Western Wildcats-Day Two and Metallic Aggregate

Western Wildcats-Day Two and Metallic Aggregate

Author’s Note: My thanks to Kevin Nevius and Rick Curtis for providing the match bulletins. I also apologize for the brief report which focuses on the match winners. At the moment time is scarce so I have attached photographs of the match bulletin so the reader may get a full picture of the action.

Shooting a 1600 iron sights is a remarkable accomplishment but you have to scratch your head after such a great performance when you learn you only placed fifth overall.

Such was the case on the second day of the Western Wildcats. Matt Chezem set a torrid pace opening with a 400-39X in the Dewar for the match win. He moved onto 100 yards and nailed down at 400-37X. Tom Allen showed some muscle as he tied Chezem with a 400-38X in the Meter Match and continued his run with a match winning 400-39X at the yard line. At the end of the day Chezem prevailed with a 1600-151X, one X behind the Open National Record and three ahead of the Civilian National Record. Thomas was second on the day with a 144X clean, Steve Goff, Reya Kempley, and Nancy Tompkins also went clean with 139X, 136X, and 128X respectively.

Goff’s first day’s 1599 and a second day 1600 gave him the metallic sight title with a 3199-255X, Chezem put together a 3198-274X for a silver medal performance while 259X 3198 saw Mark Delcotto in third place.

Master Rich Fowke, Grand Senior Ed Foley, James Gaines Unclassified Master, Expert Mike Kelly, Sharpshooter Duane Elms, and F-Class riflemen Jack Arnold all won their classes and categories.

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About Hap Rocketto

Hap Rocketto is a Distinguished Rifleman with service and smallbore rifle, member of The Presidents Hundred, and the National Guard’s Chief’s 50. He is a National Smallbore Record holder, a member of the 1600 Club and the Connecticut Shooters’ Hall Of Fame. He was the 2002 Intermediate Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion, the 2012 Senior Three Position National Smallbore Rifle Champion a member of the 2007 and 2012 National Four Position Indoor Championship team, coach and captain of the US Drew Cup Team, and adjutant of the United States 2009 Roberts and 2013 Pershing Teams. Rocketto is very active in coaching juniors. He is, along with his brother Steve, a cofounder of the Corporal Digby Hand Schützenverein. A historian of the shooting sports, his work appears in Shooting Sports USA, the late Precision Shooting Magazine, The Outdoor Message, the American Rifleman, the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s website, and most recently, the apogee of his literary career, pronematch.com.
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3 Responses to Western Wildcats-Day Two and Metallic Aggregate

  1. Ed Foley says:

    Day 2 at the Wildcat is an any sight day. Day 3 is the 2nd iron sight day.

  2. Rod Scrivner says:

    Thank you for the “almost real-time” updates on this match! Very interesting!

  3. Hap Rocketto says:

    Ed,
    Forgot to read the program before I wrote.
    Things will be corrected in the next update.
    Hap

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