioned computer room to edit photos and post them. I'll try to get it done tomorrow evening. Until then, you'll just have to wait for the scores, unless Mordecai or Byron happen along to end the suspense.

I'm going off memory but I believe Jason put in an honorable 147/160 for MW...
Mr. Kevin did 129? for 1st AAA/M
Mr. Mordecai did 120? for 2nd AAA/M
I know Byron had a pretty good score when he kept his extra "10 points"

As promised, here are pictures and scores. It was even hotter yesterday than it was Saturday, to the point that some news shows were encouraging people to "avoid all outdoor activity" for the whole day. We still had some intrepid shooters come out and hammer the steel targets. It did indeed get hot by the afternoon match, but wasn't at all unpleasant under the cover of the firing line. Our all-star target setter, Tim, bore the brunt of the heat and Mordecai's son, Jack, helped out with target setting duties. Without further adieu, here are pictures before and after the match, as well as awards.

















Thanks again to John, Kevin, and others for running the match and to everyone who braved the heat to come out and shoot. Just a reminder that we won't be having our monthly silhouette matches in September and October due to hosting hunter sight-in on the weekends for the public. We'll be back at it on November 20 for cowboy/hunter pistol matches and November 21 for smallbore standard/hunter rifle matches.

Yeah whats up with that? Did you guys hurt my Byron???

Jason,
Thank you for the match report. Great Shooting!

w30wcf

hambone49 wrote:Yeah whats up with that? Did you guys hurt my Byron???

It was something to do with showing off on a boogie board trying to impress some bikini babes or something. I'll let him tell the story, as I'm sure it would be funnier that way.

Had a wonderful time at Seaside Or. with my two boys and great wife! The boys were having a great time with the skim boards on the beach so I gave it a try.
I twisted my knee, destroyed my ankle and broke by Fibula. The pain was near the top of the scale. Six weeks in a cast and I will be like new, or maybe like old.


Byron

P.S. I finished 4th in the rimfire match.

Sorry to hear that roomie. And you were such a good dancer.

Yo Byron...you need to take lessons on skimboarding from a pro, granted I haven't been dumb enough to try riding in about 8 years...too much freshly pumped in sand on the beach, that is not packed enough for good riding.

Innocent