season finale

Firstly my apologies to all for how long it took to get this all up. ive been busy with work and home geting ready for cold weather so i havent had time. So here are the final results for our 2008 season.

2008 SD State Smallbore and Hunting rifle match results

15 shooters attended the matches from North Dakota and South Dakota:
Carl Winterberg – Timber Lake, SD
Walt Fairbank – Bismarck, ND
Colin Milliken – Timber Lake, SD
Doug Keller – Glencross, SD
Kelly Landis – Mobridge, SD
Tim Frank – Bismarck, ND
Jeff Guthmiller – Mobridge, SD
Diane Fransen – Mobridge, SD
Richard Fransen – Mobridge, SD
Jeremy Johnson – Trail City, SD
Steve Berndt – Herried, SD
Jim Budeau – Minot, ND
Joe Scherer – Timber Lake, SD
Dave Tokach – Mandan, ND
Alan Johnson – Trail City, SD

Smallbore Rifle Match Winners:
Match Winner: Walt Fairbank - 37/80
State Champion: Doug Keller - 36/80
2nd Overall: Tim Frank - 36/80
1st AAA: Jim Budeau - 35/80
1ST AA: Alan Johnson - 32/80
2nd AA: Kelley Landis - 32-80
3rd AA: Colin Milliken - 31/80
1st A: Richard Fransen - 34/80
1st B: Joe Scherer - 20/80

Distance Awards:
Chickens: Doug Keller - 15
Pigs: Richard Fransen - 12
Turkeys: Dave Tokach -10
Rams: Tim Frank - 11


Hunting Rifle Match Winners: 
Match Winner: Tim Frank - 47/80
State Champion: Carl Winterberg – 43/80
2nd Overall: Alan Johnson - 37/80
1st AA: Doug Keller – Unknown/80
2nd AA: Kelley Landis - 34/80
1st A: Dave Tokach - 22/80
1st B: Richard Fransen – 21/80
 
Distance Awards:
Chickens: Alan Johnson - 11
Pigs: Doug Keller - 13
Turkeys: Tim Frank – 10
Rams: Walt Fairbanks - 8

Awards and Door Prizes Donated for this match by:
Brownell’s, Redding, Cabela’s, Midway USA, & Sierra Bulletsmiths.

A Special thanks to all the companies who donated to our club. We sincerly appreciate your support of our club.


2008 Lever Action Club championship

We had 29 participants this year for our club championship.
Mark LeFebre, Joe Scherer, Jeff Guthmiller, Carl Winterberg, Morry Egna, Brad Kern, Richard Fransen, Diane Fransen, Colin Milliken, Gene Cox, Alan Johnson, Don Wiechmann, Steve Landis, Tim Frank, Kelly Landis, Richard Dupraz, Dave Tokach, Jeremy Johnson, Nick Hoffman, Tom Forbes, Leo Vojta, Avis Lemke, Tim Pfitzer, Mark Landis, Harley Overseth, Brady fuhrer, Claude Hahne, Don Hubbard, Jacob Feist Jr.

Winners List:
Don Wiechmann – Match Winner
Carl Winterberg – 2nd Overall
Steve Landis – 1st Class AA
Brad Kern – 1st Class A
Richard Dupraz – 2nd Class A
Colin Milliken – 3rd Class A
Joe Scherer – 4th Class A
Mark LeFebre – 1st Class B
Mark Landis – 2nd Class B
Tim Pfitzer – 3rd Class B
Diane Fransen – High Lady
Brady Fuhrer – 1st Junior
Jacob Feist Jr – 2nd Junior

Don Weichmann - Match winner



Diane Fransen - High Lady shooter



Brady Fuhrer - Top junior shooter



Congradtualtions to all winners!

2008 SD State BPCR Championship

The 2008 SD state BPCR championship was held last weekend at our range.
The match was attended by 11 shooters from Wisconsin, North and South Dakota:


Gregg Simon - Mobridge, SD
Ken Heier – Bismarck, ND
Carl Winterberg – Timber Lake, SD
Collin Weisz – Underwood, ND
Roger Buechler – Dell Rapids, SD
Carl Eliason – Renner, SD
Russell Nelson – Hudson, WI
Jack Sauter – Carson, ND
Dan Clark – Carson, ND
Dennis Hardy – Beresford, SD
Richard Fransen – Mobridge, SD




Match Winners:
State Champion: Gregg Simon - 53/80
2nd Overall: Carl Eliason – 47/80
1st AA & Senior: Ken Heier - 40/80
1st B: Carl Winterberg – 29/80
Senior State Champion – Roger Buechler 42/80



Congratulations to all our winners!



State Champion Gregg Simon






2008 BPCR group Photo





Front row, Left to right: Ken Heier, Gregg Simon, Russell Nelson, Carl Winterberg
Back row, Left to right: Dennis Hardy, Roger Buechler, Dan Clark, Jack Sauter, Carl Eliason, Richard Fransen.

