July - Washington State Rifle and Pistol Association

The Official Voice of the Washington State Rifle & Pistol Association
July – Aug 2014
Owen Yeasting Wins Koehler Memorial
Owen Yeasting won this year’s Koehler Memorial Prone 3200 with a score of 3186-236x. The Koehler Memorial Prone 3200 is
held every June at the Tacoma Rifle and Revolver Club’s excellent smallbore range. Levi Clark won the metallic sight match
(Saturday) with a near perfect score of 1599-132x. Keith Matthews won the any-sight match (Sunday) with a score of 1596116x.
The By-Laws of the Washington State Rifle & Pistol Association may be requested by contacting the Secretary.
The Officers of the WSR&PA encourage all members to have a copy of the current By-Laws.
Please refer to the list of Officers for contact information.
(An excerpt from the By-Laws) The purpose and objective of the Association are: to foster and promote the shooting sports in
the State of Washington; to coordinate the programs and activities of the various affiliated rifle, pistol and shotgun clubs of
the State of Washington in cooperation with like associations of other states; to lend support and assist in promoting the
purposes and objectives of the National Rifle Association....
Officers and Directors of the Association
Mailing Address: PO BOX 382, DUPONT, WA 98327
President:
James Croisier
206-853-4657
[email protected]
Vice President:
Brian Keelean
360-943-8091
[email protected]
Secretary:
Alan Carey
206-427-8257
[email protected]
Treasurer:
Tim Dittmer
509-859-3336
[email protected]
Past President:
Ken Littlefield
[email protected]
Membership:
Brian Keelean
360-943-8091
[email protected]
Legislative:
Joe Waldron
[email protected]
:
Megan Van Hover
[email protected]
Junior Smallbore:
Doug Shellenberger
253-846-6767
[email protected]
Smallbore/Air Rifle:
John Crossman
253-588-6516
[email protected]
Highpower Rifle:
Jerry Bentler
206-406-5740
[email protected]
Junior Highpower:
Jerry Bentler
206-406-5740
[email protected]
Conventional Pistol:
Duane Hatch
253-853-7533
[email protected]
F-Class Rifle:
Monte Milanuk
509-662-1982
[email protected]
Directors: Class of 2015
Gary Rasmussen
Rich Vedvick
vacant
vacant
Directors: Class of 2016
Doug Schellenberger
Larry Lang
Joe Matter
vacant
Directors: Class of 2017
David Schmolke
John Crossman
Duane Hatch
vacant
. Pictured (left to right) are Mel Makin, Jon Sellar, and Robert McGowan.
Jon won the regional this year.
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SEP-OCT ‘14 PISTOL COMPETITION SCHEDULE
Conventional Pistol Matches – both indoor and outdoor
Date
Aug 24
Sep 7
Location
KRRC
Cascade
State
WA
WA
Sep 13
Coeur
d’Alene
Paul
Bunyan
ID
Sep 13&14
Sep 20&21
Oct 11&12
Oct 11
Oct 4
Oct 18
TriCounty
Kenmore
Coeur
d’Alene
Cascade
TriCounty
WA
OR
WA
ID
WA
OR
Event
Outdoor 2700
Service Rifle/Pistol
NRA
A
Notes
CMP approved leg matches included. 60
shots with each gun for grand aggregate
winner.
Outdoor 2700
A
Washington State
Outdoor Pistol
Championship
Oregon Regional
Pistol Match
Washington State
Indoor Championship
Outdoor 2700
R
A
Outdoor 2700
Outdoor 2700
A
A
R
R
Outdoor 2700, DR, State Leg and CMP leg
matches. (Either day).
WSRPA membership required.
Outdoor 2700, DR, CMP leg
Match begins at 0800.
1800 point indoor match, aggregate of two
90 shot relays, shot over 1 or 2 days.
OUTDOOR Pistol Leagues
League dates
Sep 4 thru Nov 6
(Thu) 5:00 & 6:00 PM relays
Club
Paul
Bunyan
Pistols
22 only
Notes
Mt Rainier Pistol League.
60 shots, all 25 yards.
