Hosted at the Midland County Sportsman’s Club (mcsc.info)
On a day that was only a couple degrees shy of almost perfect when we started and perfect when we finished, we only were able to convince four (4) shooters to attend.
We had two (2) of each: F-Open and Palma Rifle Shooters. Tony Dekelaita was high F-Open with a 393-15X, and Ray Gross was high Palma with a 397-20X.
2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League – Match 4
The next potential date is April 17, 2021. Program is: 2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program
We had seven (7) competitors out for the Winter Mid-Range Prone League at the Midland County Sportsman’s Club. The weather was only slightly cool. The good news was the tent was down. The bad news was the tent was down. You can take that however, you might like.
Of the seven (7) competitors we had four (4) different categories represented. The high and only Any Rifle was Mike Quillinan with a 391-16. High F-Open was Marcel Bollinger with a 398-25. High and only F-TR was Charles Hayes with a 377-3. High Palma Rifle by outlasting the second Palma shooter was Leo Cebula, with a 387-11.
2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League – Match 3
The next League match is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, April 3, 2021. Shooting starts at 10:00 AM with squadding at 9:15 AM. Program is: 2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program
| First | Last | Category | Sort |
| Christina | Valladres | Collegiate/Junior | 1949.3 |
| Collin | Fox | Collegiate/Junior | 1752.1 |
| Cassie | Coulston-Gerigk | Collegiate/Junior | 1750.3 |
| Mark | VanEvery | Collegiate/Junior | 1132.6 |
| Ed | Gostomski | F-Class Prone | 2546.9 |
| Steve | Goyette | F-Class Prone | 2544.2 |
| Bret | Solomon | F-Class Prone | 2535.1 |
| Dave | Strycharz | F-Class Prone | 2532.6 |
| Steve | Jones | F-Class Prone | 2517.0 |
| Mark | Javit | F-Class Prone | 2495.5 |
| Marcel | Bollinger | F-Class Prone | 2486.1 |
| Jim | Weinrich | F-Class Prone | 2483.2 |
| Dale | Doombos | F-Class Prone | 2406.2 |
| Clinton | Lucas | F-Class Prone | 2313.7 |
| Troy | Markosky | F-Class Prone | 2303.8 |
| Hayden | Lucas | F-Class Prone | 2297.0 |
| Leroy | McCormick | F-Class Prone | 2288.7 |
| Kelley | Neeley | F-Class Prone | 1891.5 |
| Dan | Altman | Sling Prone | 2485.7 |
| Jamie | Root | Sling Prone | 2479.5 |
| Leo | Cebula | Sling Prone | 2468.5 |
| Gary | Duda | Sling Prone | 2468.1 |
| Cameron | Zwart | Sling Prone | 2461.1 |
| Timothy | Schmeltzer | Sling Prone | 2435.8 |
| Larry | Remsnyder | Sling Prone | 2388.4 |
| Richard | Pardini | Sling Prone | 2382.1 |
| Charlie | Reynolds | Sling Prone | 2377.6 |
| Arlyn | Doombos | Sling Prone | 2348.8 |
| Jay | Baker | Sling Prone | 2273.8 |
| Steve | Fenske | Sling Prone | 2238.0 |
| Ken | Potter | Sling Prone | 1814.6 |
| Chris | Whitney | Sling Prone | 592.4 |
| Hanne | Brantner | Sling Prone | 592.2 |
Aggregate scores are based upon the high four match score of six fired matches. Please bring obvious errors to my attention (Lcebula@comcast.net).
This is NOT the final results. There are still a match to be shot, April Fool’s Day in Grand Rapids. We will then finalize the results, and name the Shoot-Off contestants.
Results up to March 20, 2021:
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 1
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 2
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 3
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 4
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 5
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 6
As I go through the posting I felt it was worthwhile to review the high scores by Category: So here they are:
Collegiate/Junior: Collin Fox 592.7
F-Class Prone: Ed Gostomski 638.0
Sling Prone: Dan Altman 630.6
March is upon us, so we have only one league match left: March 27 – Muskegon.
