Shooter Spotlight: Shawn Wells

Posted on May 25, 2010 by H

The purpose of the “Shooter Spotlight” is to help shooters get to know their fellow competitors a little bit better. We cover a wide range of shooters from “Marksman to Master.” This is the 40th interview in the series.

Shawn Wells

Where to you call home?
Eustis, FL  (about an hour north of Orlando)

How long have you been shooting?
I have been shooting competition for 26 years.

How did you get involved in shooting competitively?
When I joined the Dade County Jr. Rifle Club in Miami in 1984.

What is a little known fact about yourself that your fellow competitors might not know?
Prior to being involved in shooting I won 3 golf tournaments in the junior ranks when I was between 8 and 12 years old.

What do you consider your finest shooting achievement.
That’s a hard question. There are several with various reasons attached each, but I’ll keep it short.  The first and biggest I would say was being Mens Air Rifle National Champion in 1996.  I was also Bronze Medalist in Mens Prone at the North American Championships in 1996 (My first medal won in world level competition).  Bronze Medalist in Mens 3×40, and Mens Air Rifle at the 1997 U.S. National Championships. And I would also have to include being a 2 time All-American for JSU in Smallbore in 92′ and 93′, and being a member of 6 World Cup Teams while on the U.S. Team.  I was also a resident athlete at the Olympic Training Center from 1994-2000.  Have a goal, make a training plan with steps to achieve (smaller goals) that lead to that goal, and train hard. Sounds simple but, doing that put me in a position to obtain most of the goals I set for myself in the sport.

What is your favorite pre-match meal?
Eggs and wheat toast, or cereal and milk.  I usually like to keep it light.

What is your favorite post match drink?
A big sweet ice tea

Do you have a favorite shooting range?
My favorite was Prado Tiro in Calif. before it closed, next to that is Ft Benning’s ranges. My favorites in college were JSU, and Murray State. And overseas I would have to say Munich Germany, and Hiroshima Japan.

Do you have any short term and/or long term goals?
My goal now is to finish up my Distingushed Rifleman Badge in 3 Position and Prone. I only need one leg in each to complete them both .  Long term I would like to get back on the podium at the USAS Nationals one more time, but thats a very hard challenge to myself with limited training time and my age catching up lolol.  I would love; however, to go back to Camp Perry and finish in the top 3 in either 3 position or prone, or both.

What shooting skill are currently focusing your energy on?
Currently I have been working on my prone position. I have had some inconsistancy with it here lately and I am trying to get it solved.  I am also working on getting my standing and kneeling results up just a little more before this summer. Overall I feel good though, considering the limited practice time I get these days.

Thanks Shawn for sharing a little bit about yourself with the pronematch.com community!

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2010 ISSF World Cup Fort Benning-Schedule

Posted on May 24, 2010 by H

SATURDAY 22.05 Arrival of Delegations

SUNDAY 23.05 16:00 Technical Meeting

17:00 Opening Ceremony

09:00-16:00 Equipment Control

09:00-16:45 Official Training

MONDAY 24.05 09:00-10:45 10m Air Rifle Men

12:00 Final 10m Air Rifle Men

13:00-14:15 10m Air Pistol Women

15:30 Final 10m Air Pistol Women

17:30-19:15 10m Air Rifle Men – MQS only

TUESDAY 25.05 09:00-10:45 10m Air Pistol Men

12:00 Final 10m Air Pistol Men

12:45-14:30 10m Air Pistol Men – MQS only

WEDNESDAY 26.05 10:45-12:00 10m Air Rifle Women Relay 2

09:00-10:15 10m Air Rifle Women Relay 1

09:00-12:20 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men – MQS only

13:15 Final 10m Air Rifle Women

THURSDAY 27.05 09:00-12:00 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Stage 1

09:00-12:20 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men

13:30 Final 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men

FRIDAY 28.05 09:00-11:15 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women

