Tony flew in Thursday afternoon. When I got home we packed gear, drank beer, and smoked some cigars. We finally ran out of beer just short of 2 am Friday morning.
My son woke me up at 6 am Friday morning. I was trying to figure out how I got hit by a train while laying in my bed. But I had been hit, my body was hurting and my head felt like it was going to explode. Knowing that I had a 10 hour drive ahead of me only made my head hurt worse.
We arrived at Camp Perry around 11:30pm Friday night. My headache finally cleared around 9pm that evening. We unloaded the truck and put everything in to our hut. I was looking forward to a nice long sleep. Tony and I were awoken by someone hammering some god awful thing at 7:15 am.
Tony and I needed to double check if there was going to be a zero change on our rifles because of the altitude change in Ohio. We found a range off the side of route 2 just a few miles from the base. Tony’s Wilson barrel wouldn’t hold the 9 ring at 200 meters, and confirmed my suspicions that the barrel was bad. I suggested he go and see John Holliger and get a new barrel put on his upper before the matches started. We went down to White Oak and John took care of everything. The next day we went back to the range and had the barrel holding the x-ring in 5 shots. Problem solved.
Tuesday morning we had to be at the range for roll call by 6:15ish for the President’s Match. It’s a 30 shot match, 10 shots standing @200 meters, 10 shots rapid @300 meters, and 10 shots prone @600 meters. The top 100 shooters get the Presidents medal and are allowed to wear the Presidents Tab on their uniform if they are in the military. Considering how bad I shot, I was pretty lucky to make the cut. Tony had some problems in the standing and didn’t shoot that well. I believe the temp that day was 97 degrees and about 65% humidity. It was pretty harsh to say the least.
Wednesday morning was the National Championship. Same time at the range, but it was only a brisk 93 with less humidity, a welcome condition compared to the day before. I didn’t shoot as well as I would have liked to. I clicked my windage on the wrong direction for my first shot at the 600 and was happy to catch a 5 at 3 o’clock. On my 3rd shot I shot a 10 on the target next to me and my day was over at that point. I don’t know if fatigue played a part, but mentally I wasn’t all there.
The awards ceremony was Friday night. I was able to receive my Distinguished Badge on stage which was pretty cool. After the ceremony the USMC team presented Julia Watson with a Trophy M1 Garand for setting the national record in the standing a month earlier in Colorado which was also pretty cool.
We packed up Saturday morning and left at 7am. And I got a speeding ticket in NY on the way home. 50 people speeding and I’m the jerk that gets tagged. I couldn’t even catch the two guys I was using as lead blockers they were going so fast.![[wink]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/002.gif "Wink [wink]")
I'll add some pics later to this thread when I have them done.
My son woke me up at 6 am Friday morning. I was trying to figure out how I got hit by a train while laying in my bed. But I had been hit, my body was hurting and my head felt like it was going to explode. Knowing that I had a 10 hour drive ahead of me only made my head hurt worse.
We arrived at Camp Perry around 11:30pm Friday night. My headache finally cleared around 9pm that evening. We unloaded the truck and put everything in to our hut. I was looking forward to a nice long sleep. Tony and I were awoken by someone hammering some god awful thing at 7:15 am.
Tony and I needed to double check if there was going to be a zero change on our rifles because of the altitude change in Ohio. We found a range off the side of route 2 just a few miles from the base. Tony’s Wilson barrel wouldn’t hold the 9 ring at 200 meters, and confirmed my suspicions that the barrel was bad. I suggested he go and see John Holliger and get a new barrel put on his upper before the matches started. We went down to White Oak and John took care of everything. The next day we went back to the range and had the barrel holding the x-ring in 5 shots. Problem solved.
Tuesday morning we had to be at the range for roll call by 6:15ish for the President’s Match. It’s a 30 shot match, 10 shots standing @200 meters, 10 shots rapid @300 meters, and 10 shots prone @600 meters. The top 100 shooters get the Presidents medal and are allowed to wear the Presidents Tab on their uniform if they are in the military. Considering how bad I shot, I was pretty lucky to make the cut. Tony had some problems in the standing and didn’t shoot that well. I believe the temp that day was 97 degrees and about 65% humidity. It was pretty harsh to say the least.
Wednesday morning was the National Championship. Same time at the range, but it was only a brisk 93 with less humidity, a welcome condition compared to the day before. I didn’t shoot as well as I would have liked to. I clicked my windage on the wrong direction for my first shot at the 600 and was happy to catch a 5 at 3 o’clock. On my 3rd shot I shot a 10 on the target next to me and my day was over at that point. I don’t know if fatigue played a part, but mentally I wasn’t all there.
The awards ceremony was Friday night. I was able to receive my Distinguished Badge on stage which was pretty cool. After the ceremony the USMC team presented Julia Watson with a Trophy M1 Garand for setting the national record in the standing a month earlier in Colorado which was also pretty cool.
We packed up Saturday morning and left at 7am. And I got a speeding ticket in NY on the way home. 50 people speeding and I’m the jerk that gets tagged. I couldn’t even catch the two guys I was using as lead blockers they were going so fast.
I'll add some pics later to this thread when I have them done.
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