Commentary:

16 Shooters makes for a decent match. Thanks all for coming and I hope you had a good time.

Every time we do a match we learn something. I apparently need to devise a better means of scoring and of recording the scores. I did end up throwing out the paper scores. Several of the scores sheets were just not understandable and I could not score them in any equitable sense. Time was never a factor in the scoring except as default time which stops the clock possibly leaving a shooter with shots not fired. I think in most cases everyone got there shots off in time.

As you know we did not rappel as the tower was just not ready for that yet. Sometime in the future we will do that though as part of a match.

Stage kicked most everyone’s butt. That was a simple but very tough stage. Shooting off of a roof top that is slanted at a 500+ target was not easy.

The ideal would be to have RO’s at each stage. I have not figured out how to do that yet for a club match. By the time we completed set up on Friday we just did not want to try to shoot plus we did not have full teams or squads. We have also considered doing a match with a 0800 show up, everyone gets a stage assignment to set up a stage and we start shooting at 1000 hours. We may try that once and see how it goes.

Regarding the score sheets. On stage one I split the team score if your score sheet did not indicated who the shooter was. That score reflects the hits on the steel commo tower target. No team or squad left any steel. Stage 2 is a composite score as stage 5 and 6. Other stages are broken down by shooters.

One of our goals has been to run an LRTR without the use of the old steel silhouette targets. We did that this time and it was nice to essentially know when a hit was a hit and one was certain of that. Regarding the hits on the flash targets those can be confusing a bit when shooting multiple shots on one of those targets and one can actually stop the swing with a second shot that is a hit but no flash appears because the hit on target neutralized the swing. To offset that issue we will add a second target when multiple hits are required.

It is interesting to see guns go south. It appears Rocky’s and Aaron’s rifles are both due for new barrels. That can be quite frustrating when in the middle of a match your shots are not doing what you want them to do and you are certain you are having good let offs. At the end of the day we fired both on paper with loads that have historically shot well under sub minute and both were shooting 3 inch groups.

Next LRTR will be in December or January. It has not been scheduled yet but will be soon. Watch the calendar.

Any and all feedback, ideas, course of fire ideas, target ideas are all welcome.

Ng and R2.