Saturday, November 3, 2012

November USPSA match

On Sunday, November 11th, we will be hosting a 6 stage USPSA match in which all 6 stages will be classifiers.

The entry fee will be $20 and there will only be one time slot 9:00am.  We will finish set up and registration at 8:00am and match briefing will be at 8:45am.

To sign up for this match email us at yorksignup@gmail.com and tell us your:
- Name
- Division
- USPSA #
- Anyone you wish ot be squadded with.

We will only be taking 40 shooters, and the round count is under 50 rounds so this match should go very quickly. The entire match will be shot in the back pits, and the registration and match briefing will be near the back gate.

There will be no multi-gun options available this month, and you may not use rifle or shotgun to shoot this match. It would be possible to use a pistol caliber carbine and shoot it for fun.

Some of us will be shooting Monday, 11/5 at 12:00pm for score because we have conflicts on match day.  If you would like to shoot Monday let us know and you will be welcome to join us.

There is some possibility some of us will shoot Saturday the 10th for score.  Please comment if that interests you, and if there is sufficient interest we will arrange it.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

October FunShoot results

Here they be.  Thanks again for yet another fun day, and all the work you all did. We at York are truly blessed with the quality of folks that hang out with us.  The FunShoot is shutdown until January, but fear not, there is one more Action shoot in a few weeks.

Cheers.

g

Timed Points
Centerfire Iron Auto  Centerfire Iron Auto  Multigun
Tom L 377.41
William H 555.52 Rob S 820 Jim W 540.98
Gregg T 535.82 Nate D 610
Jim H 271.77 Jeff H 1040
Corey G 348.39 Joe M 1170
Dave W 230.99 Greg S
Paul W 247.67
Kevin D 226.57
Paul K 426.1
Lee H 393.51
Joseph S 240.49
Dianna R 629.47
Sam R 438.47
Buddy K 232.82
Centerfire Scoped Auto
Robert T 113.69
Rimfire Iron Auto
Mary H 349.03

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Thank you fun shooters!

All you Fun Shooters, I hope you had a great time today at Gary's Halloween extravaganza, and I want to thank you for giving us some of your time to prepare for the impending disaster.  If Sandy decides to flood us I think we are as ready as we can be.   I feel like we'll be pretty safe with anything up to 3 feet of water over the banks, and it is rare for that to happen, though possible.  I know we wouldn't be this ready without you.

I had a lot of fun today (I always find fun shoots relaxing) and thoroughly enjoyed talking to a lot of you.  I had two topics come up quite often and thought I might address them here:

1. What do I have to do to join?  Joining Izaak Walton is easy.  We need you to fill out an application available at http://yorkiwla.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/iwlaapp6-2012.pdf  then attend an orientation where we show potential members around the club and show them what we have to offer, and discuss the rules.  We have one scheduled every month, and can do special orientations if needed.  Then submit your application and a check.  We vote on your application at the board meeting on the first Tuesday of the month, and by the 3rd Tuesday you're in.  We're always looking for new members.  Feel free to email me at hkbrt@verizon.net if you have more questions.

2. How do I get more involved with the pistol committee?  The pistol committee is actually a fairly active committee and we communicate a lot by email.  Just email me and tell me to put you on the "pistol committee list" and you're in.  You'll receive emails about our work details, set ups, and shoots.  I really don't care if you're a Izaak Walton member or not.  If you want to work come do it. If you want to shoot with us you can be one of our guests.  That being said, membership has it's privileges.  Again, email me if you havbe more questions.

We look forward to seeing you all again next year, and having another great Fun Shoot season in 2013.  I'm sure Gary will come up with even more great ideas, but I know he's always open to suggestions.  Don't hesistate to email him with your thoughts.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

The future of action shooting at York

I received an email today asking if we were really giving up USPSA shooting at York Izaak Walton.  This is the reply I sent:

"Yes, it does mean the end of USPSA at York Izaak Walton.

We have decided that USPSA is no longer representative of our needs. We have decided to continue action shooting, with pistols, as well as multi-gun, in a manner very similar to USPSA but without their rules or scoring system. The rules of USPSA are very restrictive and change so often that we can't keep them straight. Their scoring system is unnecessarily complicated and time consuming. By dropping USPSA we will also be saving the club a great deal of money on the activity fees we paid to USPSA. In 2011 it was about $2000.00. Set up for non-USPSA matches is infinitely easier and faster.

Action shooting is stronger than ever at York and it will easier to set up and more fun to shoot without USPSA. We will be using a form of IMGA rules and Time plus scoring. We ran a beta test last at month's match and it was universally approved. Without USPSA we will have more variety of targets to choose from and more leeway in designing courses of fire. Safety will remain our foremost concern, and keeping action shooting enjoyable for both shooters and our staff will be second.