12:00-15:00 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Stage 2

12:30 Final 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women

16:15 Final 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men

SATURDAY 29.05 09:00-11:30 25m Pistol Women Precision Stage

12:30-14:30 25m Pistol Women Rapid Fire Stage

11:00-12:15 50m Rifle Prone Men Elimination 1

12:45-14:00 50m Rifle Prone Men Elimination 2

15:45 Final 25m Pistol Women

SUNDAY 30.05 09:00-10:15 50m Rifle Prone Men

12:30-14:30 50m Pistol Men

11:30 Final 50m Rifle Prone Men

15:30 Final 50m Pistol Men

MONDAY 31.05 Departure of Delegations

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2010 World Cup-Fort Benning, GA-Men’s Air Rifle Results

Posted on May 24, 2010 by H

2010 World Cup/Fort Benning, GA-Men’s Air Rifle Results

Men’s Air Rifle Results can be viewed on the ISSF website here

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NRA National Metric Championships Host Hotel

Posted on May 24, 2010 by H

NRA National Metric Championships Host Hotel

For competitors participating in the inaugural NRA National Metric Championships at Bristol, Indiana, Position, July 16-18, and Prone, July 19-21, the Jameson Inn, 3010 Brittany Court, Elkhart, IN 46514 574-264-7222  has been named as the host hotel.  Special rates for competitors who identify themselves as part of the National Metric Championship are available at $59.99 plus tax per night for a double. This is $20 per night less than their regular rate.

The hotel carries an Expedia 2.5 Star rating on a scale of one to five. Expedia explains that, “This classification contains limited-service properties (often all-suite economy properties in North America) offering upgraded quality and expanded comfort, without the amenities of full-service hotels such as a restaurant or bell staff. An expanded Continental breakfast, including hot items, is often served in a breakfast room.”

The Jameson Inn website states that, “guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast with Belgian waffles, an internet computer kiosk in the lobby, complimentary weekday newspaper, an on-site fitness center, and a sparkling swimming pool. All of our spacious rooms include comfortable Dreamium pillowtop beds, work area with free wireless internet access, microwave, refrigerator, 25” television with cable or satellite TV and a premium movie channel, iron and ironing board, coffee maker, hairdryer, free local calls, and alarm clock radio.”

The hotel is about 12 miles west, a 20 minute drive, of the range.

Website: http://www.jamesoninns.com/Hotel_Detail.asp?pHotelID=SJ1336

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GA: 2010 USA Shooting Spring Selection Match

Posted on May 20, 2010 by H

Matt Emmons wins both the prone and 3P events at the Spring Selection Match. ©2010 ISSF | Photo: Marco Dalla Dea. Photo permission granted by Wolfgang Schreiber

The events have wrapped up at the 2010 USA Shooting Spring Selection Match in Fort Benning Georgia. You can download the complete match results here: 2010-ga-spring-selection-results (Excel, 147KB)

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A Shooting Theory that won’t Bohr You

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Hap Rocketto

by Hap Rocketto

Niels Bohr, 1935

In another life I was a high school science teacher and my favorite subject was physics. I was pretty good at teaching mechanics and heat but less successful at explaining things in the less easily observable world of light, sound, and atomic theory. In an attempt to do this I often tried, occasionally succeeding, to relate things to the observable world.

As background it is important to know that through the years the concept of how an atom is constructed has changed. The Greek philosopher Democritus initially surmised that things could not be divided ad infinitum because if they did then everything would be made up of the same substance, there had to be a small part that distinguished one type of matter from another. J.J. Thompson proved this when he discovered the electron, a smaller part of the atom, a few millennia after Democtitus first made his suggestion. On the heels of Thompson’s research Ernest Rutherford theorized that electrons were uniformly distributed in the atom.

The Danish physicist Niels Bohr, a student of both Thompson and Rutherford, theorized in 1925 that electrons circled the nucleus of the atom in much the same way that planets orbit the Sun, although the electrons are in different planes. The work was so important that, to this day, a sketch of the orbital model is used as the universal symbol of atomic energy. Bohr’s work, which won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922, was instrumental to the development of the current atomic theory of quantum mechanics.

George Gamow, a Russian-born American physicist whose theory titled “Space – the Big Ball of Fire” has come to be popularly known as the “Big Bang Theory” was a colleague of Bohr’s and relates this anecdote about the depth of the mind of the Danish Nobel laureate.

