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Steve
Beuning and Montana discuss our possible squadding
options with a GCA shooter.
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Steve
and Kristof at Rodriguez Range at 0-dark-hundred.
Note the large coffees...
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Montana
(right) talking with a fellow NRA Volunteer about
the course of events. Nice sunrise, and hey, nice
dark socks!
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Our
inspiration for the Rattle Battle, Don Kemps (left),
the patriarch of the infamous Team Kemps.
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Don
Kemps offering advice to one of his team members
at sunrise.
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Montana
(right) and a fellow NRA Volunteer.
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Amy
Kemps enjoying a large coffee while her father Don
expounds last-minute advice to their two, yes TWO
teams they fielded this year!
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Amy
Kemps, ready to fire with her AR-15 National Match
rifle
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Don
Kemps feels the weight on a teammates AR-15 National
Match rifle
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Amy
Kemps smiling as their full "platoon"
of great shooters posed for a team photo.
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Team
Kemps - 2005 - Frontal
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Team
Kemps - 2005 - Obverse
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Steve
Beuning - at sunrise
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The
South Is Represented: The only nametag I can read
is the first striped-shirted man, who is Jim Finley,
from Texas.
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The
U.S. State flags being posted alongside the NTIT
course of fire at sunrise.
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Yep,
that is Specialist Susie Barringer, who kept our
spirits high in the Springfield Match the day before..
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Kudos
to the U.S. Army for fielding so may range and pit
officers this year.
Sidenote: everyone we met had done at least
one tour in Iraq.
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Specialist
Susie Barringer
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Ammo
count verification table, with 384 rounds of .30-06
ammo for a GCA Garand Team.
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There
is Mike "Montana" Bennett in the background...
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I
took one photo from here at 07:30 HRS right as they
fired the "Colors" salute from this canon,
three seconds before this photo, and it almost broke
my camera.
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More eye candy...
(proof that there
are women at these matches, but just not that
many actually shooting)
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A
GCA Garand Team gathering their 48 clips of .30-06
ammo clips...
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Prepping
in the first 2-minutes on the line. Damn, it goes
fast!
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Montana
(right) as a verifier of scores at the 600 yard
firing line.
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A
GCA Garand Team firing at 600 yards in the
first line of the event.
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A
GCA Garand Team firing in the
first line of the event.
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An
AR-15 team starting their "blast-fest!"
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A
GCA Garand Team firing in the
first line of the event.
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Note
the smoke roiling downrange...
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The
flag-bearer paces the teams as they move to the
next relay.
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The
distance looks funny, but they are still at the
500-yard line here. A driver and a 4-iron away if
they were on a golf course!
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