Summer Bench Rest Shoot #2

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=80 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="03c00500dvldtc.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>DeSoto Airgunners</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="DeSoto Airgunners"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>     </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="03dd2c00dvldtc.png"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=400 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> Summer Bench Rest Shoot #2</div> <bR> <div> July 12, 2015</div> <bR> <div> T<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >oday we held the second of our Summer Season Bench Rest matches.</FONT></div> <div> We had 7 competitors and an interested onlooker. ( I hope he will join in next month.)  The weather was as expected.  The temps were just about 85 degrees at 9:15 AM as we set out the target stands and wind flags.   Even while shooting from the covered bench lanes it felt sticky and humid.  I had to pause several times to wipe the sweat running into my eyes and stinging while peering through the scope.  Definitely not comfortable Field Target weather but OK for benchrest.  While  occasional breezes made for trickier shooting, it also brought a little cooling break and no one complained about that.</div> <bR> <div> Each competitor shoot  three  25 target face cards for a total of 75 shots and a possible perfect score of  750 points.</div> <div> As for the scores, Paul Stakum was the big winner, scoring 710 points with 6 X's.  The nearest competitor was our  Match Director Bill Shade who came in with 699 points and 5 X's.   Robert Nelson shot the heck out of his Cricket and scored an amazing 14X's !   Rob reported very inconsistent pellet quality which brought his overall finish to 3rd.   The equipment indicated below is to my best recollection.  Here are final scores and the overall order of finish:</div> <bR> <div> <B>1st Paul Stakum  Total  710   6X   </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" >TM 1000    Hawke 6-24  AA 10.3   .177cal</FONT></div> <div> 239 - 2X   /   233 - 3X   /   238 - 1X</div> <bR> <div> <B>2nd Bill Shade   Total 699  5X     </B>AA -FTP900     Sightron 10-50   JSB 7.9   .177cal</div> <div> 230 - 3X  /  238 - 2X  /  231 - 0x</div> <bR> <div> <B>3rd  Robert  Nelson  Total  698  14X  </B>Cricket 25, Hawke 8-32, AA DIablo 25.4,  .25 cal</div> <div> 229 - 3X  /  236 - 7X  /  233 - 4X</div> <bR> <div> <B>4th  Bill Liebke  Total  695  6X   </B>Daystate Mk 4   &   Cricket </div> <div> 237 - 4X  /  236 - 5X  /  222 - 1X</div> <bR> <div> <B>5th  Jack  Rainey   Total  689  3X    </B> AAS200, swift 8-32,  JSB Exact 8.4, .177cal</div> <div> 227 - 0X  /  235 - 3X  /  227 - 0X </div> <bR> <div> <B>6th  Colin  Pilkington   Total  676  1X   </B>Marauder   Hawke 8-32    JSB Hvy  .177cal</div> <div> 219 - 0X  /  235 - 1X  /  222 - 0X </div> <bR> <div> <B>7th  Ron Zeman  Total  655  0X     </B>Steyr LG100    Nikko 10-50   JSB Hvy  .177cal</div> <div> 220 - 0X  /  220 - 0X  /  215 - 0X</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>