Robin Hood 300 State Championship

    In April, I shoot the 300 State Championship at Plantation. I won high junior for the past two years, and I wanted to win the whole thing this year. I didn't reach my goal, but I was able to defend my title. I won high junior, high woman, and placed 3rd overall. I was a little bit disappointed at first, but the shooters that placed 1st and 2nd are very talented and experienced.

Out of 800 points, I shot a 798-49X's. I had two clean strings, and dropped 1 point each on the other two. The wind was pretty tricky, so I am happy with my score.

Machias - Another win =)

I know that this match was quite a while ago, but I still want to post about it. I have just been really busy with school and track practice.

   I shot my 6-BRX at 500 yards, my first match with it. I was very happy to finally shoot my 6-BRX at a match, I had only shot it at Custer. I shot another 600/600, so two clean days in a row. Only this time, I had 40 X's, not 39. There weren't a lot of people there, I was a little disappointed. But, I won the match and had a great time shooting.



   There was supposed to be a match at Cascade on the 17th. When I arrived it was snowing, and was supposed to snow all day. The match was sadly cancelled, but there were a few shooters that drove for quite a while to get there and wanted to shoot. It took me 2 1/2 hours to get there. They let us shoot as a practice, so we didn't drive all that way for nothing. I shot two strings of ten shots and two sighters. Even in the snow, I could see fine. The target was a little bit hard to see, but I kept all my shots in the 10 and X ring. I didn't shoot all of my ammo, because I wanted to save it for my next match at Plantation, and there wasn't any wind so I wasn't getting any wind reading practice.

Wes Hall Memorial

   With Winning In Mind sat open on the table as I ate breakfast. I thought it would be a good idea to read it before the match at Plantation that morning. As I read, I pictured myself winning the match. In my head, I already had.

  

   I walked up to the shooting line thinking about what I read in the book, 'It's impossible to think about something positive, when you're thinking about something negative'. I only thought about making perfect shots, one shot at a time. After every shot, I told myself that that shot was gone, and my next shot is going to be a center X. I shot my very first 600/600 that day, winning the match in the process. I had the only clean score (600/600) for the match rifle shooters. My X count wasn't too bad, I had 39. I didn't have the highest X count, but points come before X's.

   I was shooting my .308, not the 6 BRX. I hadn't shot with iron sights for a little while, so I was a little nervous. When I was shooting the 6 BRX for test loads and practice, I was using a scope. I ordered a sight base for the 6 BRX, so I can move my Right Sight easily from one gun to the next. Now, I just have to do more load testing with the irons. My dad and I already found a pretty good load, so I'm going to shoot it with iron sights and see how it goes.

Wes Hall Memerial 1-28-12