Rendezvous 4.0
- Thread starter Tom E
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Ga. Dawg
Silver $$ Contributor
Well the Sweaty Viking showed his a$$ this weekend!!! Congratulations Shawn on an outstanding job! Well Deserved Buddy! Congratulations to all the top finishers as it was a great and challenging match.
Thank you TomE and Ms Sara and the Valley Crew on another flawless event. Awesome!!
Enjoyed seeing everyone! Now get home safe!
Shoot Straight,
Mike
Thank you TomE and Ms Sara and the Valley Crew on another flawless event. Awesome!!
Enjoyed seeing everyone! Now get home safe!
Shoot Straight,
Mike
7mmmag
Gold $$ Contributor
Thank You to all of the Vaportrail Crew for such a smooth well run shoot it was a great time. I hope the camper headed back to GA made it home with no flats ! Mike , Ronniie excellent job with all the Great food for supper and the Social Director did a good job as normal.
Congradulations to all top shooters . Hope to see you next year !!
Thanks to all I had a great time and was nice to see y'all !!!!
Congradulations to all top shooters . Hope to see you next year !!
Thanks to all I had a great time and was nice to see y'all !!!!
Congrats Shawn!!
jvw2008
Lose the Second and we lose them all.
4.0 is in the books. It was great to be there and visit with old friends and make new ones. Thank you TomE and Sara for the opportunity to enjoy your hospitality. You guys are the best. Congrats to all the shooters who make the Rendezvous happen. No one is a loser there - we all come away with a smile on our face and can’t wait for the next one.
Raythemanroe
Bullet Whisperer
Longrangelefty
Silver $$ Contributor
Once again TomE, Ms. Sara, target crew, all family members and even an appearance and help with targets from the neighbor that I hear can shoot pretty good, have knocked the week out of the park. Guys I don’t know how you continue to improve this match year after year, but you do. Thank you for the thought, time and effort to make it such a special event. My only complaint is that it takes so long to get here but is gone in the blink of an eye. The only time of the year I wish there were a few more hours in the day. Thank you to the long, incredible list of sponsors that have been so generous throughout the longevity of the infamous Rendezvous series. Congratulations to Shawn and all of the top shooters after the marathon of targets, it is definitely earned at the Valley. Getting to shake hands and tell stories with the best people and shooters from across the country is icing on the cake. Thanks again to everyone who had a hand in the week’s festivities, 5.0 is only 52ish weeks away, it’s already on my mind!
Blake
Blake
Tom E
Gold $$ Contributor
Rendezvous 4.0 , what a great week!
This match played out in my head and was talked about while traveling to matches with my buddies, the year escapes me but my best guess is 2014 to 2015 ish.
It has worked, the camaraderie! Is what makes it, bringing the best shooters from all corners of the country together. We eat like kings, we laugh until our belly’s hurt, we might be known to party just a bit, we make memories that will last forever, and we do a lil shooting, throw in the rentless soul crushing valley conditions at times and it makes for a hell of a match.
11000 rds down range in three days, best estimate
Who knows how many rds from tuning starting on the Friday before, I just know I wore blisters on my toes going back and forth.
Only had three target corners come loose on 1098 record targets! That is a testament, to the most badass tartget crew on the planet.
The match payout was just shy of 15000.00 cash not counting closest to the X pot each day, which was 940.00 per day.
16880.00 pd out
The generosity of this bunch was overwhelming, Denise and Mike donated a Rendezvous bear that she hand makes, silent auction and a fun shoot gathered up 1000.00 for a local family with a very sick granddaughter.
The target crew bucket had 840.00 , with what we paid them and your generous donation, we had some happy kids, that learned that hard work is rewarded and noticed!!!
We had two records broke, Mark Niezabitowski set a single target high score at 1000yds 50/ 2.510”
Chuck Napikoski owns the 8 target 600 yd score record with a 388/2.579”
Congrats guys
I have not checked the 20 target Agg records as of yet.
The weather for 4.0, well we didn’t have any rain or hurricanadors, but we did have some relentless switchy winds that got better as the days went by, the first hot days of 2024 for us.
We started with 69 on the rooster ended up with 66 shooters, we missed the three that were held up for health reasons.
When it was all said and done!
The 16 Target agg overall winner and a guy that really never had shot 1000yds Curt T Knitt came out on top, Hell of a finish, I took his Garmin away and he still came out on top!
After the top fourteener were picked and we had the head to head match bench vs. bench,
Seven of the best came out on top and went to the Super Seven Showdown
Shawn Williams from Montana put it on them!
Shawn was on a mission and it was very apparent he had something figured out down range.
He beat the local Dan Hullinger at his second home.
Congrats to all the winners!
