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Shreveport match update

SFC Carpentier jr

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Ok the first day is over. It was a HOT day. A GREAT match so far. A few people in our group our shooting well. Fixing to go out and have dinner with a group of shooter. Here are a few photos.

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Whoa it's been one hell of a day!! It was a great course of fire as Rich did a great job setting this match up. Can't wait for tomorrow. I just got back to the hotel room after leaving a dozen brave souls to entertain the talent at Superior Bar and Grill! Don't expect any "evidence" to be posted here, but let's just say we out-did last year. I hope everyone stumbles in for the shooter's meeting in the morning.
 
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Great match!! Despite probably getting melanoma on the 1000yd range I had a great time. Much thanks to Rich and all the RO's that put this together and had it running smoothly. There was very little down time between stages. Would also like to thank Long Range Alley for hosting the match.

Congrats to T.C. for a well deserved 1st place. It baffles me how one person can build the best rifles available and also have room in his brain to drive them perfectly. Although I was worried that he might break a hip on a few of the courses, he was able to shoot great and make it look easy.

It was great to meet some new shooters and hang out with some familiar ones. I plan on coming back next year!
 
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Big thanks to Rich, Lauren and all the RO's for putting on such a great match. Thanks to Long Range Alley for hosting the event. Final thanks to William Roscoe for building me a hell of a stick!
 
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Whoa where to start. First off it was very HOT. Our group was dragging on day two. Even though the weather was a factor, there was a lot of good shooting going on.

Thanks to Rich, Lauren and the RO staff for all there hard work. The RO staff was there to make sure everyone was safe and kept us moving along. They were also very helpful and worked well with everyone.

Congras to the top three. Terry Cross was shooting well, but the young guys were right there with him. Good shooting Terry.

As was mention there was a lot of good shooting in this match. Charlie group it was a pleasure shooting with you guys. Tim and John, good work guys. Thanks for your help.

One more think, we went Saturday night to Superior grill and had a GREAT time. There must have been at least 30 of us there. The local talent was out in full force and were very friendly to many of us. I am sure there are photos some where, but might not make it on here.


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Rich,

Thank you and Congrats on a fun and well run match. Everything went smoothly and there was almost no down time between stages. Big thanks to Lauren and all the R.O.s' yall did outstanding and everything went great. I still cant believe how little down time there was!

Enjoyed shooting with you guys I know and meeting the ones I didnt.

Rich, post the sponsors when you can so we can thank them.
That was a bad ass prize table!
 
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Rich and Lauren great job on putting on a super Match.

To all the shooter's thank's for making it a safe match! Without your cooperation it would have made it difficult to have such a good match. I don't know about anyone else but I think I know how bacon feels after being in a skillet. After 4 day's in the sun I feel like an old dried up piece of leather.

As for Mr. Brown if I ever figure out how to post pictures I'll get your photo up of you and your new "friends" from Superior Grill!

Thanks to all the sponsor's and to Long Range Alley.

Congrat's to TC.

Mick
 
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What was the course of fire? What ranges, shooting groups or steel, etc?

Shreveport is pretty close and I'm interested in shootin in a match.

Thank you.
 
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Where to begin? 

First off, thank you to Rich for putting on the best match I've ever been to.  The amount of time and work that went into putting this on was evident at every turn, and thank you so much for all your efforts.  It was an awesome match with lots of new stuff. I loved clearing rooms in the killhouse, that was new for me. I also loved everything about all the assault deck stages....that whole area rocked! I hated it to learn on the egg stage that I could hit an egg at 300y prone off a bipod, but couldn't hit one kneeling at 25 yards....damn I stink at positional shooting!:) Also, thanks to the RO's for working their butts off and helping keep us safe.

Thank you also to all of the sponsors that donated great prizes and thank you to Rich and Casey and everyone who worked to hustle up the prizes for us.  I still can't believe that at 15th place I still left with nearly $600 in prizes! Thank you to all the competitors as well for making it such a fun match.  That was a lot of fun on Saturday night at Superior Bar and Grill to see 30+ shooters get together for supper and drinks.  Eddy, Matt, and Jim from Oklahoma have a one-liner or quick comeback for everything!  Those guys are a hoot, and damn good shooters.  Congratulation to all the top shooters, you guys deserve recognition.  Those were some tough stages and some of you did inhumanly well.  Terry, Matt, and Jason should be very proud of the way they shot on such a challenging course.