Contact and Range Information
Paul Bunyan Rifle & Sportsman’s Club, Larry Lang, [email protected]
17902 Meridian E, Puyallup, WA 98375
Tacoma Rifle & Revolver Club, John Zwosta, [email protected]
8503 Chamber’s Creek Road W, University Place, WA 98467
Kenmore Shooting Range, Scott Lorenz, [email protected]
1031 228th ST SW, Bothell, WA 98021
Kitsap Rifle & Revolver Club (KRRC), Lindell Schmittler, [email protected]
4900 Seabeck Hwy NW, Bremerton, WA 98312
Cascade Shooting Facility, Jerry Bentler, [email protected]
26520 292nd Ave SE, Ravensdale, WA 98051
Coeur d’Alene Rifle and Pistol Club, Roger Swing, [email protected]
6001 N Atlas Rd, Coeur d’Alene, ID, 83815
Tri-County Gun Club, Ralph Smith, [email protected]
13050 SW Tonquin Rd, Sherwood, OR 97140
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Highpower Rifle Regional at Paul Bunyan
by Gary Rasmussen
The annual 41st Division Washington State Regional Championship
was held at the Paul Bunyan Club (Puyallup) on July 4, 5, and 6. This
"Independence Day Weekend" event had been sponsored by the
Washington State Army National Guard via Fort Lewis for many
years, using Range KD22 for a 1000-yard day, an 80-shot Regional
day, and a day for NMC Team and CMP EIC.
Since it has moved to Paul Bunyan Rifle & Sportsman's Club, the first
day is at 600 yards, followed by the 80-shot Regional, and finishing
with the Team and EIC on the third day. The 2014 weekend had good
weather with some cloudiness around the periods of warm sun. As
local residents know, the 4th Weekend can be somewhat wet but this
year we got lucky!
The Dale Weiler Trophy: Marilyn Solis, Brianna
Rachinski, and Bob Wendt.
The Dale Weiler Trophy goes to the top prone shooter on the first day
of competition (31 entries). Junior and USA U-25 shooter Brianna
Rachinski was the match winner, out-pointing some very good prone shooters through the three 20-shot matches. Brianna
had scores of 199-9x, 200-15x and 198-8x for a total of 597-32x. The first two matches are Iron Sight Only but the third
match allows for Any Sight, although Brianna shot Irons in all stages. She won the 1st High Master award in the #1 and
#3 matches and was the Match Winner in #2. Two points behind was Mike Maurer: 198-6x and 197-10x, 200-17x (MW)
and 595-33x (1st HM). Bud Solis shot 595-24x: 199-12x, 199-9x and 197-3x.
New overhead baffles and 200yd firing line as seen from pits
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Dakota Littlefield, another junior shooter, was the top Master class competitor with a
total of 587-23x. She had scores of 195-5x, 198-12x (1st MA) and 194-6x. Phil
Brackenbury shot 584-19x: 196-8x (1st MA), 193-3x and 195-8x. Dusty Taylor, a
junior from Oregon, totaled 582-17x: 195-6x, 191-5x and 196-6x (1st MA). In the
Expert class, Nelson Shew took the top award: 194-3x (1st EX), 190-7x, 187-3x for
571-13x. Carl Haggland was close behind with 189-4x, 192-7x (1st EX) and 179-2x
for 560-13x. Dave Kohlstaedt shot 170-0x, 189-3x and 193-6x (1st EX) for 552-9x.
The Marksman Class was won by Amy Glenn with a total of 554-6x: 185-1x, 187-3x
(1st MK) and 182-2x. Alexandra Cato shot 549-14x: 188-5x (1st MK), 179-5x and
182-4x. Jimmy Horton took 1st MK in Match #3 with 192-3x. In the F Class
competition, Jay Christopherson swept the Open Class awards: 200-7x, 199-9x and
Dakota Littlefield with Match
Director Bob Wendt.
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200-9x for 599-25x. And Charlie Chan almost swept the F/TR Class: 194-5x (MW), 183-3x and 192-6x (MW) for the
winning total of 569-14x. Heather McGuire broke up the sweep by winning Match #2 with 184-4x.
The 80-shot Regional Championship was won by Gary Rasmussen by one
point over Mike Maurer and two points over Rick Cram: 783-28x, 782-24x
and 781-27x. The fired-stage wins were: Mike Maurer in 200-yard Standing
(195-5x), Gary Rasmussen in 200-yard Rapid-Sitting (200-8x) and 300-yard
Rapid-Prone (199-12x), and Michael Schwartz at 600-yard Prone with 1996x. Nelson Shew was 1st High Master with 777-29x and John Benjamin
was 2nd HM with 766-25x.
