The New Year brings us a new owner of IR5050. Jason Frymier is an enthusiastic shooter and I think he will bring a lot of energy and do a great job.
However, this post is about thanking Wayne Wills (and his family) for the job he has done the last 4 years at the helm of 5050. The target count stabilized and several of his efforts have made this a better league:
• Match Results are up on the site very quickly. Often a weekend’s matches are up on Sunday night or Monday. If they didn’t get up it was almost always a result of a technical problem or poorly submitted results. Anyone who has been shooting for more than 4 years can remember how long we waited for results sometimes.
• Wayne introduced 2 new match types- Sporter Match and 10 Shot. For those of us with a special fondness for shooting Sporter it’s been gratifying to see that 5050 continues to be the home of Sporter shooting.
• The Rulebook he inherited was convoluted and redundant and he slimmed it down quite a bit while clarifying conflicts while eliminating many unnecessary rules.
• Providing certified weights to all clubs was a great idea to clear up conflicts that inaccurate scales caused in the past.
• Clarifying the Sporter Rules regarding the contour of stocks and providing jigs to use in applying those rules.
• Enforcing rules for Match Procedures was a great step forward. Requiring ranges to adhere to rules such as random drawing of benches rankled some but in my opinion created a better climate of fairness.
• Hall of Fame points that hadn’t been included from past years were added to the site. For some shooters this amounted to quite a few points.
• The ir5050 Site was revised with many new features.
• Wayne is a big supporter of the Triple Crown. The largest Rimfire event in the US couldn’t have existed without the enthusiastic support of the owner of 5050.
• He co-sponsored - with Clint Swigert- the Super X-Man competition. For the first time 5050 shooters competed for some serious money.
I’m sure I’m leaving things out… feel free to chime in.
I’ve heard all the rumors that I owned half of 5050 but I can assure you that it was all Waynes’. Wayne inherited me because I was working on the site for Bill Hingardner when it was sold. I continued to do site work and was often a sounding board for Wayne and he was always thinking about the shooters and what would work better. Little things like having 750 pins created were a nice touch. He is a true friend of the shooting sports and I have really enjoyed working with him these last 4 years.
Jason… it’s all yours now. Make us proud.
Bruce Hornstein
However, this post is about thanking Wayne Wills (and his family) for the job he has done the last 4 years at the helm of 5050. The target count stabilized and several of his efforts have made this a better league:
• Match Results are up on the site very quickly. Often a weekend’s matches are up on Sunday night or Monday. If they didn’t get up it was almost always a result of a technical problem or poorly submitted results. Anyone who has been shooting for more than 4 years can remember how long we waited for results sometimes.
• Wayne introduced 2 new match types- Sporter Match and 10 Shot. For those of us with a special fondness for shooting Sporter it’s been gratifying to see that 5050 continues to be the home of Sporter shooting.
• The Rulebook he inherited was convoluted and redundant and he slimmed it down quite a bit while clarifying conflicts while eliminating many unnecessary rules.
• Providing certified weights to all clubs was a great idea to clear up conflicts that inaccurate scales caused in the past.
• Clarifying the Sporter Rules regarding the contour of stocks and providing jigs to use in applying those rules.
• Enforcing rules for Match Procedures was a great step forward. Requiring ranges to adhere to rules such as random drawing of benches rankled some but in my opinion created a better climate of fairness.
• Hall of Fame points that hadn’t been included from past years were added to the site. For some shooters this amounted to quite a few points.
• The ir5050 Site was revised with many new features.
• Wayne is a big supporter of the Triple Crown. The largest Rimfire event in the US couldn’t have existed without the enthusiastic support of the owner of 5050.
• He co-sponsored - with Clint Swigert- the Super X-Man competition. For the first time 5050 shooters competed for some serious money.
I’m sure I’m leaving things out… feel free to chime in.
I’ve heard all the rumors that I owned half of 5050 but I can assure you that it was all Waynes’. Wayne inherited me because I was working on the site for Bill Hingardner when it was sold. I continued to do site work and was often a sounding board for Wayne and he was always thinking about the shooters and what would work better. Little things like having 750 pins created were a nice touch. He is a true friend of the shooting sports and I have really enjoyed working with him these last 4 years.
Jason… it’s all yours now. Make us proud.
Bruce Hornstein