Re: 2012 Louisiana Tac./Prec. Rifle match updates
<span style="font-size: 11pt"><span style="color: #000099"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">WELL-DESIGNED, RUN MATCH
For those who worked to produce this match;
Thank you for your time, talent and resources. I appreciate your efforts and the successful result of it.
For the shooters;
Producing a match of this significance requires hard work for about 6 months. The prize table must be solicited from sponsors, and that requires countless emails and phone calls to each sponsor. They are busy with business so the onus is on the solicitor to get it done, not the sponsor.
A course of fire must be conceived and then designed, and it must suit the match site. For this match, the producers had not produced a match at our range complex. Therefore, they had to negotiate, measure, align, dig, hammer, buy, beg, cuss, build, shoot........ad infinitum. The stress to make a match work is heavy so they begin far out in time to solicit prizes. Attracting shooters is accomplished with prizes.
The two match directors, primarily, and Rich and Lauren and others who worked with Luck and Baker, expended huge amounts of time preparing the every conceivable problem that might occur and sought effectively to solve those problems.
Yes. An excellent marksman using capable gear, with luck, is responsible for winning. But the prize was available, on the table, because, and only because, the match directors and their assistants, and the sponsors, placed that prize on the table. Their work made it possible for us to take-home a prize. Otherwise, these matches would be just another boring trophies-only match in the humid heat and cold rain. Instead, for example, Rosco spent numerous days building two rifles. Not might-shoot-well rifles. Custom, hand-made/fitted rifles, and contributed them to the prize table. That means he gave his time, talent, industry, sweat so a few excellent marksman using capable gear, and with luck, could grab a valuable, sought after, prized hand-made marksman's rifle. Rosco's gift to the two top shots is an example. There are others as well. Terry Cross, GAP, etc.. Numerous sponsors contributed to our match. Juggernaut, for example, was actually there with gear to demonstrate. I thought that was a crafty way to exhibit gear. Email them when you buy from them to thank them for their sponsorship, and if their sponsorship influenced your decision to select their product, tell them. It matters. Its business.
For shooters up and coming;
Keep at it, train, fiddle with your software while relaxing at night (or at work

) , and consider ROing, and even producing a match.
Thank you Sean McKay, Russel Dean and Rosco.
Team LA Precision Rifles; Awesome!
Brian, Sean, David, Heath, Pete, Rosco, Chase, Jason, Terry; I had great fun shooting with you, and hope our camaraderie (and my shooting) flourishes.
Producing a match is how we contribute to our sport. We reciprocate.
At least two are needed to organize one and numerous others to assist. Actually, I'm thinking Sommers and Long. How bout it guys? I bet you could put on a helluva match and you have big shoes to fill.
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