Eric Sundholm was the Service Rifle winner in the HM class with 780-17x.
Andrew Wiesen was the Master class winner with a total of 772-13x; David
Yarger was second in the class at 771-14x. Dakota Littlefield won the
Expert class over Dusty Taylor: 749-8x to 739-14x (2nd EX). Junior Justin
NRA Gold
Freed won the Service Rifle Sharpshooter class with a total of 725-8x. And
junior Melissa Rauch won the combined Marksman class with 719-3; Heather McGuire was second in the class with 70815x.
The final day began with a 50-shot NMC Team match (four shooters per
team). The Oregon Gold Team was the overall winner with a total of 188938x; shooters were Mike Myers, Carl Haggland, David Yarger and Eric
Sundholm; all shot Service Rifle. The top Match Rifle Team was Paul
Bunyan #1 with 1852-26x; shooters were John Benjamin, Andrew Morgan,
Dave Kohlstaedt and Andrew Traciak. The others teams were: WSRPA
Warriors (Junior) 1807-21x; WSRPA 1775-27x, Paul Bunyan IDK 176222x, and Oregon Ladies 1725-12x.
And the CMP Excellence in
Competition 50-shot NMC finishes out the Regional TournService Rifle HM Winner
ament. The "Leg" match is for
Service Rifles only and no sighting shots are allowed. A shooter who is already
Distinguished is shooting for Gold, Silver or Bronze CMP medals; the other
shooters are trying to accumulate "leg points" to get their Distinguished status.
Eric Sundholm, James Croisier, and Kristin Schwartz took the top three places
for CMP Medals: 485-14x, 480-12x and 480-10x.
Junior Luke Rettmer won 8 points as the top non-D shooter (477-6x) and Todd
Branin won 6 points as the second place non-D. A shooter gets a Bronze medal
NRA Silver
with their first points but then must accumulate 20 points to get the Silver, and to get the Gold medal a shooter must have
at least 30 points and have at least one "hard-to-win leg" (an overall, match-winning 8 or 10 points).
600-yard Prone Winner
NRA Bronze
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Justin Freed
Andrew Wiesen
Melissa Rauch
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June Pistol Championships Have Record Attendance!
by Duane Hatch
June has been “championship month” for pistol shooters for several years. Both the Washington Regional Championship,
hosted by Kitsap Rifle & Revolver Club, and the Governor’s-20 Championship, hosted by Tacoma Rifle & Revolver
Club, are held in June. The nice weather in June is ideal for pistol competition. After last year’s low attendance, this year
had record attendance for both matches, with 35 competitors each. Out of state competitors arrived from Oregon, Idaho,
and Alaska. The winners are listed below. You can find the entire match results posted on the WSRPA website. One of
the highlights of the June championships was that Washington’s first female earned her distinguished pistol shot award.
Beverly Esler became the 18th State Distinguished Pistol Shot at the Governor’s-20 match.
Championship winners:

Regional
Winner
2nd Place
3rd Place
Jon Sellar
Mel Makin
Scott Lorenz
2582-81x
2561-89x
2552-101x

Gov-20
Winner
2nd Place
3rd Place
Jeff Hendrickson
Jon Sellar
Mel Makin
2600-92x
2575-90x
2575-87x
Jon Sellar
John Coulter
277-4x
264-4x
Chris Miceli
Duane Hatch
Bob Gamble
270-4x
265-4x
258-1x
David Gere
Terry Cooke
John Coulter
Beverly Esler
289-7x
278-9x
285-10x
282-4x
The CMP EIC “Leg” match results:


Regional
Gov-20
Winner & 6pts
Winner & 6pts
The distinguished revolver match results:



Regional
Regional
Gov-20
Winner & 8pts
6pts
Winner & 6pts
The Washington State EIC match results:




Regional
Regional
Gov-20
Gov-20
Bronze Medal (22 stage)
Bronze Medal (22 stage)
Silver Medal (CF stage)
Gold Medal (45 stage)
Brian Keelean is focused on a 45 stage slow fire shot at the
regional match.
Viki Hendrickson was pleased with her 45 timed fire target!
