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