Category: Match

Today was a beautiful day for our opening match. We had a very nice turnout of 22 shooters with many wearing their rendezvous attire. Mike Briscoe was the overall winner with a score of 75. Congratulations Mike! This was an entry prize match. Everyone that brought a prize was allowed to take a prize from the table in the order they placed in the match.

This match is made up of scores from shooting, fire starting, hawk and knife throwing, with additional points for period dress, shooting from a pouch, and using a flintlock. The 7 shooting stations consisted of (1) cutting cards, (2) steel turkey head, (3) hanging charcoal briquettes, (4) steel ring and targets, (5) lollipops, (6) steel circle at ~75 yards, (7) steel square at ~100 yards.

The point system was setup as follows:

2 shots at 7 offhand targets for a total of 14 shots at 5pts each for a maximum of (70 pts)

Period Dress: (5pts)

Shooting from a Pouch: (5pts)

Flintlock: (5pts)

Fire starting: 0-7pts based upon speed (7pts)

Hawk and knife: 3 throws each. Stick = 1pt; Cut = 3pts; so the Hawk had a max of 9pts and Knife also has 9pts maximum. (18pts)

Total Maximum Point is 110 points.

Justin Emerson ran the Fire Starting station and Walter Fett and Ted Sanders ran the hawk and knife station.

Here is how the scores ranked:

1st: Mike Briscoe – 75

2nd: Rick Weeks – 69

3rd: Bob Browner – 67

4th: Clint Cummings – 64

5th: Ron Lawrence – 62

6th: Bob Vogt – 61

7th: Justin Emerson – 58

8th: Bryce Stroup – 58

9th: Kenny Hubbman – 57

10th: Ken Hubbman – 57

11th: Brad Dickinson – 51

12th: Art Buckowitz – 49

13th: Dave Brandenburger – 48

14th: Mike Petersmeyer – 48

15th: Tom Goden – 42

16th: Glenn Baer – 41

17th: Joe Kelly – 39

18th: Joe Herman – 33

19th: Rhonda Buckowitz – 21

20th: Robert Roth – 20

21st: Connor Whalen – 15

22nd: Ron Novak – 15

The Schuetzen Black Powder give away was won by Mike Petersmeyer. Congratulations!

The 50/50 card game worth $45 was won by Brad Dickinson. Congratulations!

Thank you also goes to Rhonda Buckowitz for providing beef stew and rolls for lunch. Yummy!

More pictures and videos:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/yo1m9lp3co5zht9cal636/h?rlkey=74lkv0fjf84r2rqb9pl98z1wa&dl=0

This was the last Gemmer club match for 2023. It was a 100 yard match shoot off cross sticks from the seated position. There was an Open Sights match and a Peep Sight match with 10 shots on each target. We had 15 Open Matches and 4 Peep Matches. We also had 4 Senior shooters and 4 Super Senior shoots for a total of 23 individual shoots. These matches had a maximum score of 100 points. This match was a trophy match going to the top 3 positions.

Open Match:

*1st: Mike Zemann – 88 2X

*2nd: Mike Briscoe – 82

*3rd: Tom Goden – 76X (Senior)

4th: Walter Fett – 72

5th: Ron Laurence – 70

6th: Justin Emerson – 69

6th: Bob Browner – 69

8th: Bob Vogt – 67x

8th: David Brandenburger – 67X

10th: Joe Kelly – 67

11th: Glenn Baer – 64

12th: Art Buckowitz – 58

13th: Ken Hubbman – 51

14th: Bob Coffelt – 46

15th: Kenny Hubbman – 24

16th: Rhonda Buckowitz – 23

17th: Jim Feeney – 13 (Senior)

18th: Joe Herman – 11

Peep Match:

*1st: David Brandenburger – 89

*2nd: Clint Cummings – 82X

*3rd: Rick Weeks – 74X

4th: Bob Vogt – 41

The Super Senior Match is shot from the bench and 5 shots on a bull target, with a maximum score of 50.

*1st: Carl Jokerst – 43

2nd: Ted Sanders – 41

3rd: Mike Petersmeyer – 40

4th: John Ross – 31.5 (10 shots by mistake, cut the 63 score in half)

Smoothbore Match:

6 shots at 25 yards with the best 5 scoring for a maximum of 50 points.

*1st: Walter Fett – 44

2nd: Ron Lawrence – 43

3rd: Mike Petersmeyer – 37

4th: Drew Guenther – 26X

Pistol Match:

The Pistol Match is 6 shots at 25 yards on the Pistol Target with a maximum score of 60.

*1st: David Brandenburger – 56X

2nd: Justin Emerson – 43

3rd: Ron Lawrence – 35

The Powder winners were Rhonda Buckowitz and Justin Emerson.

The 50/50 winner was Glenn Baer $50.