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.
Day 2 at the Wildcat is an any sight day. Day 3 is the 2nd iron sight day.
Thank you for the “almost real-time” updates on this match! Very interesting!
Ed,
Forgot to read the program before I wrote.
Things will be corrected in the next update.
Hap