RBGC 8/18/18

I'm surprised that this match even took place...
Thursday the weather looked iffy, so I sent out messages that a decision would be made by 2 pm on Friday. Friday rolled around and the weather wasn't clearing for Saturday, but I did see that after 2 pm there was nothing but sun and overcast. So I sent an email out asking who would be interested in starting at 2 pm.
Slowly the responses came in and at 10 people I said it was on. But mid-morning on Saturday I was surprised because there would be 16 people confirming. So at 9:45 I started setting up the course and at noon I had two new fellows, Chris and John, come in and start to help. At 12:45 I finished and left to get my equipment while sight-in started.
I get back to the match with my equipment and I see Doug and Betsy, who weren't supposed to be there as well as Greg and Pat Shirhall, who also had said they couldn't make it. What a nice surprise.
At 2 we got started with a quick shooters meeting and then got started with the match. The course was 32 Troyer. I was shooting with Chris who had never shot before. We both used my equipment and he had a blast. After 5 lanes I hadn't missed a shot and Chris was having all sorts of fun. The kneeling and standing lanes I missed 1 shot each, so was very happy and starting to get excited that I might beat the Himes brothers. But the last two lanes were to be my downfall. I missed 2 on a small kz on lane 9 and then 4, FOUR!, on the last lane. And I couldn't even tell you if I was high/low/left/right. The small kz was so shot up I couldn't tell where the pellet hit. After all was done I had tied Tom Himes and was 4 behind Dennis. So I was very happy.
After the rifle course had been cleaned up we got to shooting pistol and it was just 4 of us. Looking at the clock it was around 6 pm, probably the latest any of us had shot here but it was the greatest. Weather had calmed down, there wasn't any wind, the temp was mid 70's, and there wasn't any noise coming from the powder burners. Absolute perfect time to shoot. In the end Eric took first in pistol followed by Mike Norris, then myself and Kevin Kunkle.
We made quick work of cleaning up and left about 7:30.
Hunter PCP:
Dennis Himes 56
Tom Himes 52
Sean McDaniel 52
Shawn Pragle 48
Kevin Kunkl3 47
Doug Rogers 43
Doug Dunlap 40
Betsy Dunlap 37
Chris Schaeffer 32 (New Shooter)
Rick Vaeth 34
Pete Kopf 27
Hunter Piston
Greg Shirhall 48
Paul Manktelow 28
Eric Brewer 22
John McNamara 12 (New Shooter)
Tony Garland 9 (2nd time out)
Kurt Rudolph 7 (2nd time out)
Open PCP
Mike Norris 48
Glenn Thomas 37