Camp Atterbury Longrange Match Report from Ray Hopkins

This past weekend, September 14th and 15th, the five ten shot 1000 yards match was held. There were three relays of ten shots on Saturday and two relays on Sunday.

Kenn Heisman was in first place in the muzzle loading class, followed by Dan Bredberg in second. Ian Egbert was first in the cartridge rifle class. Second was Jim Davis followed by his son Jim W Davis. Forth was Kim Kelly and Willard Lamb in fifth.

There were two Muzzle Loading shooters. One was shooting an original Ingram rifle and the other was a replica of a Gibbs made by Pedersoli. The remaining ten shooters were shooting cartridge rifles, from what I saw all were 1874 Sharps Rifles.

Camp Atterbury's mist in the morning cleared and we proceeded to shoot the first three relays of the day. The humidity had relented and with a few clouds, had a nice day for shooting. The next day started well and we were done by 01:30 hours with all then heading to Friendship for the fall shoot.

Since this is a new match, records were set for muzzle loaders and cartridge shooters. The record for aggregate for the muzzle loaders was set by Kenn Heismann with 309-3. He also set the 1000-yard record of 78-1. A new shooter at Camp Atterbury, and he shot with a cartridge rifle, was Ian Egbert. He had an aggregate of 431-7 and a 1000-yard record of 92.

Kenn Heisman was in first place in the muzzle loading class, followed by Dan Bredberg in second. Ian Egbert was first in the cartridge rifle class. Second was Jim Davis followed by his son Jim W Davis. Forth was Kim Kelly and Willard Lamb in fifth.

 I do have to say that Dan Bredberg was a great help, he took the Camps' range safety course. He also came in early and helped prep the Connex container that Camp Atterbury provided. Then helped with setting up the range set up and take down.

The Spring shoot will consist of an 800, 900, and a 1000-yard, ten shot relays on Saturday and two 1000 yards ten shots relays on Sunday.

Next year’s fall shoot will be the same as this year. If I can have people contact me at my email address (mrhoppy1@netzero.com) I can send them information about each shoot, besides being put on Camp Atterbury's gate list.

 This coming Joe Hepsworth's Memorial will remain the same as it has in the past and anticipate the same for next year. Which will be the tenth anniversary.

Ray

Don’t forget! The Joe Hepsworth Match will be held at Camp Atterbury October 12-13, 2019! You must call 10 days prior to register. Call Ray Hopkins 740-868-2474 or 740-616-6627

Thank you Ray Hopkins for your continued efforts to organize matches at Camp Atterbury and for your writing of this report.

Black Powder Cartridge Rifle Silhouette Pics & Scores - September 2019

We had a heartfelt memorial for Fred Leeth Saturday morning, as the Miami Club Championship is now renamed the Fred Leeth Memorial Match.

Congratulations to Jason Bass, match winner, with a 70! See you all next month October 18, 19,& 20

Thank you Lora Parks for the photos and scores from this match

New Video from NMLRA Media & Muzzle Blasts!

Last weekend we hosted our last 22 Fun Shoot of the season at our Walter Cline Range. With perfect weather and 37 participants, we all had a great time plinking away at the various banks of reactive targets.

Photos from the August 22 Fun Shoot at the Walter Cline Range- NMLRA Shooting Sports

Last weekend we hosted our last 22 Fun Shoot of the season at our Walter Cline Range.

With perfect weather and 37 participants, we all had a great time plinking away at the various banks of reactive targets. Special thanks to Mike Weissmann for hosting this event as well as bringing targets and prizes for the shooters.

Below you can find a gallery of many of the photos taken by the NMLRA media team at this event. Video coming soon!

August Black Powder Cartridge Rifle Shoot - Pictures and Scores!

We had a great crowd for the August BPCR Match, 33 shooters on Saturday and 34 on Sunday.

It was an aggregate match and Marc O’Malley was the overall Aggregate Match Winner, congrats Marc on some great shooting!

We had competitors all the way from Georgia, TN, WV, MI Weather was hot and the conditions were challenging but as you know there is usually a nice breeze on the firing line.

2019 National Family Fun Shoot Recap

There’s one more Family Fun Shoot in the books for us! We had absolutely perfect weather this past weekend at the Family Fun shoot. With over 100 registered participants, the firing lines were bustling all weekend.

If you haven’t seen it, check out this peek into the weekend from the NMLRA Media team-