Category: Match

Our second match of the season had a great turnout today. A little windy, but at least the rain held off until all the shooting was finished. We had one new shooter with us, David Paulsen. Welcome!

Rusty Caldwell won the Peep target competition with a score of 96 2X, and Bob Browner won the Open sight match with a score of 91 2X. Congratulations!

* – Awards will be giving out at the annual meeting in February 2025.

Open Match:
* 1st: Bob Browner – 91 2X
* 2nd: David Brandenburger – 89
* 3rd: Brad Dickinson – 88
4th: Joe Kelly – 83
5th: Bob Vogt – 83
6th: Ken Hubbman – 82
7th: Bob Coffelt – 81
8th: Ron Lawrence – 81
9th: John Michalka – 80
10th: Tom Goden – 80
11th: Robert Downs – 76
12th: Bryce Stroup – 73
13th: Kenny Hubbman – 72
14th: Art Buckowitz – 70
15th: Mike Briscoe – 69
16th: Justin Emerson – 63
17th: Mike Buckowitz – 61
18th: Glenn Baer – 61
19th: Robert Roth – 56
20th: Darren Heaton – 54
21st: Jim Feeney – 46
22nd: Rhonda Buckowitz – 43

Peep Match:
* 1st: Rusty Caldwell – 96 2X
* 2nd: Dave Brandenburger – 92
* 3rd: Mike Briscoe – 84
4th: Bob Vogt – 81x
5th: Tom Goden – 80
6th: John Ross – 13

Super Senior Match:
1st: Ted Sanders – 44
2nd: Dennis Quinn – 17

Smoothbore Match:
1st: Walter Fett – 47
2nd: Ron Lawrence – 45
3rd: Dave Yahne – 39X
4th: Mike Briscoe – 37

Pistol Match:
1st: Rusty Caldwell – 54
2nd: Justin Emerson – 50
3rd: Darren Heaton – 48X
4th: Dave Yahne – 48
5th: Glenn Baer – 34

Schuetzen Black Powder Winners: Brad Dickinson and David Brandenburger
50-50 Winner: Jim Hubbman $60

Targets can be purchased from the NMLRA here:
Peep Targets
Open Targets

Today was a beautiful day for our opening match. We had a very nice turnout of 22 shooters with many wearing their rendezvous attire. Mike Briscoe was the overall winner with a score of 75. Congratulations Mike! This was an entry prize match. Everyone that brought a prize was allowed to take a prize from the table in the order they placed in the match.

This match is made up of scores from shooting, fire starting, hawk and knife throwing, with additional points for period dress, shooting from a pouch, and using a flintlock. The 7 shooting stations consisted of (1) cutting cards, (2) steel turkey head, (3) hanging charcoal briquettes, (4) steel ring and targets, (5) lollipops, (6) steel circle at ~75 yards, (7) steel square at ~100 yards.

The point system was setup as follows:

2 shots at 7 offhand targets for a total of 14 shots at 5pts each for a maximum of (70 pts)

Period Dress: (5pts)

Shooting from a Pouch: (5pts)

Flintlock: (5pts)

Fire starting: 0-7pts based upon speed (7pts)

Hawk and knife: 3 throws each. Stick = 1pt; Cut = 3pts; so the Hawk had a max of 9pts and Knife also has 9pts maximum. (18pts)

Total Maximum Point is 110 points.

Justin Emerson ran the Fire Starting station and Walter Fett and Ted Sanders ran the hawk and knife station.

Here is how the scores ranked:

1st: Mike Briscoe – 75

2nd: Rick Weeks – 69

3rd: Bob Browner – 67

4th: Clint Cummings – 64

5th: Ron Lawrence – 62

6th: Bob Vogt – 61

7th: Justin Emerson – 58

8th: Bryce Stroup – 58

9th: Kenny Hubbman – 57

10th: Ken Hubbman – 57

11th: Brad Dickinson – 51

12th: Art Buckowitz – 49

13th: Dave Brandenburger – 48

14th: Mike Petersmeyer – 48

15th: Tom Goden – 42

16th: Glenn Baer – 41

17th: Joe Kelly – 39

18th: Joe Herman – 33

19th: Rhonda Buckowitz – 21

20th: Robert Roth – 20

21st: Connor Whalen – 15

22nd: Ron Novak – 15

The Schuetzen Black Powder give away was won by Mike Petersmeyer. Congratulations!

The 50/50 card game worth $45 was won by Brad Dickinson. Congratulations!

Thank you also goes to Rhonda Buckowitz for providing beef stew and rolls for lunch. Yummy!

More pictures and videos:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/yo1m9lp3co5zht9cal636/h?rlkey=74lkv0fjf84r2rqb9pl98z1wa&dl=0