lassen sharpshooters - photos, marksmanship team

Conditions: 30 to 35 Mile per hour wind gusts, estimated Temperature with wind chill factor - approx 7 to 14 degrees F; lightly blowing snow, cold (finger numbing / burning / stinging), snow depth approximately 28 + inches; Pistol Shooting, Rifle shooting with snowshoe run , followed by Hot Chili (or cold depending, on which batch you ate), French Bread (cold), and cold water. Can't get any better than this!

(Rifle Marksmanship at 50 Yards with Snowshoe Run for each of 4 courses of fire (total 20 shots).

(Pistol Marksmanship - 2 courses of fire (5 shots each) (total - 10 shots). Below results are aggregate scores for both pistol courses of fire. Targets at distances ranging from 7 to 30 yard distances and with targets being at left and right of shooter. Thus, Pistol field of fire: 20 yards wide - 30 yards long.

Event Sequence: Opening Ceremony (April 19, 1775 and Minutemen - re-enacting our American Revolutionary War history; verbal presentation of our re-enacting scenario); followed by: flag raising, Star Spangled Banner (click to play); Pledge of Allegiance; American Minuteman Pledge); Safety briefing; Minuteman Pistol Marksmanship; Minuteman Rifle Marksmanship and Snowshoe Run; Minuteman "hot" lunch; closing (flag lowering; retreat (click to play); taps (click to play); and then we return to our homes, hearth, and warmth.

Participants: Venturing Crew 40

Final Score Results: 3/16/2009 (approved)

	Rifle Youth	Pistol Youth
1st Place	Name: Michael B.	Name: Andrew
	Green Mountain Boys	Green Mountain Boys
	Crew/Troop: Crew 40	Crew/Troop: Guest
	Time: Min: 10 Sec. 40.93	Time: Min: -- Sec. 43.37
	Hits: 19	Hits: 9
	Com.Score: 293.1133	Com.Score: 295.7949
2nd Place	Name: Ben R.	Name: Michael B.
	Concord Militia	Green Mountain Boys
	Crew/Troop: Crew 40	Crew/Troop: T 40
	Time: Min: 17 Sec. 58	Time: Min: -- Sec. 26.65
	Hits: 14	Hits: 4
	Com.Score: 202.6956	Com.Score: 222.1364
3rd Place	Name: Andrew	Name: Ben R.
	Green Mountain Boys	Concord Militia
	Crew/Troop: Guest	Crew/Troop: C 40
	Time: Min: 17 Sec. 18	Time: Min: -- Sec. 38.22
	Hits: 9	Hits: 2
	Com.Score: 164.1911	Com.Score: 142.0687

	Rifle Adults	Pistol Adults
1st Place	Name: Nathan Z.	Name: Steve B.
	Green River Rifles	Green Mountain Boys
	Crew/Troop: Crew 40	Crew/Troop: 40
	Time: Min: 10 Sec. 40	Time: Min: -- Sec. 21.46
	Hits: 18	Hits: 7
	Com.Score: 417.7443	Com.Score: 379.1266
2nd Place	Name: Steve B.	Name: Nathan Z.
	Green Mountain Boys	Green River Rifles
	Crew/Troop: Crew 40	Crew/Troop: T 40
	Time: Min: 11 Sec. 7	Time: Min: -- Sec. 30
	Hits: 9	Hits: 7
	Com.Score: 296.8054	Com.Score: 378.7791

	Pistol - Combined Youth and Adults
1st Place	Name: Steve B.
	Green Mountain Boys
	Crew/Troop: 40
	Time: Min: -- Sec. 21.46
	Hits: 7
	Com.Score: 227.143
2nd Place	Name: Nathan Z.
	Green River Rifles
	Crew/Troop: T 40
	Time: Min: -- Sec. 30.00
	Hits: 7
	Com.Score: 194.3431
3rd Place	Name: Andrew
	Green Mountain Boys
	Crew/Troop: Guest
	Time: Min: -- Sec. 43.37
	Hits: 9
	Com.Score: 174.2968
4th Place	Name: Michael B.
	Green Mountain Boys
	Crew/Troop: T 40
	Time: Min: -- Sec. 26.65
	Hits: 4
	Com.Score: 160.253
5th Place	Name: Ben R.
	Concord Militia
	Crew/Troop: C 40
	Time: Min: -- Sec. 38.22
	Hits: 2
	Com.Score: 84.51136

* Adults did a shorter Snowshoe Run for the Rifle Course. Pistol Course was the same for adults and youth.

How the official Minuteman Biathlon Scoring is done:

The SCORING MASTER CONTROL SHEET (same scoring as for the Minuteman Summer Biathlon) reflects the following scoring methods:
Each Marksman's Total Score (and ranking) will be a combined total of his/her Race Score and his/her Hit Score determined as follows for each category ( i.e., Categories are: BSA Scope; BSA IRON; Venturing Scope; Venturing IRON) (Venturing has a girls and boys scoring):

Each running portion of the Biathlon will be scored using the following Percent Back System:

                  Marksman's % Back = (2-(Marksman's Time / Scoring Base)) X100

                  (The Running Scoring Base is the average time of the top three finishers)

(Formula Source: 2005 IBU Summer Biathlon World Championships)

Each Target Hit portion of the Biathlon will be scored as follows:

                  (Marksman's Hits / Hit Scoring Base) X 120.

                  (The Hit Scoring Base is the average Hits of the top three finishers)
NOTE: The Marksmanship Portion is weighted 120 (not 100) due to the emphasis we are placing on shooting skills.

Biathlon Photos - page 1; Photos - page 2; Photos - page 3; Photos - page 4;

Photos - page 5; Photos - page 6; BIATHLON RESULTS

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"Exercising the American Bill of Rights."

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them...."

Quoted from Joseph Story* in, “Commentaries on the Constitution” (1833).

* Former Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court

"...The one thing that is absolute is that the Second Amendment guarantees a personal and individual right to keep and bear arms, and prohibits government from disarming the people...."

Quoted from: Silveira v. Lockyer - Dissent by: Judge Kozinski.

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