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Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoor April 24, 2019 Our indoor season is now in the books & we move outside in May to do battle with Ralph the Wind God. Hopefully, we will find sacrifices that will appease him! Congratulations to Mike (Boomer) & Ron for their 750’s...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors April 10, 2019 Frank is now officially a Floridian. We will miss his equipment customization, sense of humor and $2.00 bills. Live long & prosper friend. Lots of 250’s shot today. But Dick was the only one to shoot an elusive 750...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors March 27, 2019 Frank is busy packing his household goods & relocating to FL. I was out of commission healing from surgery on my hand. Lots of 250’s today. Special note, Ron’s 250-23X. Shooter Class Equipment Tar. 1 Tar. 2 Tar. 3...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors March 13, 2019 Sorry that I missed the match. Barbara & I were in AZ making decisions on the new home. Congratulations to Boomer for a nice 750 in HV, the high score of the day! Shooter Class Equipment Tar. 1 Tar. 2 Tar. 3 Total...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors Scheduled Feb 27, 2019 We missed Tommy but were glad to have Damian back. Congratulations to Ron for another 750 in LV. Three 749’s in HV in Relay 1 broken by X count. Congratulations to Chris for being top dog. Shooter Class...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors February 13, 2019 An unexpected snowfall contributed to somewhat lower attendance than normal. & Match Director was spending a week on the Oregon coast. Congratulations to Bill Davis for shooting his first 750. Also, Ron was back in...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors January 23, 2019 Humble Match Director got his days mixed up & arrived as the second relay began. He became the official scorer. Mr. Silveira discovered stuff happens shooting only one 250. He asked himself why about a dozen times...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors January 9, 2019 We had a full house today with 10 shooters. Congratulations go to Tony & Chris for shooting 750’s. (It was their first each as I understand it.) Additionally, several shooters had individual 250’s. Note, Bill missed a...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Indoors December 12, 2018 Well, Dick certainly had a memorable match shooting a 1,500 in HV. Congratulations. It was good having Boomer (Mike) back with us, but we missed Tony. Hope he is back next match. Ron & Frank also shot a few 250’s...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoor October 24, 2018 An inversion brought in the Fall fog but with apparently calm wind. We were hopeful of a few 250’s at our last outdoor match. But low light conditions and illusive and unseen winds created conditions that were not...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoors October 10, 2018 Conditions were perfect during relay 1 allowing 3 competitors to shoot 4 250’s, two shooting their first outdoor 250. Congratulations to Frank for shooting a 749. We asked him what he did and he said that since Ron...

Wild River Air Rifle - USARB Report (Grants Pass, OR) Outdoors September 26, 2018 Thanks to all who helped run the match in my absence. Club Scribe informed me that Chirs Lovitt stopped by and indicated he would be back shooting next match. Congratulations to Ron for shooting 3 250’s. Special...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoors September 12, 2018 Range conditions were reasonably good; however, several of us struggled. Mike & I agreed that LV was not a lot of fun! Congratulations to Tony for shooting his first outdoor 250, the only one of the day. Shooter...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoors August 22, 2018 Eight stalwart shooters braved an Air Quality Index that was listed as Unhealthy. While conditions were fairly good, many were not thrilled with their scores. Ron shot the only 250 of the day. Congratulations to Tony...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoors August 15, 2018 Eight stalwart shooters spent a good 5 hours under fairly unhealthy conditions as 10% of the forestlands in our county are burning. Air quality suffered greatly but provided some fairly good shooting conditions...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoors July 25, 2018 Over 20,000 acres of forest are burning in our neighborhood creating smoky air and unhealthy breathing conditions, but we persevered. It was suggested that we just take shallow breaths. Conditions were changing from...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoors July 11, 2018 Match Director personal note: It is good to be back home & shooting although France was great. Only 2 250’s today, one each for Ron & Dick. Conditions deteriorated (in my humble opinion) for the second relay. No one...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoors June 27, 2018 Thanks to all who helped put the match on while Barbara & I were traveling. I understand that conditions were far from perfect; thus, Tom’s 250 was an excellent accomplishment for the day. Of note was Mike and Ron...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoors June13, 2018 We welcomed 2 visitors from Washington State, Jim Benson & Ron Price. That gave us 10 competitors and a full range. Kudos to Ron Price for some outstanding scores in an unfamiliar environment. Mr. Benson treated us with...

Wild River Air Rifle (Grants Pass, OR) - USARB Report Outdoors May 23, 2018 Another good turnout. Scores were a bit lower than expected with some unfortunate 8’s. Always hate those buggers! Need bigger sacrifices to Ralph the Wind God I believe. Shooter Class Equipment Tar. 1 Tar. 2 Tar. 3...