Saturday, April 3, 2021 Match Report
For our first match of the 2021 season we had 7 shooters register and 5 shooters at the match. Weather was fantastic for the start of spring, a bit on the cool side, but mostly sunny, with enough wind to keep people guessing for the longer shots.
We had a 72-shot match, with one offhand lane. The average difficulty of the course, designed by Paolo last year and put in storage for future use, was 29.3T with 5 targets > 40 T, four pesky 3/8” targets, and 9 targets > 40 yards.
The highest score of the day (67) was shot by Brian Van Liew shooting PCP open, followed by Mark Mayer. Frank Moscarillo (61) continues to be the person to beat in PCP Hunter division. Hector Medina (48) was the only WFTF piston shooter of the day.
We welcomed Chan Chau, an experienced bench rest shooter, to hiss first FT match. He arrived well prepared and had been advised (by an anonymous guide, perhaps on April Fools day) that FT targets are shot at ranges of 20-40 yards. Needless to say, he was challenged by the close up targets of 10-15 yards, and the longer distance targets at 45-55 yards, but did amazingly well in his first ever FT match with a considerable handicap.
Our next match is Sunday May 2, and with many of us starting to get Covid-19 vaccinations we hope to have a bigger turnout.
Mark (& Paolo)
|
Shooter |
Rifle |
Scope |
Pellet |
Division |
Class |
Score |
|
Brian Van Liew |
FX 400 FT |
Nikko Diamond 10-50 |
AA 10.3 |
Open |
PCP |
67 |
|
Mark Mayer |
Daystate AirWolf |
Sightron 10-50 x 60 |
HN FT 14.66 |
Open |
PCP |
62 |
|
Frank Moscarillo |
Daystate Red Wolf |
Sightron 10-50 x 60 |
JSB Monster |
Hunter |
PCP |
61 |
|
Chan Chau |
FX Crown |
Hawke |
JSB |
Hunter |
PCP |
21 |
|
Hector Medina |
CCA WFTF D-54 |
Sightron 10-50 x 60 |
QYS |
WFTF |
Piston |
48 |
It was a good match.
Good wind that slowed down towards the middle of the match, only to pickup again towards the end.
Paolo needs to start getting out of the "tiny kill zones up close" philosophy in his course planning, we should not "evolve" the club in a direction that has no future.
If the club needs targets, let the members know, we can all pitch in to get some new ones. Or we can make the old faceplates WFTF compliant, LOL!.
JMHO
HM
I like the tiny targets! They add fun and a challenge to the match. These have been a feature of DIFTA matches for at least a decade, and the match design at DIFTA is not evolving in a direction that has no future. I'd hate to see a move to make local clubs WFTF compliant. At our local club level, WFTF shooters are in the minority. Hunter is nearly always the most represented, followed by Open. In our last match we had only one WFTF shooter.
DIFTA is where I got the most out of reading the wind by my windicator in my experience (Leo's match in Connecticut is catching up and but more brutal). The course typically has wind (breeze) during the match which allows one to understand the amount of movement your pellet moves especially in the early spring before the ground vegetation starts. The small KZs at DIFTA do raise the pucker factor. There is typically one on most of the lanes. You've got to know where you pellet will hit as there is very little room for error. Throw some wind into the mix and elevate them and it makes you think more before you pull the trigger.
