To all:
After two days of shooting the American Creedmoor Cup
and the dominance exhibited by “Doc” Lay Jr. we all hoped that maybe
Doc’s luck had run out and us mere mortals would have some sort of chance!
NOT!!!!
“Doc” started off Saturday on the 800 yard line with
a 92-2x which tied him for the lead with Jimbo Terry who now had Kenny Wasserberger helping
him on the spotting scope. But remember for this match “Doc” had the
help of a spotter as well and the conditions were going to test all
the competitors, even with someone helping with the wind calls.
The cloud cover from the day before was a prelude to
the storm front moving in bringing with it the forecast of high winds
beginning in the afternoon and continuing through Sunday.
With the help of Dan “The Man” Theodore spotting for
him “Doc” barely held on to his lead at 900 yards. Last year’s match
winner Dave Gullo and his partner
John Venhous were finally getting a handle
on things and were starting to put some pressure on Doc as well as Mike
Rix and his partner Schuetzen wiz
Jack Odor. The winds were
starting to pick up and the scores were starting to drop along with
the temperatures.
1000 yards was to be only the second time during the
whole week that Doc didn’t have the high score. Dave
Gullo managed to fire a 84-2x in pretty rough
wind conditions and outdistance Doc by 9-points but Doc still managed
to secure the match win with a 245-4x over Gullo’s
243-3x.
Sunday was everything that the weathermen had been forecasting.
Partly cloudy and gusting winds!
It was so bad that several past National Champions decided
to pull up stakes and go home early.
I’m not sure I blame them as the day was to be one of
the toughest shooting days I have ever participated in.
Klaus
Schattleitner
and his partner Jason Porter
had flown down from Grand Junction, Colorado in Klaus’s Beech Bonanza
and being a safe pilot Klaus decided to cut the match short rather than
to chance flying home through the approaching storm. Klaus buzzed the
pits on his way out to everyone’s delight!
At 800 yards, Doc for the first time showed some vulnerability
and several shooters took advantage of the opportunity. Gullo was on a roll and lead the way at 800 with a 92-1x followed
closely by Mike Rix with a 91-3x. Doc was
back in the dust (literally) with a 86-2x which
was the first time he had not shot in the 90s at 800 yards in three
matches!!
At 900 yards Doc once again was back on pace and pretty
much buried everyone else by scoring a 84-1x.
Mike Rix was the only one close with a 79-0x
along with Bob Delatorre shooting paper patched bullets for the first
time with a 78-0x.
The 1000 yard relay began with Dan Theodore recording
on his digital wind gauge sustained winds of 25-30 mph with gusts up
to 45 mph!!! Dan was able to find a way to anticipate the changes and
give the proper wind calls that enabled Doc to shoot an unbelievable
score for the conditions of 80-0x!!! Dan was the only one close with
a 74-0x. Doc had won the 2009 Winter National Creedmoor with an aggregate
score of 495-7x.
In four days of shooting Doc had only TWO misses and
had never fired a shot outside the 7 ring with the exception of the
two misses!!! If this isn’t domination I don’t know what is.
Both of the stories about the Creedmoor Cup and the Winter
National Creedmoor have been all about Dr. Keith
Lay Jr. and they should be, but there were some other
shooters who did well in tough match conditions and they deserve some
recognition as well. For their outstanding efforts
I decided to award cash to the top three aggregate scores
from both the American Creedmoor Cup and the Winter National Creedmoor.
Obviously the 1st place winner of $250.00
was Dr. Keith Lay Jr. 2nd
place and $150.00 went to Dave
Gullo and 3rd place and $100.00 went to Dan Theodore.
The paper patch shooter count continues to grow and this
year we had a total of six competitors shooting paper patch. My partner
Bob Delatorre was awarded the Paper Patch Trophy since Dan Theodore
was the 1st Master award winner. This was Bob’s first attempt
at paper patching and his aggregate score of 423-3x was very respectable.
Kenny Wasserberger
combined paper patched bullets with a scope and went home to Wyoming
with the Scope Trophy.
