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Sacramento Valley FIELD TARGET ( SVFTC ) 2023 Newsletter and Events

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Motorhead:
May 23rd .. Match #3 for the SVFTC Field Target season shot at the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center IONE California.
What a nice day !!! Spring is waning with green grasses going golden brown. We have temps still hanging low to upper 60's over mostly blue sky. Todays breezes stayed light but were switchy giving a bit more challenge in reading and doping it correctly. ( Such is IONE )
We are keeping up the 60 shot format with todays targets widely scattered in range, most trended generous & IMO felt a cleanable field if you got your MoJo working.
Appears the trend of spring time chores or a vacation was Not keeping shooters from attending on the Memorial Weekend .. WHOA we have 26 hooligans wanting to knock down the steel quarry !! We had so many folks today we needed to stall the start allowing the late comers some practice time. We had 3 NEW SHOOTERS join us today brought out by fellow SVFTC shooters. This is GREAT !!! We get started just before 10:00 after the shooters meeting with a strong statement of lets keep it moving along ... Everyone did just that & we get done by @ 1:30 there about.

Today scores .. XX/60

Freestyle Piston
Scott S 36

WFTF Piston
Jim P 50
Mark W 36
AJ 35

WFTF PCP
Lonnie S 51
Chang H 49
Son L 49

HUNTER PCP
Martin O 55 *HIGH MATCH SCORE
Chris K 54 ** Won shoot off
John B 54
Conrad R 54 *No shoot off
Marty G 52
Joe B 51
Cameron W 51
Fred B 49
Kevin H 48
Erick S 47
Darren T 44
Dane 41
Weile Z 36
Tak 35
Grant S 35
Jon Z 33
John D 33
Sam R 28

Motorhead:
Correction ..unable to edit.

MARCH 2023 SVFTC match.

HUNTER PISTON
Bill C  46
Zack  35

Gear_Junkie:
Thanks for posting this Scott!!!

Motorhead:
What a wonderful spring we have had ! The nice weather just continues and we're dang near in July ... Love it !!!!
With a cool morning starting @ 7:30 am a few of us started the days course set up doing some change ups on our typical positioning of targets.
As the group starts showing up we get more help and we're soon done with our 60 shot / 15 lanes of steel quarry placement.
LOL ... yea as mentioned every report that comes from the IONE Experience the light wind is blowing even before we get practice started ... It stays light tho kinda switchy kepping everyone on there guard in being aware which way & strength threw out the match.
Today at the time of Match getting going we have 22 shooters ready & willing to get after it .... So we do just that after a brief safety meeting.

The Scores by CLASS & Finish Position XX/60

Hunter Piston:
Bill C 42

WFTF Piston
Mark W 46
Jim P 31
AJ K 29

WFTF PCP
Chang H 51
Lonnie S 47
Son L 42

Hunter PCP
John B 58 * High Match Score
Chris K 56
Erick S 51
Marty G 50
Cameron W 50
John D 48
Scott S 45 *Shot EFT Pistol @ 12x
Fred B 45
Sam R 43
Kevin H 43
Joe B 43
Grant D 38
Dane 37
Larry 37
Tak 36

As a Note of mention ... @ mid match it was announced that due to winds present, that after you took your two shots on a target ( For Score ) and having had trouble hitting said target ( "dang" it ! ) You could take a few extra shots and play with HOLD OFF required to actually connect & knock the target down. It is in such conditions that one needs to LEARN that being safe & inside the KZ simply does not work in all situations & one must explore Shooting outside the KZ to knock em down.
As is becoming a trend ... our more experienced & wind savvy shooters are still by in large setting the top scores. The real stand out was WFTF PCP with those 3 really switching it up for the days reckoning of man against steel. Another our fearless MD chose to shoot an FT pistol on the rifle course today.