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Corinne Blair, Alec Patajo, & West Seattle Win 2014 NRA National Indoor
Championship Titles
by Alan Carey
Summarized below are the top results by Washington shooters for the 2014 NRA National Indoor Championship. These
scores were fired in Sectional matches held in Spokane, Vancouver, West Seattle, and Davenport. Scores from Sectionals
fired across the country are added together and count toward the NRA National Indoor Championship results.
The primary rifle disciplines shot in Washington are international (standing) air rifle, precision (3-position) air rifle,
conventional (4-postion) smallbore rifle, and metric 3-position) smallbore rifle. Matches are divided into junior and open
categories, and individual and team prizes are awarded.
Rifle shooters from Washington compete avidly in the Sectional matches. Several months pass after the Sectional matches
are fired before the National Indoor Championship match results are tabulated and posted. Washington shooters had a
great year this year, highlighted by 3 individual and 3 team national championship titles.
Corinne Blair won the national junior championship for the precision air rifle with a score of 593x600, followed by fellow
West Seattle Thunderbirds – Totems teammates Sierra Avril and Alec Patajo for 2nd and 3rd place. Casey Iwamoto
rounded out the West Seattle team which also won the junior team nation championship team.
West Seattle’s strong performance in junior precision air rifle also carried over into the open precision air rifle match.
Here, Alec Patajo won the individual national championship with a score of 592x600 and the same team (Patajo, Blair,
Avril, and Iwamoto) won the open team championship.
The West Seattle Totems – Thunderbirds (Alec Patajo, Owen Yeasting, Corinne Blair, and Casey Iwamoto) also won the
national junior championship for conventional smallbore rifle with a very strong score of 1580-88 x. This is the 3rd year in
a row that West Seattle has won this national championship.
And finally, Alec Patajo won the open metric position smallbore rifle national championship with a score of 1156x1200.
Junior NRA Metric Position Smallbore Rifle – Individual (3x20)
Award
Name
City
3rd Place
Alec Patajo
Puyallup
1st Intermediate Junior
Corinne Blair
Vashon
7th Sub-Junior
Casper Schadler
Vancouver
Junior NRA Metric Position Smallbore Rifle – Team (4-Person)
1 Intermediate Junior
West Seattle TotemsSeattle
Thunderbirds
st
Junior Conventional Smallbore Rifle - Individual (4-Position, 4x10)
3rd Place
Alec Patajo
Puyallup
rd
3 Intermediate Junior
Owen Yeasting
Seattle
4th Intermediate Junior
Jaelyn McMahan
Puyallup
4th Sub-Junior
Vic Yeasting
Seattle
Junior Conventional Smallbore Rifle – Team (4-Person)
West Seattle Totems Seattle
National Champion
Thunderbirds
1st Intermediate Junior
West Seattle Totems - Chiefs
Seattle
Junior International Air Rifle - Individual (40 Shots Standing)
2nd Sub-Junior
Alec Patajo
Puyallup
Score
575
571
545
2248
398-27x
397-21x
395-29x
382-17x
1580-88x
1562-91x
385
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Junior International Air Rifle – Team (3 Person)
3rd Place Intermediate Junior
West Seattle Totems Seattle
Thunderbirds
7th Place Intermediate Junior
West Seattle Totems- Chiefs
Seattle
Junior Precision Position Air Rifle – Individual (3x20)
Corinne Blair
Vashon
National Champion
nd
2 Place
Sierra Avril
Port Orchard
3rd Place
Alec Patajo
Puyallup
7th Junior
Kenzi Taylor
Tumwater
2nd Intermediate Junior
Emily Stith
Poulsbo
3rd Intermediate Junior
Casey Iwamoto
Seattle
5th Sub-Junior
Tanner Venturi
Vashon
6th Sub-Junior
Casper Schadler
Vancouver
Junior Precision Position Air Rifle – Team (4-Person)
West Seattle Totems Seattle
National Champion
Thunderbirds
3rd Junior
Capitol City Gold
Olympia
3rd Intermediate Junior
West Seattle Totems-Chiefs
Seattle
Open Position Conventional Smallbore Rifle – Individual (4x20)
6 Expert
Owen Yeasting
Seattle
4th Sharpshooter
Alec Patajo