Thank you also to Long Range Alley for hosting us...what an amazing place to have a match. I can't wait until the next one and I think the idea of having an annual Sept. 11th sniper match is a great idea.

Lastly, congratulations to my good friend Rob (SH= Sleeper).  Ten months ago this match was his first precision rifle match ever.  This year he took 8th place...damn he's gotten good real quick!

Thanks again to everyone, I had a great time.  Hopefully next time those targets won't seem so small for me.:)
 
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Thanks to Rich for putting on an awesome match, I know you worked non stop to keep it running smooth. Rich again thank you for allowing me to be an RO for this match I can't wait for next years match
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As far as stages went it was excellent! almost no down time with fun yet challenging stages for the whole match, as lucks posted I also sucked BAD at positional shooting. the kill house was a new twist and fun to run, definitely need a sling on the rifle though!

This match was my first time shooting my custom AR-15 past 400 yards and I got 2 out of 4 hits on a 16" IPSC hanger at 800 Yards! And 1 unconfirmed hit at 1000. (all the RO's bailed for lunch and left me out there! LOL) I learned so much about my own shooting and learned a lot as an RO observing all the excellent shooters who competed in the match!

I want to congratulate all shooters and RO's for their good shooting and wish you guys good luck for any matches this year, and I hope to see you guy next year!

I want to thank LRA for hosting this match, they are an awesome group of people and their facility is excellent! =1 for the 9/11 match idea as well. Also thanks too all those who sponsored the match, the prizes were awesome!

To all the shooters who went to Superior on Saturday It was a night to remember
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-gotta love Sammy-
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*If you guys want me to post those pics let me know!

I will be posting all my pics up soon
 
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Thanks to all for shooting and helping with the match.
Guys, first off I hope you had fun and were challenged, That was the goal! You guys in the Top TEN or so were amazing shooting over 50% in this match was a feat in itself.
I think there was 22 stages a 2280 available points,
Only the Top Six(Terry Cross, Matt Tederman, Jason Christian, Tim Long, Patrick Morris and John Sommers broke 60% with Terry edging out a 64%, It was very close and fun to watch all you guys battle it out, I'm still amazed at some of the shooting I got to witness, like John shooting the 6 Green targets from 200-450 yds in the speed shoot in under 15 seconds (with a bolt gun, and 3 or 4 of you guys Hit all Three eggs, and Brandon Finley hitting 4 out 5, 1/4" smileys on the triangle paper stage.
Truly some great shooting and great sportsmanship throughout the whole match. I appreciate everybody that was a part of it.

I hope you guys enjoyed it I wish i could have done a better job in the end getting you guys scored right the first time i was simply exhausted and needed more help. Lesson learned!

Ok the prize table came together, and hope you guys got something for your efforts. Please call and email these sponsors and tell them how much it means that they sponsored this match.
It is very hard in this economy for these guys to give what they do. Also visit their stores and open your wallet to them on your next order.

here's what i got so far..
4- LTM Refinish Certificates [email protected] [email protected]

3-Berger Berger Bullets Certificates (900 bullets) [email protected]

10- Warne Scope mount Certificates ($100 each) and Warne Torque Wrench [email protected]

3- Starlight Gift Certs- private donation

HDC scope $500 off Cert [email protected]

Krieger Barrels $75 off [email protected]

2-Lone Star Armory certs. Half off a upper with purchase and glock frame job [email protected]

2-$500 off Shark Suppressor Certs [email protected]

2- CereKote barreled action refinishes from Jason Christian “ JEC Customs” [email protected]

1- USO $1200 off cert. [email protected] “Jeff”

Rifles Only Training Certificate 50% off cert Precision Rifle Classes 1&2 [email protected]

1- Hornady Lock-N-Load Press with Case Feeder, special thanks to Trip McIngvale for getting this from Hornaday for us.
Hornady Manufacturing Company
3625 West Old Potash Hwy
Grand Island, NE 68803
USA
Phone: 1-800-338-3220
Phone: 308-382-1390
Fax: 308-382-5761

