I didn't take as many photos as I had thought I would.

We had phenomenal weather here in CO today. Absolutely beautiful. Too bad almost nobody showed up! We had a total of EIGHT shooters today for Standard rifle. That is pretty discouraging to say the least. None the less... we had a kick butt time! As you can see from the score board below, Mr. David Bonner was on FIRE! He shot a 70 out of 80 possible targets. I personally have a tough time fathoming this. He missed 10 animals out of 8 sets of 10. Hell, I might miss 10 animals in one damn set! Haha!

After the matches were over this afternoon we decided to have a "fun shoot" and everyone threw in two bucks to the kitty. We had ourselves a highpower Bandito Match. We matched up 2-man (and woman) teams and each team had their own bay of 5 Pigs to try and knock down before the other teams. I'll tell you one thing, you add a race to win and high power rifles and it is a hell of a lot of fun!! David Bonner and Jeff Block were the winners of that. Jeff knocked down 3 and David picked off the other two. The rest of us were just going too fast to hit anything!

I did shot well myself, but I am right on the CUSP of moving into AAA. I had many stupid mistakes that kept me from getting a couple more points and hitting the 26/40 mark. I am SOOOOOoooo close. I need 2 more in Standard gun and 1 more in Hunter. My goal for tomorrow is to get my AAA classification for Hunter.

On to the photos. Congratulations to Bonner for an outstanding day at the range. I'll post up our results tomorrow for our Hunter gun scores and maybe some more photos.

Look at that sky... amazing morning on the prairie.




Jeff Block


David Bonner and his Spotter (The Guru)


Bonner and McAlice now trying to figure out what went wrong.

Beautiful weather! Great shooting Bone! See you soon I hope.

Mary

Day two of our Colorado High Power state matches was for the Hunter gun. We had a little wind come up today and our scores reflected it (especially mine!). We had a couple more shooters today which brought the total up to 11. Lee O'neil was our aggregate match winner for today. It was close with Bonner only one animal down from Lee. I wasn't even close to scoring my 3rd AAA hunter score today (unless I added both matches together!) I stank up the whole place with my shooting! It'll have to wait until next year.

Photos.



McAlice showed some of his gang affiliation and flashed some "colors" on some of his Rams and Turkeys. Ha! He had a couple of them with these ribbons and they were worth a buck if you knocked them down in your relay. Some good fun!


Mr. Bob Snyder.


Mr. Steve Hawks


Jeff shooting Steve's rifle


These three yahoos are either talking about how far they missed it by, how big the fish was... or how big something else is.


This is the almighty 7-08 Guru, and also our esteemed High Power match director. If it weren't for this gentleman none of this would be possible. Thank you Bob!


And now that I have praised him... here he is shooting a SIX FIVE!!!!


Bonner talked him into shooting the little baby bullet launcher. I think I saw a glimmer in McAlice's eyes. Watch for the Guru to show up at a match near you with his new .260!


Two faces a lot of you may be familiar with. The lovely Mr. and Mrs. Snyder. A pleasure to know such great people.


The next four photos are of Bob and Gerri's little Schnauzers. They are our range mascots. Adorable!

Looks like you had fun, thanks for posting Trent. Missed the HP match but still hoping to make the smallbore, but haven't heard from the boss on when I'm heading your way yet though My luck it wil be the dead of winter and your 70 MPH winds.

Trent, thank you for posting the pictures...congrats to Lee and sorry the Bone had a hard day but you can't stay on top forever! The mascots look as though they were doing their job, looking fine as ever.

Mary

Yep, we had a great weekend for shooting the State match. Saturday was mostly calm, but Sunday was a little windy at times out of the SW requiring about two minutes of correction on the T & R targets. I got unlucky and caught some bad conditions on one bank of pigs and only hit four. We picked up two more shooters on Sunday for hunter gun. Oneil had ranch chores to do on Saturday and Ed P. thought going to some local college football game Sat. was more important than shooting.

I got out there Friday afternoon and met Bob S. to set up the range. Things were going to plan until we got to the pig line. Bob was driving the truck and I was pulling out the pigs from the trailer. We have had this red ant problem nest right behind the rail at pig #5 for years. Well, Bob hits the mound with the truck tire and really pisses off the occupants. Dumb ass me does not see all the commotion below and grabs the pig and sets it up. In less than a minute I got a dozen of the bastards crawling up both legs inside my jeans stinging and biting all the way. One Rambo type climbs all the way up to my tender ass and got to clinging, biting and stinging it, too.

