Field Target Airguns Long Island  NY 6/27/10  
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     Thank you to everyone who came to shoot and to support LIFT.

  Of course the night before the weather was saying 70% rain and thunder storms for the shoot. We did not cancel and by morning it changed to 30%. It did not rain but it was hot!!! Tick problem has been solved not one tick in three months !!!!

  Well if it was not for the heat it would have been our best shoot yet. John M. was our match director for this meet he did a great job we had eighteen shooters with some just making it before the meet started

   We were able to have ten lanes, three targets per lane, a sixty shot course! we keep moving forward! Three tree bat targets along with all the new face plates worked out great thanks to Quality targets. we are going to add some more 3/4 and 3/8 KZs. The placement of some of the targets needs some work. Too many between 17 - 35 yards, the flat zone! we have a lot of good shooters and its a little to easy more 50 -55 yard targets and smaller KZs on the near and middle will make it more challenging. Long Island Field Target members are finally finding the set up that

   The A Team showed up late we were not sure if they were going to make it. It was nice to see them walk up with rifles in hand . A great surprise was to see Ray's wife Laurie came too. she was always fun to shoot with but because of an old injury to her arm she has not been able to shoot but she came for the ride a 2 1/2 hour ride, thanks for coming Laurie.!

  Our start time is getting better as the course was set up by 9:00 and we were back to the site in range early. I am not sure if it is a problem or if it is a good thing, but everyone likes the site in time a little to much, a lot of good conversation going on and getting everyone to move on is not easy. It takes time to break up into squads, shooters meeting and head to the course and with today's expected heat (95 hazy, hot and humid) we needed to finish up early.

   Well so far this year we have had some members MIA. Anthony was one of them his son is in travel sports and we all know what that's like!! I was squaded with Anthony and Joe M and they have been doing a lot of research since the club started and I was very impressed with the wealth of knowledge being shared. I hope Anthony can make a lot more this season I know he is going to the Crosman Shoot. There should be at least eight shooters from LIFT there competing. 

        Crosman Field Target Championship

   There is so much to learn about this sport between rifles, scopes, scope knobs and wheels, seats, pellets, pellet lube and it goes on and on. I think that's what is so great about it. It is the journey to finding what is right for you. When you do it is a great feeling when your score rises as targets go down with each shot.
 

  Gabe (left) shooting his Air Arms S200 is also a MIA member. He was a little late but he came walking at a fast pace with a smile on his face saying I was not missing this one. Gabe had a good day taking hunter class shooting 33 out of 60.

  Tony (below right) shooting his RWS 54 took Piston class for the third meet in a row with a 46 out 60

  Mike A. (below left) we think he has found his rifle the Beeman R11. Mike has been improving his score with each meet even though the course has been getting harder way to go Mike!!

  We call this lane (below) the great equalizer but some shooters like Ray and Tony scored 5 out of 6 and with three shooters 4-6 it looks like we may have to go with smaller KZs. But this is the lane that stopped Ray from clearing the course. This is a tough lane standing and shooting down

Mike M another MIA member (above left) had a good day he finally has his Steyr set up the way he likes and is ready for the season. Bartek (above right) just started this season with his EV2 12 ft/lbs last year he was shooting 20 ft/lbs with his Daystate Airwolf a big change .

   Martin (above left) and John M (above right) tied but did not have a tie breaker shoot I think because of the heat. Scoring a 54 out of 60. I do think that everyone's score would have been higher if was a little cooler. By the end of the shoot I know all I wanted was to get in my car's AC!

  Tom W (above left) is still shooting his Crosman Challenger PCP 530 fps at only 6 ft lbs he is still getting his numbers worked out but his score is going up. Ray (above right) almost cleaned the course except for lane three the great equalizer in Ray defense the way it worked out he shot that lane last and only missed one he took first in open PCP 59 out 60 great shooting Ray.  

  Anthony and Mike M had a tie breaker shoot for second place 42 yard 5/8" KZ this was a tough shot after a long day in the heat!! A couple of misses then Mike took it down first. Mike had the target at 42 and Anthony had 47 like I said it was a long hot day. I hope they can make the next July 18th shoot  they are definitely two of our top shooters and have been missed by all.

  Well it was a good day we finished up around 2:00 at the hottest part of the day. So lunch, awards and conversation went quick. We had a nice course to shoot. now all we need is a nice day like the day I wrote this it was sunny 80 no humidity this was only thee days later. I will keep my fingers crossed for July. 

Ok now for the Scores this was a 60 shot course