Category Archives: Civilian Marksmanship Program Matches

Freezer Match 2015

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Took the M1 Carbine out for the freezer match. This is a “fun match” our club runs, any rifle, any sight. I took out my M1 Carbine as had not had much trigger time with it yet.

It was a nice crisp day in the low 30’s and a little overcast. The match was a 40 round off hand match. I had never so much as fired my carbine off hand so I did about as poorly as I had expected to do. But this was a good start towards getting the hang of shooting this thing.

Unfortunately on my last target the lug on my M1 Carbine flat bolt sheared off so I wasn’t able to finish the match. There are picture below of the broken bolt.  It seems I have some work to do on this carbine before Perry.

All and all it was a great match, there was chili, coffee, and door prizes with the benefits going to charity,  I’ll need to keep practicing during the off season. The National Matches will be here before I know it!

 

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The Broken Bolt:

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Pennsylvania Railroad System Rifle Matches

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This weekend I stumbled upon a medal with the Pennsylvania Railroad logo and a rifle dated 1926.

Turns out PRR sponsored many sporting events and gave out other similar medals for the more typical office-type sports like softball and bowling etc.

It originally had a ribbon attached. I don’t know  what the criteria was for awarding them. Some of the awards for other sports seem to be gold so its possible they were Gold/Silver/Bronze awards or that could have varied by sport.  It was made by Dieges & Clust Jewelers in Philadelphia.

According to the some old newspapers, the matches were playoff format. Each department had a competition and sent representatives to a final championship which was held in Baltimore, at least in 1927.

I thought it was a neat piece of history, sure beats a company softball game.

 

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Last Garand Match of 2014

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Took the Garand out for one last match for the year. It was a crisp December day in the low 40s and overcast. I had taken my rifle apart after the last match as I had shot one round of corrosive ammo and my OCD wouldn’t let it slide. Of course, I didn’t have time to take it out to check my 0 and let it set into the wood. I managed to dial it in with the 5 sighter rounds, which was better than I expected as I had peened the barrel which can change POI.

After the sighters, prone went well. However, I really fell apart in off-hand. My head wasn’t in it and I let myself get mad. Good news is I have four months to practice for the next season.

November 2014 Garand Match

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It was crisp and overcast for Sunday’s Garand Match. The visibility was good, not too bright or dark.

I shot on the 11 am relay. I’m not sure what I was doing in slow prone, I didn’t take my time to get into position and I ended up shifting a couple times mid string which was a little frustrating. I made up some in rapid prone and off hand, is off hand.

A couple of my friends came to the match this month, one of them a new shooter. Unfortunately the new shooter had some equipment trouble and his extractor went flying. Once the RO was able to get his rifle clear from the line we were able to get him a loaner rifle to finish out the match.

 

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Just one more match this season then its time for another long winter.

 

The flying extractor:

Rapid Fire Sitting at Small Arms Firing School, Viale Range Camp Perry

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The rapid fire string of the 2014 SAFS M16 EIC match at Camp Perry’s Viale Range