Author: Steven Gordon

Warm and Gentle Shooters, It definitely was the Fourth of July weekend at the range and shall we say the temperature didn’t disappoint. Regardless, out intrepid shooters fired 235 strings today with a large number of five gun competitors. I would be remiss if I didn’t offer a shout out to one of our original match directors, Cort Tompkins, who dropped by today to shoot the match. We have five Saturday’s in July, meaning you have an extra week to practice (or get enough gunpowder into your new .38 Special load to actually move your pin off the table) before our next match on August 6th. Until then, celebrate or weep over this month’s results posted below for your viewing pleasure. Steven Category Rank Shooter String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Art Schoner 5.53 2.89 4.24 2.78 15.44 2.78 2 Cort Tompkins 3.69 4.92 3.50 4.12 16.23 3 Taylor Strickland 4.36 4.65 3.22 4.46 16.69 4 Steven Gordon 4.46 2.99 6.26 4.25 17.96 5 Corbett Allen 10.56 7.94 10.62 11.28 40.40 6 Courtney Bolze 7.35 5.81 35.00 3.63 51.79 7 Chris Covert 6.61 5.96 8.38 45.00 65.95 Major 1 Cort Tompkins 6.51 8.09 …

Gentle Shooters, We are having a Bowling Pin Match Saturday July 2nd at 9:30 AM at the pastoral Airfield Shooting Club range in stunning Wakefield Virginia because America. I can’t think of a better way to fire up the Fourth of July weekend that with your favorite guns and your favorite friends. I know that I will be debuting a new optical sight and reload for my 38 revolver. Anyone who has attended a match where I am trying something new can attest to the entertainment value in my overwhelming frustration in the next installment of “what else can go wrong.” That alone is worth the cost of admission. Rules for the match and directions to the range are available on our web site at www.airfieldshootingclub.org. Specific questions and concerns along with the more general insults may be hurled at [email protected]. See you at the range Steven

Gentle Shooters, It appears there will be a break in the weather that may allow us to shoot the match tomorrow. If your match directors feel that the conditions will not be safe, then we will post an announcement on the Airfield Shooting Club web site by 6:30 AM Saturday. Otherwise, we are on for the match tomorrow. Steven

Gentle Shooters, This Saturday, May 7th. is the next scheduled installment of the ever popular Airfield Shooting Club’s renown Bowling Pin Series, not sponsored by Smith & Wesson. Weather permitting, We will assemble at the range at 9:30 AM for setup and shooters brief. If you have yet to experience the bowling pin shooting life, match rules and instructions are easily found at www.airfieldshootingclub.org. If you have any questions about our match, please contact our assistant adjunct master pinhead at [email protected]. If you would like to sponsor our match or win without shooting well, please see our pinhead at the range with small, non sequentially numbered and unmarked currency. And I mean twenties, not nickels. Steven

Gentle Shooters, We had a nice turnout and great weather for the Bowling Pin Match. Fifteen shooters participated and there were some noteworthy performances. The indomitable Charles Langford cruised to victory in the Five Gun standings after shooting an almost entirely clean match.  I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that Dale Mullin turned in a scorching 3.35 second carbine string with a lever action gun. Way to go Cowboy! The rest of the more plebeian results are below for your viewing pleasure. We will do it again next month on Saturday, May 7th. See you then. Steven April 2022 Results

Gentle Shooters, You’d be a fool to miss this weekend’s 2022 season opening Bowling Pin match at the soon to be famous Airfield Shooting Club range in historic Wakefield. Ammunition is now more plentiful, so you have no reason not to attend. We will begin at 9:30 this Saturday, April 2nd. For information, rules, and directions, please see our web site at www.airfieldshootingclub.org. For specific questions, our associate, adjunct, chief pinhead is always ready with pithy advice of questionable quality at [email protected]. He isn’t all that bright, but the price is right! See you at the range Steven

Gentle Shooters, As I rode back home yesterday after the last match of the season, in my mind I had prepared a long, poetic reminiscence of another season of bowling pin shooting. However, it is going to be another beautiful day and the car is loaded for a trip to the sporting clays range. I’d love to stay and chat, but daylight is burning, so here are your scores and I will see you in April, or around the range before. Practice up, because I will be! Here are your results. Steven Category Rank Shooter String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Steven Gordon 3.58 3.98 5.46 2.52 15.54 2.52 2 Art Schoner 5.15 5.00 2.91 2.62 15.68 3 Courtney Bolze 4.39 4.19 5.19 3.62 17.39 4 Frank Sanders 7.55 6.35 7.11 6.24 27.25 5 Taylor Strickland 11.15 6.65 9.55 6.39 33.74 Major 1 Terry Miltier 4.32 8.40 4.10 5.93 22.75 4.10 2 Art Schoner 5.94 7.91 5.82 7.15 26.82 3 Steven Gordon 5.56 14.36 10.17 5.68 35.77 4 Courtney Bolze 11.72 8.92 25.00 11.47 57.11 5 Taylor Strickland 10.43 11.26 25.00 25.00 71.69 Minor NFS Terry Miltier 7.03 4.30 6.35 6.35 24.03 1 …

Well Gentle Shooters, We are approaching the end of another season of Bowling Pins. As many of our experienced shooters know, the coating on the pins does not hold up in the cold winter months. So this Saturday, December 4th will be our last match until April. We will begin at 9:30 at the stunning Airfield Shooting Club range in idyllic Wakefield. Directions to the range and rules for the match are available at our web site www.airfieldshootingclub.org and individual questions can be addressed to the pinhead at [email protected]. See you Saturday, Steven