I had to drop my pants to pull these little demons off my skin ! You would think that after getting a 30 pound slab of steel dropped on your house all the time you would pack up and move. Instead these SOB's got meaner and multiplied. I am not sure if these were the genuine southern fire ants or some quarter inch long nasty hybrid but, my legs felt like they were on fire for three hours after that unprovoked insect attack. They will be getting the gasoline and match treatment next time I visit.

Dave Bonners fine performance with the heavy gun on Saturday set a new State record breaking the old one of 67 x 80 set at the Watkins club back in the early 80's. It is also a CRC club record which will likely stand for a very long time due to our prevailing prairie winds. CRC is the only active HP silhouette range in the entire state. And his 36 x 40 is a personal best score, too. It took me years of nagging to get him to try HP. Five years ago I lent him my 7 x 57 Ruger for a match and the rest is history. Very nice shooting Dave.

Just to add some fun to the event I set up some targets with an orange ribbon tied to them. Two rams and two turkeys, one each in each bay. They would pay out one dollar for a hit scored an X. Poor Geri S. nicked her turkey in the breast and spun it 45 degrees. You could hear the sighs from down that end of the line. All totaled I gave out 25 bonus bucks.

Not a single ram ringer happened all weekend. All the usual numbers were there...6.5's, 7mm's and a .308. I myself hit approx. 65 rams during practice and match all weekend. I brought out five of my 7-08's and was hitting them with 139 Hornady SST, 150 and 168 SMK's and a bunch with 175 Hornady Interlocks. Hit locations were all over the board but all fell no problem. I am still puzzled by my three lost ones in St. Louis, though.

This was our season ending HP match. We will start up again next April. Now we need to figure out how to get more shooters to try out High Power Silhouette, the first and best of the silhouette games...period.

Bob Mc Alice wrote:...................... I am still puzzled by my three lost ones in St. Louis, though.

Can you say a Snake's C Clamp

McAlice,
Baking soda, meat tenderizer and amonia, mixed....stinks like H@#$ but will take care of most all stings. Don't store it in platsic for long as it doesn't do well in platsic bottles in a truck. Carried it for years int he field though. Taught to me by an old Idaho indian.

Mary

I'll tell ya what, for all the crap y'all give McAlice he sure can shoot. How many 6.5s did he beat with that ole 7mm again?

Bob259 wrote:Looks like you had fun, thanks for posting Trent. Missed the HP match but still hoping to make the smallbore, but haven't heard from the boss on when I'm heading your way yet though My luck it wil be the dead of winter and your 70 MPH winds.

I sure hope you can make it!

CZforlife wrote:I'll tell ya what, for all the crap y'all give McAlice he sure can shoot. How many 6.5s did he beat with that ole 7mm again?

When McAlice turns it on, he can lay down some animals!

Hopefully I get this right on the calibers...

D. Bonner - .260 and 6.5x47
McAlice - 7mm-08
Steve Hawks - 7br and .260
Bob Snyder - .260
Geri Snyder - .260
Trent Mitchell - 7mm-08
Scott Dahms - .308 (old school)
Jeff Block - 7mm-08
Lee O'neil - 6.5x55
Ed Pabst - .260
Tom Bant - 7br

I am sure McAlice or Bonner can fill in the unknowns there. Quite a few 6.5s there for such a small group. At least 4 or 5 people using 6.5s. Heck, there might have been more 6.5s than 7s!

Edit... McAlice filled me in on the missing calibers.

Bob, two words ..dursban and sevin dust. kills ants dead.
Nice shooting and nicer range.

Trent, you were using McAlice's good ole 7mm???

CZforlife wrote: Trent, you were using McAlice's good ole 7mm???

I use a 7mm-08 currently. My 6.5 Creedmoor will be finished sometime in Oct/Nov. Waiting on Savage and Shilen. I use a 7mm-08 in a Hunter configuration though.

AD9, that is three words. It does sound safer than playing with gas and matches. I will get some Sevin instead. Those ants got it coming, they done messed with the wrong Guru.

Huey,Trent is being modest about the description of his hunter 7-08. Only now it wears a spanking new blue RP factory barrel. I think it looks even better in two tone SS/ blue.

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