Memorial Day Postal Shoot

Monday - May 27, 2013 Memorial Day and what a better way to spend it, then by participating in a Postal Bench Rest Shoot.  Shawn Henn a local shooter headed up the event.  Precision Airguns provided the range. And a good time was had by all!

Our team name is the Postal Warriors.  

For those not familar with Postal Bench Rest, here is a brief summary: 

Benchrest International Postal Matches (BIPM).

The BIPM is not an organisation or federation, nor is it aligned with any shooting  body. It is run by shooters, for shooters who are interested in the sport of air and rimfire benchrest.

They arrange several international postal matches over the course of a year, these are either 25yd/m or 50yd/m for both air rifle and rimfire. The matches ultimately leading to an overall ranking table.

The rules are kept to a minimum and all that wish to compete, showing honesty & integrity,  may do so. Entrance to the competitions are free and medals will be provided for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in both air and rimfire (medal sponsors are the UKBR22 and BRItalia)

For more information onf Postal Bench Rest - Here is the link to the postal site.  http://www.benchpostal.com/index.html

 Of the 33 shooters that participated around the world here is how our shooters ranked:

Shooter	Ranking	Rifle	Caliber	Joules	Score	X's
Jim Stanis	8th	TM1000	0.177	16	734	22
Jim Hutchinson	11th	Air Arms MPR	0.177	16	730	16
Adam Denz	16th	Marauder	0.177	16	720	14
Mark Mahar	24th	Steyr LG-110	0.177	16	713	16
Rick Broughton	25th	Steyr LG-110	0.20	16	711	8
Shawn Henn	27th	TM1000	0.177	16	707	17

I shot the high score of the group, so lucky me, I get to proudly displace the High Shooter's Special Award!  Sadly, this helmet will get passed on to the high shooter of the next event.  Kind of like the Stanley Cup, only it's not made of brass with a wood base and quality finish, but it does have some plastic bone and a little fuzzy ring on one of the antlers.  Pretty Cool - So there ya go!

via email Shawn states:

Congrats again to Jim for being the first to wear the Postal Warrior helmet!!! Much like Ralphie’s dad said about the Leg Lamp “It’s indescribably beautiful”  

Lots of information is also posted on Benchrest Central http://benchrest.com/forumdisplay.php?19-Airgun-Benchrest this is how Shawn originally found out about these matches.

Jim

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