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On Saturday, August 3rd, 2024 I competed in the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s McKee Memorial M14 Rifle Heritage match. This match is sponsored by Fulton Armory. Fulton Armory most graciously stepped up to sponsor prizes and offset costs of the match after Springfield Armory Inc. abandoned the CMP, the match, and national match competitors.

This match has a challenging and unique course of fire. Competitors fire 45 shots total. Five sighting or practice shots and 10 shots for record from the prone position in 15 minutes. These are slow fire, or loaded one shot at a time. Stage 2 is 10 shots, rapid fire prone in 70 seconds. Competitors start with an unloaded rifle, when the targets appear, they load the rifle with a magazine containing 2 rounds, fire, then reload with another magazine containing 8 rounds, for a total of 10 rounds before the targets disappear. Stage 3 is very similar except it is now fired from the sitting position in 60 seconds. Again, the firing procedure is load, fire two rounds, reload, and fire 8 rounds. The last stage is 10 rounds in 10 minutes in the standing position. This is fired one shot at a time with no artificial support. For this unique match, the whole match is fired at 300 yards. In all other matches, offhand (standing) and rapid fire sitting are fired at 200 yards. This alone makes this match challenging.

I asked my scorer to video tape the rapid fire portions of this match to troubleshoot some position issues I’ve had this year.

For sighters I shot 9,9,10,10,10
I shot a 99-3x in slow fire prone.
In rapid fire prone I struggled as my group was tight but not well centered, 88-1x.
Rapid fire sitting had the same issue, 86-0x.
Standing went much better, 89-1x. At first glance, a low score. However, after numerous lengthy cease fires I fired a 5 for my final shot. My score should have been a 94. Keep in mind this is at 300, not 200 yards.

This year on Rodriguez Range, we set a new national matches record for the number of cease fires at 17! Those long pauses couple with heat and humidity took their toll on shooters and staff.

Thank you again to Rich Hall of Fulton Armory for stepping up on short notice and working hard to keep this match going.

The rifle I used is a custom built rifle on a Springfield receiver. It has a glass bedded MacMillan NM stock, Krieger heavy stainless steel barrel, NM gas system, Sadlak TiN coated NM grooved piston, NM sights, NM trigger, Sadlak scope mount, Sightron S-Tac service rifle legal 1-4.5x scope in Warne QD low rings. The sling is still one of John Weller’s wonderful slings. RIP John.

I shoot handloaded ammunition with a Nosler 168 bthp, seated to 2.805”, over IMR-3031 powder in a LC case with a CCI milspec primer. This was the USMC rifle team load Federal used to load that became the vaunted Gold Medal loading.