So many people help me make this match possible and I
want take this opportunity to thank them.
Harvey Trace comes every year from Canada to Ben Avery
and works as a range host. He also is kind enough to set out in the
sun for four days to call the match for us. Thanks Harvey!!
Ross Mc Cullum, Trent Lawrence
and Tom Lewandowski also
donated their time to help me with the target preparation and that has
become quite a job now that the match has grown to five days of shooting.
Thanks guys!!
Bob Delatorre helps with the awards, scoring and is also
my shooting partner. He also helped me get started in paper patching.
I repaid him with some lousy wind calls. Sorry Bob!!
One of the high lights of our match is the steak fry
on Saturday evening. My Carolyn along with her daughters and grandchildren
take care of all the details and provide us all with a very well prepared
dinner. We just show up and eat and I can’t tell you how much of a load
that takes off me. Thank you all and “I love you”.
I really believe this match was a milestone in Black
Powder Target Rifle shooting
and Doc Lay has secured himself a page is the shooting history books.
Can he do it again next year?
We’ll see.
Steve Rhoades
Match Director
| COMPETITOR |
CLASS |
800 YD. |
900 YD. |
1000 YD. |
TOTAL |
800 YD. |
900 YD. |
1000 YD. |
TOTAL |
AGGR. |
AWARD |
| K. LAY JR. |
MAS. |
92-2X |
78-0X |
75-0X |
245-4X |
86-2X |
84-1X |
80-0X |
250-3X |
495-7X |
MATCH WINNER |
| D. GULLO |
MAS. |
86-0X |
73-1X |
84-2X |
243-3X |
92-1X |
71-0X |
65-0X |
228-1X |
471-3X |
SECOND PLACE |
| M. RIX ** |
MAS. |
91-1X |
77-1X |
70-1X |
238-3X |
91-3X |
79-0X |
54-1X |
224-4X |
462-7X |
THIRD PLACE |
| D. THEODORE ** |
MAS. |
82-0X |
67-0X |
79-1X |
228-1X |
89-1X |
64-0X |
74-1X |
227-2X |
455-3X |
1ST MASTER |
| H. ITCHKAWICH |
MAS S/SR |
85-1X |
78-0X |
63-1X |
226-2X |
87-1X |
77-2X |
56-0X |
220-3X |
446-5X |
2ND MASTER |
| M. HANSEN |
EX.WM. |
76-0X |
69-1X |
79-1X |
224-2X |
90-0X |
57-1X |
70-0X |
217-1X |
442-3X |
1ST EXPERT |
| Z. TAYLOR |
EX. |
87-2X |
79-2X |
67-1X |
233-5X |
82-0X |
54-0X |
67-0X |
203-0X |
436-5X |
2ND EXPERT |
| J. TERRY |
Ex. hibitionist |
92-2X |
68-0X |
64-2X |
224-4X |
87-0X |
51-0X |
69-0X |
207-0X |
431-4X |
3RD EXPERT |
| K. GOSE |
EX. SR. |
87-2X |
74-1X |
57-0X |
218-3X |
86-0X |
60-0X |
67-0X |
213-0X |
431-3X |
1ST SENIOR |
| C. MATE |
EX. |
91-3X |
76-1X |
65-1X |
232-5X |
96-2X |
52-0X |
47-0X |
195-2X |
427-7X |
|
| B. DELATORRE ** |
EX. |
90-1X |
67-2X |
60-0X |
217-3X |
82-0X |
78-0X |
46-0X |
206-0X |
423-3X |
1ST PAPER PATCH |
