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General Categories => Shooting Sports => Topic started by: JTH on September 12, 2013, 12:57:48 PM
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Anyone going out to Grand Island for the Nebraska State Steel Challenge match this Sunday?
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Wouldn't this Sunday be Sept 15th?
Greg58
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Wouldn't this Sunday be Sept 15th?
Greg58
[sigh] Yes.
Apparently, I'm chronologically challenged.
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...a couple of us have already signed up, but I'm trying to figure out if I need to change my division. If there isn't anyone in Production division, I'll change over to Iron Sight Pistol, and just shoot my Production gun in ISP. If, on the other hand, there are plenty of people in both divisions, I'll stay in my division.
If you aren't doing anything this weekend, come shoot the match in Grand Island. I don't think they currently have as many people signed up as they had hoped. (Either that, or a LOT of people are going to register only when they show up on Sunday.)
http://www.grand-island.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=6843 (http://www.grand-island.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=6843)
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you're skipping the multigun match!?
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you're skipping the multigun match!?
Trying to support another club's Steel Challenge. I may end up regretting it, though, if no one shows up. Our local six-stage Steel Challenge matches get upwards of 70 people---this is a full 8-stage match (the full Steel Challenge) but so far, the numbers just aren't very high. [sigh]
They are billing it as a state-level match (instead of a local match) ---the "Nebraska State Steel Challenge Championship" ---and it is classified as a Level II, so I'm hoping it gets enough support to continue. More matches (and higher-level matches) in different areas of the state would be a good thing.
I'll be disappointed to miss the Multigun match. I'll be back for the Pro-Am match at the end of the month, though.
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Have to mention that Team ENGC did awesome at the first ever Nebraska State Steel Challenge match in Grand Island yesterday. (There isn't really a Team ENGC, but 6 of us who normally shoot at ENGC drove down for the match.)
Collectively, those 6 people ended up with 14 medals. John Victor was the Grand High Poobah of Medal-Winning, with 4. (I only got one, which made me the guy who got the least.)
Out of the six divisions that had at least three people in them, ENGC folks won 1st place in four of them---and if we count the number of 1st through 3rd places, ENGC folks won 10 out of the 18 possible gold, silver, and bronze medals. (The other medals that ENGC folks won were category medals, like Centerfire Lady's Champion or champion in the Senior category.)
The squad I was on went through all eight stages of the Steel Challenge in about 3 hours and 10 minutes. So---it was a FAST morning, with a lot of shooting.
(And one of the worst Smoke and Hope runs I've done in a couple of years. It is a bad sign when you hear people laughing behind you when you are in the middle of a run...)
ETA:
If you put all the centerfire divisions together (Open, Production, Iron Sight Pistol, etc), the five ENGC folks shooting Centerfire were all in the top ten for Centerfire divisions combined (including taking the top three spots).
:)
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Do you recall how many total people showed up this year?
And, are the results posted somewhere? I can't find anything.
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Do you recall how many total people showed up this year?
And, are the results posted somewhere? I can't find anything.
Not very many people, unfortunately. (The "Top Ten" sounds good until you realize that there were less than 40 people shooting---20 in a centerfire division. :) )
I think there were 46 guns total shot in competition, scattered among the various divisions. So---not many. There just wasn't much publicizing of this match.
Results:
http://www.steelchallenge.com/steel-challenge-display-match-results.php?action=event_index&indx=892 (http://www.steelchallenge.com/steel-challenge-display-match-results.php?action=event_index&indx=892)
(The centerfire match and the rimfire matches should actually be separated, but unfortunately they have all been put into the same match, so it makes it hard to tell what happened specifically in the rimfire pistol, rimfire rifle, and centerfire divisions.)
A different format of the scores are at:
http://www.grand-island.com/index.aspx?page=1728 (http://www.grand-island.com/index.aspx?page=1728)
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I was thinking about going, but then I saw the price. Gas + ammo + match fee = a little more than I wanted to spend.
Fly