Western Wildcats-Metallic Sight 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.
Author’s Apology: My old friend Wally Lyman once told me that most problems in a rifle match started because the competitors never read the program. I have compounded that sin as a reporter. As a result there were myriad misstatement and errors in my last report which I hope will be cleared up in this penultimate recap of Wildcat heroics. I can only say that my sins were due to my enthusiasm and ignorance, mea culpa mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, and for no other reason. My punishment was an Email inbox stuffed with reminders of the correct order of firing.
Day three of the Wildcats was the second day of metallic sights, as the match alternates iron and any sight competition, and the close of metallic sight competition.
It was a close run thing at the top with High Master Mike Seery emerging the winner of Match #23, the Wildcat Iron Sight 3200 Champion, with a 3197-257X. Eric Uptagrafft was First Master posting a 3197-255X. Matt Chezem also shot a 3197 and his 246Xs placed him second in the High Master class. Justin Tracy, 3196-250X, closed out High Master money winner.
Richard Fowke and Adrian Harris battled it out for Master class honors with Fowke coming out on top with a 3191-223X to Harris’ 3190-215X.
Expert Mike Allen ran away with his class carding a 3196-236X to the runner up Rob Nabower’s 3174-189X,
Hal Abel was top Sharpshooter, 3144-151X, as Any Sight Only competition was tight with Ed Foley slipping past James Gaines 3191-244X to 3190-248X. Jim Murphy topped the F Class with Andrew Cyr and Jack Arnold in trail, 3165-202X, 3154-88X, and 3149-193X.
The final day of competition to have one’s name engraved upon the elusive and missing Henry Benson Memorial Trophy, possibly safely stored away with the original Palma Trophy and the Lost Ark of the Covenant, begins with Chezem enjoying a 4797-397X lead over Reya Kempley, 4795-394X, Uptagrafft, 4795-384, and Mark DelCotto’s 4795-376X.
