TSRA Texas Long Range Championship Oct 4-7

[TX65]

The Texas State Rifle Association is conducting its annual Long Range Championship at Bayou Rifles in Houston, Texas

Location:

The range is located approximately 25 miles south of downtown Houston off Hwy 288 South on County Rd 57 West.

Travel:

Houston's Hobby Airport is located within 30 minutes of range if you fly Southwest Airlines. Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport is located approximately 45 miles from range if you are flying on United, American, Delta or US Air.

Hotels:

There are some small hotels in Manvel, Texas and a wider selection in Pearland, Texas

Food:

In Pearland, there are complete choices from fast food to Cracker Barrel, Landry's, Pappasito's and Saltgrass

Rules:

All NRA Highpower rules apply.

No Muzzle Brakes or Suppressors.

Maximum .35 caliber

Bullets must remain supersonic at 1000 yards and all shooters must be on target with 7 shots

Classes:

Iron Sight - Palma or Service Rifle

Scoped - F-Class (FTR and F-Open)

Match Fee:

$20 for Friday Team Match, $75 for Saturday and Sunday Individual Match

Schedule:

Thursday Oct 4th - Sight In Period 800,900 and 1000 Yards. 10 minutes at each distance with firing beginning at 1pm

Friday Oct 5th - 2 Man Team Match at 800, 900 and 1000 yards. 15 shots for record at each distance with unlimited sighters at 800 yards and 2 sighters at both 900 and 1000 yards.

Saturday October 6th - Individual Match Day 1 at 800, 900 and 1000 yards. 15 shots for record at each distance with unlimited sighters at 800 yards and 2 sighters at both 900 and 1000 yards. An additional 1000 yard 20 shot match will be shot at this day with unlimited sighters.

Sunday October 7th - Individual Match Day 1 at 800, 900 and 1000 yards. 15 shots for record at each distance with unlimited sighters at 800 yards and 2 sighters at both 900 and 1000 yards.

*** If you are in the area or have time to come in earlier and desire to get additional range time, Bayou Rifles monthly NRA Registered 1000 yard match will occur on Sunday, September 30th with 60 shots for score at 1000 yards. Fee is $20 for nonmembers and $15 for members.

If you are interested, here is a link to the match information and entry form

https://www.tsra.com/images/stories/matches/long%20range%20championship%20oct%204%202012.pdf

 

[Turbulent Turtle]

The match is now in the books.

For the individual matches, Saturday was a beautiful day with calm winds in the morning, but kicking up in the afternoon. On Sunday, the temperature was cool and the winds quite vicious from the start and intensifying throughout the day. The final match at 1000 yards was a humbling experience all around.

Congratulations to everyone who came out and shot, we only had one shooter drop off by Sunday morning due to illness. The competition was fierce and with the winds, it was anyone's match to the end.

In F-Open, the winner was David Mann with a 1085-50 (out of a possible 1100-65). Second place went to Ken Dickerman with a 1084-49. Third place went to Mark Walker with a 1082-59.


In F-T/R, the winner was Skip Barkley with a 1037-26. Second place went to Greg Barkley 1037-22. (Yes, they are brothers which explains why they shot the same score but with a different X-count.) Yours truly took third place with another 1037-22.

In Palma Rifle, the winner was Jon Rhynard with 1079-42. Second place went to Tony Miller with a 1078-44. Third place went to Kemp Fuller with 1076-43.

In Service rifle, the winner was Sam Miller with 1023-23. Second place went to Nez Rongero with a 1016-23. Third place went to Glenn Edgard with 1004-24.

 

[mdavis78102]

Congratulations to all. It was a pretty close race all around.