wind conditions staying around 2-5 mph mostly out of the North, with very few direction changes. However, more beautiful than the weather was Matt’s scores! Utilizing iron sight both days he managed to shoot a perfect 3200 score! ResultsGold Medal Awarded to Matt Chezem with a score of 3200 and 261 X’s
Silver Medal & First Service Champion Awarded to SSgt Cameron Keating (USAF) with a score of 3196 and 261 X’s Bronze Medal Awarded to Lt Col. Mark Gould (USAF) with a score of 3189 and 243 X’s First Expert Awarded to Mike Nies with a score of 3188 and 213 X’s First F-Class Awarded to Charles B. with a score of 3165 and 188 X’s Complete Results Here Posted By: SSgt Cameron Keating USAF Shooting Team Member Due to the lack of competitor turnout (Only 4 shooters showed) this match was cancelled and turned into a friendly practice event.
However, I am Looking forward to the 68th annual Neal Van Gelder Fall Round Up to be held next weekend (the 21st & 22nd) I know there will be many competitors shooting for the opportunity to earn their sweat shirt! Posted By: SSgt Cameron Keating USAF Shooting Team member We had some very close and competitive prone shooting at this weekend’s PTO! I had a great start in the morning with solid 10's in the sighting and preparation period, then I heard it... The wheels of Jr shooter Matt's gear bag, oh how he loves to be fashionably late, though his tardiness was understandable with the activities of the CHP fitness test, occupying our only access point into and out of the rang. Anyways, by the time he was setup I had already posted my first two competition strings a 99 & 98. All competitors shot incredibly well, and I would love to share pictures however, my digital camera seems to have met its end two nights earlier... Just FYI concrete floors are not healthy for any piece of modern technology. The match results are as follows: Kurt 590 with 34 Centers (scope) Matt 587 with 27 Centers Cameron 586 with 31 Centers Mike 584 with 28 Centers Jober 584 with 27 Centers John 580 with 23 Centers Rodger 579 with 23 Centers William 567 with 14 Centers All eight of these competitors shot extremely well! And after the competition they continued by shooting a 20 shot practice prone final.  Photo courtesy of Mike Nies Posted BY: Cameron Keating USAF Shooting Team Member
Both matches were won by the USAF, Cam and Mark, 544 and 533. M1 top individual scorer was Mark, 277, and the M2 top scorers were Matt and Cam, 276.
High prone scores were Jober and William, 99, John and Jober had 98's. High standing was Mark with a 92, next was Cam with an 89. The kneeling high score was Matt with a 98, next ones were 92's-Matt again, Cam, Jober and Cam again. We appreciate Jober shooting along with Ellie, so we had a good number of teams. John may be shooting elsewhere for the Nov. 7-8 match, so we may have to "dig up" another senior from somewhere. Hope everyone else can make it. Any ideas for another senior, even someone who shoots high power? Hate to lose those senior records when they are there for the taking.(Nov. 7-8, 4-P, one target each day for each position, big A-23 50 yard targets.) In the meantime, while the real men were shooting 3-Position, others were shooting a Mini-Palma Club match using F-Class rests. This match uses properly reduced International Palma 1000, 900 and 800 yard centerfire targets to be shot at 100 yards with .22 competition rifles. Out of 450 points Bobby DePasque shot 450, Phil Massoris 448, and Richard Blankenship and Sgt. Ray Del Rio shot 446. All really good scores! The next NRA junior(open to anyone) match will be November 7-8 and will be for 4-Position(prone, standing, kneeling and sitting) competition on A-23 targets. Come out and join the fun! Submitted by Mel Flint Junior Match Director Windless, is the best way I can describe the weather this morning. For those that do not know the Prone PTO event always comes first and an opportunity to shoot on electronic targets is always welcomed in my book.
John with matching scores. We then had to use the Creedmore rule to see who had the most inner tens in their previous string and again that was a tie... And this score breaking process continued until we had Jober as the winner. Personally I would have liked to see a shoot-off!  Above Photo
Jober on Left & Mark on Right, shooting with identical rifles Posted BY: Cameron Keating USAF Shooting Team Member 
A beautiful and windy weekend it was, and I say what better way to find our regional metric champion then challenging conditions like we had. My congratulations to Allan Thomas on earning yet another Gold Medal.  Above - Allen Thomas (Left), Gold Medalist with a score of 2353 & 144 center shots  Above - Randy Teissedre (Left), Silver Medalist with a score of 2340 & 128 center shots  Above - USAF SSgt Cameron Keating (Right), Bronze Medalist with a score of 2335 & 113 center shots  Above - Mel Flint (Right), F-Class Gold Medalist with a score of 2388 & 182 center shots
Posted BY: Cameron Keating USAF Shooting Team Member  Cameron Keating - State Champion & Gold Medalist with a score of 3197 & 243 X's  Randy Teissedre - High Master & Silver Medalist with a score of 3192 & 230 X's  Allen Thomas - 2nd Master and Bronze Medalist with a score of 3191 & 241 X's
Posted BY: Cameron Keating USAF Shooting Team Member  Randy Teissedre - Match Winner and Gold Medalist with a score of 3191 & 225 X's  Cameron Keating - High Master and Silver Medalist with a score of 3190 & 215 X's  John Giles (on Right) - Bronze Medalist & High Expert with a score of 3181 & 201 X's
Posted BY: Cameron Keating USAF Shooting Team Member
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