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The National Smallbore Rifle Outdoor Metric Three Position Championship–Day Two
The Metric Metallic Sight and Grand Championship
by Hap Rocketto
As the competitors prepped their equipment and marked targets for any sights there was heard a low sound that, but for the fact that the range is a thousand miles from the sea, sounded like waves pounding on a far and distant shore. A sharp eared shooter could just discern that it was not the ocean lapping on the sand but rather a host of optimistic entrants murmuring that old shooter’s manta, “Where there is scope, there is hope.”
The AMU’s Erin McNeil led off the anysight tournament with a match winning 390-17X. Saginaw. Michigan Township teen Jason Spaude, alumni of the NRA YES program, slid into second with a three X lead on Bridges who had a 389-19X. The metallic sight leaders, Lowe, Norton, and Gray were not far behind insuring that the race would be to the finish.
Intermediate Junior Anna Weilbacher stood tall and won standing with a solid 373-10X. Norton and Lowe may have slouched slightly standing as they finished second and third with a 372-9X and a 370-14X respectively. Gray, who struggled prone, fell out of the running for both the day and championship.
With kneeling to go, and with it the daily aggregate-and possible the whole ball of wax, three new comers popped into the winners’ circle shutting out the leaders. Amanda Luoma, an All-American who just graduated from The Ohio State University, blasted out a 390-15X to win the match going away and with it the Any Sight title. Knotted up at 383 were to Connecticut shooters Lisette Grunwell-Lacey, current Conventional Indoor Champion, and Jeff Doerschler. Grunwell-Lacey managed two more Xs than the former 3P National Champion and squeezed into second place.
With the shooting over all that was necessary was to total up scores. Luoma’s hard holding kneeling gave her the anysight win, just a single point ahead of Norton, 1139-37X to 1138-34X. McNeil out Xed Norton for third, 1136-36 verses 1136-29X.