Puyallup
4th Marksman
Sierra Avril
Port Orchard
th
Open Position Conventional Smallbore Rifle Team (4-Person)
2nd Master/Expert
West Seattle Totems Seattle
Thunderbirds
3rd Junior
Capitol City Gold
Olympia
rd
3 Intermediate Junior
West Seattle Totems-Chiefs
Seattle
Open International Air Rifle - Individual (60 Shots Standing)
4th Expert
Alec Patajo
Puyallup
th
7 Expert
Corinne Blair
Vashon
2nd Sharpshooter
Katelynn Bacon
Ellensburg
4th Sharpshooter
Casey Iwamoto
Seattle
th
9 Sharpshooter
Gerald Schadler
Vancouver
10th Marksman
Sierra Avril
Port Orchard
Open International Air Rifle – Team (3-Person)
1 Master
West Seattle Totems Seattle
Thunderbirds
2nd Sharpshooter
West Seattle Totems- Chiefs
Seattle
st
Open Precision Position Air Rifle – Individual (3x20)
Alec Patajo
Puyallup
National Champion
3rd Place
Corinne Blair
Vashon
2nd Master
Karlee Weninger
Silverdale
2nd Expert
Emily Stith
Poulsbo
2nd Sharpshooter
Casey Iwamoto
Seattle
1st Marksman
Sierra Avril
Port Orchard
5th Marksman
Katelynn Bacon
Ellensburg
1147
1129
593
592
592
583
587
586
575
568
2363
2309
2304
785-48x
785-54x
779-34x
1563-91x
2309
2304
573
570
570
566
559
555
1698
1696
592
588
575
584
575
579
566
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Open Precision Position Air Rifle – Team (3-Person)
West Seattle Totems Seattle
National Champion
Thunderbirds
2333
Open International Metric Position Smallbore Rifle - Individual (3-Position, 3x40)
Alec Patajo
Puyallup
1156
National Champion
8th Expert
Corinne Blair
Vashon
1130
th
8 Sharpshooter
Casey Iwamoto
Seattle
1115
3rd Marksman
Jack Ellis
Seattle
1104
4th Marksman
Katelynn Bacon
Ellensburg
1103
Open International Metric Position Smallbore Rifle – Team (4-Person)
2nd Place
West Seattle Totems Seattle
Thunderbirds
Open Metric Position Smallbore Rifle – Individual (3x40)
5th Sharpshooter
Gerald Schadler
Vancouver
Open International Position Smallbore Rifle – Team (4-Person)
2 Place
Vancouver Golden Eagles
Vancouver
nd
4512
1118
4419
Shooters compete in the junior international air rifle sectional match at West Seattle.
Their results also count toward the NRA National Indoor Championship.
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Washington Shooters Perform Well at National Championships; Furrer &
Phillips Earn Spots on World Cup Rifle Team
by Alan Carey
The 2014 USA Shooting National Championships were held at Fort Benning, Georgia from
June 23 to June 29. USA Shooting is the national governing body for Olympic shooting
sports.
The World Cup in shooting is held every 4 years, this year it will be held in Granada, Spain.
This years’ USA Shooting National Championship served as a selection match for some spots
on the World Cup, in addition to its normal function of selecting national champions.
Several rifle shooters from Washington had excellent performances in the National
Championships. Rifle disciplines include international (standing only) air rifle, and 50 meter
(smallbore) prone and 3-position rifle, and 300 meter prone and 3-position rifle.
Dan Lowe (Olympia) started off by placing 3rd in 50 meter 3position rifle. Dan shot an aggregate of 2326 x 2400 (over two
Amanda Furrer
days) to capture a place in the 8-person final. Dan then finished 2nd
in the final, giving him an additional 7 points added to his aggregate score. Dan is now
shooting with the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit.
Dan Lowe
Next up was women’s prone rifle, an event which in not fired in the Olympics but is part of
the World Championships. 2012 Olympian Amanda Furrer (Spokane) finished in 3 rd place.
The women’s prone rifle championship consists of two 60 shot matches, scored in the decimal
system where a perfect shot is a 10.9. Amanda shot strings of 621.7 and 618.6 for an aggregate
of 1240.3 x 1380.0. This score tied her with Reya Kempley for 2nd/3rd place, and Amanda was
awarded 3rd place by a tie-breaking procedure (inner tens). Lauren Phillips (Seabeck) finished
in 1st A Class with a score of 1231.6.
