September 2026 – Monthly Meet – Running Boar Stampede
by John White
September 26, 2026
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We started the day off in remembrance of 9/11, shooting once again beneath the commemorative 9/11 flag bearing the names of the victims. In addition, on a beautiful, sunny fall day that started off at a brisk 55 degrees, we remembered those who couldn’t be with us to shoot today.
We had 24 shooters alongside at least 11 observers and helpers, with 16 shooting bench and 8 shooting offhand. With only five benches to go around, the high turnout for bench shooting created a slight 15-minute delay finishing our first round. Naturally, nobody seemed to mind the extra time—it just meant more opportunity to swap stories, tune up rifles, browse the trade tables for goodies or just stagger around the range bumping into things.
We kicked off our safety brief and course-of-fire description right at 9:00 AM. For our first round, we chose the NMLRA running boar target, which we haven’t shot in several years since the NMLRA discontinued the match for now. We took 10 shots at 50 yards, set up just like the course of fire in Friendship: bench shooters shot the boar left-to right, while offhand shot right-to-left. A few enterprising shooters attempted to “modify” their targets for a better sight picture, but the ol’ meanie program manager put the kibosh on that, much to the quiet disappointment of the gallery.
Our second round featured our July commemorative target celebrating our nation’s 250th anniversary of independence. We fired 10 shots – one per at individual bullseyes. Truth be told, we picked this target because we can’t use them next year, and we had just enough left over from our June shoot to pull it off! After wrapping up the second round, we turned in our targets and set up for the third relay: 25-yard pistol for anyone interested. We used the standard NMLRA 25-yard pistol target. Believe it or not, we shot the exact same bullseye target last week on a smaller paper background and saw almost a 10% drop in overall scores this time around. Whatever happened to “aim small, miss small,” folks?
Rifle scores were combined, while pistol targets were scored separately so no one was penalized for not packing a handgun. Our top finishers are as follows:
Offhand:
1st: Billy Townsend
2nd: Tracy Derrick
3rd: Bob Wilson
4th: Erik Rolle
Bench:
1st: Tim Lambert
2nd: Mike Lamb
3rd: Beaver Fisher
4th: Bobby Witherington
Pistol:
1st: Tracy Derrick
2nd: Billy Townsend
3rd (Tie): Eric Rolle & Jim Behrend
4th: Austin Darby
Congratulations to all our winners! Remarkably, that makes two shoots in a row where no one had to confess to a dry ball—or at least, no one got caught.
Our next shoot is scheduled for October 24. Gates open at 8:00 AM, and shooting starts at 9:00 AM. We’ll have a Halloween theme, plus a club cookout (weather permitting). We moved the cookout up a month this year just to build in a safety cushion against bad weather. The club will provide the main course, condiments, plates, and eating utensils. If you’d like to contribute, side dishes and desserts are greatly appreciated!
We look forward to seeing everyone in October for more friendship, fellowship, and fun. Thank you all for making the Talking Rock Black Powder Shooters the best club around. Without you, we wouldn’t be who we are.
Until next time: stay safe, get healthy, and keep your powder dry!
As always keep your eyes on this, our website, for updates on our shoots with write-ups, pics, videos, links to two websites with different videos on the trbps.com events tab. Check out our Rumble page for full, unedited videos.
Enjoy the remaining pictures below and the video at the end.
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Enjoy the video of the September 2026 monthly meet below:
TRBPS September 2026 video on Rumble
The Rumble video is unedited, whereas the Youtube video has to be edited for its strict guidelines. So, the rumble video will have a little more content.