We had a taste of summer weather with a high past 70!  The weather made for a beautiful day for shooting, we had a first-ever 4 squads at a Saturday monthly match, and we totaled 44 shooters!

The pistol event schedule is taking a rest over the next 8 weeks, just 2 bowling pins on the April 3rd_Sat (for Easter), and May's 3rd Sat is also a bowling pin match.  Next GPA match Sat May 31st.

We had a great day with 27 shooters.  We had 4 stages and a warm-up.  We're looking forward to warmer weather and continuing the shooting year.

One of our shooters asked for info on the par times.  The sport of (most) of our current pistol events is "galactic pistol alliance".  Think of it as a blend between IDPA & USPSA.  https://galacticpistolalliance.com/  

GPA Par Times
GPA has a calculation for determining how much time a "master class shooter" should take for a course of fire.  It's math adds up like this:  1 second draw, 1.5 second per reload required, 0.4s per shot, 2s for each position change, 0.3s for style shots (headshots, and/or one handed, and 2s for each "complexity factor".  See below.  Then they take the par time and divide it by your stage score.  Or total Match Score vs Total Match Par Time.

GPA Classifications:
Platinum is 99% or higher
Gold is 78%-98%
Silver is 54%-77%
Bronze is 25%-53%
PewPewter is up to 25%.

So today's match had:
stage 1 Step in Time is a par 18.1 seconds due to: 1 Strings, 1x 1.5 Draw, 1x 1.0 Reload, 2 Position Changes, 24 shots, 0 Style shots, & 1 Complex Factors, (barrel unload start)
stage 2 March Madness is a par 18.9 seconds due to: 1 Strings, 1x 1.5 Draw, 1x 1.0 Reload, 4 Position Changes, 21 shots, 0 Style shots, & 0 Complex Factors, ()
stage 3 Barrel Run is a par 29.9 seconds due to: 2 Strings, 2x 1.5 Draw, 1x 1.0 Reload, 6 Position Changes, 36 shots, 0 Style shots, & 0 Complex Factors, ()
stage 4 On Your Left is a par 12.4 seconds due to: 1 Strings, 1x 1.5 Draw, 0x 1.0 Reload, 3 Position Changes, 12 shots, 2 Style shots, & 0 Complex Factors, (2xWHO)
stage 5 Double 4-aces is a par 8.2 seconds due to: 2 Strings, 2x 1.5 Draw, 2x 1.0 Reload, 0 Position Changes, 8 shots, 0 Style shots, & 0 Complex Factors, (.)
SGC's 3/15 SGC GPA Match is total round count of 101. & Match Par Time is roughly: 87.5 seconds

So the scores below are ratios off of the 87.5 seconds.  Look at the right 2 columns down below.

It was a cool morning but we all had our hand warmers in use!
Mario Zorzi won the field of 8 rimfire shooters.
Phil Cathell won the field of 13 9mm shooters.
Jodi DiSilvestri won the field of 6 .45 He-Men!
And Henry Schoenborn won the PCC field of 5 shooters, with a .45 PCC conversion for a 1911!  Neat trick!

A special thank you to our members who made the day a resounding success!  including
Jody Baker, Dave Caffrey, Mark Rogers, Mike Ennis Jr, Kalib Ehrisman, Ben Jorden, Elise Koch, & Phil Cathell

We had door prizes, some sweet lookin' trophies, and a lot of bragging rights to share in!  People were asking how we can do more of these, so we're pondering how to make that work with the current space we have!

Results on Practiscore:  practiscore.com/results/new/b6802802-598f-4956-aa09-e0558f08923e

43 Shooters tested their skills with rifles, pistols, and shotguns at our Inaugural 3 Gun Match! Thanks to all who came and partook or spectated this fun new thrilling event!

Google Photo Album
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What an Awesome Day!  43 shooters makes a great crowd, no matter what the game of the day.  These 3 stages tested our mettle, and gave us a chance to put all the fundamentals together to ring steel and punch paper.  We gave a few challenges including running back and forth, an up-range retreat, making sure that you knew how to count, and more than a few others.  Thank you for helping your fellow shooters with the stage resetting!

We started a google album, you can click below and add to it if you got any photos to share from today!

A big thanks to the club Treasurer Elise!!  She made logistics with check-in super smooth, and was doing her duty pitching raffle ticket sales and club merch pre-orders.  Thanks to Ben & Phil for the Stage Designs, thanks to Ben and co for some Friday night set-up, thanks to Ethan and Tony for being the first shooters to arrive at the range besides Phil!  And thanks to the shooters!

Top PCC was Ben!
Top AR was Dave H!
Top Heavy was Mike K!
Top Rimfire was Marty!
Top Lady was Brenda!
Top Youth was Hayden!
Top Senior was Mike K!
Top Super Senior was Marty!

Full Results on Practiscore:  practiscore.com/results/new/76edfc89-03b5-49b2-9949-1cb6d4a9cd49
Google Photos Album:  photos.app.goo.gl/wUCAiJQ8Nem1zDsa8

As always, thank you for coming to SGC to shoot with us!!!

