Vintage Military Match Report

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Our annual vintage military 3-gun match was a lot of fun today. It was a little warm but not bad. Shooting in the shade and short walks to the targets helped a lot. I did well today in spite of a couple of feed issues on my trusty M1 Carbine. Click here for the scores. If you missed out, plan to come out next month for our vintage military 2-gun match. We'll be shooting in the shade again with even shorter walks. Click here for details.

Welcome to David and welcome back to Tom. You guys had some issues today, but hopefully, it was still fun and we'll see you next month.

Thanks everyone for pitching in with the match chores. You really make it easy to run these matches.

Vintage Military Match Report

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A great day for shooting even if a little humid. We had a couple of sprinkles but not enough to even soak the targets. Jay and Tom put up the best scores today. Congratulations guys. Click here for all of the scores.

Remember that next month we'll be shooting in the shade on range#1 for our annual vintage military 3-gun match. Click here for match info.

Thanks everyone for coming out and shooting today and thanks for pitching in with the match chores.

Vintage Military Match Report

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We had a great day for a match. It did get a little warm but some shot in the shade and we had some fans to stay cooler. We fired a combination vintage rifle and carbine match today. It wasn't planned, but we are always willing to accommodate carbines at 100 yd targets. Jim Popp shot the best in both rifle matches and collected another 100 patch for his efforts. Tim was the only carbine shooter and shot well compared to CMP scoring. Click here for all of the scores.

CMP Match Report

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Saturday we had our first CMP GSMM matches for the year. With the CMP Eastern Games scheduled for next month at Camp Butner, this was a warm-up match for many of us. And, boy was it warm! I suppose our bodies were still in hibernation mode and the heat was a bit of a shock. Nevertheless we were able to award CMP pins to almost half of the shooters. Congratulations to Jim and Ken for posting the best scores. Click here for the scores and awards. Next month, we are planning to be at the CMP matches and won't have a local match. I'll send out a notice if I hear differently.

Thanks to everyone who came out to shoot and help with the match chores.

Winter War match report

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The winter went easy on us today. Moving the targets to 200 yds. sped things up a bit and once in awhile you could scope your bullet holes too. We had good representative rifles for the 1939 Winter War match although one rogue US GI slipped in to help out the Finns and won the first match. But, not to give in too easily, I won the second with my M96. Click here for all of the scores.

Remember, we are shooting our first CMP GSMM match next month. Hopefully, we'll be at Camp Butner for the April match date. Thanks to all who came out to shoot and for helping out with the match chores. Hope to see you next month.

January Double Header Report

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We started our 2021 match schedule today with a bit of a nip in the air. Nevertheless, we had a good day to shoot and it did warm up. Jay and I posted the best scores for the day. Click Here for all of the scores. Next month we will be shooting our "Winter War" match. It is fired to remember the 3-1/2 month war fought between Finland and Russia in 1939. We are encouraging period rifles, but you may shoot any rifle allowed in our regular vintage matches. Click here for more details.

Thanks to you who braved the cold and the pandemic to shoot this month and hope you'll be back out in February...

December Match Report (delayed report)

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Well, that's it for 2020. Another good year for our matches, if a little screwed up for life in general. Hopefully COVID 19 will soon go the way of the other serious public health problems we've had through the years and 2021 will be a better year. We had 6 shooters today and finally found a way to have a Swiss double header. Unfortunately, some of us didn't plan on it. I managed to edge out the competition today. Click Here for the scores. I would like to thank everyone for their help and support throughout the last year. You guys always pitch in and make these matches easy to run. I want to especially thank Jim and Jay, who show up every match and share the load with me. If any of you have any suggestions for our 2021 match schedule, please reply with your suggestions. Many of our current matches are the result of our shooter's ideas. More pistol? more carbine? whatever. We only do this to have fun.

Thanks again, and Happy New Year...

October CMP Match Report

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It was a great fall day for shooting. This was our only vintage military CMP match for the year as our April match had to be canceled. We had a good time shooting and six award pins were earned today. Jim and I posted the best scores. Jim had a gold in the first match, and I missed gold by one point in the second. I thought I had it, but when I double checked everything I discovered that I had 2019 cut scores in the computer. Oh well, try harder next time. Click here for the scores and awards. Next month we shoot our WWI match. We encourage WWI era rifles, but you may shoot any rifle normally allowed in our vintage military matches. Hope to see you all out at the range next month.

September Double Header

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Well, it started off drizzly, but turned out great. Even before we started shooting it was nice enough that several of us moved out from under cover to the uncovered firing line. By semi-unanimous decision we chose to shoot both rapid fire strings prone. Jay and Ken shot the best today. Click here for all of the scores.

Thanks to all for coming out to shoot today. As always, thanks for helping with the match chores.

Next month will be a CMP double header match. Hope to see you there.

Vintage Military 2- Gun Match Report

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Once again a cloudy sky helped shelter us from the hot summer sun, without raining on us. We didn't hand out any 100 patches today but several attempts came pretty close. Dick won the first match by 2 Xs and I won the second. Click here for all the scores. In the second match Dick fired a Hungarian M95/34 Carbine. It was a little louder than our M1 Carbines but shot pretty well. Next month we will return to range#2 and fire our regular vintage military double header match.