Blackfork
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Sponsored by the TSRA and shot at the George Tubb Memorial Range at Ft Wolters in Mineral Wells. We have nearly 100 folks signed up for Saturday and enough non-distinguished to give seven LEGS in the CMP/EIC match on Sunday. I'm starting to shoot on Friday with team Blackfork in the four-man President's 30-round match and then in Infantry Trophy. My team is very competitive. We won both events last year and both events at several Regional Match weekends during the year. Actually I think we lost once in the last three years.
This weekend is special because it is the last go-round for this incarnation of Team Blackfork. My junior shooter is not a junior anymore and has accepted an invitiation to join the US Army Marksmanship Unit at Ft Benning. He goes to basic training the last week of Oct.
I used to say I taught him everything HE KNOWS...but the last couple of years I had to start saying I taught him everything I KNOW. He's Distinguished. High Master classified with a service rifle. Master at Long Range. This year he made the National Junior Rifle Team at Camp Perry. That's the six best juniors at the National Matches. Last year he had the highest CMP LEG match score fired in the country on top of the top 100 scores. The kid can shoot.
We never made much of a dent in the Whistler Boy, which always threw us. He and his team mate were capable, we just couldn't get both of them shooting their normal score at the same time. His team mate won the Alice Bull Trophy this year, his first year as an adult shooter at Camp Perry.
I've loaded every round that kid ever shot, up to last month when he finally started loading on his own equipment. His LR ammo length isn't squared away yet so I am now loading the last box of Sierra 80s sitting on 24.2 grains of Varget I will ever load for him. He'll shoot it this weekend at the TSRA Service Rifle match. I've probably loaded 10,000 or 15,000 rounds for him. It would seem like a sad, sweet moment....but actually its about time he got his own dang ammo! Now the army is going to give it to him!
This weekend is special because it is the last go-round for this incarnation of Team Blackfork. My junior shooter is not a junior anymore and has accepted an invitiation to join the US Army Marksmanship Unit at Ft Benning. He goes to basic training the last week of Oct.
I used to say I taught him everything HE KNOWS...but the last couple of years I had to start saying I taught him everything I KNOW. He's Distinguished. High Master classified with a service rifle. Master at Long Range. This year he made the National Junior Rifle Team at Camp Perry. That's the six best juniors at the National Matches. Last year he had the highest CMP LEG match score fired in the country on top of the top 100 scores. The kid can shoot.
We never made much of a dent in the Whistler Boy, which always threw us. He and his team mate were capable, we just couldn't get both of them shooting their normal score at the same time. His team mate won the Alice Bull Trophy this year, his first year as an adult shooter at Camp Perry.
I've loaded every round that kid ever shot, up to last month when he finally started loading on his own equipment. His LR ammo length isn't squared away yet so I am now loading the last box of Sierra 80s sitting on 24.2 grains of Varget I will ever load for him. He'll shoot it this weekend at the TSRA Service Rifle match. I've probably loaded 10,000 or 15,000 rounds for him. It would seem like a sad, sweet moment....but actually its about time he got his own dang ammo! Now the army is going to give it to him!
I'm out of UT for 3 months and already trying to get back in - who'da thunk it?