by Rob Wright, Match Director
The weather for this weekend turned out perfect – not too hot, a few breezes, and NO RAIN!
A HUGE THANK YOU to the organizing team of Jeff, Bob, Joel (+ me) who have been working on this event for months.
Plus, of course all the people who helped to get things ready, to transport things, to prep and setup the course, to run the match, to run the chronograph station, to be course marshals, to process the scores, to tear down and pack up… This event could not happen without all these people putting in their time, effort, and positive support to make this happen.
Our Course Marshals for the weekend were: Joel as Chief Marshal with his team of Jeff, Marc, Dennis, and Richard T.
We had 37 shooters complete the 2-day event. Shooters in the Open and WFTF Divisions shot the Red Course on Saturday and the White course on Sunday. Hunter and Modified did the reverse. Each course was 10 lanes with 3 targets per lane and 2 shots per target. We did have one exception on Lane #1 of the White course since we had a very elevated target to provide some additional challenge for those shooting standing. We set separate targets for the Modified Division shooters on this lane only.
We had two juniors out, as well as several shooters who only started shooting Field Target this year – it was great to have them out and hope to see them at many more matches to come.
We again welcomed several US shooters to the Port Colborne club – it was great to have you join us again!
The courses were planned to be fairly challenging, but my plan crashed into reality and a couple last minute layout changes meant that they both ended up a little easier than planned. That is not to say that they were easy – no one cleared either course on either day. (I will make another post with some of the details of Troyer factors and K% for those who want more details.)
A few highlights: In the Hunter Division, Mike P. edged out Kelsie M. by just 3 points – each of them knocked down 48 of 60 targets on their best day. In Modified Division, Richard S. only left 3 targets standing on Sunday, and Brandon made 55 of 60 in the Open Division. Joel showed us the skill that earned him a medal at the WFTF World Championships a few weeks ago and only left 2 targets standing on Sunday. This was the best result of any division on either day – and done with a 10.5 FPE, spring powered rifle! These results definitely give the rest of us something to shoot for.
The Canadian National Champions are the top Canadian shooters in each class.
Thank you also to the Port Colborne & District Conservation Club for providing the awesome facility for this match (and to Steve and Frances for a great wrap up lunch!).
Thank you also to our sponsors who made the prize table a huge hit again this year and caused some excitement for those first few names drawn in each round! Make sure that you look to our sponsors when you need anything airgun related.
AGS: https://www.airgunsource.ca/
Airgun Archery Fun: https://airgunarcheryfun.ca/
Plus generous prize donations from:
Peter E.
Andre N.
And Ten-Ring (from the CAF forum)
Of course, there is no point doing all this work if we do not have people come out to shoot – so thank you to everyone who came out to shoot – several on both sides of the border drove almost 8 hours just to join us for this event!
Thank you to everyone that was a part of this event, I really enjoyed it and look forward to seeing many of you for the rest of the matches this season and of course at the Nationals next year.
Rob Wright
Match Director
Here are the complete results