The crew quickly picked up all the targets, stacked the bricks in piles to be picked up from the field. Bricks went onto the trailer & over to the storage area, targets came back to the covered shooting area & received LOTS of fresh paint ... Lol This PAINT & STORE targets on site is really working well & want to THANK all those who stayed around to do this.
We're all wrapped up by @ 1:30

After we are all done about 8-9 stay after to just screw around and shoot other air guns. This continued to @ 4:00 pm with those present continuing to laugh and have a good time.


UNTIL NEXT MONTH where the SVFTC once again converges at the Sacramento Shooting Centers Range #9 on July 23rd .... Stay well, practice until we do it again !!!

Scott Schneider
SVFTC Match Director

R1lover:
July 23rd marked the 5th match of the SVFTC 2023 Field Target season shot at the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center, IONE California.

Twenty-two shooters were in attendance on this typical WARM July day.  Earlier in the week the match daytime high was predicted to reach 107 degrees and consideration was given to shortening the course from the normal 60 shots to 40 shots so as not to cause us oldsters heat stress but, as is often the case, forecasters missed the mark (in our favor this time) and the day started off at a pleasant 68 degrees with a predicted high of 100 degrees so a 60 shot course was set.  It was 98 degrees by 1:00 pm when things were wrapping up..... quite tolerable under the barn-sized recreational vehicle style aluminum cover over the shooters.

According to the internet the breeze in Ione on Sunday was around 3 mph at the start of the match peaking at around 8 mph mid match and dropping back to 5 mph by match end, however, the American flag was noticed standing out in fully display from the flag pole near the club house at times so maybe we had gusts to a bit more. While the breeze was nothing out of the ordinary apparently the course may have been as scores were generally lower than normal and one experienced shooter commented that "a good course" (i.e., challenging) was set.  Blame that on novice course-setters Chris K and Marty G who took the reigns while Match Director Scott S was away, extending his Oregon vacation following the Oregon State Grand Prix held in Ashland the weekend before.  Fred B acted as match director for Sunday.

Sunday's match saw the return of a few shooter we haven't seen in a bit and the absence of a few who attended the Oregon match the weekend before.

New-to-SVFTC this season were shooters Weiye, Grant S and Cameron W.  Cameron W made a strong showing and took 3rd place in Hunter PCP.

Lonnie S, always the gentleman and consummate WFTF PCP performer had high match score with 54.  Cameron K. was high score in the  challenging WFTF Piston class with 47 and Chris K. had high score in Hunter PCP with 51.  Marty G, who was one of the first two to arrive and take gear out of the on-site gear box, load it into vehicles, take it out to the range and set up the course let nothing slow him down, finishing only two shots off the lead in Hunter PCP for second place.

Only one shooter demonstrated questionable judgment at Sunday's match.  Martin O'Connor, FT match director at Diablo Rod and Gun Club in Concord, decided to bring his PCP pistol to the rifle match.  Kind of like bringing a knife to a gunfight.  Mr. O' placed 1st, 2nd and "only" in the pistol category with more than 50% of his targets knocked down.

Plenty of help was present to set up and tear down the course and lots of folks demonstrated their artistic talents with paint and brush in hand to spruce up faceplates and paddles after the match.  Not everyone colored inside the lines but that's okay because we're just gonna shoot all that paint off at the next match anyway, loll

   

July scores .. XX/60


WFTF Piston
Cameron K  47 - winner
Mark W  30

WFTF PCP
Lonnie S  54 - winner and HIGH MATCH SCORE
Son Lu   42
Chang H  37


HUNTER PCP
Chris K  51 - winner
Marty G  49
Cameron W   47
Erik S   44
Bill R   42
Kevin H   42
Bill C   41
Fred B   38
Dane   36
John D.   36
Tak   34
Larry   33
Grant S   31
Sam R   29
Weiye   25
John Z  14 - winging it without the benefit of a dope card and holdover data

PCP Pistol
Martin O'Connor  31 - winner

Looking forward to seeing everyone next month for the August SVFTC match.


Posted by Chris K for Scott Schneider, SVFTC Match Director

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