Here is a report of the final results of the 2023 International
Club Team Muzzleloading Monthly Postal Matches sponsored by the
UPMLA. The matches began in January and ended in the month of
June 2023.
The scores shown in the table are the sum of the five highest
scoring targets submitted by each club for each month. The score
of the "winning" team for each month is shown in bold print.
The number of participating shooters on each team is shown in
parentheses below the scores.
In alphabetical order, the seven clubs that participated in
the 2023 team postal match are
:
- Baraga Blackpowder Bunch shooting at the Ottawa Sportsmen's
Club in Michigan's U.P.
- McKinley Mountainmen Muzzle Loading Rifle Club of Anchorage,
Alaska
- Menominee Ridge Runners from Wisconsin, shooting in
Menominee, Michigan
- North Bend Muzzle Loading group from North Bend, Washington
- Rio Salado Sportsmen's Club from Mesa, Arizona
- Santa Cruz Muzzleloaders shooting at Scotts Valley
Sportsmen's Club, California
- Voyageurs Muzzle Loading Rifle Club from Sudbury, Ontario,
Canada
How the match works:
At a monthly shoot of each club, every one of the shooters
present fires six shots at identical paper targets, one target
per individual shooter. The targets are placed 25 yards from the
firing line. Every shooter of each club who participates
is considered to be "on the team" for their club for that month.
![[img:nn23-c1]](nn23-c1.png "Team Postal Target 01/22")
After a club shoots their monthly targets, the club's postal
match coordinator sends all the club's targets to the UPMLA
scoring person. In scoring a target, the five highest scoring
are counted toward the target score of 50 points maximum.
From the set of targets submitted by each club, the top-scoring
five targets are selected and the scores are summed to make up a
club's monthly score. Thus, there are 250 possible points each
month per club. Only the best five targets are selected because
the number of shooters differ in each club, and because differing
numbers shoot from month to month.
After all the targets are scored for a month, the UPMLA scoring
person mails score results to all the clubs in the competition.
The results list the names and scores of all individuals from all
clubs who shot during the month, and the total team scores.
For more information about the International Team Postal Match,
go to the web page for
UPMLA 2023
Events.