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Camp Perry National Matches
Event 3 - National Team Infantry Trophy (NTIT)
Known affectionately as the "Rattle Battle"
(Our non-participation in this event this year underscores the strategy of combat snipers, and why they shoot at commanding officers first if given an option. We were without our designated Leader, John Marden, this year and our team organizational skills were lacking and we were sidelined due to technical difficulties. John has promised to be there next year, and we will have a really serious strategic and tactical plan to make sure we shoot this incredibly fun event next year.)

Day 4
August 6, 2005

Event 3
Steve Beuning and Montana discuss our possible squadding options with a GCA shooter.
Steve and Kristof at Rodriguez Range at 0-dark-hundred. Note the large coffees...
Montana (right) talking with a fellow NRA Volunteer about the course of events. Nice sunrise, and hey, nice dark socks!
Our inspiration for the Rattle Battle, Don Kemps (left), the patriarch of the infamous Team Kemps.
Don Kemps offering advice to one of his team members at sunrise.
Montana (right) and a fellow NRA Volunteer.
Amy Kemps enjoying a large coffee while her father Don expounds last-minute advice to their two, yes TWO teams they fielded this year!
Amy Kemps, ready to fire with her AR-15 National Match rifle
Don Kemps feels the weight on a teammates AR-15 National Match rifle
Amy Kemps smiling as their full "platoon" of great shooters posed for a team photo.
Team Kemps - 2005 - Frontal
Team Kemps - 2005 - Obverse
Steve Beuning - at sunrise
The South Is Represented: The only nametag I can read is the first striped-shirted man, who is Jim Finley, from Texas.
The U.S. State flags being posted alongside the NTIT course of fire at sunrise.
Yep, that is Specialist Susie Barringer, who kept our spirits high in the Springfield Match the day before..
Kudos to the U.S. Army for fielding so may range and pit officers this year.
Sidenote: everyone we met had done at least one tour in Iraq.
Specialist Susie Barringer
Ammo count verification table, with 384 rounds of .30-06 ammo for a GCA Garand Team.
There is Mike "Montana" Bennett in the background...
I took one photo from here at 07:30 HRS right as they fired the "Colors" salute from this canon, three seconds before this photo, and it almost broke my camera.

More eye candy...

(proof that there are women at these matches, but just not that many actually shooting)

A GCA Garand Team gathering their 48 clips of .30-06 ammo clips...
Prepping in the first 2-minutes on the line. Damn, it goes fast!
Montana (right) as a verifier of scores at the 600 yard firing line.
A GCA Garand Team firing at 600 yards in the
first line of the event.
A GCA Garand Team firing in the
first line of the event.
An AR-15 team starting their "blast-fest!"
A GCA Garand Team firing in the
first line of the event.
Note the smoke roiling downrange...
The flag-bearer paces the teams as they move to the next relay.
The distance looks funny, but they are still at the 500-yard line here. A driver and a 4-iron away if they were on a golf course!
Event 3
 
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