Our May match had the usual blustery Spring conditions, and scores seemed a little lower than normal!

Paul continued to dominate, although he only managed best target on 3 of 4!  Nev also continued to dominate the Sporter division.  Thanks to Bob for organizing the match, to Dave as Range Officer and to the scoring crew of Bob, Mel, Mankay and Art. 

Here are the results...


Hope to see you all at our next match on June 24.

Great set of pics from Paul Koivukoski- I've added captions to some and left the rest to speak for themselves...

Thanks for the memories Paul!



Sam Parotta, Dan Opel, Frank Oblak




Sonya Oblak, John Pryor, Rick Pollock






Dan Opel, Happy Target Crew

Another one is in the bag!  Too many people involved in organizing and running things to thank individually, but a quick shoutout to the guests and locals who wrangled the target frames.

Once again, match organizer Joe Mendham showed us all how it is done in challenging conditions.

I'm posting the results now, pics and an equipment list to follow.  Or, feel free to post your own pics on this thread...

100 yard agg...


200 yard agg...


...and the Grand Agg.


Hope to see you all again next year, and remember the Jim Latham Memorial VFS Match on July 9.

Mission Rod and Gun will be holding its third Annual BRSC Group Shoot on Sunday, May 7, 2017.  Space is limited to 24 shooters.  This is HV shoot at 100 and 200 yards.

Practice day on Saturday, May 6. 

We'd like to get an early idea on attendance, so please contact Joe Mendham joemendham@hotmail.com or Mark DuMont mdumont@uniserve.com if you plan to come or with any questions. 

The start of the winter deep freeze (well, for us left coasters anyhow) brought variable conditions. 

Congratulations to Art for the win, and to Denis who won second in a 3-way tie breaker. 

A few hardy souls made it to the year-end lunch at Mission Springs. 

Thanks to Art for prepping the targets and to all shooters who were on their best behavior for the rookie range officer. 



Hope to see you all for the next match on January 15.  I see the 2017 dates are on the club calendar page, and we'll be publishing them here as well. 
 

Despite a stormy October, shooters were greeted with fairly benign conditions for the last match of the season. 

Congratulations to Paul on the win in Benchrest, and to Nev on the win in Sporter!  Thanks to Bob for organizing the match, to Dave as Range Officer and to the scoring crew of Bob and Mel. 

Here are the results, including the novelty Split the Playing Card event.  No one managed to actually sever the card, although a number of shooters came close!



Hope to see you all next season!

The data processing department did not attend the September match, so the results are a little late in coming. 

The usual team handled the scoring, and Man Kay did the sums.  I entered the scores into the spreadsheet, and it confirmed Man Kay's computations. 

Congratulations to Paul on the win in Benchrest, and to Nev for the win in Sporter.  Paul did some particularly fine shooting, with Best Target in 3 of 4. 



Hope to see you at the next match on October 22.

We decided to shoot group at our monthly match for August.  The big news was a new shooter, Ted Veale, who proceeded to kick (almost) all our butts!  I think a little of the credit has to go to Joe, who loaded the ammo and coached.  On the other hand, Ted shows considerable promise - Hope he becomes a regular!

The other notable event was the epic battle between Art and Frank, which Frank took by a margin of 0.0004 in the final agg.  

Thanks to Joe for running the match, Art for preparing the targets and backers, to Sue for scoring and to Paul for taking the pics.

We take a break for Public Sight In days in September, but we're back for the next monthly match later in October - Sunday, October 16 - Hope to see you there.


Good to see Bob on the line.


Art on the line.


Dave on the line.


Sonya on the line.  Boys aren't the only ones allowed to have fun.


Pete on the line.


Ted Veale, hot new guy on the block.  Note he shoots from the correct side.


Vlad attempts to distract Pete.


Mark, looking dazed and confused, seeks guidance from Joe.  


Sam incognito.  


Frank and Bob - Benchrest is all about the details.


Sue (ace group scorer) and Sandra.


Paul, our ace photographer.  Wonder how he managed to take the selfie?

And the results...

100 yard results.


200 yard results.


...and the agg...

Well, another one in the bag...  First piece of news is we've renamed it the Jim Latham Memorial VFS Championship, in honour of a great guy and a big supporter of Benchrest in BC.   

It seemed safe to predict relatively benign conditions to start, worsening as the day progressed and the range didn't disappoint!

Thanks to shooters for keeping up the pace - I'm sure our out-of-town participants appreciated the early finish.

Thanks to our prize sponsors - Richard Nicol, Big Horn Sales, Sinclair International, Hirsch Precision and Italian Sporting Goods.

Thanks to Art for preparing and setting the targets and to Joe for running the match.  Given the results, we'll have to think up more distractions for them next year...  A special shoutout to Sue for scoring all 144 targets with just over 1000 holes!

And finally, thanks everyone for supporting the Fraser Valley VFS shoot this year.  Hope everyone had a good time.

We'd like to make this and the group shoot better. Is there anything that we could do to make it better or you would like to see done?

Cheers, and hope to see you all next year!

A few happy winners (need a better photographer than me next year!)







...and the results...