We have a winner!

That’s our good buddy Duane in the photo above, and the smile is real.   We wrapped up the entries for our CSC milsurp rifle match with all of the mail-in targets and two more entrants shooting at the West End Gun Club yesterday.   Duane took top honors with his awesome score (shot under terrible conditions, but more on that later) of 193-3X!

Duane shot a World War II trophy…a captured Mauser 98 bolt action rifle complete with enemy markings…

Duane is a cool guy.  I’ve ridden with him many times, starting several years ago when we both rode CSC Mustangs.  These days we both ride RX3 motorcycles.

Our good buddy Willie (the world’s most interesting man; watch the video below all the way to the end) was out with us yesterday, too, shooting an awesome .303 Lee Enfield rifle…

Willie shot well, but we lost his target to the high winds.  Conditions were terrible…it was extremely windy with gusts exceeding 60 mph.  I was calling hits for Willie through my scope, and I could see that half of his shots with that beautiful British bolt action were in the black.  Willie was shooting under tough conditions…the left edge of his target tore free from the target stand and it was flapping in the wind.  He was literally shooting at a moving target.   Then, just as the range master called a cease fire, Willie’s target completely separated from the stand and it took off for parts unknown.  It’s probably in Arizona by now.   It was good, but I could see it was not quite as good as Duane’s target.

Several of my friends were at the gun club with us, shooting Mosin-Nagants, 1903 Springfields, M1 carbines, and more.   World War II rifles from nearly all of the World War II belligerents were on the line!

We all went over for a grand Mexican lunch after (we always do), and it was great (like it always is).   We sure had fun yesterday.

We thank all of you who sent in your targets, and for all of our readers, if you’d like us to do this again, please let me know.

You know what?   We’re just 40 days away from the 4th annual CSC Baja Run!