Larue Tactical sent 30 -$250 certs, 2- LT 104 mounts, 2-LT 711 mounts and a several pounds of 50- Dillo dust and beverage openers, 24 caps, special thanks to Trip McIngvale, and Mark at Larue Tactical. 512-259-1585 [email protected]

50- Louisiana Precision Rifle free chamber job with rifle build certs. [email protected]

4- Lonestar Medics training classes, from Caleb, [email protected]

2-White Oak Armament 20% off Certs. Gun Socks And T-shirts [email protected]

1- Hodgdon Tac-force bag , caps, reloading manuals Phone:913-362-9455---Fax:913-362-1307--- E-mail:[email protected]

4-Impact Data Books- Thanks to Tony, [email protected]

15-Burkett Videos from Matt Burkett at Predator Tactical Predator Tactical LLC
602-652-2864 Main 602-492-9987 Fax http://www.predatortactical.com/ [email protected]

Elberlestock pack and gift certificate from Delta Outdoorsman (901)-334-6808 OR EMAIL [email protected] Special thanks to Ceylon.

<span style="font-style: italic">Mark Buchanan, 3gungear.com, [email protected]
He gave the cert for $170 tactical Rifle Starter Kit</span>

LoneStar Guns Gallery and Gear, Weatherford, TX gave us
1-DPMS Ar-15 and 1- Glock 19
http://www.lonestargunsgallerygear.com/LoneStarG3/Default.aspx
817 341 8600 Special thanks to Haywood Bellah (Owner) and Geordie Richardson for setting this up.


2-Outback Welding AR-500 targets- from Geordie Richardson 817-694-0788, [email protected]
Also Special Thanks to Geordie for helping me with sponsors, and supplying about 12 targets that we used for the match. BIG THANKS.
On that same note Kevin Elpers [email protected]
supplied the flash R&R targets (12) that we used during the match. This match wouldn’t have been near the quality without the generosity of these two guys in lending me targets so guys can beat up on them, Hats off to them!

4- gift certs from Nighthawk Custom, a refinish job, $500 off a pistol, $500 off a Rifle and a rechamber job. Special thanks to Larry, [email protected] and Also Patrick Morris for arranging this deal.

1- Manners Stock—Thanks to Tom Manners, [email protected]

1-KMW Sentinel Stock—Special thanks to Terry Cross [email protected]

2- Vortex hand held Spotters # Phone: (800) 426-0048
# Email: [email protected]

1-Surgeon Rifle 6.5 Creedmoor—HUGE Thanks to Preston, Steven and all the guys who put a special rifle deal together in short notice for me. They are all good people, good shooters and good friends! 405-567-0183
[email protected]
or
[email protected]

Surgeon Rifles, Inc.
48955 Moccasin Trail Rd.
Prague, OK 74864

And Last but not least all the RO's and people helping me
Mick, John, Justin on the LR side Brian, Sean, Casey on the Bays side, Adam, Todd, Dustin, Sean, Tyler, Jeff, Lauren Thanks for putting up with me.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ashland</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What was the course of fire? What ranges, shooting groups or steel, etc?

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I'm sure I won't get this all correct, I'm sure Rich can help us out....

Stage 1
Cold bore on steel target at unknown distance mil it and then shoot(600-700ish yards?)
Stage 2
Steel hostage flapper at 400y
Stage 3
4+1 bonus steel targets at unknown distance, mil then shoot. (300-600ish yards)
Stage 4
606y know your limit on steel
Stage 5
5 prairie dog targets for fastest time (250-350ish yards?)
Stage 6
500y mover, most hits you can get in two passes
Stage 7
Positional
100y standing, 200y kneeling, 300y sitting, 400y prone unsupported, 500y prone
Stage 8
Obstacle course, shooting at 600y steel target
Shoot off barrel, shoot off wall (strong side/weak side), shoot off rooftop (strong side/weak side), shoot off tractor tire, shoot through row of tires
Also at end can shoot at a bonus 1" shoot'n see at 200y
Stage 9
800 yard steel, small and smaller steel
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4 shots
Stage 10
1000 yards steel, small and smaller steel
4 shots
Stage 11
100 yards paper, 5 shots each at sexy women, hostages, triangles, shoot'n see.
Stage 12
Killhouse
Enter house find playing card on wall, clear 4 rooms with pistol, don't shoot hostages! Leave back of house, run up hill, shoot your card with rifle plus two more steel targets with pistol. Faster time= more points
Stage 13
Pipeline
4+1 bonus steel, random distances (430-500ish yards)
Stage 14
Two gun, run-n-gun
7 steels with pistol, 4 steels with rifle (150-250 yards) about 150 yards of running, 90 seconds total allowed
Stage 15
Barrel
5 steels at random distances from 380-450y shot off top of 55 gallon drum
Stage 16
Speed steel
6 steel targets 200-450y, faster time = more points
Stage 17
450y steel know your limit
Stage 18
Steel hostage flapper target, 350 yards
Stage 19
Eggs
Shoot egg kneeling 25y, then prone 150y, 300y
Stage 20
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Shoot aces card, closest to bull wins a prize?