I’ll be posting more in the coming days, I’m sitting in a truck stop somewhere in South Dakota currently, but I wanted to get this out there!
You guys and girls rocked, I never had to leave the line to find a shooter,
Thanks to everyone that helps, you know who you are, thanks to my crew, thanks to the all the companies that help sponsor this match in some form, without all of you the Rendezvous wouldn’t be what it is! And huge thanks to Sara Pollard Jacobs for putting up with me and the work I create, guys none of this would be possible without this girl but I know you all already know that.
TomE
Wyoshot or bust
This match played out in my head and was talked about while traveling to matches with my buddies, the year escapes me but my best guess is 2014 to 2015 ish.
It has worked, the camaraderie! Is what makes it, bringing the best shooters from all corners of the country together. We eat like kings, we laugh until our belly’s hurt, we might be known to party just a bit, we make memories that will last forever, and we do a lil shooting, throw in the rentless soul crushing valley conditions at times and it makes for a hell of a match.
11000 rds down range in three days, best estimate
Who knows how many rds from tuning starting on the Friday before, I just know I wore blisters on my toes going back and forth.
Only had three target corners come loose on 1098 record targets! That is a testament, to the most badass tartget crew on the planet.
The match payout was just shy of 15000.00 cash not counting closest to the X pot each day, which was 940.00 per day.
16880.00 pd out
The generosity of this bunch was overwhelming, Denise and Mike donated a Rendezvous bear that she hand makes, silent auction and a fun shoot gathered up 1000.00 for a local family with a very sick granddaughter.
The target crew bucket had 840.00 , with what we paid them and your generous donation, we had some happy kids, that learned that hard work is rewarded and noticed!!!
We had two records broke, Mark Niezabitowski set a single target high score at 1000yds 50/ 2.510”
Chuck Napikoski owns the 8 target 600 yd score record with a 388/2.579”
Congrats guys
I have not checked the 20 target Agg records as of yet.
The weather for 4.0, well we didn’t have any rain or hurricanadors, but we did have some relentless switchy winds that got better as the days went by, the first hot days of 2024 for us.
We started with 69 on the rooster ended up with 66 shooters, we missed the three that were held up for health reasons.
When it was all said and done!
The 16 Target agg overall winner and a guy that really never had shot 1000yds Curt T Knitt came out on top, Hell of a finish, I took his Garmin away and he still came out on top!
After the top fourteener were picked and we had the head to head match bench vs. bench,
Seven of the best came out on top and went to the Super Seven Showdown
Shawn Williams from Montana put it on them!
Shawn was on a mission and it was very apparent he had something figured out down range.
He beat the local Dan Hullinger at his second home.
Congrats to all the winners!
I’ll be posting more in the coming days, I’m sitting in a truck stop somewhere in South Dakota currently, but I wanted to get this out there!
You guys and girls rocked, I never had to leave the line to find a shooter,
Thanks to everyone that helps, you know who you are, thanks to my crew, thanks to the all the companies that help sponsor this match in some form, without all of you the Rendezvous wouldn’t be what it is! And huge thanks to Sara Pollard Jacobs for putting up with me and the work I create, guys none of this would be possible without this girl but I know you all already know that.
TomE
Wyoshot or bust
chris davis
Silver $$ Contributor
We made it at 3:00 am Sunday morning!
Tom, Sara and the entire crew.
THANK YOU so much for the time and effort you give to this sport. This was a shooting contest not an accurate gun contest. There were a lot of shooters that figured out these tough conditions and laid down some great targets. Thanks again for a great week and hope to see everyone again next year.
Paul Hilgedick
THANK YOU so much for the time and effort you give to this sport. This was a shooting contest not an accurate gun contest. There were a lot of shooters that figured out these tough conditions and laid down some great targets. Thanks again for a great week and hope to see everyone again next year.
Paul Hilgedick
Tom e and Sara
thanks again for the open arms welcome and family atmosphere yall provide at the valley
as always a well run over the top event Target crew scoring and everyone else that makes this match possible thank you Congratulations to all the winners and my wish is everyone made it home safely
can’t wait til next year
Ronnie
thanks again for the open arms welcome and family atmosphere yall provide at the valley
as always a well run over the top event Target crew scoring and everyone else that makes this match possible thank you Congratulations to all the winners and my wish is everyone made it home safely
can’t wait til next year
Ronnie
yes the Ga camper made it home with NO MORE mishaps we did all but bump a deer inside a mile from the house but Ronnies driving skills kept us safe but boy did i have a great time Tom E Sara and the Valley crew are first class cant wait until next year hope everyone got home safe and always GOD BLESS
Tom E
Gold $$ Contributor
about that time to start looking at who’s in and ready for next year!
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