Author: Steven Gordon

Gentle Shooters, We are almost back to practice season, and judging by some of the scores, the timing seems appropriate. But yet there is time to ponder a few things. Will Art ever shoot the match clean? Will Cort ever miss again. But one thing is for certain, after Tuesday at least for TV ads it will be truck month again. Finally, the election and all of the noise that goes with it will be over. Until then, consider that our last match of 2024 will be on Pearl Harbor Day, Saturday December 7th. Whilst you wait, contemplate the results below. ASC Bowling Pin Match Results November 2024 Finish Competitor String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Cort Tompkins 3.31 3.04 2.23 2.23 10.81 2.23 2 Paul Lynch 4.84 3.11 2.32 2.30 12.57 3 Taylor Strickland 2.73 3.69 2.70 3.48 12.60 4 Kenny Hardee 4.73 3.87 3.71 5.77 18.08 5 Art Schoner 3.22 4.16 9.85 5.79 23.02 6 Courtney Bolze 7.63 8.56 5.96 3.89 26.04 7 Habib Bararat 8.71 7.78 7.66 6.81 30.96 Major 1 Kenny Hardee 4.47 6.71 3.89 5.17 20.24 2 Paul Lynch 3.97 4.23 5.85 8.02 22.07 3 Cort Tompkins 7.68 …

Gentle Shooters, We only have two more Bowling Pin Matches this season. We know the weather will be good for this one, so come on down to the idyllic Airfield Shooting Club range in pastoral Wakefield for the match this Saturday, November 2nd at 9:30 AM. If you are curious about Bowling Pin Shooting, you can get more information here. For specific questions, we have a pinhead available at [email protected]. He doesn’t know much, but that never impedes an authoritative answer. Steven

Gentle Shooters, This Saturday, October 5th. at 9:30 at the bucolic Airfield Shooting Club in scenic Wakefield Virginia, we will hold a heroic bowling pin match. With Halloween just around the corner, you can’t be too careful about those zombies. Bowling Pins are just like zombies. You have to hit them square or they will just hurt your brain. (Or at least your ego.) So select your semi autos, corral your carbines, and round up those revolvers and ride down to the range for the match. Brush up on the rules or get directions from our web page and then come on down to the shoot. Specific questions can be directed to our pinhead at [email protected]. Steven  

Gentle Shooters, While we missed several stalwart pin shooters this month Like Cory and Art, who were working a service project for the club, the shooters who made the match were greeted with comfortable temperatures and friendly if overcast skies. As is often the case, best friends battled for supremacy in the carbine class. In what was supposed to be the battle of the Buckhammers, Taylor Strickland and Paul Lynch were set to duke it out on the gray sands of Airfield. But Taylor’s gun jammed in some prematch testing and he dropped back to a 45 ACP carbine. The 45 still reigned supreme, as the results show. While you are only going to see pins do a 360 and nearly land on their bases erect by attending a match, the next best thing are our results, which are listed below. ASC Bowling Pin Match Results September 2024 Finish Competitor String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Taylor Strickland 2.39 2.24 2.90 2.64 10.17 2.24 2 Paul Lynch 3.09 3.78 4.29 2.74 13.90 3 Courtney Bolze 3.22 4.99 2.90 3.30 14.41 4 Kenny Hardee 3.68 3.69 2.97 5.74 16.08 5 Cort Tompkins 7.25 4.51 …

Gentle Shooters, If you are a shotgunner, you know it is dove season. If you are a bowler, it is time for new leagues for the fall. When those start, tehy replace the existing pins with new ones. That makes it bowling pin season. They are available now and we will lose them if we don’t act. We need to haul 80 cases each from two bowling alleys. We would like to do it next Tuesday, September 10th at 7PM. I need volunteers with trucks or SUV’s to haul pins from Lynnhaven in Virginia Beach and Indian River in Chesapeake to our warehouse near Northampton Blvd and Diamond Springs Rd in Virginia Beach. We will award service hours for your effort. If you can assist, please contact me at [email protected]. Thanks, Steven

Gentle Shooters, Kudos to our intrepid shooters who braved excessive heat and humidity to log yet another match. The format this month was two strings rather that the traditional four. This is reflected in our results. Our next match will be on balmy August 3rd. Steven ASC Bowling Pin Match Results July 2024 String 1 String 2 Total Carbine 1 Taylor Strickland 2.75 3.48 6.23 2 Cort Tompkins 4.03 2.30 6.33 3 Art Schoner 5.14 3.58 8.72 4 Kenny Hardee 3.49 5.74 9.23 5 Jake Plamisk 6.18 5.05 11.23 Major 1 Cort Tompkins 4.73 3.48 8.21 2 Kenny Hardee 4.89 6.33 11.22 3 Art Schoner 6.66 9.56 16.22 4 Taylor Strickland 25.00 10.37 35.37 5 Jake Plamisk 13.72 25.00 38.72 6 Dan Kniseley 25.00 35.00 60.00 7 David Petix 25.00 45.00 70.00 Minor 1 Cort Tompkins 5.44 4.68 10.12 2 Kenny Hardee 9.84 6.54 16.38 3 Taylor Strickland 13.14 6.33 19.47 NFS David Petix III 8.70 12.37 21.07 4 David Petix 12.24 13.22 25.46 5 Art Schoner 12.71 13.52 26.23 6 Dan Kniseley 25.00 11.74 36.74 7 David Petix III 6.54 45.00 51.54 Revolver 1 Cort Tompkins 3.41 4.79 8.20 2 Kenny Hardee 5.74 8.39 14.13 3 Jake Plamisk 13.51 …