2010 TSRA Calendar

Self-defense systems. Illegal in our modern enlightened times.

Colt repeating rifles.

Dang big pistol.

Pair of early double action Colts.

Presentation pistol.

Patterson Serial number 1.

Pair of Volcanics.

French 20-shot Revolver.

LeMats.

Nelson Rifle and Ames Sword/Pepperbox.

Schutzen Rifle. This gun really settles out in the offhand position.

Colt Revolving Rifle.

Turkish Smith & Wesson.

Some little early Colt with Ivory grips.

Worn ivory grips.

Dr. Sneed and I had another shot at the Texas A&M Firearms museum. Still editing but here are a few selections. I never can be sure about what is going to make the cut. Probably will go back to last years stash and see if there is anything I want to send again.

Cheekfat!

Tommy Laing.

Marine Shawn Taylor.

Roger Lankford.

Katie Wilkens.

Bailey Fairchild.

Travis Rogers.

Cheeking it up at the TSRA Highpower Championship. You can't have too much. You can only have too little.

TSRA Highpower images.

Roger Langford concentrating....or trying to read instructions off his rifle.

David Guthry prone at 300.

Tony Bailey on the line at 300.

Ltc Don Tryce.

Young women with assault rifles. Makes Obama sad.

300 rapid. David Keys under that Marine Logo jacket.

Switching 6:00 wind.

Some fortunate 13 year old being coached.

Lauren Conner from SHSU JROTC.

Bailey Fairchild checking a standing shot.

Clay Hefner waiting on 200 sitting rapid.

Marine Shawn Taylor.

New Kid on the line.

A lot of new juniors from various Texas clubs. Big crowd. Crawford was kept busy untangling rifle problems. Gaby ran a crisp line and Paul LaBerge handled the pits. I think everyone enjoyed their match.

2010 TSRA Highpower Rifle Championship

2010 Highpower Rifle Champions Michael Carter with his 6mm Tubb Gun.

Sam Houston State University JROTC group.

Andrew Trampus is now 6 feet tall and has grown into his rifle.

Garand on the line.

Tommy Liang near the start of the firing line.

Ken Bartling.

Switching, gusty, 6:00 winds made everyone miserable.

Offhand at 200 yards.

Travis Rogers, TSRA Junior Team.

New faces on the line.

Royce Brown, TSRA Junior Team.

Tommy Liang, Distinguished Rifleman.

The red dust of Camp Swift gets into everything, coating your rifle, cart, mat, scope, clothes with a fine amber tint. Its like the black mud from the Waco/Watt range: once it's on you have to chip away at it for years. I'm sure I will be laying on the mat at Camp Perry during prep and look over to see red dust on a cart wheel.

Team day was friday with 15 teams. Thats a lot. We put all the National Match folks on teams to practice pair-firing and working together. It was unseasonably hot. Dangerous hot. By the time we got to 600 we were suffering. I went through six or more bottles of water. The three TSRA teams were first second and fifth, though nobody shot very well.

Saturday was day one of the Championship. We cut it back to a 50 shot match because of the weather and nobody complained. Conditions were a little better. 106 folks on the line. I shot awfully standing with a 90 and ended at 477 in fifth place.

Sunday was the best weather day with a nice breeze cooling us off. The field had dropped to 96. I had the high score at 489 but it wasn't enough to overcome the previous days bad shooting. I ended up third. Keith Stephens was second and Michael Carter won the Highpower Rifle Championship. 1,2 and 3 were spread across four points.

Kind of a break coming up, then Camp Perry and the National Matches.

Ken Gaby and Rick Crawford ran another big Texas match. Seems like every time I looked over from my bunk in the barracks they were sorting and computing. They do a great job for everyone while the rest of us just shoot. I think we are in the golden age of Texas Highpower shooting with them running the show.

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.

Mohammed.

Here's the standard image the "religion of peace" threatens murder over. I think Islam ought to be as accepted in modern life as the KKK is. The KKK is BETTER on rights for women and gays by the way.

Hope this helps them get over their murder drama, but really, isn't it time to put islam on the same junkpile as cannibalism or the Aztecs religion? Just doesn't work in modern life. You can't stone or hang folks for being gay and women are human beings just like.....human beings. You can't deny them rights or education.