All of your current equipment will remain competitive and the divisions are so similar to those of USPSA that you won't have to change anything.

November 11th will be our last USPSA match and it will be a 7 stage match with 6 classifiers, so if your classification matters to you we will provide one last opportunity."
 
This is not an invitation to sign up.  Expect that around November 4th.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Ocktorba FunShoot

York IWLA presents our Monthly FunShoot, this Saturday, the 27th of October.

Consisting of around 100 targets, this shoot will be open to all standard caliber handguns and carbines, with 2 hybrid classes for handgun/shotgun (7 1/2 shot or smaller, 4 slugs minimum), or handgun/carbine.

This month we honor Halloween. Be prepared for ghostees and goblins, spiders and spooks.  We will have 6-7 stages including spooky steel, a little USPSA style monster action, gallery of not so much stuff, choose your own clays (if you dare), terror on the bullseye stage, and (if mother nature cooperates) bobbing for pumpkins.

There will be 3 scoring classes:
Points, where you will be scored by total points in an exact round count count,
Timed, where the fastet gun to smash all targets wins,
IDC, a non scored option where you do pretty much what you want, as long as you are safe, within reason, and under the guidance of your squad Range Officer.

The weather is looking reasonable for the weekend, so lets say final setup and check in start at 7:30, shooter brief about 8:30 and shooting 'round 8:45.

Cost is $15 adults, $5 for under 18.  OH! And if you show up in costume (firearm safe, even a witches hat alone will do, and I don't care if you are your kids worst nightmare, dressing up as yourself won't make it past the panel of judges...), you get $5 off the price of admission, and a small and totally insignificant prize will go to the best costume.  

Preregister now at yorksignup@gmail.com.  We will only be accepting 50 shooters max.

Remember, York is a cold range, please have all firearms unloaded and secured when you arrive at the range, including CC permit holders.  Handle firearms only after you register, and only at the safe tables or under direction of a range officer.

See you all Saturday


g

Friday, October 19, 2012

Final results

The final results for Octobers Action Matches have been posted to our regular website at the following links:

Pistol results http://www.yorkiwlaipsc.com/Results2012/Pistol%20only_Oct2012.pdf

Shotgun/pistol results http://www.yorkiwlaipsc.com/Results2012/Shotgun-Pistol%20multigun_Oct2012.pdf

Rifle/pistol results http://www.yorkiwlaipsc.com/Results2012/Rifle-Pistol%20multilgun_Oct2012.pdf

Congratulations to our winners and stay tuned for upcoming events by checking this blog.

We have a fun shoot scheduled for October 17th and the invitation post should appear here around the 20th.

We also have a USPSA Special Classifier scheduled for November 11th.  It will contain up to 6 classifiers.  The invitation for that should appear on this blog about November 4th.  It will be our last match of the year.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Prelimnary pistol and rifle Multi-gun results

Name Div 8 7 6 5 4 Total
Brennan Keil Lim 33.65 57.46 44.65 49.14 60.75 245.65
Mike Robinson Lim 38.34 92.48 55.83 101.38 115.87 403.90
Paige Dalton Lim 69.49 218.04 61.16 88.34 112.43 549.46
Bob Spangler Lim 93.20 123.33 80.35 157.23 180.89 635.00
Paul Nowotarski Open 27.21 48.45 33.64 58.05 51.52 218.87
Dave Albanese Open 35.60 53.48 50.65 40.33 54.31 234.37
Howard Thompson TO 24.19 44.59 33.49 47.07 42.67 192.01
John Migliaccio TO 33.33 56.03 34.90 46.74 53.27 224.27
Robert Schmelz TO 48.63 44.83 49.16 37.30 57.38 237.30
Steve Mease TO 31.46 50.89 43.18 60.86 59.77 246.16
Gary Swope TO 24.75 50.30 52.08 61.78 64.39 253.30
Barney Knight TO 34.39 92.30 37.55 59.75 43.70 267.69
Nathan Barndt TO 33.50 63.49 59.68 51.43 75.37 283.47
Dan Kaminkow TO 50.59 59.15 55.93 57.65 73.21 296.53
Allan Evler TO 52.99 75.21 44.24 82.46 79.25 334.15
John Lerch TO 43.87 88.61 90.59 63.79 54.56 341.42
Joe Padian TO 30.12 81.64 62.45 52.87 129.15 356.23
Staale Johannessen TO 62.41 80.36 54.40 78.05 83.15 358.37
Jim Fort TO 74.88 70.80 65.93 115.79 79.38 406.78
Marty Kalister TO 58.77 124.48 52.69 91.33 93.98 421.25