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BOWLING PIN

Chairman Jeff J. Goertz or  360-312-0172

How long would it take you to do this? 20 sec, 15 sec, 10 sec. try it you may be surprised.

Bowling Pin

Match Schedule

2008 

Match Registration 9:30am - Match start 10:00am

 Conceal/Carry
Gerald Rutgers (360) 354-3584
Registration @ 09:30

 On the 5th Saturday of the month.  These competitions are for folks to use

their "pocket rocket" that they "carry a lot and shoot little". This

will give you the much needed practice in a competitive environment.

Iron sights and laser sights are fine, but no comps and no dot sights

allowed.

Information for Canadian visitors transporting firearms across the border.  

Two Divisions:

§         Stock guns:  With open sights, no compensators and/or ported barrels.

§         Open guns:  Any non-Stock gun.

The winner of Open and Stock divisions will receive a cash prize of one dollar per paid entry.  The match winner will be a competition between the Open and Stock division winners (best three out of five tables.)  The match winner will receive a cash prize equal to one dollar per paid entry.

A shooter may enter a maximum of three guns in the competition (the entry fees will be $10 for the first gun, $5 for the second gun and no charge for the third gun).  Each shooter and gun combination will be called an entry.

Each gun will be classified by the match director as Open or Stock division.

The match will begin with timings, where each entry will shoot four tables.  Each table will have five bowling pins and each pin must be off the table for time to stop. The best three times will be added together to determine ranking.  After timings, the Open and Stock divisions will compete separately in a double elimination format.  When shooting against another entry, to win, the entry must win two out of three tables.  To equalize all entries, each shooter will be allowed to have six rounds in there guns to start and can reload with as many rounds as the gun is capable of handling. 

Bowling pins in both Open and Stock divisions will be placed on the table as follows:

§         Back table (12” from the back edge of the table)

o       9mm Lugar

o       38 Special

§         Mid table (18” from the back edge of the table)

o       38 Super

o       40 S&W

§         Front table (12” from the front edge of the table)

o       357 Magnum

o       10mm Auto

o       44 Rem. Mag.

o       45 Auto

o       454 Casull

o       50 Action Express

Note: the match director will classify any caliber not listed.

Dateline

I don’t know if it is getting tiring to hear me say something like this from month to month but the past match in January has to be one of the most dramatic and hard fought that I have seen since organizing Pin Shooting at the Club.  The table times from the beginning were fast but I have seen faster.  But for the most part there was a level of consistency across the four tables where a person might have had a clue that something different was going to happen.

Added into this mix was the entrance of several new first time shooters.  The majority of these shooters came complete with fire belching Desert Eagles that were acting like flame throwers in an effort to turn the pins into smoldering chunks of charcoal.  I had seen a lot of pin damage in previous matches but this match was getting to the point where it was going to be in a class by itself.  Luckily, the supply of pins that had been brought out was sufficient in order to complete the match but it looks like in the future a larger supply will have to be brought out.  There was a combination of different things happening in that it was both cold (snow was on the ground) and there was some massive firepower being used on the firing line that day.

When the smoke finally cleared on the time trials and the match moved into the Shoot-Off stage the real drama began.  During the course of the Shoot-Off’s many of the matches went the full distance of three tables and several others even took longer because of the ties.  People watching the action could not discern who the winner was on some tables so the shooters had to do it again in order establish a winner for that set of tables.  The final championship set of tables had their own drama in that Tom Stidham and Ed Brown had to meet again for the second time that day.  Tom had earlier sent Ed down to the losers bracket and Ed had to shoot his way back into the Championship.  Ed eventually won the Championship but Tom took Ed for a ride and both shooters put on a show that left an eerie silence on the line.

The next match promises to have more of the same.  14 shooters tested themselves and one another during the January match and from the looks of it; there is a pretty good chance that most of these people will return for another shoot at either being the Pooh Baah or the Ace of the Place in February.

The .22 match was much smaller but just as important because young Derek Richardson found himself in the position of going up against Mike Wray for the Championship.  Derek didn’t win but something everyone should remember is that in order to shoot in the Championship, everyone else must first be turned into a spectator.  Basically, the Championship is between the last two people standing and everyone else is just a stepping-stone along the way.  Personally I have lost count of the boot prints that people have left on me while they step on up to the next round.  The .22 match is where I have taken the role of road-kill along someone else’s personal highway towards the championship.  I would like to see that role change but others seem to think different.

Congratulation Jeff we're all proud of you "you cleaned your gun" it may not work any better; and you may not shoot any better,
but the smell of burnt gun oil on a sunny Saturday morning bring a tear to my eye.