On the men’s side, Dan Lowe and Eric Uptagrafft (Spokane-going way back) finished in 2nd
and 3rd place, respectively, in men’s 50-meter prone rifle. The matches are scored the same
with two 60 shot matches scored in the decimal system. The men’s prone match includes a
knockout final with the top 8 shooters. Dan finished 4th in the final (5 points added to his
score) for 2nd place overall, but Eric won the final, boosting lifting himself into 3rd place.
In men’s air rifle, Dan Lowe finished in 3rd place. The men’s air rifle championship consists of
two 60 shot matches, scored in the decimal system where a perfect shot is 10.9. Dan shot
strings of 619.2 and 621.8, making it to the 8 person knockout final. Dan finished 2 nd in the
final, securing the 3rd place medal.
Amanda Furrer and Lauren Phillips continued their strong performances in women’s 50 meter
3-position rifle. Amanda fired strings of 579 (x600) and 582 to make the 8-person final, and
then place 3rd in the final, winning the silver medal.
Eric Uptagrafft
Lauren, who was shooting for the junior women’s championship as well, shot strongly with
two strings of 577. To determine the junior women’s 3-position national champion, these
scores were combined with the results of the junior Olympics. Lauren was awarded with the
junior women’s 3-positon smallbore rifle national championship based on the strength of her
performances at both the junior Olympics and this national championship match.
The following Washington shooters qualified for the World Cup rifle team traveling to
Granada, Spain, September 6 - 20:
Amanda Furrer: Women’s 50 meter 3-position rifle and 50 meter prone rifle.
Lauren Phillips: Junior women’s 50 meter 3-position rifle and 50 meter prone rifle.
Eric Uptagrafft: Men’s 300 meter prone rifle.
Lauren Phillips
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The Washington Long Range Championship at Rattlesnake
by Gary Rasmussen
Setting up on the 1000-yard firing line.
The mid-June LR Championship has been an F Class State Championship (Open and TR) for a couple of years but this
year was "opened" to the sling shooters. As an LR match, the allowable equipment was Any Rifle (not restricted to Palma
or Match or Service Rifle), but were limited to specific types of sight, either Any Sight (usually for Scope) or Iron Sights
only. The course of fire was five strings of 20 shots over two days, June 21 and 22, at the Rattlesnake Mountain Shooting
Facility, near Benton City (north of Richland).
Conditions at the tournament were rather benign for the greater Richland area. This time of year temperatures approaching
100 would not be unusual, but we got lucky and had days in the low 80s. The wind conditions were lighter than in the
Palma Championship in May but that actually made the shooting conditions WORSE: the light winds shifted fast and
often, and those shooting the "less capable ballistic" calibers were struggling. The F Class Open shooters tried to put a
good distance between themselves and the F/TR guys but the "lighter" category held tough. In the sling category (prone
shooters) the leaders gap increased or decreased as the relays progressed. The competition was excellent in both
categories.
There were a total of 34 shooters present: 22 in F Class (9 Open and 13 TR) and 12 in Prone (4 using Any Rifle and 8
with Palma). The F Class Open category allows a rifle up to 22 pounds in weight, including scope, and the use of a "joystick" tripod, and just about any caliber that doesn't require a muzzle brake for the shooter to survive the shot experience.
The TR category restricts caliber to .308 or .223, there must be an attached bipod, and the entire rifle with scope and
bipod cannot weigh more than 18 pounds. An NRA Any Rifle is similar to the F Class Open, although it is shot from the
slinged prone position, and there can be restrictions on sights. For instance: the 2014 State Championship designated
Match #1 and Match #4 as Any Sight but Match #2, #3 and #5 was limited to Iron Sights. The Palma Rifle, of course, is
either .308 or .223 and is always Iron Sights. A Match Rifle is similar to an Any Rifle but it must have a magazine
capacity of at least 5 rounds, which does restrict available calibers a bit (.22 to .338 is allowed). And Service Rifle, of
course, is the usual M1 Garand, M14/M1A and M16/AR15, but no one entered the tournament with that category of rifle.
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Rattlesnake sunshine and "black" targets.