P.S.  lots of people have caught the "multigun" bug...  Our 3 Gun shoot in November only has 9 spots left for participants!  We hope you can join us:
practiscore.com/sgc-2024-11-16-3gun-gobbler-multigun-salisbury-gun-club/register

Happy National Shooting Sports Month!!!
We had a great crowd of 28 shooters.  Congrats to Mike Ennis Jr for the win, and congrats to both Mike Ennis's for Lewis!

practiscore.com/results/new/32a911e5-ac61-4dcd-8293-9a70acaa01ec

From the GPA RuleBook:

35.0 Classifications
35.1 A shooter’s classification applies to all GPA divisions.
35.2 Classification scores
A. Created by comparing shooter results to a preset “par” value.
1. Match “par” divided by shooter result, times 100, rounded off to whole number.
B. Initial classification score
1. May be established by shooting the baseline classifier.
a. The baseline classifier is attached as Figure 1.
2. May be established by shooting a single GPA match.
C. Rolling classification score
1. Each reported classification score is averaged with those on file.
2. Once 5 scores are recorded, only the most recent 5 are used.
35.3. Classification hierarchy
A. Platinum 100 or higher
B. Gold 80 - 99
C. Silver 65 – 79
D. Bronze 50 - 64
E. Pew-Pewter 0 – 49

​BV confirmed the par time was 25seconds!  

Happy August!  Time is flying this summer.  Phil forgot a few blog posts...
Late June had a 5th Saturday so a bowling pin shoot was in order.  Mike K, Doug C, and Jodi D all won the 3 different caliber brackets.  Details in the July newsletter.

The July GPA shoot had a stellar 28 shooters.  
practiscore.com/results/new/da896174-d560-4dd6-b7a0-80c8b8ca21b4

The July 31st AR Novice Night Shoot was a fun event.  We had 20 shooters, with several new shooters and a few who heard of the event just earlier that day.  Thanks for coming out!  We're getting hyped up for 2 Gun in 4 weeks!!!
practiscore.com/results/new/487370cd-1031-4ea5-8426-b7ba974081f3?q_category=2

What an amazing Match!

73 Competitors
7 stages
2 side games
Over 10,000 rounds fired!

On Behalf of the Salisbury Gun Club, and of the Pistol Committee, I can only say that we are thrilled with the experience of pulling off our second large Pistol Match!  Thank you to all who came to compete, thank you to all who came to work and make the event run smooth, and thank you to all of our sponsors, supporters, and friends around!  The shooting sports community is truly an awesome group of people that we love to be with.

I'll save you my usual spreadsheet scoring posting, and let Practiscore speak for itself.  
https://practiscore.com/results/new/1516df67-d1dc-4e85-ae2a-4c1de0e34f5d?q_result=0

We had a stellar group of 69 shooters.  2 staff squads of 21 shooters shot their stages on Friday Afternoon, leaving 48 shooters to compete on Saturday.  

Out of the 69, over 28 of the shooters were gun club members.  We had guest shooters from Delaware, Bridgeville Rifle & Pistol Club, Pennsylvania, and even from the western shore of Maryland!  Thanks to our farthest flung shooters for visiting us on Delmarva!

Top Iron Sights Shooters
1.  Kenneth Rose
2.  Michael Ennis Jr
3.  Josh Morgan

Top Optic Shooters
1.  Billy Sargent
2.  Michael Fiori
3.  Larry Kouns

Top LEO
1.  Kyle (Delmar)
2.  Jesse Kissinger
3.  Steve Mills

Top Low Cap
1.  Ben Jorden
2.  Brian Buzbee
3.  David Jorden

Top Ladies
1.  Mary Clare Culloty
2.  Jen Kouns
3.  Brenda Jorden

Top Youth
1.  Hayden Jorden

Top Senior 55-64
1.  Cullen Burke
2.  Edward Levush
3.  Dennis Dill

Top Super Seniors 65-69
1.  Jody Baker
2.  Joe Guarino
3.  Dick Marshall

Top Distinguished Seniors 70+
1.  George Haenn
2.  Bob Cannon
3.  Doug Carlton

Top Members Irons
1.  Mike Ennis Jr
2.  Dave Caffrey
3.  John Butler

Top Member Optics
1.  Ben Jorden
2.  Kalib Ehrisman
3.  Cullen Burke
4.  Phil Cathell

We had over $3,000 in door prizes to give away.  We are truly indebted to our members and friends who helped make this event a success.  We had 19 amazing staff volunteers work their butts off to make this a success.  Again, we hope you had as much fun as we did.  See you Next Year June 20-21, 2025!!!

We had another great day at SGC!  This was the last 2 stages of the GPA Postal Match, as well as a 3rd stage on the Plate Rack.  The weather is solidly warmed back up!  Thanks to all our shooters.  And cheers to our new-to-us shooters!  Thank you all!

Another great day at SGC!  Our first sunny Saturday for a pistol match this year and it brought out a record crowd of 32 shooters!  Thanks for coming out y'all!