APRIL 2004 SPPL NEWSLETTER

I am sure the holiday weekend, honey do list, and 70 degrees with
sunshine kept some of the new shooters away from our Easter weekend Free
Shooters Clinic. However, we did have 17 come and most stayed around to
shoot the bowling pin tables fun shoot.

We had several new shooters join SPPL and some that also joined FRGC
after the class. A special thanks to Mark Carbon, SPPL Pres and Dave
Hovda for running the class and helping all these shooters get a chance to
run their first IPSC stage and learn our rules, safe gun handling skills,
and have fun all for FREE.

We will consider running more New Shooters Clinics as we get people to
step forward and volunteer to help us. This is a great way to introduce
your neighbors, friends, and family in a non-competitive match environment
and help our club grow as well.

BOWLING PIN FUN SHOOT
I wish to extend Pat Kelley of Moses Lake a hearty "thank you" for
loaning us his bowling pins tables so we could run a fun shoot. Again,
with your time volunteered we may have a few fun bowling pin matches on
non-match weekends.

Below is some abbreviations and a legend for our bowling pin fun shoot. I
am only including the fastest runs in the following divisions.

.22LRP = .22 Long Rifle pistol
AP = Auto Pistol
Rev = Revolver
FASG = Full Auto Sub Gun
ASG = Auto Shotgun
PSG = Pump Shotgun

.22LRP Winner was Dan Ferguson @ 4.69
AP Winner was David Arndt @ 4.00
Rev Winner was Bill S @ 3.93
FASG Winner was Will Parks @ 3.37
ASG Winner was Bill S @ 1.73* (record for me)
PSG Winner was Mark Carbon @ 3.65
Top Lady Winner was Ann Ferguson @ 5.90
Top Junior Winner was James Bermel with a 1.94 Auto Shotgun run

Five Fastest single runs were:
1. Bill Sahlberg @ 1.73 with ASG
(.61 1st shot for your info Mr PK :-)
2. James Bermel @ 1.94 with ASG
3. Dave Hovda @ 2.02 with ASG
4. Mark Carbon @ 2.62 with ASG
5. Dan Larson @ 2.77 with ASG

Thanks again to all that came out to the class, to shoot, to help score,
or clean up. A good time was had by all.

NEXT SPPL MATCH
April 24th at Fernan is our next match with CM99-46 Classifier with $5 per
shooter proceeds that go to help fund the 2004 USPSA Junior Programs.

MAY 1st EPHRATA 3 GUN
$30 entry fee for one of the best 3 Gun matches around. This is a Trophy
Match Contact Carl Carbon to sign up at: Carbon501@qosi.net

SPPL WEBSITE
www.sppl.us has all our match information, directions,
dates, times, and courses of fire. Visit this often as changes are made
frequently.

JULY THREE GUN INLAND EMPIRE CHAMPIONSHIP
One of the prizes on the 3 Gun Prize table was donated this past week by
Randy Luth, owner of DPMS. A complete AR-15 upper! Register early as we
will have a cutoff for the number of shooters....you snooze and you will
lose!

Bill Sahlberg L1283