On 9/14/2013 the Tar Heel Air Gun Club hosted the first annual NC Field Target Championships.   Beautiful weather in Mount Pleasant  welcomed 21 shooters coming from all across North Carolina as well as a contingent of shooters from West Virginia.  Chris Berry designed a 15 lane course with 30 targets placed with a Troyer Scale number of 31.2 which is at the lower end of the hard range (without any further adjustment for the winds which were at times impacting the shots).

The day started with sighting in and what we called the H&N Challenge.   H&N contacted the club and provided a selection of pellets for us to test out.  We decided to have a competition to see who could get the smallest group and what the shooters had to say about the H&N pellets.     We will do a separate post on that in the near future.  Thanks to H&N for that.

We also had a swap and sell going on before the match started.   A few items changed hands and we will probably make the swap and sell a regular part of our get togethers.

Artie from Lexington Airguns set up a tent and supplied some shooters with things like targets and and shooting mats.

We also got some great prizes from Wild West Airguns who very generously offered three cash-value prizes to use for purchases on their website  as well as discount coupons to use there.

The match started at 10am after the shooters’ meeting and a group photo.   The match went off without a hitch and all the targets functioned without any protests.  At the conclusion of the match awards were presented and a hotdog lunch was served.  Some shooters had to leave then but others stayed  and shot the course some more for fun.

All in all everyone seemed to have had a great time!

 

 

 

9/14/13
NC Field Target State Championships
Mount Pleasant, NC
Lanes 15
Targets 30
Shots 60
Hunter PCP	Name	Rifle	Scope	Score
1	Chris Berry	Steyr LG110	Hawke	49
2	Bob Felton	HW 100	Nikko 4-16	48
3	Tom Miller	Webley Raider	Center Point	39
4	Jim Berry	Steyr LG100	Hawke	35
5	Roy Adkins	Marauder	Nikko Sterling	34
6	Bill Duranti	Discovery	Center Point	34
7	John Ingram	AA S400	Nikko 4-16	34
8	David Clark	AA 500	not given	30
9	Joe Earler	AA S400	not given	27
10	Spence Allen	AA S400	Hawke	25	junior 1st
11	Ben Smith	Discovery	Umarex	12	junior 2nd
12	Sue Smith	Discovery	Umarex	12	novice
	Sue Tenney	AA S200	Nikko 4-16	no score
	Artie C.	Hatsan AT44	Leapers 8-32	no score
Hunter Piston
1	Ed Canoles	R9	Vortex Diamondback	43
2	Eric Geyer	BAM B26	not given	19
3	Dwight Meyers	RWS 34	not given	16	novice
Open PCP
1	Scott Allen	Walther LG300	Leupold 40X	52
2	Gene Whitehead	RAW TM1000	Hawke 30	40
3	Skip Tenney	Daystate Airwolf	Nikko 10-50	31
Iron Sites	Len Hambleton	Gamo Whisper
Raw Results
1	Scott Allen	52
2	Chris Berry	49
3	Bob Felton	48
4	Ed Canoles	43
5	Gene Whitehead	40
6	Tom Miller	39
7	Jim Berry	35
8	Roy Adkins	34
9	Bill Duranti	34
10	John Ingram	34
11	Skip Tenney	31
12	David Clark	30
13	Joe Earler	27
14	Spence Allen	25
15	Eric Geyer	19
16	Dwight Meyers	16
17	Ben Smith	12
18	Sue Smith	12
19	Sue Tenney	no score
20	Artie C.	no score
21	Len Hambleton	no score			novice