Today was our Founders Cup match, rescheduled from October 2024, where it
snowed at Mormon Lake, AZ, canceling that match. Three months later, and in
early winter, we had a glorious day for shooting in the desert! The sky was sunny
and bright. There were no clouds whatsoever. The hot air balloons were up and
floating in order to witness the beautiful sunrise. The temps ranged from 52° up
to 57°, during the match, with humidity in the mid-50% range. The wind even
cooperated and was only recorded to puff from 3 mph up to a max of 7 mph, and
floated in from numerous directions. Difficult to determine from which direction,
but enough to move pellets around, and create unwanted misses.

The Founder’s Cup has been contested since 2012 and was established to
commemorate the four founding members who established the club over 30
years ago. Larry Piercy, one of those four, and currently the club president, is the
only one of the four who still actively competes. It was only fitting that he was
match director today.

We set up our usual 12 lanes / 2 targets per / 2 shots at each / 48-shot match.
We had a separate standing lane and kneeling lane, and because of it being the
Founders Cup, Larry directed that the targets be set at the upper end of the
Troyer difficulty factor for target placement based on kill zone size. It was not an
easy course (speaking from a piston shooters point of view), but with the
expertise of those shooting, it didn’t seem to matter much. Mercifully, the wind,
noted earlier, did not interfere with the scores……too much.