| P. TAYLOR |
EX. SR. |
89-2X |
71-1X |
67-1X |
227-4X |
87-1X |
61-1X |
47-0X |
195-2X |
422-6X |
|
| R. HANSEN |
MAS. |
91-0X |
90-0X |
60-1X |
241-2X |
88-0X |
41-0X |
52-0X |
181-0X |
422-2X |
3RD MASTER |
| R. ENGLEBACH ** |
MAS.SR. |
84-0X |
65-0X |
60-0X |
209-0X |
90-3X |
73-0X |
47-0X |
210-3X |
419-3X |
|
| J. EGGLESTON |
MAS.SR. |
85-0X |
81-2X |
63-0X |
229-2X |
83-0X |
45-1X |
49-1X |
177-2X |
406-4X |
|
| J. VENHOUS |
MAS.SR. |
89-0X |
68-0X |
68-0X |
225-0X |
80-1X |
59-2X |
42-0X |
181-3X |
406-3X |
|
| K. WASSERBERGER ** |
EX.SCOPE |
89-0X |
53-1X |
41-0X |
183-1X |
93-2X |
77-1X |
52-0X |
222-3X |
405-4X |
1ST SCOPE |
| A.SLEDGE |
MAS.SR. |
78-0X |
53-0X |
73-0X |
204-0X |
92-4X |
67-1X |
40-1X |
199-6X |
403-6X |
|
| R. CALDERONE |
MAS.btr |
92-3X |
56-0X |
67-0X |
215-3X |
82-0X |
72-1X |
33-0X |
187-1X |
402-4X |
|
| D. HANSON |
EX. SR. |
84-0X |
65-0X |
55-0X |
204-0X |
68-1X |
68-0X |
56-0X |
192-1X |
396-1X |
|
| S. BALDWIN |
MAS. |
91-2x |
80-0x |
46-0x |
217-2x |
87-1x |
39-0x |
45-0x |
171-1x |
388-3x |
|
| J. BOYLE |
MAS. |
77-0X 86-0X |
86-0X |
68-0X |
231-0X |
87-1X |
39-0X |
45-0X |
171-1X |
388-3X |
|
| G. GIPSON |
S/S SR. |
83-0X |
73-1X |
48-0X |
204-1X |
78-1X |
42-0X |
61-0X |
181-1X |
385-2X |
1ST S/SHOOTER |
| D. HANKS |
EX. S/SR. |
79-1X |
70-1X |
33-0X |
182-2X |
75-1X |
63-0X |
61-1X |
199-2X |
381-4X |
|
| D. MAURER |
MAS.SR. |
82-1X |
45-0X |
39-0X |
166-1X |
82-0X |
80-0X |
53-0X |
215-0X |
381-1X |
|
| B. SAATHOFF |
EX |
93-3X |
42-0X |
39-0X |
174-3X |
84-0X |
49-0X |
72-0X |
205-0X |
379-3X |
|
| D. TONN |
MAS. SCOPE |
83-1X |
68-0X |
58-1X |
209-2X |
80-1X |
61-0X |
27-0X |
168-1X |
377-3X |
|
| C. ATKINSON |
M/M SR. |
81-0X |
74-0X |
43-0X |
198-0X |
74-0X |
48-0X |
57-0X |
179-0X |
377-0X |
1ST MARKSMAN |
| L. BUMBALOW |
M/M SR. |
88-1X |
61-0X |
40-0X |
189-1X |
71-1X |
72-0X |
44-0X |
187-1X |
376-2X |
|
| S. RHOADES ** |
MAS.SR. |
87-0X |
51-0X |
62-1X |
200-1X |
73-1X |
60-0X |
36-0X |
169-1X |
369-2X |
|
| J. ODOR |
MAS. SR. |
86-1X |
53-1X |
48-0X |
187-2X |
85-2X |
60-1X |
36-0X |
181-3X |
368-5X |
|
| G. BOYLE |
EX. WM. |
73-0X |
86-1X |
29-0X |
188-1X |
84-0X |
48-0X |
42-1X |
174-1X |
362-2X |
1ST WOMAN |
| M. GEPHARDT |
MAS. |
86-0X |
71-0X |
38-0X |
195-0X |
75-1X |
71-1X |
18-0X |
164-2X |
359-2X |
|
| T. LAWRENCE |
EX. SR. |
86-1x |
68-0x |
44-0x |
198-1x |
81-0x |
56-0x |
23-0x |
160-0x |
358-1x |
|
| P. HUARD |
EX. |
86-0X |
59-0X |
44-1X |
186-1X |
79-1X |
55-0X |
30-0X |
164-1X |
350-2X |
|
| J. DORRELL ** |
EX. |
88-OX |
53-1X |
39-0X |
180-1X |
