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DIFTA match results for July 27, 2013

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We had a fun time at the DIFTA match yesterday. The weather was uncharacteristically cool for a Maryland July, and we were even treated to a decent breeze now and then. Even though Paolo couldn't be with us for the match, he set up a very nice 72-shot course for us. This included a forced offhand lane, and a "fast" lane where shooters had three minutes instead of the usual seven to make six shots. Not for the first time, Paolo set out, ranged, and leveled all 36 targets, even though he wasn't shooting the match! Thanks, Paolo!!! You spoil us!

The match marked the quiet but auspicious return of a dear old friend of DIFTA: after what? two years in the repair shop, Long Tom himself reappeared on the course! Great to have you back, Tom! I'm sure we'll be seeing less and less of Tom at future matches, by which I mean I bet the ranges to Tom will steadily increase as the matches tick by *grin*.

Competition was tight all day, across the classes. Eric and Dean were neck and neck all day until Eric's breech seal gave out halfway through the last lane! Al and Tinh shot a complete nail-biter, despite Tinh's constant assurances that Al was blowing him out of the water, making him look bad, etc. BTW, Tinh's hand-made bullpup stock for his Pro Target is a sight to behold, and a wonder of ingenuity, even by Tinh's standards! And Keith blew us all away, tying the match high score shooting WFTF-Piston style! It was a real pleasure shooting with first-time FT shooter Marty Boegner. Shooting offhand, Marty'***** rate was high for targets where he had his rifle zeroed. He's gonna be wicked after a few minutes with Chairgun!

The full results:

Shooter                    Rifle                 Scope                             Pellet           Score/72           Division          Class

Dean Mihalovits           AA S500              Millet TRS-1                   CPH             64                     Hunter             PCP

Eric Thesing                Marauder             Millet TRS-1                   CPH             61                     Hunter             PCP
 
Henry Canoles Jr.        R9                       Bushnell 4200 4-16       CPL              59                     Hunter             Piston

Ed Canoles                 R9                       Vortex Diamondback      CPL              55                     Hunter             Piston

Bill Price                      R9                      Centerpoint 4-16x40      CPL              42                     Hunter             Piston

Mark Martin                Daystate
                                  Air Ranger          Hawke 10x                      CPH             34                     Open               Offhand

Marty Boegner           RWS 34P            3-9x                                 ?                 10                     Open (Novice)  Offhand

Al Otter                      USFT #16           March X 8-80                   CPH             62                     Open                PCP

Tinh Nguyen              AA Pro Target
                                  Bullpup               Bushnell 4200                 JSBH            61                     Open                PCP

Karl Krchma              Crosman 2250     Simmons                         CP .22          23                     Open               PCP

Keith Knoblauch       TX200                   Burris 8-32x                   JSB 8.4          64                     WFTF              Piston

Art Deuel                  HW97                   Leupold 6.5-20 EFR        CPL              42                      WFTF             Piston

Jan Vandenberg       Walther LGR-U      match peep sights         AA 7.3           20                      WFTF             PCP
 

Our next matches are the Fun Shoot on August 10, followed by a regular match on August 24. See the chapter calendar for the full schedule.

See you next time!

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--- Quote from: John B on July 30, 2013, 09:27:06 PM ---FT folks are the best! Sounds like y'all have a great group there. Thanks for taking the time to post ,a nd, including equipment (tho the bullpup pro target may not have happens as we cant see a pic, could we?) . Nice variety of rifle/scopes and nice seeing both hunter and WFTF having some pretty good numbers.
Have a link to the DIFTA page?
Got pics?
 Aim small,
John

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Here it is.......
http://www.damascusiwla.org/
DIFTA is held on the Damascus, MD Issac Walton League grounds and the FT matches are listed on the "Club 2013 calendar"..........
http://www.damascusiwla.org/calendar2013.html

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--- Quote from: John B on July 30, 2013, 09:27:06 PM ---FT folks are the best! Sounds like y'all have a great group there. Thanks for taking the time to post ,a nd, including equipment (tho the bullpup pro target may not have happens as we cant see a pic, could we?) . Nice variety of rifle/scopes and nice seeing both hunter and WFTF having some pretty good numbers.
Have a link to the DIFTA page?
Got pics?
 Aim small,
John

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Sorry, no pics this time. I usually take my little Nikon digital camera but not this time. I'll make it a point to take a few pics at the next regular match on Aug 24th. There will be a free "fun match" on Aug 10th, but I don't usually take the 800 mile round trip from NC to MD for them. To go to a DIFTA match I travel to the WV property and do some maintenance work, then from WV to DIFTA in the morning, then from DIFTA in MD back to NC on Saturday afternoon.

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