Today's shoot featured fine weather and close competition!  Not to forget a great meal of fried chicken, seasoned green beans, mashed potatoes, gravy, slaw and more thanks to Steve and Carolyn ; Steve shot and helped run the match and collected targets, and I scored, entered, etc.  

As always, thanks to everyone that came.  Steve L., in particular drove a long way down from Ohio to shoot with us.  And we missed Carl and Don (both being good grandparents), but we also had a couple of relatively new faces from our area to make up for it a bit.   Jeanette entered her first "interstate match" (if my records are correct) and did a fine job with her brand new (to her) table gun, rumor has it possibly beating her husband and the guy she bought the rifle from as well . 
 
12 shooters participated, and the top 10 strings were:
Bobby G.        4.1950
Bo C.        4.3510
Steve B.        4.3540
Sterling M.        4.6000
Bob R.        4.6730
Steve L.        4.6820
Jeanette H.    5.1300
Dan B.        5.1390
Archie H.        5.5280
Harold M.        5.8200 

The top 10 strings were all under 6".  Even though the strings weren't the shortest we've ever seen, the competition was pretty close the whole day, seemingly with no one running away with it or wanting to be left behind.  I dont think the wind was an issue (much, anyway), but I suspect the light this time of year is different enough that it poses an additional challenge.  Every match is different, and it seemed like everyone came to shoot.
  
The Silver Eagle for best X went to Steve L. at 0.063", just beating both Dan B. and Archie H. at 0.069.   Some real pretty spiders in this match, especially in matches 9 and 10 for some reason: 5 under 0.1" in the two matches ; in match 10, 0.108 was only good for FORTH.  

Jeanette H. won the 50 yard "pot shot" match.

I hope everybody left happy.  It was a great day to be out, and we appreciate everyone who came to shoot with us.

As always, comments and criticism welcome.