April 30th, was an exciting day for the members and guest of the Antwerp Conservation Club, we held our first ever Practical Tactical Rifle match. The weather did cooperate for most of the day. The forecast of rain did not keep the 21 dedicated and enthusiastic shooters away. This match was inspired by the “run and gun” events that are becoming more and more popular around the country.
This type of event is meant to challenge the shooter mentally, physically and to test their equipment. Distances shot were from 35yds to 300 yds. Each stage Course of Fire (COF) required the shooter to remember a sequence of how the targets were to be hit and from what position. Some were by changing positions, others required them to remember which target to hit in a group. Sounds easy, right? Just remember, its 2 shots each on the paper targets while using 2 or 3 positions at each of the barricades. Then you must break the clay or knock over the bowling pins before moving to the next barricades. And don’t forget the steel targets. All the while the shot timer is running. The low time and high score on paper wins the round and wins the match. A total of four stages were run by participants. The final stage was shot from a “hidden position”.
Participants would engaged 4 targets at 100 yards, 4 targets 200 yards and 2 targets at 300 yards. One of the targets at 300 yds was a 5 second bonus that would subtract 5 seconds of your stage time. An electronic shot timer was used to time each shooter and then the targets were scored. Time penalties/bonuses were assessed to each shooters time. As each participant finished a stage, they were out of breath and smiling.
The first question seem to always be “What was my time?” The scores were kept on an electronic tablet using an app called Practiscore. Once the match was over, the results were announced and posted to the Practiscore website. The results are available for anyone to view by going to www.practiscore.com. Clicking on “view results” and searching for “ACC Practical Tactical 4-30-2017”. The club will be using this app and website to score and post results for many of our monthly regular matches. We will be holding monthly 22 rifle and 22 pistol matches. The 22 Rifle silhouette match is the first Saturday from May – October. The 22 Pistol will be held the third Saturday from May – October. The July matches will be combined and held on July 8th due to the 4th of July Celebration.
The results of this match are as follows. 1)Josh Fretz 2)Trevor Spencer 3)John Wilson 4)Ben Jones 5)Ryan Cordial 6)Jeff Walter 7)Gary Mabis 8)Jeremy Viers 9)Alex Campbell 10)Nick Rasey 11)Aaron Rasey 12)Aaron Kohler 13)Steve Doctor 14)Mike Walter 15)Terry Shutt 16)Kyle Showalter 17)Derek Beardsley 18)Mike Knight 19)Sam West 20)Paul King 21)Amanda LaBounty.
Hope to see you at one of our upcoming events. Our Chilli Supper is Saturday May 13th at 5pm. Keep up to date by checking out our website www.AntwerpConservationClub.com and our Facebook page.
—Gary Mabis
Pistol Range Chairman