“The evening work in the Institute’s library was often interrupted by Bohr, who would say that he was very tired and would like to go to the movies. The only movies he liked were wild Westerns, and he always needed a couple of his students to go with him and explain the complicated plots involving hostile Indians, brave cowboys, and desperados, sheriffs, bar maidens, gold-diggers, and other characters of the Old West.

His theoretical mind showed even in these movie expeditions. He developed a theory to explain why although the villain always draws first, the hero is faster and manages to kill him. This Bohr theory was based on psychology. Since the hero never shoots first, the villain has to decide when to draw, which impedes his action. The hero, on the other hand, acts according to a conditioned reflex and grabs the gun automatically as soon as he sees the villain’s hand move. We disagreed with this theory, and the next day I went to a toy store and bought two guns in Western holders. We shot it out with Bohr, he playing the hero, and he ‘killed’ all his students.”

If I let my imagination run free I can see the standoff. The middle aged physicist facing his post doctoral research assistant, Mattel six guns slung low, white lab coats reminding me of linen cattle dusters, two men facing each other in an imagined western main street made up of lab tables cluttered with retorts, oscilloscopes, and ring stands. The old man’s hand hovers above the white plastic grip of the six-shooter while his eyes stare unblinking at the twitching hand of the junior scientist.

Much like the terrified town folks in any Saturday matinee movie oat burner of the 40s or 50s the rest of the lab staff looks on, peering behind the perceived safety of raised clipboards, index fingers poised over stopwatch buttons, and pens raised to record data. In a flash the post-doc moves, the old man responds, lab assistant index fingers spasm twice-starting and stopping the timepieces, and pens scratch numbers on graph paper. Good science requires that the experiment be repeated until an adequate data base is built. After numerous replications the staff retires to lab stools, studies the data, and concludes, based on empirical data, that a second Bohr’s Model is ready for release to scholarly journals.

What Bohr addresses, for the interest of the shooter, is the simple fact that much of the success of shooting is developing a conditioned reflex. Once you have the mechanics down and have fired enough good shots to condition your trigger finger to move when the sight picture is that of an X then you will find that good shots just seem to happen.

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GA: 41st Dixieland Regional Results

Posted on May 18, 2010 by H

submitted by Tommy Steadman

The 41st Dixieland Regional Championship was contested on Saturday and Sunday, May 15 and 16, at River Bend Gun Club in Dawsonville, GA.    Twenty-three competitors entered including 4 Masters, 12 Experts, 4 Sharpshooters and 3 Marksmen.  The field included 12 Seniors and 1 Grand Senior — Gus Giometti — who recently celebrated his 88th birthday.

The threat of rain and isolated thunderstorms never materialized during the competition and the conditions were generally good to excellent.  Winds on both days ranged from calm at 8AM to afternoon winds 7MPH from the southwest.  Temperatures reached mid-80s and were on the warm side but the biggest problem was that it was mostly overcast during Sunday’s any sight 1600 making the mirage difficult and often impossible to see.

Charlie Kemp, Mobile, AL, won his second Dixieland Regional in the last four attempts (he also won in 2007).  Charlie fired a 1600-122x in the Any Sight Championship to post an outstanding 3199-239x.

Madison Alabama’s Bill Hocker, 3192-229x, took the silver medal and the bronze went to River Bend Gun Club’s own Wayne Forshee, 3192-210x.  Wayne also earned a Smallbore Distinguished step (Charlie and Bill are already Smallbore Prone Distinguished).

The class winners were:

1st Master   Dennis Lindenbaum     3189-222x
1st Expert    Vince Greiner            3187-207x
2nd Expert   Fred Scharpenberg    3183-204x
1st SS/MK    Cor Vanderbeek        3079- 94x

Fifteen competitors entered Saturday afternoon’s “Odd-Ball” team match in which teams were assigned by the statistical office based on the competitors’ metallic sight Dewar scores.  The winner was the team of Bill Hocker and Tom Suswal, 399-29x and the runner-up was the team of Mark Skutle and junior Michael Matthews, 399-26x.

Three teams entered Sunday morning’s 2-man team any sight Dewar match which was won by the Black Hawk Rifle Club team of Charlie Kemp and Tommy Steadman, 799-64x, just one-X better than the runner-up Richards Associates team of Wayne Forshee and Vince Greiner, 799-63x.