I think I'm missing a stage....somebody help me out....
 
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OK, it's official, I am 90% recovered, although walking outside today after noon brought back the pain! FYI no chiggers.

Rich, Lauren and the great RO staff....you guys rocked! Thanks for taking on the burden of organizing something of this magnitude. Rich, thanks again for the call, I couldn't say no and regret waiting to decide to come until Friday night. Had I decided sooner, who knows I might have trained a little?
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The match as stated earlier had NO real down time. The few individual events were welcomed breaks to hydrate and use a buddy for rotating shade! Time limits on events were short, but could be done. The old hold outs (like myself) had to work a little harder with no 10 round mags to keep up on the speed stuff, but I love a challenge. Initially I thought Rich had been drinking peyote tea after a few of the stage briefings! The variety in ranges, mostly mid range 400-600 was nice. Many competitions focus on a lot of short or long range with little mid range mixed in. We had shooting from 25 or 33 yards to 1000 with rifles. The match ran according to the flyer/briefing and few problems occured. Incuding the score verification was a pain I am sure, but Rich made sure it was accurate.

I was either really tired, delirious, confused or just horny because I think I liked the sexy girls event a <span style="font-weight: bold">tad</span> to much.

Tradition was alive and well, as usual I zeroed both KYL events......I know my limits, don't shoot KYL.

Congratulations to Terry (my hero) and the top 10. You guys really pushed the envelope. The fighting to stay in position was critical to the end and my hat is off to all of you.

It was great to catch up with old friends, and I was glad to see many of you. Sponsors really put it out there for the match. There was no shortage on the prize table! Thanks to each and every one of them.
 
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As for Mr. Brown if I ever figure out how to post pictures I'll get your photo up of you and your new "friends" from Superior Grill!
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Yes some photos of the local talent would be good. When I was leaving I saw a few good worthy of the girlfriend photo thread.
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Lucks, thank you for that post. Good Lord, I know I need to practice more before I go to this event. Sounds incredible though.
 
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I would like to say thank you to Long Range Alley for allowing the match to be held there. Also a big thanks to Rich and all the RO's for putting on a smooth, challenging, well thought out match, I can't imagine all the time that went into planning, preparation, and execution of a match of this size. I know that I and the rest of the crew from Nebraska had a great time. It was a pleasure to shoot with everyone in the charlie company. Lastly, Thank you to all the sponsors who donated to the match, it was a very generous prize table.

Matt Tederman
 
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Congratulations to you Matt for kicking almost all of our asses. Great shooting and I was glad to see you guys could make it down for the match.

It was a great match with lots of great shooters.

My thanks go out to Rich and all the crew that made this match happen and to the sponsors that made it all worth it. Outstanding job guys and girl.
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I posted some videos of the match on YouTube. I go by the same name on there.

Thanks everyone who made it possible. This was my first match and I had a GREAT time. I did better than my WILDEST expectations. Enjoyed meeting new people. I cannot say enough how much I enjoyed myself. I learned so much and really did become a better shooter. Rich and Casey, all the staff, RO's, LRA THANK YOU for making it all possible.

So much for those short barrel .308's not getting to 1000
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Barney88PDC</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I posted some videos of the match on YouTube. I go by the same name on there.

