A8MGC

The Area 8 Multi-gun Championship is finished and it was quite a success. Stage 4 CRO Dominatin' Dave walks back to the start. Note the shooter following him and all the shotgun ammo he's carrying. This was a 32 round course with 7 Blow-outs, 15 pieces of steel, and 17 claybirds. Keeping the gun loaded was the tricky part.
The rack of prepped rifles on stage 5. What cool toys we have. I figure there was probably close to a half a million in gear there between the 99 shooters. I might be on the conservative side with that figure.
The stage 4 crew, Lew W. Scott M. and Bob K. did a tremendous job keeping the shooters moving. This stage involved about a 100 yard travel to reset every shooter. Still, they kept pace with the other stages. Amazingly there were few back-ups anywhere in the match, and the shooters used them to prep their gear, so there was really no down time anywhere. Also pictured are AD Alan M. and shooter James C.

Have a nice weekend

I won't be posting for the next few days. I'll be a Topton to help run the Area 8 Mulit-gun championship. Maybe I'll see you there.

Expect a new post Sunday night or Monday morning with the match report.

Summer Blast stages

4 of the 10 stages are mostly done for the match already thanks to a fairly small but hard working group. Bob P. decorating the props in pit 6. We are lucky to have a professional artist on our crew.
The stage on pit 7. So far it doesn't look like a lot of wide open run & gun. More ports and and tight position shooting.
Ben looking at the stage on pit 4. He swears he wasn't picking his nose.

Practice tip

GM Paul M. says you should always use either hard cover or no-shoot covered targets at practice. These targets will make you focus on your sight picture far more than wide open targets.

I agree that you must make things difficult for yourself at practice. If you can make the hard shots, then the simple ones will be really easy. The last few majors I went to I remember thinking we practice and shoot our matches at York a little on the easy side. You may have noticed that the targets have been getting farther away and there has been more and more hard cover at York. We still want our matches to be fun, and there will always be some run & gun hosaramas, but we must challenge ourselves also.

Practice is one place where we must challenge ourselves constantly. Don't practice the things you are good at, practice the things that are your weaknesses.

Summer Blast set up Sunday

Sunday, from 9:00am through maybe 2:00pm we'll be setting up for the Summer Blast. Help is appreciated and Larry never forgets hose who work for him. If you get a chance come over and lend a hand.

The Summer Blast should be quite an event this year. There are over 300 competitors this year shooting the 200+ rounds on 10 stages.

If you're not signed up yet I think it's too late. From what I hear the match filled up 5 weeks after it was announced.

My new gun room

My new gun room is complete now. Check it out.



I wish. I don't know whose this is, but it is incredible.

More June match photos

Rich R. shooting table 3.
Paul N.
Heide S. note the two pieces of brass in the air.
Jim F. opens the door, carbine in hand.