The New Facilities at Deer Creek Range.
Here's where the match scores are computed. The Al Kimery Memorial Trophy is on the desk.
We made it. This is year 6 for the Al Kimery Memorial Trophy Match in Missoula, Montana. The match is organized by the Big Sky Practical Shooting Club, home of this year's Area 1 Championship Match. This year I went with several friends from Montana and Tennessee. Here's a picture of me with Tennessee resident Linda Gray, a member of the Little Marrowbone Lake Ladies Quilting Society and Home Defense League (who shoots an engraved S&W Model 60).
On the left side of the picture is Jessica, a new IPSC shooter who shared a Ruger P-89 with her dad Robert. It took her one stage to go from being nervous to thinking about tactics to figuring out how to beat all of the guys in the next match.
One of the more complicated stages required the shooter to open a door, shoot through the doors, run to a barrier, shoot at more targets, and then go to a barricade for the final shots. Here is a series of pictures showing how Jerry McManus made it through this stage.
Scoring the stage.
It was great to see new people shooting at today's match. The
first time I came to Deer Creek range, I wrote that in Montana
parents taught their children shooting and good character in the same
afternoon. There were lots of junior shooters at today's match
with their parents. Andy Flack from Libby was there with his
son, and there were many others. Maybe the next time they hear
a politician on the east coast say something stupid about guns, the
kids will understand their extraordinary good fortune of living in Montana.
