The Satuit Nimrod

Thank You Letter from Scituate Police Department

We have received a letter from SPD thanking SRGC for the use of our property for training purposes. A PDF of the letter can be viewed here.

Pistol

The Combat Pistol Match with 5x5 Drill Warmup held on December 13th drew 12 shooters who shot the course of fire twice. 

This match featured a new twist. Prior to shooting the main match the shooters warmed up with a 5x5 Drill. In this drill the shooter has five seconds to put five rounds in a five inch circle at five yards from a low ready position. Ideally, the shooter would use his regular carry gun.

 In the first relay Paul Figueiredo placed first with Ron Rice coming second and Richard Martin third. For the second relay Alex Koines took first place, Paul Figueiredo took second with Richard Martin in third place.

Moving on to the main event, for the first round of the Combat Match Phil Lennon place first, Alex Clark came in second and Mike Guidicci nailed third place. For the second round Drew Thomson was the first place winner, Mike Guidicci took second and Alex Koines placed third.

There were only a couple of hostages hit in this match as the targets were inadvertently placed too close. This will be rectified on the next Combat Match.

The next Pistol Match will be held on Saturday, January 7th starting at noon. The format for this shoot will be MAYO — Miss And You're Out, which is always popular. "Come On Down" and bring plenty of ammunition.

Cowboy Action Shooting

The Gunnysackers will be holding their annual Brass Monkey Shoot on Sunday, January 15th starting at 9:30 am. 

Brass Monkey weather is when it is cold enough to "Freeze the Balls off a Brass Monkey." There are some explanations to the origins of this phrase that have come up since it first gained some momentum in the first half of the 20th century. The most common explanation refers to the alleged practice of enclosing cannonballs on a ship in a brass device called a monkey, which, if it contracted from the cold, would allow the cannonballs to fall. This account, however, doesn't seem to gibe with the timing or usage of the phrase. Instead, it is most likely that "brass monkey" was just intended as a humorous idiom to be used in extreme cold.

Skeet and Trap

Skeet continues to shoot on Sundays and Wednesday evenings, but this month there will be no Skeet on Wednesday, January 18th as the Plymouth County League will hold their monthly meeting at SRGC.

Trap have adjusted their shooting schedule; they will now shoot from 10:00 am until noon on Saturdays with Tuesday evening shooting on hold until the Spring.

We had a couple of members shoot their first 25 Straight recently; Tom Mulloy shot his in Trap while Dave Glancy shot his in Skeet. Congratulations to both of them. Dave had been trying for 13 years to go 25 straight and in recognition of his achievement, Time Magazine published a special Person-of-the-Year cover featuring Dave — see below.

The annual Maggie's Drawers Shoot was a combined Skeet and Trap event this year — one round of each. Winning the coveted pair of bloomers was Chuck Pollard who shot a 20 in Skeet and a 24 in Trap closely followed Phil Lennon who shot a 24 in Trap and a 19 in Skeet. Chuck can be seen in the photo below proudly wearing his prize.