Category: Bowling Pin Matches

Greetings Gentle Shooters, This Saturday, August 7th please join your friends for another fun filled installment of how the pins fall (or don’t!) We will hold our monthly pin match beginning at 9:30 at the bucolic Airfield Shooing Club Range in beautiful Wakefield VA. Come see if anyone can dethrone Art and his magic carbine. If you need to brush up on the rules or need directions, they are available at airfieldshootingclub.org. For specific questions, complaints or brickbats, please gently reach out to our associate, adjunct, chief assistant pinhead at [email protected]. Steven

Greetings Gentle Shooters, Sometimes a pinhead, like a pin itself, is knocked down but not completely out. In this case, they are still able to deliver results. Art would be crestfallen if I didn’t mention he set another record with his carbine. You know this isn’t going to happen every single month, right? For the rest of us, there is always August. The scores are below and we will reconvene next month. Steven Category Rank Shooter String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Art Schoner 2.34 2.95 3.06 3.40 11.75 2.34 2 Courtney Bolze 6.18 6.32 3.86 5.91 22.27 3 Dale Mullin 5.56 7.86 5.59 4.70 23.71 4 Taylor Strickland 6.73 8.83 10.09 12.81 38.46 5 Chris Covert 10.66 9.38 7.36 25.00 52.40 6 Dennis Strickland 55.00 25.00 25.00 10.54 115.54 Major 1 Joe Ford 8.10 10.92 8.42 6.24 33.68 2 Brian Howell 25.00 7.00 5.07 8.21 45.28 5.07 3 Don Aubuchon 8.08 11.98 25.00 9.52 54.58 4 Courtney Bolze 11.08 35.00 25.00 8.45 79.53 5 Art Schoner 25.00 7.23 11.11 45.00 88.34 6 Taylor Strickland 10.52 12.21 35.00 35.00 92.73 7 Chris Covert 35.00 45.00 45.00 12.35 137.35 8 Tim Radtick 45.00 25.00 …

Gentle Shooters, Just a reminder that we will have a Bowling Pin Match on Saturday, July 3rd at 9:30 at Airfield Shooting Club range. The forecast calls for showers, so check you’re email and/or the website in case of bad weather. Rules for the match, as well as directions to the range are available at airfieldshootingclub.org. Individual questions may be directed to your assistant pinhead at [email protected]. Art

Thanks to all of our gentle shooters who came out to shoot the match. It was quite warm and humid, but our contestants posted some nice times as captioned below. Our next match will be Saturday, July 3rd. Category Rank Shooter String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Art Schoner 6.95 4.25 2.68 4.71 18.59 2.68 2 Taylor Strickland 5.43 5.03 6.43 4.16 21.05 3 Steven Gordon 7.64 4.42 4.70 5.98 22.74 4 Courtney Bolze 4.85 3.38 11.99 3.50 23.72 5 Chris Covert 7.47 12.52 13.46 5.98 39.43 Major 1 Terry Miltier 5.45 4.26 5.88 4.80 20.39 4.26 2 Brian Howell 6.50 12.91 5.53 5.09 30.03 3 Taylor Strickland 9.38 7.85 4.84 12.73 34.80 5 Don Aubuchon 10.39 7.57 9.59 9.39 36.94 NFS David Lampe 4.82 7.64 11.22 25.00 48.68 5 Paul Lynch 7.46 7.66 25.00 12.06 52.18 6 Steven Gordon 7.82 6.63 35.00 10.46 59.91 7 Courtney Bolze 8.84 9.75 11.02 35.00 64.61 8 Art Schoner 25.00 6.63 25.00 12.85 69.48 9 Frank Sanders 25.00 35.00 10.32 8.19 78.51 NFS Frank Sanders 25.00 25.00 5.61 35.00 90.61 10 Joe Ford 25.00 7.54 35.00 25.00 92.54 11 Mark Lampe 25.00 25.00 55.00 25.00 130.00 …

