submitted by Tommy Steadman
The U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) sent only one team member but he was all that was needed to cream the rest of the field on the way to winning the 2010 Georgia State Championship for NRA conventional smallbore rifle prone. Shooting a match rifle with a receiver of his own design and manufacture, Uptagrafft dropped just one point in two days and posted 1599-139x / 1600-138x / 3199-277x to win both 1600 aggregates, the 3200 grand aggregate and the smallbore rifle prone state championship.
Madison, Alabama’s Bill Hocker (3188-214x) was second and Dennis Lindenbaum, Marietta, GA (3186-215x) was 1st Master. Jimmie Fordham of Boaz, AL (3171-186x) won the combined EX/SS/MK class andMarietta, GA’s Mark Skuttle (3169-173x) was 2nd EX. The team of Bill Hocker and John Davis, Cincinnati, OH, won the 2-man team championship with a score of 400-34x. Cartersville, GA’s Jimmy Holliday (2977-53x) was high junior and is Junior State Champion.
Altogether, nineteen competitors from four states fired under sunny skies and generally good conditions. This was in stark contrast to last year’s conventional state match when it rained all weekend leading to some of the most severe flooding in ever recorded in north Georgia.
The next smallbore rifle prone tournament at River Bend Gun Club is our NRA metric regional championship and metric state championship on October 16-17. For information, please write or call to match director Tommy Steadman at steadmantATcomcast.net or 404-392-7050.
Complete match results can be downloaded here: 2010-ga-conv-state=champ (PDF, 29KB)
