isledweller
HAM Specialist
BCSA (Binghamton, NY) - August 9th, 2025 Match Report
Broome County Sportsmens Association (BCSA) Field Target Match Report
Another match is in the books at BCSA! The long range forecast for match day this time around was showing a dry warm day with light wind and low humidity. Guess what…this time around they nailed it! The canopies were not set up this time in order to let the sun shine in!
We had 16 people on hand for this match which was a 60 shot rifle match followed by a 42 shot High Power Field Target match. Tom and Nancy Wade as well as Doug and Betsy Dunlap joined us for the day. Tom and Betsy participated while their spouses spectated.
Sight-in:
The course of fire for the rifle match was 10 lanes with 3 targets per lane, 2 shots per target, with the shooting order being left, middle, right. There was also the usual 1 standing lane and 1 kneeling lane. A previous layout was used but with many target placement changes. The stats for the 60 shot course are as follows:
The breakdown for the percentage of targets based on difficulty was:
The wind was pretty light but there were a few times where we had little gusts come through at the wrong time. As usual, there were targets in light unprotected areas and targets in dark protected areas along with everything in between! Brian VanLiew was able to lock in high score for the day with a 58 out of 60 in Open PCP . He cleaned both the positional lanes so the 2 misses came on the other lanes. 1 of those misses was from wind, not sure of the other The second highest score for the day was a 50 out of 60 from Rich Sarama in Hunter PCP. Following right behind were Nathan Thomas in Hunter PCP with a 49 and Karen Reis in Hunter PCP with a 48 . The rest of the pack followed behind and all the scores can be seen below.
We had 1 quick cold line to check a target that seemed to be acting up. All was well so the match continued on.
After the conclusion of the rifle match, while the scores were tallied, everyone jumped in and helped pick up and pack away the rifle targets and pull the strings for the High Power targets. As always, Thank You All, the help is greatly appreciated!
Broome County Sportsmens Association (BCSA) Field Target Match Report
Another match is in the books at BCSA! The long range forecast for match day this time around was showing a dry warm day with light wind and low humidity. Guess what…this time around they nailed it! The canopies were not set up this time in order to let the sun shine in!
We had 16 people on hand for this match which was a 60 shot rifle match followed by a 42 shot High Power Field Target match. Tom and Nancy Wade as well as Doug and Betsy Dunlap joined us for the day. Tom and Betsy participated while their spouses spectated.
Sight-in:
The course of fire for the rifle match was 10 lanes with 3 targets per lane, 2 shots per target, with the shooting order being left, middle, right. There was also the usual 1 standing lane and 1 kneeling lane. A previous layout was used but with many target placement changes. The stats for the 60 shot course are as follows:
The breakdown for the percentage of targets based on difficulty was:
The wind was pretty light but there were a few times where we had little gusts come through at the wrong time. As usual, there were targets in light unprotected areas and targets in dark protected areas along with everything in between! Brian VanLiew was able to lock in high score for the day with a 58 out of 60 in Open PCP . He cleaned both the positional lanes so the 2 misses came on the other lanes. 1 of those misses was from wind, not sure of the other The second highest score for the day was a 50 out of 60 from Rich Sarama in Hunter PCP. Following right behind were Nathan Thomas in Hunter PCP with a 49 and Karen Reis in Hunter PCP with a 48 . The rest of the pack followed behind and all the scores can be seen below.
We had 1 quick cold line to check a target that seemed to be acting up. All was well so the match continued on.
After the conclusion of the rifle match, while the scores were tallied, everyone jumped in and helped pick up and pack away the rifle targets and pull the strings for the High Power targets. As always, Thank You All, the help is greatly appreciated!
