RBGC Match 9/15

Ashleigh and Spencer trying pistol field target for the first time.

Next week is the Pyramyd Air Cup. As a match director I try to prepare people for comps by increasing the difficulty at our monthly matches. Not to a crazy level, but definitely more challenging than usual.
Eric and I met on Friday night and proceeded with setting up the course for Saturday with a 38 troyer on the rifle and a 34 on the pistol. Saturday came and I arrived at 6:30 am to put paper in the sight-in targets. The wind at this point was as still as it would get, so I started sighting in my rifle and pistol.
We had some new people attending that I wrote about a couple of months ago... Ashleigh and Spencer along with their parents Craig and Heidi. It was great to see them again and to hear that Spencer and Ashleigh were hounding their father to come to one of our matches was a great thing to hear. With Ashleigh, Spencer, and their father, Craig, shooting I got them paired with the people/equipment that they would be shooting with and they got to work putting holes in paper.
We had a quick safety/shooter's meeting and we went to our starting lanes in the field. It's tough to shoot well and help someone, especially a younger shooter, but it's a necessary requirement if you want to bring in new people to the sport. The wind on Saturday also proved to be light and variable...enough that scores were considerably lower than normal but everyone had smiles on their faces and we were all having a great time spending the day outside shooting.
Ashleigh and Spencer are very competitive and so the entire time they were comparing scores. In the end Ashleigh was able to pull out another win over her brother.
After cleaning up the rifle targets and switching things over to pistol we ended up with 6 people using two pistols... Eric and I were the only two with pistols and we ended up forcing/coercing/begging people to stay around and shoot. Again, Ashleigh and Spencer were immediately comparing scores however this time it was Spencer who got the win in the last couple lanes.
Rifle
JUNIOR
Ashleigh 93/120 (FIRST TIME)
Spencer 80/120 (FIRST TIME)
HUNTER PCP
Dennis Himes 50
Ken Burley 46
Shawn Pragle 44
Rick Vaeth 44
Sean McDaniel 44
Daryl VanWhy 42
Doug Rogers 39
Sue Burley 31
WFT PCP
Glen Thomas 42
OPEN PISTON
Craig Rosen 7 (FIRST TIME)
Tony Garland 6
HUNTER PISTON
Greg Shirhall 48
Paul Manktelow 31
Eric Brewer 29

PISTOL
JUNIOR
Spencer 56/80
Ashleigh 53/80
HUNTER
Eric Brewer 27
Sean McDaniel 23
Craig Rosen 20
Doug Rogers 10

---