It has been a while since my last post. There has been a lot happening around this house. I have changed out airguns again and I think I found a winner. Dawn is now shooting with me at the matches and having fun. My graduate degree is harder than expected and I found out the other day that Liberty has been accepted to “increase the bar” for academic requirements – which will put them on the same level as Harvard and Yale. The boys are growing up fast and continue to entertain both Dawn and I.
Well, apart from the day-to-day items, I found this image today and it reminded me of something.
There are Christians, some I have talked with, who feel that one should not be humours. The serious Christian should always be serious about all topics and subjects. However, this is not the case. I do not wish to go into the various scripture that shows humor in the Bible, but know that we are not to be stiff about everything.
This point comes with knowledge and understanding about when is good and when is poor humor. The preacher who prayed the “funny” prayer at the Nashville Super Speedway this year is an example of poor humor and very poor judgment. When a Christian tells horrible jokes (not suitable for children or women), that is an example of poor humor.
There are many, many facets to this discussion, but know this – God made a “funny bone” for a reason. I make jokes and do silly things quite frequently.
That is it… just wanted to remind everyone ( the two people who read this blog ) to have some humor!
I finished the video of the FT Nationals. It is fairly short, but I wanted to give someone the feel or idea about what the Nationals are and what happens.
Today at my farm we had a nice fun practice FT match. Pat, Harold, and I setup 10 lanes. The match was a standard 10 lanes, two targets per lane, 3 shots per target for a total of 60 shots. To add to the fun Roz and Cliff came over also. There was one lane we decided to split between kneeling (1 per) and standing (2 per target).
With the Nationals just around the corner, we all wanted to get in some more practice. Roz brought a TX200 that he had been cleaning and testing out. The TX had a beautiful stock and seemed to shoot well.
My wife shot with me with her pistol but since the kill zones where much smaller than what a pistol match would be, she shot just for extra practice.
Pat was having some problems with his USFT, drove back home, grabbed his EV2, and shot the match with his EV2. He had been having problems with his EV2, but he stated it seemed to be shooting better.
Well, it was a wonderful day for shooting; however, the wind was very gusty. Just guessing I would say the winds varied from 5 to 20 or 25 mph. Given it was an open field this made the difficulty rise quite a bit. Also, the wind was constantly shifting. On some shots I would have to change my wind correction two or three times. So a great day for wind practice! J
After all was over my wife ordered some pizza and we sat around a talked a bit. It was a great day of shooting with a great bunch of guys (and my wife – of course .
Scores:
PCP
Jeff AA S400 JSB 8.4 Bushnell 8-32 40
Pat EV-2 JSB 8.4 Nikko 10-50 33
Piston
Cliff TX200 CPL B/L 6-24 41
Roz TX200 CPL B/L 4200 32
WFTF
Harold EV-2 JSB Express Leupold 35x 52
Afterwards we setup a few lanes for a pistol match. My wife and Harold shot 5 lanes with two targets at each lane. My wife asked me to leave off her score; however, given that this is her first real practice match ever with a pistol I think she did great – especially with the crazy wind conditions today. It was a great day of fun. I am glad everyone could make it out. Hopefully next time perhaps Steve Vines and John B. can make it. They were missed.
Here are a few pictures from today.
Setting Up Lanes
Shooting Off-Hand
Look at the wind flag on Harold’s gun. It was that much wind.
I decided to make a quick video describing the process of range finding a target with your scope and clicking (changing the elevation). This process, when actually shooting, does not take that long, but when describing the process it seems like it does.
After numerous conversations with individuals about airguns and field target I decided to put together a series of videos to give that particular information in an easier format.
Enjoy!
If you have any other questions about airguns or field target thus far, please post them below.
If you like the video, please throw a “thumbs up” on the video.
I make jokes and do silly things quite frequently.
