2012 Seward Alaska multigun match report

[Alaskapopo]

Well it went great this year.We had 32 shooters. We had a ton of sponsors for this match thanks to the work of 9x23guy who wrote a lot of letters and made a ton of phone calls. He has the list and I don't want to leave anyone off so I will let him reply with the sponsor list later when he gets a chance.

It was a two day match with 9 stages plus a bonus stage which was a mini match that did not count towards the main match. The mini match had shooters using a class three submachine gun that one of our shooters was nice enough to loan to us for the match. The winner of the mini match got a set of Vortex binoculars. One of my officers created a scoring program for me that worked great. We used time plus. We did have some rain but people kept smiling. I learn something new at every match the hard way and this time I found I need to test my stage before the match. I created a rifle stage where shooters had to shoot from several ports on three barricades from some akward shooting positions on MGM standard auto poppers, 6 inch auto poppers and 8 inch auto poppers from 100 yards to 170 yards. We had a 6 minute par time and about 70% of the shooters timed out. I think it was a good stage still but I should have cut back ont he number of shooting positions to speed the stage up so more people could finish under time.

My production division was a big hit again. The easiest way to explain this division is this. pistol rules are the same as limited 10 in uspsa. Use pretty much any non comped/optical sighted pistol you want but with 10+1 rounds, rifle is nearly the same as USPSA limited except 30 round mags or less only, shotgun is like heavy metal and must be a pump loaded with 9 rounds at the start and can load more after the buzzer. I had 10 shooters in this division. Tac optics and Open were the same as they are pretty much everywhere. With 17 shooters in tac optics and 5 in open. My R&R saiga dominated the shotgun stages in my friend 9x23guy's hands and I did pretty well with it myself. It went up against an Xrail and a few tube guns. Here are some match photos and the results. Next year we are doing the match on Memorial Day Weekend. I know Alaska is a long way for you guys but we have great fishing here in Seward and perhaps you could make a vacation out of it with a multigun match thrown in.

Here are some still photos of the match. I did not have time to do video or have someone video me. I took these photos of one of our local guys shooting.

Final scores.

Overall in Division.

Production. Stage points.

1. Dale A 869.575

2. Ben H 688.858

3. Josh E 688.456

4. Ryan E 641.961

5. Mathew P 581.767

6. James R 566.904

7. Damion M 549.114

8. Corey C 504.06

9. Travis B 459.719

10. Alan P 401.017

Tactical Stage points

1. Kelly M 845.779

2. Scott C 816.758

3. Cody T 774.965

4. Joe F 561.962

5. Mark H 547.132

6. Larry R 546.729

7. Alan C 532.131

8. Mark S 505.183

9. Steve S 495.501

10. Ashley W 439.99

11. Tony H 428.206

12. Gordon H 418.577

13. Dennis D 386.263

14. Kirk S 339.891

15. Shane C 287.381

16. William T 191.466

17. Paul T 144.57

Open Stage points.

1. Ken R 9x23guy 834.742

2. Pat M (Alaskapopo) 737.705

3. Mark C 682.243

4. Manny 573.564

5. Morty 502.59

Overall

1. Ken R 834.742 Open

2. Pat M 737.705 Open

3. Mark C 682.243 Open

4. Kelly M 666.243 Tac

5. Scott C 635.388 Tac

6. Cody T 612.246 Tac

7. Dale A 593.922 Prod

8. Manny 573.457 Open

9. Morty 505.686 Open

10. Ben H 492.997 Prod

11. Josh E 485.62 Prod

12. Joe F 438.911 Tac

13. Ryan E 432.785 Prod

14. Mark H 430.239 Tac

15. Larry R 415.486 Tac

16. Alan C 413.333 Tac

17. Mathew P 397.394 Prod

18. Mark S 395.134 Tac

19. James R 389.631 Prod

20. Steve S 383.636 Tac

21. Damion M 374.978 Tac

22. Ashley W 350.436 Tac

23. Corey C 341.609 Prod

24. Tony H 341.442 Tac

25. Gordon H 327.121 Tac

26. Dennis D 301.426 Tac

27. Travis B 295.227 Prod

28. Alan P 275.300 Prod

29. Kirk S 271.694 Tac

30. Shane C 199.048 Tac

31. William T 135.792 Tac

32. Paul T 98.928 Prod

Edited July 17, 2012 by Alaskapopo

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Edited July 17, 2012 by Alaskapopo

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Edited July 17, 2012 by Alaskapopo

[rlillyskygod]

Looks like you guys Aka (Alaska Mafia) Had a great time. Dang it still looks cold up there. Glad you had a good turn out. Maybe see you in September.

[DanL]

Ok I'll bite. What is the barbwire for?

[Alaskapopo]

That was for decoration on a stage that was a mini match. The stage was supposed to have the shooter using a Mosen Nagant to engage paper targets at 50 yards and then move to a PPSH submachine gun and roll a MGM spinner. The name of the stage was Enemy at the Gates. My Mosen did not function correctly so we went with the sub gun for the whole stage and it was a lot of fun. We gave the stage winner a pair of Vortex Bino's that Vortex donated.

Pat

[Stlhead]

Looks like you guys had a great time. What is production?

[Alaskapopo]

Looks like you guys had a great time. What is production?

I created production as a way to help out new shooters. Basically its this.

Pistol follows USPSA limited 10 rules. Same as most limited rules in three gun but with 10+1 round count limit. I saw new shooters coming with single stacks and sigs, sometimes Beretta's etc where they were not that competative equipment wise in standard Limited divison (which I have done away with).

Shotgun. Most new shooters to our match did not have semi auto shotguns nor could they afford them they showed up with pumps. So in production you must use a pump shotgun loaded with 9 rounds at the buzzer but you can load more after.

Rifle. This is the same as most limited rules now. Rifle can use irons or 1x optics. No bi pods, no magazines over 30 rounds(new this year). This division had mostly new shooters in it except for 1 open shooter who jumped down because he has not got his Firebird Akdal to work yet. He took this division using one of my Remington 870's.