The ASC hosts its monthly Bowling Pin Match this Saturday morning at our newly renovated range in Wakefield, VA. The match, renowned among a few local shooters, sets up at 8:30 at the range. Rules for the match and directions to the range can be found at www.airfieldshootingclub.org. Specific inquiries about the match can be addressed to our resident pinhead as [email protected]. See you Saturday Steven
Gentle Shooters, We has a nice turnout for this month’s match. I apologize for the late results and lack of witty comments for this month. Here are your belated results. ASC Bowling Pin Match Results April 2025 Finish Competitor String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Paul Lynch 3.16 3.51 2.82 2.70 12.19 2 Art Schoner 4.16 2.89 2.64 2.72 12.41 3 Courtney Bolze 3.19 3.57 4.83 6.15 17.74 4 Taylor Strickland 4.31 2.22 8.00 3.23 17.76 2.22 5 Cory Allen 5.81 6.83 4.25 6.00 22.89 6 Steven Gordon 4.82 4.71 6.60 6.96 23.09 7 Allen Moran 10.15 7.88 8.95 8.63 35.61 Major 1 Kenny Hardee 3.94 4.38 4.13 3.63 16.08 3.63 2 Paul Lynch 8.04 6.77 9.94 5.29 30.04 3 Cory Allen 6.18 6.45 10.10 10.63 33.36 4 Taylor Strickland 8.65 11.47 14.52 4.03 38.67 5 Allen Moran 10.45 11.79 25.00 7.63 54.87 6 Steven Gordon 11.63 11.24 8.03 25.00 55.90 7 Art Schoner 11.31 9.46 13.55 55.00 89.32 8 Courtney Bolze 14.17 35.00 11.57 35.00 95.74 9 David Petix III 45.00 35.00 9.72 45.00 134.72 Minor 1 Paul Lynch 7.62 6.02 6.45 5.85 25.94 2 Kenny Hardee 7.50 7.19 6.03 5.55 26.27 …
Gentle Shooters, If the pollen is thick in the air and I cannot breathe, can Bowling Pins be far behind. Of course not! The fun and exciting action of reactive wooden targets, along with the camaraderie and verbal jousting that can only come from an ASC Bowling Pin Match kicks off for 2025 this Saturday, April 5th. As always, our match is shot at the rustic but soon to be improved (OK, the roof won’t fall on our heads on the 50) Airfield Shooting Club range is pastoral Wakefield. Set up is 8:30 and the mandatory shooters meeting is at 9AM. Although we are proudly beginning our 20th year shooting pins at the club, there could still be some question left unanswered. If that is the case, please feel free to ask any pinhead you know. If you do not have a pinhead, the club supplies one at no charge by emailing [email protected]. Range directions and match rules are available at our web site www.airfieldshootingclub.org See you Saturday Steven
Gentle Shooters, One of my very favorite match directors, Tom Tyrell used to say “We shoot matches because there is no time to practice.” For me back in the day, that was often true with the varied demands of a young family, career, and of course shooting. We really can’t shoot Bowling Pins in the coldest months of the year because the plastic coating shatters and the pins disintegrate rapidly. Since there are no pin matches until April, I hereby open the 2025 Bowling Pin Practice season today through April 5th. Practice is prohibited during bowling pin season in deference to Tom. The match Saturday saw several notable performances.Cory Allen turned in a blistering 2.03 second carbine string. He then ruined it by proclaiming that he didn’t think he could do it any faster. Man, have you never fished? There is always a bigger fish. Cort Tompkins and Taylor Strickland both shot the match clean, not leaving a single pin behind. Congratulations. For the rest of us, print out these results, tape them on your mirror, look at them every morning, and vow to do better. Next Match is Saturday April 6th and don’t forget the defensive matches on the …
Gentle Shooters, We have arrived at that sad time of year again. This Saturday, December 7th, will be the last match of the 2024 season. And no one has achieved our ultimate goal of a sub two second string on carbine. Schoner’s eyes are all tuned up and Strickland has several absolutely sick carbines to run. You can never count out Tompkins either. It is expected to be quite a match and it would be a crime to miss it. As always, we will compete at the bucolic Airfield Shooting Club in idyllic Wakefield, VA. We start at 9:30, but if you have questions, you can consult our resident chief adjunct pinhead at [email protected] or refer to our web page.at any time. See you Saturday, Steven
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, As always, there is big news from the shooting grounds. In this month’s installment of results, our own Taylor Strickland comes within a scant .04 seconds of unseating our all time carbine champ Cory. Oh, and Cort came in third on something. And the weather was nice. Next match is November 2nd. Your results are below Steven ASC Bowling Pin Match Results October 2024 Finish Competitor String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Taylor Strickland 2.08 4.25 2.41 3.39 12.13 2.08 2 Paul Lynch 2.90 4.36 4.35 3.03 14.64 3 Cort Tompkins 3.82 3.18 3.00 5.96 15.96 4 Kenny Hardee 3.47 3.43 4.52 4.84 16.26 5 Brian Wells 11.08 3.49 3.56 3.05 21.18 6 Courtney Bolze 6.03 11.09 5.91 6.21 29.24 7 Habib Bararat 14.15 13.02 11.81 7.83 46.81 Major 1 Cort Tompkins 4.88 5.08 4.82 4.94 19.72 4.82 2 Habib Bararat 6.30 7.81 7.03 9.56 30.70 3 Phillip Van Cleave 8.97 6.75 5.41 11.72 32.85 4 Kenny Hardee 9.68 10.05 11.87 6.53 38.13 NFS Phillip Van Cleave 8.03 12.06 9.84 10.09 40.02 5 Taylor Strickland 6.12 25.00 10.18 5.93 47.23 6 Dan Kniseley 35.00 8.75 6.21 9.45 59.41 7 Paul Lynch …
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 …
