Rattlesnake

Wow, it was windy over there, I loved it! I was used to adjusting 1/4 - 1/2 minute adjustments, but at "The Snake", I was doing a ton of full rev (3 minutes) adjustments! It was awesome! I got caught quite a few times, but that's normal for Rattlesnake. It really helps my wind reading skills. At ranges around where I live (like Plantation, Machias, and Cascade), you usually have on 1/2 - 3 minutes max. At Rattlesnake, you can have on 18 minutes of wind or even more. In the collage (below), the flags are going crazy fast! Haley was shooting in this relay, and she said that she had on about 18 minutes of wind on! That was the most wind that there was at Rattlesnake this match, and in other relays, some people only had on 4 or 6 minutes of wind on.

Below is the link to the match results:

 Rattlesnake match results

I wasn't really mentally prepared to shoot, so I didn't do my best, but I still did good (for Rattlesnake). At least I had fun, and a great experience. I just wasn't thinking really positive things like I should have, and I hurt my score big time. On Sunday (the last day of the Rattlesnake match), I was a little bit more mentally in the game, and I shot better. I finally realised why I didn't shoot great, and when I went down to Oregon last weekend, I shot way better. This was Natasha, Haley, and Gabby's first long-range (800, 900, and 1,000 yards) match. It was my first long-range match since I shot the Spirit of America match in New Mexico (Sept. 2010).



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For the team match, I was shooting with Haley, Natasha, and Gabby. Our team was called the Fern d'Aliens, because we're all from Ferndale, except Bud our coach. It was our first time shooting together, and Haley, Gabby, and Natasha's first team match. We did good, and had tons of fun!  In the pics below, we're all wearing our Fern d' Aliens sweatshirts. They are really cute! They all say 'Fern d'Aliens Out Of This World' on the back, and our names on the front.
 



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I was going to post a week ago, but I was reloading for the Burden Memorial (Regional) in Oregon. I will post about that when I get the pictures uploaded.