Results of the 2017 Interclub Team Postal Matches

Here is a summary of results to date of the 2017 Interclub Team Muzzleloading Monthly Postal Matches sponsored by the UPMLA. The matches began in January and will be held monthly through June 2017.

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 each monthly "winning" team is shown in bold print.

Updated scores will be posted in this news notice as they become available each month.

2017	Anchor- age AK	Baraga MI	Dallas TX	London ONT Canada	Meno- minee (WI)	San Antonio TX	Sudbury ONT Canada
January	243-6x	245-7x	148-6x1	250-16x	243-7x	- - - 3	159-2x
February	243	243	- - - 2	248	238	- - - 3	231
March	224	230-2x	219-1x	241-4x	231-1x	- - - 3	205-1x
April	237-1x	238-3x	- - - 2	246-5x	239-3x	- - - 3	230-1x
May	211-1x	220-1x	- - - 2	247-2x	211-2x	242-1x	190
June	- - - 2	230-10x	- - - 2	244-14x	205-9x	222-8x	194-3x
Footnotes 1. Only 3 shooters this month 2. Scores not yet received 3. Club began to participate in May

The seven clubs participating in 2017 (in alphabetical order) are:

• Alamo Muzzle Loading Gun Club of La Coste, near San Antonio, TX
• Baraga Blackpowder Bunch shooting at Ottawa Sportsmen's Club, U.P. of Michigan
• Crumlin Sportsmen's Association of London, Ontario, Canada
• Dallas Muzzle Loading Gun Club of Dallas, Texas
• McKinley Mountainmen Muzzle Loading Rifle Club of Anchorage, Alaska
• Menominee Ridge Runners from Wisconsin
• Voyageurs Muzzle Loading Rifle Club from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

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.

The postal match coordinator in each club sends all the club's monthly targets to the UPMLA scoring person. The scorer finds the five highest scoring shots on each shooter's target and counts them toward the target score of 50 points maximum.

From the targets submitted by a club, the top-scoring five targets are selected and the scores 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 different clubs usually do not have the same number of shooters each month.) The UPMLA scoring person returns the targets to club coordinators, along with targets for the next month's shooting.

For more information about the Interclub Team Postal Match, go to the web page for UPMLA 2017 Events.