Sunday – 3rd day of shooting.

The internet at the NRA office is horrible. It works at random and can disconnect in the middle of a session. To top things off, the blog was not picking up my messages, so you probably saw a two day delay. I also notice that the blog drops in some question marks and does weird things in the middle of my words sometimes. Just bear with us and maybe our IT guys will fix that issue. I will try to catch up today, but might have to reduce the commentary a bit. Hunt and peck typist.

The wind was howling today, anywhere from 10 to 18 MPH with let ups and many angle changes. There were three matches today. The Daily Mail 500 yards, the Duke of Cambridge 900 yards and the Alexandra 600 yards.

Personally, I had some issues. I was not concentrating and had a generally bad day. Called my wife up and told her today was a "crash and burn" day! At the 600 yards I was watching the wrong flags (no rain to help this Pacific NW boy today). Then I come back to the room and as I am turning the knob to change the elevation on my scope from 600 to 900 yards, I lose my concentration and don’t turn enough. That cost me two misses for my first two sighters. Had a good recovery, but in this group, good recovery moves you into the middle of the pack. However, my teammates did not let us down. Mid Tompkins got creedmored into 2nd place. David Bailey shot excellent at 600 yards and came in 4th place. In the 500 yard match we cleaned up getting 6 out of the top 10 spots with Jim Murphy coming through in 1st place. At the 900 yard line we only had one person in the top 10. Capt. Bock.

Bev Bartholome had chest pains and Doc Bock diagnosed it as a muscle spasm and knocked her out with some "stuff" from his voodoo bag. Luckily she was up and about the next day even going into London with the girls.

There was a reception at the Canada House and we were invited. A formal event and we were dressed in our blazers, ties etc. When I was doing the dress code for the team, several teammates called me names, including "dress code Nazi". Bet they were thanking me now, as everyone was dressed primp and proper. The reception was very nicely done and we thank the Canadians for inviting us. Good food, drinks and good company.

Top 10 scores.

Daily Mail 500 yards.

J. Murphy, USA, 85
D. Kent, GB, 85
D. Gosnell, USA, 84
J. Traylor, USA, 84
J. Campbell, GB, 84
RT Bock, USA, 84
RC Mead, USA, 83
D. Brough, GB, 83
L. Taite, USA, 82
JA McAllister, GB, 81

Alexandra 600 yards.

M. De Kort, Netherlands, 58
M. Tompkins, USA, 58
D. Bailey, USA, 57
H. Mitera, Germany, 56
DA Stewart, Marquis, 56
J. Murphy, USA, 55
MJ Moran, Ulster RA, 55
D. Brough, GB, 55
E. Bair, USA, 55
H. Kruger, Germany.

Duke Of Cambridge 900 Yards

D. Kent, GB, 53
JH Els, S. Africa, 51
W. Scholze, Germany, 50
L. Tomlinson, Scotland, 49
RT. Bock, USA, 49
DJ Groom, GB, 48
D. Brough, GB, 48
JA Kruger, SA, 48
M Maksimovik, GB, 47
EJ Hobbs, GB, 47

Maybe I’ll get time and I will do Monday’s as well today.