What a nice day to shoot! Temperatures were mild and the wind was maybe 3 or 4 miles an hour at worst but was switchy enough to challenge the competitors. We had some nice scores shot with Thang DOAN producing the high score of the day with a 450-39X while competing in the FTR High […]
This Sunday turned out to be a very pleasant day to shoot—temperatures were quite comfortable and the wind, though a tad squirrelly toward the last hour or so of shooting, were pretty light. All in all, a it was a great day to be at the range for each of the 19 shooters that attended […]
22 MAY 2022 Mini-Palma Results This Sunday turned out to be a very pleasant day to shoot—temperatures were quite comfortable and the wind, though a tad squirrelly toward the last hour or so of shooting, were pretty light. All in all, a it was a great day to be at the range for each of […]
In spite of the strong winds in the area making me wonder for the previous WEEK, it turned out to be a quite good day for shooting the Mini-Palma. The wind laid down nicely, though what little there was turned kinda switchy so it challenged most all of the shooters, but the temps were pretty […]
The 20 MAR (SUNDAY) smallbore event will be BOTH a Mini-Palma PRACTICE MATCH and a SMALLBORE SILHOUETTE PRACTICE match day with partial matches of each kind. What I intend to do is put both Mini-Palma AND our new smallbore silhouette swingers out on the range and then proceed to shoot 2/3 of a Mini-Palma match (two […]
We have TWO Champs to congratulate this year. Yes, TWO!!—one selected for highest average of the best 5 matches a shooter achieved and the second one for achieving the highest number total scored for the entire season. Those two are Thang Doan, who achieved the highest score average of 449.8 for the best five matches […]
For our November match (last Mini-Palma for the year!) we had a fairly chilly early morning turning to a pretty nice day for shooting that again turned more than just a little nippy when the breeze started picking up around 10:10 AM or so. When that breeze started and then increased in strength, it made […]
17 OCT turned out to be a nice day…kinda cool in the early AM, but warmed up as the morning went on and then we were all done shooting by about 10:30 Am and all gone by 11:00 AM at which time the light breeze was starting to become stronger! We had 18 guns fired […]
19 SEP 2021 Match report In spite of some pretty brisk winds, we had 10 shooters show up to shoot, several of whom shot 2 guns for a total of 13 guns in the match. The winds, in addition to blowing pretty hard, were variable in direction and gust intensity, yet we had some pretty […]
The 22 AUG 2021 Mini-Palma was cancelled due to high AQI numbers in the Reno/Washoe County area. There IS still a match scheduled for next month on the thiird Sunday in SEPTEMBER, so we hope to have a good turnout on that day—-hopefully we will see you ALL there for that event!!
