Jay Christopherson
Not An Admin
I enjoy seeing match results from all over the country and I thought I would start posting results from the PNW - OR, WA and surrounding areas. We just had our LR Regional this past weekend at Tri-Cities Shooting Association - also known locally as "Rattlesnake". Fairly well known for it's difficult wind conditions. At one point, during our 20-shot 1000 yard stage, we had a storm blow to give us a 35mph full value wind, that at times changed direction and velocity. I'm not the greatest wind reader in the world - I'll admit that under those conditions, with 18.5 minutes of wind on, I just shot as fast as I could, chased the spotter around, and prayed.
I'm going to add some pictures this evening as well, but here are the scores to start with.
Also, a shout out to Monte Milanuk (memilanuk) for saving my bacon during the stage referenced above. Previously, I've never had more than 9 minutes of wind on; after three sighters, I still wasn't on paper and I wasn't believing the puller. To make it even more fun, I showed up with the bare minimum of rounds and at that point, could not afford to shoot many more sighters. Monte convinced me that dialing in that much wind was, in fact, NOT insane. As it was, I came down to the last relay with 1 sighter and nothing else to spare.
Even some of the well-known wind ninja's shooting sling were having some difficulty with the conditions. I fully admit that I was using them to dope my sighters and record shots. I love shooting right next to the top sling shooters.
BTW, I'll repost some of them here, but the match director takes a lot of great pictures and posts them up on Facebook after every match. Lots of great shots of individual sling shooters and F-Class shooters at various stages. They're at https://www.facebook.com/TCSAHP.
PHOTOS:
Andrew Wilde shooting, Anette Wachter scoring:
Don Pitcairn, having used between 24 - 36 minutes of wind to deal with the wind:
Stefan Isaacs shooting, Gary Rasmussen scoring:
Tod Hendricks, F-Open:
A picture by 30calgal, Anette Wachter, showing the wind she had dialed. She noted that she has never bottomed out her
wind knob before...
Mason Ostrom, F-TR:
The F-Class Crew:
All of these photos were borrowed from the TCSA Facebook page, except where noted otherwise.
I'm going to add some pictures this evening as well, but here are the scores to start with.
Also, a shout out to Monte Milanuk (memilanuk) for saving my bacon during the stage referenced above. Previously, I've never had more than 9 minutes of wind on; after three sighters, I still wasn't on paper and I wasn't believing the puller. To make it even more fun, I showed up with the bare minimum of rounds and at that point, could not afford to shoot many more sighters. Monte convinced me that dialing in that much wind was, in fact, NOT insane. As it was, I came down to the last relay with 1 sighter and nothing else to spare.
Even some of the well-known wind ninja's shooting sling were having some difficulty with the conditions. I fully admit that I was using them to dope my sighters and record shots. I love shooting right next to the top sling shooters.
BTW, I'll repost some of them here, but the match director takes a lot of great pictures and posts them up on Facebook after every match. Lots of great shots of individual sling shooters and F-Class shooters at various stages. They're at https://www.facebook.com/TCSAHP.
PHOTOS:
Andrew Wilde shooting, Anette Wachter scoring:
Don Pitcairn, having used between 24 - 36 minutes of wind to deal with the wind:
Stefan Isaacs shooting, Gary Rasmussen scoring:
Tod Hendricks, F-Open:
A picture by 30calgal, Anette Wachter, showing the wind she had dialed. She noted that she has never bottomed out her
wind knob before...
Mason Ostrom, F-TR:
The F-Class Crew:
All of these photos were borrowed from the TCSA Facebook page, except where noted otherwise.
;D
