SDPS NEWSLETTER – February 2007
Boy,
we are really starting this year off on a roll. We had 70 shooters at the
January match and had 65 in February…. Considering the match was on
Super Bowl Sunday I’d say that was a very good turnout! Significant
again was the 10 or so new shooters that came out and shot with us, we hope
you enjoyed the match and that we’ll see you again soon!
Along
with the expanding shooter base, Wayne posted a drawing for the proposed range
expansion project he is working on. When finished it will add three new bays
for a total of 8, and one of the new bays is 55 yards deep. If the weather
and schedules all co-operate we should have additional bays to shoot in this
summer.
With new bays and new shooters we will also need more Safety Officers and guess what? Wayne presented IDPA Safety Officer Certificates to ten new SO’s from the recent classes held in November and December. Congratulations guys, and thanks for stepping up to help keep our club growing and moving forward!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Classifiers – We had 12 shooters signed up to shoot the classifier after the match this month. If you want to shoot at the California Cup in July you must be officially classified. There are a couple more opportunities coming up, so sign up with Mark Leister and get classified…even if you don’t plan to shoot the State Match.
The largest single group we have every month is “SSP Unclassified”, this month it had 16 shooters and we had a total of 25 unclassified shooters for the match. So sign up with Mark, bring an extra 100 rounds and get classified…it let’s you know where you are skill wise and gives you “something to shoot for”…
California Cup – The California State IDPA Championship is in Richmond CA July 6-8. The website is http://www.californiacup-idpa.com/ Jim Griffiths is the Match Director and you can reach him at (510) 329-1139 for more information about shooting or volunteering to help staff the matches.
Feb 4, 2007 SDPS Match Summary
I
think everybody showed up expecting to see a few short simple stages so they
could get done early and be home in time for a few hot dogs and a beer before
Super Bowl kickoff at 3:35 PST….what they saw was 5 bays full of all
kinds of different barricades, barrels, props and targets and people working
feverishly to get all the swingers and turners and moving walls working properly
for the scenarios.
This month John Schlegel was the Match Director and Eric Kokernak was the assistant MD. Along with their team they did a really nice job of coming up with stages that were a good combination of challenges and fun. At first it looked like we might be there until sundown getting through it all, but actually the shoot itself went very smoothly and all 65 shooter were done in about 4.5 hours…anybody that had a Super Bowl date was able to make it on time I’m sure.
This
month we only had two Ladies shooting with us, Melissa and Cindy. Hopefully
the warmer weather will bring more of the ladies back out to the range this
spring.
The class Champions rotated a little
this month from January, Chad and Wayne won again, but the other three classes
had new winners. Chad Case won SSP with a 94.64 (13) and Wayne Johnson won
CDP with a 110.38 (19). John Prall won ESP with a 97.10 (22), Michael St Denis
won ESR with a 169.79 (48) and the SSR winner was Ernie Rice with a 223.97.
Best stage scores were:
Stage 1: 20.94 (5) Allen Lowe
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Stage 2: 19.06 (5) Ed Vernon
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Stage 3: 19.01 (7) Allen Lowe
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Stage 4: 13.28 (0) Chad Case
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Stage 5: 18.32 (1) Chad Case
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The “Fantasy Shooter’s” score for the match would have been 90.61 down 18…so the days best real score by Chad of 94.64 (13) was more accurate and only 3 seconds slower that the best combined stage totals!!
Stage of the Month
OK,
for the second month in a row it goes to the scenario in Bay 5. “Officially”
I don’t think it had a name…but it had to do with you waiting
for your wife to try on some new clothes in the store when bad guys show up,
you had to engage targets, move, set off the fire alarm to call for help and
trigger both a turning target and a swinging target at the same time and then
go engage more threats….”Un-Officially” I think it could
have been called “Rube Goldberg Gone Wild”….. because it
took 5 or 6 people over an hour to engineer, re-engineer, test, change, re-test,
move ropes, test, add pulleys, change ropes…well you get the idea...the
mouse takes the cheese, which starts the marble rolling, which drops into
the pan, that pours the water that starts the bowling ball rolling, etc, etc,
etc…
For the people shooting, it was a fun stage, to the stage designer I am sure he was pulling his hair out trying to figure how to make it work properly and consistently every single time the lever was pulled…THANK YOU for persevering and giving us a stage that was entertaining to watch as well as to shoot!
Till we shoot again…..
Bob