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In Honor of the
Men and Women of the American Military Services
Whose Sacrifices Have Made Our Freedom Possible.

Invited one and all to compete with tangible links to
the battles of our Nation's History in our

MEMORIAL DAY MATCH

Shooters celebrated our country's history by compteting with the firearms that helped to make this country great. From the Brown Bess, to the AR-15, we had a match for everyone.

The match was held on

Saturday, May 29, 2010

At The
Shongum Sportsmen's Mansfield
100 Yard Outdoor Range & 50' Pistol Range

10:00am - 3:00pm

LUNCH WAS INCLUDED WITH ALL PAID ENTRIES

The Shoot

Joe had actually forgot about the Spam he had in the oven. He ran out of hotdogs before he realized he had a couple of tray of spam cooking. In the end, we had plenty of food.

Following lunch, we conducted our Memorial Day Ceremony with Taps and 3-Round Volley Salute before returning to the firing line.

The Shooting Line was managed by Stan Gurski and the Score Keeper was Tom Plante.

The new targets were used again this year. The 5-ring targets were scored 1-5 & X. X's were used to break ties. The standard target was also used for the Sniper Rounds.

All of the 19 Events scheduled had participants

Returning Champion, Matt won three events - 1) Monmouth with his Brown Bess, 2)Bull Run with his 1842 .58 Cal Musket and 12) WW-II Bolt with his '03-A3 Matt also brought his .30 Cal Browing Light Machine Gun (S/A) with 10 Round packs of belted ammo. (Did not hit much, but was very nice to see it there.

Glenn K showed up in his Civil War uniform and won two of the Black Powder Events: Glenn won 4)Little Round Top with a Plymouth Rifle and5)Brandy Station with a Spencer Rifle.

Art Remolino won the last of the black powder events - 3) Battle of New Orleans (Flintlock Rifle).

Several SASS Lever guns were used in 7) Battle of Litte Big Horn Everyone wanted to be an Indian. Paul M won with an ORIGINAL 1873 WINCHESTER IN .44-40.
Paul also won 8) Spanish American Volunteer (1879 Trapdoor Springfield).

Russ P captured San Juan Hill with his .34 Krag Carbine. Perennial Winner Andy G won four events. Andy won 9) Boxer Rebellion (Krag .30-40 Rifle) 13) Tommy Gun (Thompson .45 S/A). 14) Khe Sahn (M1A) and 15) War on Terror (AR-15). Andy shot a perfect 50-4X in War on Terror and shot a 49-5x in Khe Sahn.

Our multi-event champion from the Winter Shoot and others, Troy I, captured 11)Great War Bolt('03 Springfield), and 13)Pork Chop Hill (M1 Garand).

Steve and Deb S entered 16) Trainer and 19) BAR . Deb shot a 38-2x with the H&R Trainer to capture 18) Rosie the Riveter as the top female shooter
Steve shot a 43-5x to Tie Rich G in the Trainer match. Steve also shot a 38-2x and a 5 to win 18)BAR and Steve won 16) American Sniper with an 03A4.