Welcome to the IBS Score Nationals that were held at
the Palmisano range in Wapwalopen PA. The match director
was Bob White many thanks to Bob for running the event
in some pretty difficult conditions. The match was a
two day event with 100 yards being on Saturday, October
6th and 200 yards on Sunday, October 7th.
The final standings are posted at the bottom of this
page for the top 10 in each class.
I arrived at the range on Friday morning to get set
up and possibly do some shooting. The weather was great
on Friday with a moderate amount of wind and warmer
weather. Most of the day was spent setting up windflags,
loading, and wasting time. For an hour or two in the
afternoon the range was open for shooting. I managed
to shoot 20 rounds down range during the open range.
By Friday night the colder weather began to set in.
The shorts were traded in for long johns and jeans.
The weather on Saturday was pretty cold with some tricky
winds. A few shooters managed to stay clean at 100 yards
and Jim Goody even managed to shoot 19 xs while staying
clean.
Below is a picture of the loading area, take notice
of the blue tarps that were used to shelter the loading
benches from the strong winds and rain. It rained off
and on most of the day on Saturday. Sunday it was mainly
just cold but it did manage to rain a few times during
the day and even tried to snow a little.
Below is a picture of me shooting on Saturday at 100
yards. I was doing pretty well through the first 3 matches
but faltered during the final 2 dropping 2 points in
each of the final 2 matches. I dropped from 11th
place to close to the bottom when I missed a switch
and shot an 8. I was tied in 11th with Jim
Borden through the first 3 matches.
Above is a picture of Greg Pallmans gun that was built
by Speedy Gonzalez and has a very interesting finish
on the barrel it looks like fish scales. This gun
is chambered in .30BR and is shot in the VFS class.
Greg is in 3rd place in the Score Shooter
of the Year points with his .30.
Above is a picture of Darrel Loker who is no stranger
to the winner circle. Darrel is in only his second year
of competitive Benchrest shooting and is currently in
2nd place in the score shooter of the year
points. Darrel also finished in 2nd place
for the weekend in the VFS class.
Above is Gunsmith Bob Green and Craig Kostyshyn discussing
the construction of a Hunter class gun. Bob Green also
makes bullets that I use as well as Darrel Loker and
Bill Goad. Bill recently finished 5th in
the 4 gun, the 3 gun, and the 2 gun in the IBS group
nationals a few weeks ago while using Bobs bullets.
The little dog trying to keep warm next to the R.W.
Hart vending tables.
Here is a rather dark picture (my apology) of Eddie
Harren and Jim Goody.
Here is a picture of Frank McKee after the match. Frank
was shooting the Hunter class and finished in 3rd
place for the Grand Agg.
Above is a picture of Jim Borden checking out the standings.
Above is a picture of Wayne France discussing the conditions
with a competitor whose name I cant recall.
Above is Bill Barwick on the right, Wayne Shaw in the
middle and Craig Kostyshyn on the left. Bill is shown
here while not rolling around on the ground behind his
bench after shooting a 9. Bill was clean through the
first 4 matches and dropped a point in the 5th
match on Saturday at 100 yards which he didnt take
lightly.
Below are the final standings from the event.
VARMINT FOR SCORE