Shoot results for high power and black powder matches

High power rifle shooters fired in two different matches. Their first match was the heavy rifle event while their second match was the hunting rifle event.

The match was attended by 14 shooters.
Mark LeFebre – Mobridge, SD
Doug Keller – Glencross, SD
Joe Scherer – Timber Lake, SD
Jeff Guthmiller – Mobridge, SD
Gregg Simon - Mobridge, SD
Carl Winterberg – Timber Lake, SD
Morry Egna – Isabel, SD
Brad Kern – Isabel, SD
Richard Fransen – Mobridge, SD
Diane Fransen – Mobridge, SD
Colin Milliken – Timber Lake, SD
Gene Cox – Mobridge, SD
Alan Johnson – Trail City, SD
Ron Myers – Mobridge, SD

Heavy Rifle Winners:
Match Winner: Colin Milliken 14/40
Class AA & A 1st Place: Doug Keller 12/40
Class B: 1st Place: Joe Scherer 7/40
Class B: 2nd Place: Morry Egna 6/40 (In a shoot off with LeFebre)
Class B: 3rd Place: Mark LeFebre 6/40 (In a shoo off with Egna)

Hunting Rifle Winners:
Match Winner: Carl Winterberg 21/40
Class AA & A 1st Place: Alan Johnson 13/40
Class B: 1st Place: Richard Fransen 11/40

Black Powder Cartridge Rifle Winners:
1st Place: Carl Winterberg 10/40
2nd Place: Brad Kern 9/40





Thanks to all for coming and shooting in the wind!


Richard Fransen shooting in the high power match

Carl Winterberg shooting in the Black powder match




















Thanks to Gregg Simon for the photos

High power/blackpowder shoots

We had a good trunout for our first high power shoot. three relays for both heavy rifle and hunting rifle. we also had a full relay of black powder shooters with us. The high winds didnt help, but good scores were shot by many. Ill post the scores as soon as Gregg sends them to me. Dont forget we have a Military/lever match next weekend. Ill try and take my camera and get some pics to post. See you there!

Rules clarifiaction for BPCR shoots

Gregg sent me an email after there was some confucsion over using smokeless powder at a BPCR match. here's what he sent me:

All Long Range Black Powder Cartridge Rifle matches DO allow the use of both black and smokeless powder. This is true in our club’s matches as well as matches of this type sponsored by other clubs across the country. Believe it or not there are people who don’t want to screw around with black powder and still like shooting rifles of this type. That is the very reason these matches are as popular as they are and one of the reasons they were established in the first place.

OUR CLUB is allowing the use of smokeless powder at our BPCR Silhouette match on August 3rd. Competitors WILL be eligible for awards for this match. This was also true for the April 20th match. The REASON for this policy is to encourage people with these cartridge rifles to shoot at every opportunity.

The ONLY Black Powder Cartridge Rifle match in, which this is NOT true, is the STATE BLACK POWDER CARTRIDGE RIFLE SILHOUETTE CHAMPIONSHIP. This is an NRA Sanctioned match and the use of smokeless powder is not allowed by the NRA. This is also true across the country.

If you have any further questions, email me or Gregg.

BPCR results for April 20 shoot

Six shooters braved the cool spring weather to shoot with us. The match ended with a tie for first place between three shooters, Gregg Simon, Jack Sauter and Ken Heier with 12 targets each. In second place was Jim Stotts with 10 targets and third was another tie between Keith Erdman and Collin Weisz with seven targets. Good shooting all!

Name Bucket Coyote Buffalo Circle Elk Hostile Total
Ken Heier 1 5 3 1 1 1 12
Gregg Simon 0 5 1 4 0 2 12
Jack Sauter 0 3 3 2 1 3 12
Jim Stotts 5 2 2 1 0 0 10
Keith Erdman 3 0 1 2 1 0 7
Collin Weisz 3 1 1 0 1 1 7

A new blog for sage brush R&P

Welcome to our new blog! Here we will post up to date pictures of our matches, match results, and info about our club. We'd like to start off with a few images from our past season.

First a few from the black powder matches


2007 Annual Long Range Shoot group photo


Gregg Simon shooting chickens with his 45-110



Jack Sauter and Gene Klug shooting from the cross sticks


We were happy to welcome shooters from as far away as Washington State and Saskatchewan Canada to our shoots


Setting those 80 pound rams is a tough job! Lucky we've got young arms to do it


tough day on the range

And a few from the lever action matches


Setting the 200 yards rams

At the 8-10 match we got about 1/4 way through and a large storm blew in, preventing us from finishing.


Rangemaster


Jeff Guthmiller and his girlfreind look on


Storm brewing


there goes the shade


We had to tip down the big shade to keep the rain off our guns

And finnaly one of my favorites from the high power match


Tools of the trade