88-0X |
42-0X |
31-0X |
161-0X |
341-1X |
|
| R. GREY |
S/S |
91-1X |
40-0X |
24-0X |
155-1X |
75-0X |
69-1X |
40-0X |
184-1X |
339-2X |
|
| D. WILEY |
EX. SR. |
53-0X |
31-0X |
42-0X |
126-0X |
86-0X |
49-0X |
61-1X |
196-1X |
322-1X |
|
| T. CRISLER |
MAS. |
62-0X |
57-0X |
39-0X |
158-0X |
82-2X |
36-0X |
44-0X |
162-2X |
320-2X |
|
| J. STEPP |
EX. SCOPE |
73-0X |
37-0X |
27-0X |
137-0X |
84-0X |
36-0X |
56-1X |
176-1X |
313-1X |
|
| S. LORENZ |
S/S |
87-0X |
35-0X |
29-0X |
151-0X |
73-0X |
53-0X |
32-0X |
158-0X |
309-0X |
|
| C. BROWN |
S/S SCOPE |
56-0X |
39-0X |
53-1X |
148-1X |
84-1X |
22-0X |
24-0X |
130-1X |
278-2X |
|
| B. YOUNGBERG |
EX. |
69-0X |
48-2X |
38-0X |
155-2X |
53-0X |
39-1X |
17-0X |
109-1X |
264-3X |
|
| R. MORITZ |
MAS. |
84-1X |
91-1X |
60-2X |
235-4X |
DNF |
DNF |
DNF |
DNF |
235-4X |
|
| J. PORTER |
EX. |
78-0X |
86-0X |
63-0X |
227-0X |
DNF |
DNF |
DNF |
DNF |
227-0X |
|
| K. SCHATTLEITNER |
MAS.SR. |
89-0X |
55-0X |
75-1X |
219-1X |
DNF |
DNF |
DNF |
DNF |
219-1X |
|
| L. HARRIS |
MAS. SR. |
91-2X |
78-0X |
37-0X |
206-2X |
DNF |
DNF |
DNF |
DNF |
206-2X |
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COMPETITOR EQUIPMENT
LIST
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Dr.
Keith Lay Jr |
Shiloh
Sharps 45-90 30” Krieger 1-18 Distant Thunder front MVA rear P/Jones
Money bullet 20-1 White Lightning lube 75 grs.
3F Swiss .030 LDPE Starline brass 150M
Fed lg. pistol 1275 fps. Wiped w/water soluble oil. |
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|
Dave Gullo |
Sharps
Borchardt 45-100 Badger 34” 1-18 Kelly rear Riflesmith
front
BACO
545 gr. Creedmoor 20-1 SPG lube 80 grs.
1 ½ Swiss .030 poly wad Fed 210M lg. rifle primer 1290 fps. wiped
w/M-Pro7 |
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Dan
Theodore |
Browning
BPCR 45-90 Badger 32” 1-16 Special Paper Patch Chamber P/Jones
Money Paper Patch 16-1 96 grs. 1 ½ Swiss
.090 Poly wad Starline brass Fed 150M lg. pistol wiped w/soluble oil-water |
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Bob
Delatorre |
Remington
Hepburn 45-90 30” 1-18 MVA front/rear BACO Money Paper Patch 16-1
7.3# paper 87 grs. 1 ½ Swiss .060 Poly
wad Starline Rem
2 ½ lg. pistol flushed w/margarita mix wiped w/cotton patches |
|
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Kenny Wasserberger |
Shiloh
Sharps 45-110 Shiloh 1-18 MVA 6X Scope BACO P/Patch .446 520 grs. 1-20 Goex Express Fg .050 veg. .060 poly .090 cork
wads WLR primers 1386
fps. Wiped w/soluble oil water |
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