Complete results can be downloaded here: 2010-ga-Dixieland Regional-Results (PDF, 12KB)

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CT: President’s Match 1600 Results

Posted on May 18, 2010 by H

The 2010 President’s Match was held May 16th at Blue Trail Range in Connecticut. You can download the complete results here: 2010-ct-Presidents-Match (Excel, 336KB)

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Shooter Spotlight: Kelly Rosales

Posted on May 18, 2010 by H

The purpose of the “Shooter Spotlight” is to help shooters get to know their fellow competitors a little bit better. We cover a wide range of shooters from “Marksman to Master.” This is the 39th interview in the series.

Kelly Rosales

Where do you call home?
Ashland, Massachusetts.

How long have you been shooting?
Well, I shot on club teams from 2007-2009. Last year I was introduced to competitive shooting.

How did you get involved in shooting competitively?
4 years ago I attended the Mass Junior Conservation Camp and signed up to take “Small Bore Rifle”, stupid me thought it was “shooting small boar” (blonde moment). Mr. Mike Yacino was the instructor and helped me get into the sport after camp. After finding a club team to shoot on and doing well, I was asked to join the Mass State Team where I started shooting in competitions.

What is a little known fact about yourself that your fellow competitors might not know?
Well…I’m pretty talkative so there’s not much mystery to me, but I’m a wicked science nerd. I’m hoping to be a pathologist or epidemiologist after college.

What do you consider your finest shooting achievement?
Beating Dan and Erik in a Prone Match! Kidding, kidding :). No, my finest shooting achievement is when I came in 2nd out of 70 shooters in a Dewar match at Camp Perry last summer.

What is your favorite pre-match meal?
It used to be one or two…or three doughnuts, but I’m not allowed to eat stuff like that anymore. Now its just a plain bagel or bar, fun.

What is your favorite post match drink?
A Chill Zone from Cumby’s is pretty nice after a long match.

Do you have a favorite shooting range?
I got to say Camp Perry. I love the challenge of wind, mirage, heat, and the occasional tornado. My favorite range in Mass though is the indoor range at Taunton. I love the carpet and waterfall-thing!

Do you have any short term and/or long term goals?
For short-term goals I’m working on stabilizing my kneeling position and getting a shooting rhythm down. My long term goals include doing well on the Ole Miss Rifle Team and getting an invite the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center this winter.

What shooting skill are you currently focusing your energy on?
As of now I’m focusing 90% of my energy on the mental aspects of shooting. Positive thinking and working on goals is a lot harder than I expected, but I have a wicked awesome coach, Rick Johnson to teach me!

Thanks Kelly for sharing a little bit about yourself with the pronematch.com community!

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MA: Team Day Challenge Results

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Rick Johnson

Team Day Challenge. Photo by Steve Rocketto

The Team Day Challenge was held at Harvard Sportsmen’s in Massachusetts this past weekend. This was a team-only event and was broken into a prone and 3-position match. A more complete writeup will follow, but in the meantime, complete results can be viewed here: 2010-ma-team-day-challenge-results (PDF, 29KB)

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CT: Camp Perry Warm Up, July 10-11

Posted on May 17, 2010 by H

Stratford P.A.L. Junior Rifle Club will be hosting the 2010 Camp Perry Warm Up Metric 2400 Regional on July 10-11 at Bell City Rifle Club in Southington Connecticut. You can download the match program here: 2010-ct-perry-warm-up-program

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GA: Spring Selection/World Team Trial

Posted on May 16, 2010 by H

The Spring Selection/World Team Trial is currently under way at Ft Benning. You can view the results thus far here:

http://www.usashooting.org/downloads/RESULTS%20SP%20SEL%202010.xls (Excel, 246KB)

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Photo of the Week

Posted on May 14, 2010 by H

Each Friday we publish a shooting related photograph we find interesting, amusing, compelling, or maybe a combination of all three. Some photos are old, some are new, but all of them tell story.

Art Jackson: Camp Perry 1975. Jackson, Olympic medalist and World Champion, served as the Adjutant of the 1975 Dewar Team. Thirty five years earlier, in his first trip to Perry shooting smallbore, he set a record when he became the first person to shoot back to back 400s in the Dewar tryouts.

