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Just in case you've forgotten, TRC has a 600 yard prone match every first Sunday.  Greg Fallon is the match director.  See our calendar for more info.  This months match results as follows:

Name	Rifle	Sights	Stage One	X	Stage Two	X	Stage Three	X	Aggregate	X
Conventional Prone
Jim Denovchek	MR	Iron	183	2	189	5	193	7	565	14
Chris Osgood	MR	Iron	190	0	187	3	187	4	564	7
Pete Wolf	MR	Iron	181	3	189	3	191	7	561	13
Rick Smart	MR	Iron	176	3	191	7	183	4	550	14
Maury Krupp	SR	Iron	174	3	189	6	180	3	543	12
Roger Whitney	MR	Iron	187	5	192	7	DNF		379	12
Bill Orzechowski	SR	Iron	170	1	176	2	DNF		346	3
Rick Iotti	SR	Iron	Scorecard AWOL
TOTAL = 8
F-Class
Ron Riga	MR	Scope	187	3	184	1	182	2	553	6
TOTAL = 1

The monthly smallbore prone rifle match at Tucson Rifle Club will be held this Sunday, February 10, 2008.

Sign in and range setup at 7:30 AM. Begin firing at 8:00.

120 shots for record, unlimited sighting shots, at 50 and 100 yards.

Entry fee $6.

Please advise if you need to borrow any equipment.

Our Tucson Rifle Club smallbore shooters really cleaned up at the recent Senior Olympics smallbore match. Gold medals were won by Greg Fallon, Jeff Schneider, Kim Wood, Bob Suomala and Bernice Mckinney, while Lee McKinney and Emmett Reed won silver medals. Complete results and scores are attached.

See you on Sunday,
Greg Fallon,
Match Director

The 2007 CMP Western Games and Creedmoor Cup held at Phoenix's Ben Avery Shooting Facility are now history http://www.odcmp.org/1007/default.asp?page=WGAMES2.

As usual TRC made its presence known.

Even before any of the shooting started TRC had left its mark.  A crew of highpower shooters had prepared 210 targets and hauled them up to Ben Avery.  Each target bore the TRC stamp.  TRC also supplied half the rapidfire scoreboards and water coolers; each with a TRC decal.  Nearly half of the volunteer line and pit officials were from TRC.  Finally, there were the red TRC Highpower shirts worn by club members.  The combined effect was several out-of-state shooters said they thought that Ben Avery Range WAS Tucson Rifle Club!

When the Western Games were over and awards handed out TRC shooters just about did own the range.  Together they had won the John C Garand Match, placed Second in the Springfield Match (only one point shy of winning), posted the day's overall high score, and carried off almost 20% the achievement medals awarded in the two Garand Matches and the separate Springfield and Vintage Rifle Matches.  The winner and first place finisher among competitors eligible for EIC points in the Garand Excellence-In-Competition Match were also from TRC.

The scores were as hot as the temperature at the September 9, 2007, smallbore prone match at Tucson Rifle Club. Four of the nine shooters exceeded a 1190 aggregate score. Lee McKinney, using a newly-purchased 2 inch Unertl scope, dropped only four points for the day and emerged the winner. Rick Smart trailed Lee by just one point, but shot more X's, 71, to Lee's 63. Greg Fallon led the X-counts with 85, but lost six points to end up third overall. Wow, that's 70% center shots! Bernice McKinney shot the only 40 shot "clean" of the day, 400-32x in the opening 50 yard match, but wore out with the heat to finish fourth, seven points down. Jim Denovchek thought he'd scoop the competition by using his scope, but found that after several months of iron sight shooting, his glass skills were a little rusty.
Maury Krupp, back from honing his skills at Camp Perry, led the iron sight group with some of the best scores he's ever shot, including a 396-20x at 50 yards. Junior shooter Nathan Abel squeezed continuous improvement out of a Club-issued Mossberg, finally beating Bill Reitze in the Dewar match at the end of the day. Looks like dad, Hal Abel, will be under a lot of pressure now to buy the kid a decent rifle (or surrender his Anschutz). Bill Reitze, meanwhile, has concluded that shooting in shirtsleeves is tough, and he's now shopping for a shooting coat.
All the scores are posted on the attached Excel spreadsheet. Our next match will be October 14, 2007. Greg Fallon Match Director

Nine shooters attended the August 12, 2007 monthly smallbore prone match at Tucson Rifle Club. The weather was hot and humid, but the wind conditions were reasonable. Two shooters fired "clean" targets: Jim Denovchek at 50 yards, 200-13x and Greg Fallon at 100 yards, 200-11x. This proves that older model rifles can still perform well, as Jim used a CMP Kimber 82 and Greg used a Winchester 52. Junior shooter Nathan Abel joined us for the second month, having borrowed and fallen in love with an Anschutz offered for sale by Eric Lute.

A summary of all scores follows:

Firing an authentic Winchester High Wall heavy barrel target rifle in caliber 45-70, Tucson Rifle Club Rifle Director, Ron A Calderone, shot a score of 528-6X to win the NRA Black Powder Cartridge Rifle National Creedmoor Championships held at the NRA Whittington Center near scenic Raton, New Mexico on August 3rd and 4th ! Over 100 shooters from around the country competed in this prestigious long range rifle event.