Thanks everyone who made it possible. This was my first match and I had a GREAT time. I did better than my WILDEST expectations. Enjoyed meeting new people. I cannot say enough how much I enjoyed myself. I learned so much and really did become a better shooter. Rich and Casey, all the staff, RO's, LRA THANK YOU for making it all possible.

So much for those short barrel .308's not getting to 1000
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Bannon
Thanks for the videos, those are great....
Here's some shortcuts to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OabrU61QZhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5dFtMHgaWA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mIaXfzdpL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-WaufjLBAk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI-qxW7l3_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z_PkbBmELs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5rl2D-XKkk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTRayAu2oPE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBSi8NSfwJ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBvE0eMxPoU
 
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Thanks to Rich and all the guys. I had a great time. This was my first match and im hooked. Had a great bunch of guys in Charlie
and they all helped me out. Also had my first hits past 650yds, score on 800 and 1000!
 
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I am finally back in the shop and recovered. I had a great time and know that it was a hard match to set up. Thanks again to Rich and all the guys down south.
 
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Thanks to everyone who made this a safe match. If you've never RO'd a match of this size then you owe it to yourself to do so. It was great seeing a bunch of you guys again and great meeting quite a few new people as well.

Thanks to Rich, LRA, and all of the sponsors. Hopefully by now everyone has sent emails to the sponsors thanking them. If not then please do so soon. See all of you guys next year.

-Big John
 
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Rich,
I should have posted before now. Seems like we just finished yesterday. I had several fires to put out at the shop as soon as I got back and it just sucked my whole week away. All my gear is still in a pile just inside the door.

Rich designed a very demanding course of fire for us to screw up. It was not only demanding for the competitors but also for Rich and his entire crew. From Lauren on down, it was very hard work to keep all of the shooters on task and safe. The heat was very unusual for this time of year. Several competitors including myself were very close to some heat injuries. LRA and Rich’s staff kept water coming to the ice chests and made sure everybody was as well hydrated as possible. Thank you for all of your hard work.

The events challenged everyone. Small targets and tight time limits were made even more challenging by the mirage and heat.

It was really nice to get out of the shop and almost die for the weekend. Kevin and I got to see some of our friends that came from afar and also got to meet a lot of new shooters. I appreciate all of the Charlie and Delta shooters making the 2 days in the sun bearable and fun. I want to acknowledge that this match drew several full time L.E. snipers as well as at least 2 Army participants. My hat is off to those guys for jumping into the fray. I guarantee that you are all more capable and mission ready than if you had not attended. Go shove it in the faces of your colleagues and make them attend one of these.

I had my usual “zero” scores on a couple of events and again, as usual anything past 600 yards was pretty much safe from my hot millimeters of death. There were a bunch of very good shooters that made the trip to compete. Not knowing the ranking of how everyone was doing, I was just hoping to be in their pack somewhere. It was very much an honor to find out that I made just a couple less mistakes than some of those guys to edge them out in points.

Sincere congratulations to Matt Tederman and Jason Christian. Those two along with Tim Long and John Sommers of the Oklahoma Mafia were all right there. To hang with these awesome guys was a surprise.

A huge THANK YOU to Preston Pritchett and Stephen Barrier. They provided a custom built Scalpel in 6.5 Creedmoor that I was very fortunate to receive. They, along with a huge number of sponsors allowed everyone to get a very nice prize and legitimized this competition as a major and well received event. Very cool. Thank you to all.

Kevin, thanks for meeting me downtown at freakin 05:00 both days so I wouldn’t have to make the trip alone. Glad you rode with me and very glad you were in my squad.

Everybody have a safe week.
Terry
 
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Some of you wanted to see how you finished. These are the scores for the TOP 17.

Once again, thanks everybody for shooting and being safe.
Please take time to thank the sponsors.

See ya down the road!


Terry Cross--1470.13
Matt Tederman-1465.35
Jason Christian--1445.68
Tim Long--1445.18
Patrick Morris--1392.45
John Summers--1345.29
Brandon Finley--1272.33
Robert Baker--1256.7
John Busby--1211.45
Bannon Eldridge--1187.35
Floyd Cook--1143.58
Matt Parry--1130.03
Lonnie Devine--1124.28
Adam Lucksinger--1124.20
Eddy Clark--1112.48
Trip McIngvale--1112.84
Geordie Richardson--1111.48