If you’d like to learn more about Art Jackson, you can read Hap Rocketto’s biography of Art Jackson here.

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5/13/10 HPM

Posted on May 13, 2010 by H

We finally had calmer winds at this week’s HPM. George Pantazelos took top honors for the second week in in a row with a 400-31x. Second place went to Raph Copley with a 399-20x and third went to Joe Graf with a 398-31x. Complete results can be viewed here. If you’d like to learn more about the Hopkinton Prone matches you can look here.

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NC: Black Hawk Open, May 29-31st

Posted on May 13, 2010 by H

The Black Hawk Open is a series of Smallbore Rifle Matches sponsored by the Black Hawk Rifle Club and Hosted by the Asheville Rifle & Pistol Club at their range in Asheville, North Carolina. The matches are open to all Black Hawk members, members of the National Rifle Association of America and other interested smallbore shooters. You can download the match program here: 2010-NC-Blackhawk-Open-Program (PDF, 246KB)

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The Art of Shooting

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Hap Rocketto

The Art of Shooting
by Hap Rocketto

The Elusive Art Jackson and Me
As a young lad in the early 1950s I became interested in rifle shooting when my brother Steve was a member of the New London High School Rifle Team. Our father had done some shooting in his youth and passed the interest on to us. From time to time Steve would bring home things that only served to stoke the fires of my curiosity. An empty dark green pasteboard box that once held Director Of Civilian Marksmanship issued Remington Kleenbore, a few expended cartridge cases, or a tattered target were like trash to some, but to me they were the wonders of Aladdin’s cave. The real treasure was the tattered copies of The American Rifleman Magazine that Coach George Gregory would allow members to check out for a few days.

Want to read more? Download the entire article in PDF format:
 The Art of Shooting (PDF, 594KB)

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A Short History of the Presidents Hundred

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Hap Rocketto

The President‟s Rifle Trophy, purchased by the NBPRP in 1977, consists of a disk of black New England slate mounted on a hardwood base. The Presidential Seal is carved on the disk and gilded.

by Hap Rocketto

As the sun slants in from three o’clock and glints off of the brass cartridge cases as they click into the magazine the shooter, readying for the President‟s Match, is not thinking about history. Yet history is all about at Camp Perry and if one ignores it one ignores the very essence of the sport. To understand why the President‟s Match Trophy, and by extension, the Presidents Hundred, has such a special aura in a trophy room full of venerated shooting icons it is only necessary to let your mind travel 4,000 miles east and nearly 150 years back in time.

Want to read more? Download the entire article in PDF format:
A-Short-History-of-the-Presidents-Hundred (PDF, 664KB)

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2010 RI Smallbore League Results

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Joe Graf
Varnum Rifle Team – 2010 League Champions

by Joe Graf

The Varnum Memorial Armory was the site of RI Smallbore Rifle League’s 2010 awards banquet. Attendees were able to tour the museum containing military firearms, uniforms, equipment, and artifacts from the 16th century to the present before enjoying their dinner.

This is the second year the league used a handicap system to calculate team scores. The handicap system provides bonus points for competitors who fire a score above their current average. Implemented to recruit new shooters, a new shooter can quickly improve the team score as they will regularly be shooting above their rolling average. However, the handicap system also rewards large teams.

The first award of the evening was the league’s Team Championship award, presented to the Varnum Rifle Team for record of 15-6. This ended Smithfield Sportman’s Club ten-year run as Team Champions. Next we moved to the individual awards, starting with the award for the highest overall average. Typically won by someone shooting with a scope, this year it was won by Kim Chrostowski using iron sights. Shooting for South County Rod & Gun Club, she ended the season firing a 289.67 average.

The High Open Sights (scope) award went to Erik Hoskins, representing Smithfield Sportsman’s Club, who fired a 287.68 average, while Ed Jaques from Cumberland Beagle Club had an average of 263.00. This earned him the High Senior (over 60 years of age) award.

In the classification awards, the Master Class award went to Kim Chrostowski, the Expert Class award to Don Norris (284.53), the Sharpshooter award to Joe Graf (280.53), and the Marksman class award went to John Polseno (254.84).

