TSRA 2022 LR is now in the history books, AKA the BRI website.
Fraternal Organization
www.bayourifles.org
Congrats to Ray Weaver, F-TR winner, Tim Vaught, F-Open winner and Stace Tamulinas, Any/Any winner.
Congrats to Team Bullet Central, F-Open Team winners.
We had some great sponsors who donated prizes, support and various items.
I met Troy Goltz from Bullet Central in North Dakota. He came with his team and won the Team matches. He also provided several valuable prizes for the prize table; 5 certificates for 100% discount on Micron Precision dies and 12 ThorroClean bore cleaning systems. (Note to self, I need to order some of that.)
As an aside, I bought my Bix'N Andy trigger from Bullet Central a couple months ago and the service was awesome. It was great to meet Troy and his team. Bullet Central is now one of my favorite place to buy stuff.
Erik Cortina donated several of his tuners for the prize table and also provided hundreds of bottles of water which were consumed by the shooters, staff and spectators. Tim Vaught provided the ice and when Erik and Tim rolled in with the water and ice, they filled the big coolers.
Deon Optical supplied many of their new caps and these were scarfed up very quickly. They also provided bags and pens, which were all snapped up. They provided a $500 coupon for a March riflescope and the drawing took place using a smartphone app that picked a number. Larry Bartholome won the coupon.
Bryan Blake of F-Class Products, donated several of those indispensable ammo caddies to the prize table and they were well appreciated by their recipients. (Another note to self: I need to order one of those also.)
The shooters were awesome, and while the heat and humidity were quite oppressive on Saturday, everyone behaved properly and helped each other out. It made my match director duties a lot easier, and the match moved along at a good clip.
By the time Sunday rolled around, everyone was into the drill and things went very quickly. I had placed an order for difficult conditions for the Sunday match and we were rewarded with extra special BRI conditions with a heaping portion of unexplained verticals. I know everyone enjoyed that.
We did get a new national record set by Nick Abbott, an awesome F-TR shooter. He shot a 200-10X on match 1 (Saturday morning) and thus surpassed the existing Police record of 199-8 (IIRC). Nick is a super guy, and we are all very happy for him.
I was assisted by Joe Regina and Peter Ackerson on the line and I placed myself at the low-end where we squad our slingers. I pace the match for them as they don their shooting jackets and so on so it's easier if I stay in that area. I did get to see various shooters as we resquadded for the second day. I enjoy watching all the shooters and try to learn some things watching folks like Norm Harrold, Tim Vaught, Ken Dickerman, Tod Hendricks, Omar Alonzo, Erick Cortina, Ray Weaver, Randy Littleton (junior), Jenniffer Bondurant, and so many others. I also notice the juniors doing their thing and they are very good. I am always in awe of the Grand Seniors, and always notice them when they line up and shoot. Larry Bartholome shot well in F-Open and Ray Weaver won F-TR.
I will update this post as my memory catches up.