Match #1 began Saturday morning with some hints at what everyone could expect from sunlight and wind through the
weekend. Without a cloud cover of some kind to soften the rays, the hard summer sun caused the targets to appear to be in
shadow, making the target a difficult image for iron sights. The wind was constantly changing, too, even that in the
morning, so the iron sight shooters were under a double-whammy situation! Steve Zock was the only High Master F Class
shooter entered so he was going for overall winds in every match. There were 9 Unclassified shooters gathered into a
nominal "Master" class. The Experts and Sharpshooters were combined into a single class. And the Marksman class had 7
total shooters entered. Tod Hendricks (Open) won the match with 188-6x while Ted Anstensen (Open) was 1st Master
with 187-2x and Ron Sanders (Open) was 2nd MA with 176-2x. Keith Glasscock (Open) was the Expert winner with 1863x and Heather McGuire (TR) was the top Marksman shooter with 173-1x.
Steve Zock (Open) won Match #2 with 191-1x while Tod Hendricks was 1st MA at 187-3x and Ted Anstensen was 2nd
MA at 180-4x. Keith Glasscock repeated as the Expert class winner with 178-4x and Bill Brown (Open) won Marksman
with 180-1x. Ted Anstensen won Match #3 with 191-7x while Tod Hendricks was 1st MA with 187-3x and Monte
Milanuk (TR) was 2nd MA with 176-1x. Steve Zock rebounded with another match win in #4 with 195-6x and Tod
Hendricks was 1st MA with 193-4x. Either the winds were starting to cooperate or the shooters were getting really good at
reading the changes! The Expert shooters were realigned into the Master class on Sunday as a couple shooters dropped
out, so Keith Glasscock took the 2nd MA award with 192-5x. Michael McIntyre (Open) was 1st Sharpshooter at 191-3x
and Roger McRoberts (TR) was 2nd SS with 185-2x. The top Marksman shooter was Bill Brown at 183-2x. The finalstring Match #4 was won by Keith Glasscock with 188-1x. Tod Hendricks continued his winning ways by taking 1st MA
with 187-2x and Praveen Kumar (TR) was 2nd MA with 182-3x. Jeff Hogan (TR) was 1st SS with 18706x and Roger
McRoberts was 2nd SS with 181-2x. Bill Brown was again the top Marksman shooter with 181-2x.
Steve Zock repeated (I think this may be his third title?) as the State F Class LR Champion with an aggregate of 946-16x,
but Tod Hendricks was very close and 1st MA with 942-18x. Ted Anstensen was 2nd MA with 916-18x and Monte
Milanuk was the High TR shooter with 889-11x. Keith Glasscock was the top Expert Class shooter with a top-tierchallenging 935-17x, and Michael McIntyre was the High Senior with 881-11x. Bill Brown won the Marksman class with
898-11x.
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The F Class Champion
F Class Target Rifle Champion
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In the Prone category competition, Gary Rasmussen (Any Rifle) won Matches 1 and 2 with scores of 197-9x and 197-6x.
Michael Maurer (Any Rifle) was 1st High Master in the two matches with 193-8x and 190-4x. John Julian (Any Rifle)
was the Master class winner with 186-4x in Match 1 while Luke Rettmer (Palma) was 1st MA in Match 2 with 175-3x.
Mike Maurer won Match 3 with 193-6x while Gary Rasmussen was 1st HM with 193-4x and John Julian was 1st MA
with 187-8x. On Sunday, Gary Rasmussen repeated as Match Winner in the Any Sight match (#3) with 197-12x and Mike
Maurer took 1st HM with 195-13x. John Julian repeated as 1st MA with 193-5x. The final Match #4 was won by Anette
Wachter (Palma) with 191-7x while Gary Rasmussen was 1st HM with 191-4x. Pam Coombs (Any Rifle) was the 1st MA
winner 189-6x.
Gary Rasmussen was the Prone State LR Champion with a total of 975-35x. Mike Maurer was High Senior with 951-35x
and James Obermeyer (Palma) was 1st HM with 924-25x. John Julian almost swept the Master class stage awards and
finished with 923-23x to win the overall class award.
Match Director John Hauptmann and Prone Champion
The WSRPA LR Distinguished competition had one "leg" in the three categories, each person winning 6 points (the first
points won by a shooter receives a Bronze medal, an accumulation of 20 points wins a Silver medal, and when 30 points
is attained the final Gold medal is awarded): F Open to Steve Zock, F Target Rifle to Keith Ague, and Prone to Gary
Rasmussen. The competition was based on the sum of Matches 2 and 3 and the number of WSRPA-member entries (6=1
leg, 16=2 legs, 26=3 legs, etc). The final Distinguished match in 2014 will be the Regional Championship in October at
the 'Snake.
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