05/25/2026
We had another great match this Memorial Day weekend. These guys and gals just continue to amaze me more and more month after month. Let’s just start by saying that the match this month was decided because the guy that had hip/knee, sorry couldn’t remember which, replacement 2 weeks ago, ran out of ammo! After 2 lengthy tie breaking shootouts Ryder Lee had to concede the match and first place to Dennis Hays because he simply ran out of ammo!
Let’s not make this sound like Dennis didn’t do the work! Dennis now holds the majority of the records, if records were necessarily being kept, of not only the highest qualifying score with 70! He also holds the most cold bore playing card hits and I could probably think of a couple others he would hold if I wanted to dig that deep into it! Let’s just say, Dennis still fully deserved the win today even though Ryder had to bow out in the final shootout!
So Top Honors as well as the cold bore jackpot both went to Mr Dennis Hays.
Ryder Lee was today’s runner up after those ammo eating tie breaker shootouts.
The 3rd Place spot went to Mr. Troy Flayharty and rounding out the top 4 of the open class was Sam Marks.
Today’s factory class winner was Rock Morris who had already won the class by score yet decided to show the gallery that even factory class rifles will smack that 3” plate at 500yds when driven properly.
A few honorable mentions today are Dusty Quinn putting up a 64 qualifying score after having to miss the last 3 months due to family obligations. Dusty was very excited to realize that of his 30 shots today 19 were successfully placed on the 3” target! What he didn’t realize is that he had 6 more on there as well during his tie breaker shootout with Ryder, making it 25 out of 36! Ryder still had ammo at this point! 😂
Another point of interest is Pam Monts has successfully hit her cold bore playing card at 500yards at least 3 of the 5 times she’s shot at it, since just starting to compete in January. Reminding Rocky Doty of his continued place in the kitchen! Rumor has it as well that Nick Hill is still possibly trembling at the thought of Dennis being so destructive with a 308. Rumors often become legends when you have a legendary match, producing legendary shooters that do legendary s**t!!!
Next Match will be June 21 and don’t be surprised if something legendary happens again next month. “The Greatest Lil Match in Texas”, just because everything is bigger in Texas doesn’t mean that greatness doesn’t come from “Keeping ‘em small”!
See y’all next month! Same bat time, same bat channel!!!
