Below are the match results for the May 2007 Steel Plate Match held on May 12, 2007.   We had a really good turnout with several new faces.  I hope you new guys are hooked like I am on shooting these steel plates.  We changed up the match format in an effort to reduce what it costs to shoot.  We gave each shooter one run on each plate array instead of four runs.  We gave one alibi run to rerun a stage that the shooter had a problem on.  The alibi run traveled with the shooter.  Once he left stage 1 and started stage 2, he could not use the alibi on the previous stage.   Once it was used, he could not get another alibi for any other stages.  Stage 4 is by far the hardest stage with all small plates so a strategy had to be used.  Do you keep a slow run on one of the easier stages to save the spare run for #4 or use it now?  It was a twist on the game and made it more fun.  Shooting 20 plates for one run instead of 80 plates saves the shooter money on ammo expenses for the match.   We also reduced the match fee to $5 per run from $10, again reducing the match costs.  Most of us took several runs but burned less ammo.  It worked out fine and we all had a good match.