We will be making cuts at determining who will be invited to the Shoot-Off on April 10, 2021 at Jackson. We will make the final determinations after the last scores are entered from Muskegon. Watch this spot!
Program is available: 2020-2021 Snow Country English Match Series
On a cool, sunny Saturday morning, we had five (5) shooters compete in the second Winter League Match of 2021. Of the five (5), there were three (3) F-Open Shooters, one (1) each of F-TR and Palma Rifle.
The high shooter in F-Open was Marcel Bollinger with a 390-19X, High F-TR was Charley Hayes with a 389-11X, and high Palma rifle was Leo Cebula with a 193-8X with a damaged rifle.
2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League – Match 2
The next match will be: March 27, 2021. The Program is: 2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program
The Winter Mid-Range Prone Match scheduled for 3-6-2021 is ON.
We will fire a 2×600. Squadding at about 9:15 AM and firing at about 10:00 AM. The weather is clear and will be sunny as the day progresses. Temperature will be about 27 F at 10:00 AM. In the tent it should be about 50 F.
Come on out. The program is: 2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program
Results up to February 27, 2021:
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 1
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 2
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 3
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 4
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 5
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 6
As I go through the posting I felt it was worthwhile to review the high scores by Category: So here they are:
Collegiate/Junior: Collin Fox 592.7
F-Class Prone: Ed Gostomski 638.0
Sling Prone: Dan Altman 630.6
March is upon us, so we have only one month of the league matches left: March 4 – Grand Rapids; March 13 – Monroe; March 20 – Howell; March 27 – Muskegon.
Program is available: 2020-2021 Snow Country English Match Series
We had seven (7) shooters this morning. A good turnout for a day that started at about 16 degrees F. Surprisingly, the sling shooters outnumbered the F-Class shooters. That doesn’t happen very often.
We had four (4) categories represented, with just a couple shooters in each. High (and only) Any Rifle was Matt Wieczorek with a 395-18, High F-Open was Tony Dekelaita with a 390-12, High Palma Rifle was Ray Gross with a 395-21, and high Service Rifle was Jason Quayle with a 358-2.
In notable performances, Matt Wieczorek had the only clean for the day in his second string, a 200-10.
Complete Results:
2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League
Next match will be March 6, 2021. As always, watch his site for a notice indicating if the match will be held.
Program is: 2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program
First scores in February, from Grand Rapids on the 4th, Howell on the 6th, and Monroe on the 13th and Muskegon on the 13th:
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 1
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 2
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 3
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 4
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 5
2020-2021 Snow Country Match 6
Next matches are in February: Howell – 27th. Program: 2020-2021 Snow Country English Match Series
We truly thread the needle. On Wednesday, December 30, in the year of COVID, we saw snow and low temperatures. On Thursday, December 31 we had dry conditions, little wind, and temperatures outside hovering around 30 F. Moreover, in the tent it was easily over 40 maybe even higher. As I type this report on January 1, 2021 I watch the sleet falling. So, we definitely were able to thread the needle for our New Years Eve match.
When Ray and I arrived at the range at about 8:45 AM, we were pretty lonely, but at about 9:00 AM cars and trucks started arriving. Order lines (or squadding lines) often follow a poisson distribution. Which is to say it is random with clumps. Normally, I see a single “clump”. For this match we experienced about three clumps. Which is to say we had a lot of entries. Seventeen (17) to be exact. This was the largest New Year’s Eve match in our history.
For demographics, we had: seven (7) F-Open, four (4) F-TR, three (3) Palma Rifle, two (2) Service Rifle, and one (1) lonely Any Rifle shooter. The high competitors were: Marcel Bollinger, F-Open 400-28; Scott Burr, F-TR 399-23; Ray Gross, Palma Rifle 397-23; Derek Stratelak, Service Rifle 379-12; and Matt Wieczorak, Any Rifle 391-13.
2020 New Year’s Eve Rifle Match
Some shots of local color (in the tent):
Next match at Midland will be on February 20, 2021. Program is: 2021 Winter Mid-Range Prone League Program
If you can’t wait to shoot, the Snow Country league is .22 rimfire at 50′ indoor. Program is: 2020-2021 Snow Country English Match Series