Rick Dyer fired a 235.78, 27.24 points better than his average from last year to win the Most Improved award. The High on Team awards went to Ed Jaques of Cumberland, Erik Hoskins of Smithfield, Kim Chrostowski of South County, and Scott Lewis of Varnum.

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NJ: Open & Junior Conventional Prone

Posted on May 11, 2010 by H

New Jersey has two conventional prone matches coming up at Cherry Ridge on May 29-30 (Open) and June 20 (Junior). You can download the match program here: 2010-NJ-Conv-Prone-Program (PDF, 119KB)

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Shooter Spotlight: Matt Emmons

Posted on May 11, 2010 by H

The purpose of the “Shooter Spotlight” is to help shooters get to know their fellow competitors a little bit better. We cover a wide range of shooters from “Marksman to Master.” This is the 38th interview in the series.

Matt Emmons. ©2010 ISSF | Photo: Marco Dalla Dea. Photo permission granted by Wolfgang Schreiber

Where do you call home?
Funny joke as of late. I’ve been telling people wherever my suitcase happens to be since we’ve been traveling so much. Anyway, we have a home in Grand Rapids, MN, and we still have our apartment in Plzen, Czech Republic, where we also spend a fair amount of time. That’s where my wife Katy is from.

How did you get involved in shooting competitively?
I grew up around hunting and guns and always liked to shoot. I had no idea shooting was a serious sport and was introduced to it by an FBI firearms instructor, Paul Adamowski. The first reason was to go to college on a scholarship, but after a little time, I got the Olympic bug. Paul taught me the basics and some mental things right away and after a few months found a club about an hour from where I grew up that had a junior rifle team. I don’t think the club exists anymore, but it was called United Sportsmen Association of North America. I don’t remember what it stood for. Ed Shea was my junior coach and his daughter, April, was on the National Team. I still keep in touch with them. Great people and Ed was a great coach to me. It was even better that he was still competing himself. We had a lot of fun going to prone matches together. Anyway, we shot on Friday nights and I started shooting matches in New Jersey and really started to improve after a year or so.

What is a little known fact about yourself that your fellow competitors might not know?
Hmmm…tough one. A lot of people know a lot about me. Before shooting, I used to race motocross for a while. I loved it and even after I stopped, I rode all the time until I went to college.

What do you consider your finest shooting achievement?
Also a tough one. It’s easy to say my Olympic gold medal performance, which was excellent, but my silver in Beijing was probably a better performance. My confidence wasn’t where I wanted it going into Beijing and I pulled every last ounce of energy out of myself for that prone match. I used every trick I had in my bag and I needed them – it was a terribly tough day with the wind and I was in the worst place on the range: the middle. Equally good was my World Championship victory in prone in 2002. Also terrible wind, but that final was fun. I knew I was going to shoot a good one.

What is your favorite pre-match meal?
Depends on how nervous I am. If I feel good and it’s available, I like eggs and toast. If not, something that digests easy. If I feel OK, I also like a good cup of coffee.

What is your favorite post match drink?
Depends on how I shot and where I am! Sounds bad, but once I’m away from the range, a good beer is always a nice reward for good shooting (I am 29, so I can say that!), especially if I’m in Plzen, Czechoslovakia. Otherwise, if it’s a big match, it’s usually water because I have to go to doping and pee in a cup.

Do you have a favorite shooting range?
Atlanta. It’s a shame we don’t shoot there anymore. Otherwise, I’m not sure. Bangkok, Thailand, has always been good to me, although I hate the weather there. It’s a very tough range, but that fits me. I like a challenge.

Do you have any short term and/or long term goals?
Enjoy life, be a great father and husband. That’s #1. We’re only on earth so long, you better enjoy it. In shooting, to keep moving forward and see just how good I can be.

What shooting skill are you currently focusing your energy on?
Right now I’m still getting used to my new jacket. My positions are generally close to being right, but there’s still some work to do. That’s the main thing keeping me occupied.

Thanks Matt for sharing a little bit about yourself with the pronematch.com community!

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TN: State Prone Championship, June 5-6

Posted on May 9, 2010 by H

Tennessee will be hosting its State Smallbore Prone Championship at the Chattanooga Rifle Club on June 5-6. You can download the match program here: 2010-tn-state-prone-champ-program (PDF, 53KB)

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