Gentle Shooters, Just a quick reminder that we will have a Bowling Pin Match on Saturday, June 5th at 9:30 at Airfield Shooting Club range. Please be prompt as we have a pistol class that will need the range shortly after we finish. Rules for the match, as well as directions to the range are available at airfieldshootingclub.org. Individual questions may be directed to your convenient local pinhead at [email protected]. Also, we do not need anyone to go to the bowling alley today as previously emailed. They only have a few pins and a member will be retrieving them today. Steven

We have an opportunity to get more bowling pins from a different lane. I’d like to put out an email to the bowling pin list to get some of our shooters to help move the pins. We can get the pins after 4 PM at AMF Chesapeake Lanes 112 Medical Parkway E Chesapeake VA 23320. I’d say lets meet at 5. That gives them time to open up. Once loaded, we will drive the pins to the warehouse at Gordon Paper, 5713 Ward Ave Virginia Beach, VA 23455 for storage. We learned one thing from the last pin pickup. Any member that has a hand truck, please bring it. Questions please contact Steven at [email protected] or (757) 560-7311.

It was truly a beautiful day at the range. I am not certain why we are not drawing more shooters. Perhaps it is the availability of ammunition. We can’t fix that, but if it is something else, we’d sure like to know. Reach out to our resident pinhead in training at [email protected]. For those of your lucky enough to make it to the range today, the scores are posted below. The next match is Saturday, June 5th. See you then Steven Category Rank Shooter String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Art Schoner 3.93 2.86 3.74 6.78 17.31 2.86 2 Taylor Strickland 6.23 5.55 5.13 2.88 19.79 3 Steven Gordon 6.03 5.75 3.78 4.26 19.82 4 Courtney Bolze 3.93 5.72 6.83 7.05 23.53 5 Charles Lankford 3.02 9.62 6.82 7.44 26.90 Major NFS Terry Miltier 5.77 3.67 8.06 4.79 22.29 3.67 1 Terry Miltier 6.74 5.79 9.06 4.14 25.73 2 Steven Gordon 6.25 7.82 5.47 7.78 27.32 3 Charles Lankford 9.45 9.07 5.82 5.55 29.89 4 Joe Ford 10.20 13.06 8.99 8.00 40.25 5 Art Schoner 12.96 14.81 10.30 8.80 46.87 6 Taylor Strickland 7.33 11.26 5.56 25.00 49.15 7 Courtney Bolze 25.00 35.00 …

Greetings Gentle Shooters, We are looking forward to a beautiful Saturday for the May Bowling Pin Match. The event is on Saturday, May 1st at 9:30 at the Airfield Club Shooting range in stunning Wakefield, VA. So if your race .38 Super jammed (repeatedly) last month, or even if it didn’t, its time for another shot at redemption. All of your friends (or perhaps your new friends) will be at the match. Nothing has changed, but you can brush up on the rules and directions to the range at www.airfieldshootingclub.org. And if you have specific questions, feel free to reach out to our assistant adjunct pin sommelier at [email protected]. See you Saturday, Steven

It turned out to be crisp but lovely day for a match at the range. I guess a few of you are still practicing or scrounging up ammunition. For the nine of us who did attend, we go to see a little of everything including some spectacular early season failures. In addition, today’s contestants witnessed a new club record for clearing five pins from a table. Art Schoner now holds the club record for a 2.38 second relay. Congratulations. For the rest of us, the good, the bad and the just plain embarrassing results are listed below. See you next month at the range. Steven Category Rank Shooter String 1 String 2 String 3 String 4 Total Fastest String Carbine 1 Art Schoner 3.77 2.38 3.47 4.58 14.20 2.38 2 Steven Gordon 5.96 4.89 2.75 2.66 16.26 3 Tim Branbos 5.48 5.74 5.32 4.74 21.28 4 Taylor Strickland 9.03 7.17 4.32 3.73 24.25 5 Courtney Bolze 3.17 14.54 8.46 3.94 30.11 NFS Frank Sanders 13.40 8.65 10.13 8.36 40.54 6 Brian Wells 25.00 8.16 4.19 3.96 41.31 7 Frank Sanders 10.68 11.92 11.00 8.69 42.29 Major 1 Steven Gordon 6.18 7.09 5.73 6.20 25.20 2 Taylor Strickland 8.59 10.62 12.00 …