Our trip to Saint Gabriel Range, outside of Bouctouche NB, began oh so early in the morning - it is hard to imagine how beautiful New Brunswick can be in the spring, early in the morning, with sun slowly rising in the sky. There wasn't a cloud to be seen and the air was totally still. What luxury - to be up so early, with the smell of coffee AND to be a passenger heading to a shoot across the province.
We arrived at the range a bit later than expected having taken an unscheduled detour to 
Rexton. The range is beautiful - the guys there certainly deserve a lot of credit for making an excellent shooting facility up to 600 meters, (actually 615 meters they tell me). Everything was shipshape and even the signs did not have holes in them!! All the ranges were marked and the covered benchrest firing points were immaculate. Even the mounds were reasonably comfortable - what a treat.
The Match Director today was Paul Bastarache and the RSO was JC Gautreau. Many thanks for your efforts guys. Rest assured that we had a wonderful day with you at your range!
It should be noted also that Daniel Chisholm and Adam MacDonal have worked hard during the winter to improve the software for the electronic marking system. It now provides many useful operations and tons of data for our analyses and worked like a charm during the match.
Thirteen eager shooters attended and were treated to almost no wind at all during the first relay. Unfortunately, this did not last for the whole match. As the day developed, off shore winds - from up range to the firing points - picked up in strength. This was complicated by cross winds (mostly right to left) at the targets. So while the mirage ran one way at the end of the range (visible in our scopes focused on the targets), the wind would run another way. Tricky for most of us - especially in the last relay when most of the "fours" were recorded. The FTR shooters were using 1/2 MOA centers - a new thing for most of us - but challenging in these wind conditions. What was nice was that the sun was out all day and the light did not change.
After the match, the Fullbore Section Executive held a meeting - Minutes in the post above.
RESULTS - TR CLASS:
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| L>R - Paul [FTR] and Mike [TR] winners |
Mike Lutes - 222V23
Daniel Chisholm - 216V17
Edgar Poirier - 153V9
RESULTS - FTR CLASS:
Paul Bastarache - 221V16
Bert deVink - 215V11
JC Gautreau - 208V14
Adam MacDonald - 207V14
Ron Mason - 207V12
Conrad Leroux - 201V7
John McCluskey - 201V7
Gordon Holloway - 200V10
Francis Bezeau - 192V11
Harrison Brown - 163V0
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