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hard in each stage and was rewarded with the any sight aggregate allowing her to overtake Orth for the ladies’ title. Wigger continued to plug away in his practiced and efficient manner, finishing near the top in every match he did not win, building an overwhelming 25 point lead over silver and bronze medalists Bob Mitchell and Hawkins who tied at 2961. It was Wigger’s sixth straight position win and the 14 th since he won his first in 1963. Two Connecticut riflemen from Blue Trail Range picked up trophies. David Lyman, a sharpshooter, was declared the civilian champion and Jesse Johnston earned both the junior and intermediate junior crowns. Don Burtis retained the senior title. Lones would not be the only Wigger to tote home prizes as son Danny led the collegiate category. Sub-junior William Suggs triumphed over all those aged 14 years and below. Those who lie on the firing line at Camp Perry toward the end of July are usually concerned with insuring that they drink plenty of water, staying in the shade when possible, and the capricious nature of the winds. This was not the case during the opening days of the prone phase when the weather was a cold, wet, and windy as an early spring lambing season. Vande Zande had opened the match with a 400-40X metallic 50-yard match score indicating he had not lost any of his edge over the winter. Mary Stidworthy came back with a 400-40X to set a new Camp Perry record in the meter match to challenge the champ. Kendall then made a decisive move with a 400-29X to win the Dewar while Hubert Snyder closed out the day with a 400-29X win in the 100 yard match. Kendall led at that point with a 1599-124X. Captain Ernie Vande Zande, the defending champion was engaged in a close match with two very skilled riflemen: Pres 202
Kendall and Stidworthy-both former prone champions. Rough conditions were evident as Vande Zande finished as the metallic sight winner with a score of 3193-236X, down three points more than he dropped through the four days of 1980. One X behind him was Pres Kendall who was being chased by Stidworthy, a point behind but nine ahead on X count. Big names dominated the second day with the Marines and Army sharing match honors. Marine Gary Andrade shot a 400-35X win in the yard match. Next Wigger, dropping a point, won the Meter match with a 399-29X. Marine Gunner D.I. Boyd captured the Dewar with a 400-32X. Wigger won the day with a 1597-120X but Vande Zande closed the door on the competition with a 100 yard score of 400-32X, which assured him the metallic sight title. Edward Zamborik was the high intermediate senior and veteran Dick Hanson was top senior. Weather conditions moderated for the mid week team events and the change was readily apparent when the All National Guard quartet of Kay Anderson, Bill Lange, Greg Tomsen, and Rich Tabor put together a metallic sight winning score of 1598-107X to win the first team match. The Black Hawk Rifle Club foursome of former prone champions Dave Weaver and Art Cook teamed up with Mark Humphreville and Hubert Snyder for a 1600-142X any sight win. Finishing in third place is generally a bit of a let down but for the Stinknik Ladies a third place score of 1600-142X shot by Edie Reynolds, Ellen Ross, and sisters Lenore Lemanski and Bobbi Vitito established a new National Women’s Team Record. The Dewar and the Randle teams conducted themselves well but the major event of the day was the eighth Pershing Trophy Match. Teams of ten from the United 203
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A History of the United States Nati
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgement C
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smallbore rifles were the poor cous
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As Harlee was putting the range bac
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simulate the 30 caliber matches, so
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Starting on August 4 th , the small
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Venerable Casey to standardize smal
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equipment, fees, targets, and prize
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the War Department in Washington. A
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an officer in the Indiana National
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for various reentry matches, even p
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of the strong winds. In the end the
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Fifteen matches made up the total p
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Through the good offices of Major G
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stopped but the temperature had dro
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Facing a 15-mile an hour wind from
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Atlantic seashore; it had been the
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shorter and more intense tryout sys
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three stage match, ten shots at 50,
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BSA rifles while the ammunition of
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The program had changed slightly fo
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early. After a five minute sighting
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CHAPTER THREE Surviving the Great D
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sought out every legitimate advanta
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members. The Pennsylvania Railroad
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Earlier that year a team from the U
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1932 The National Matches were Fede
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seven shooters had yet to drop a po
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only required that the candidate sh
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completed Mess Hall gossip centered
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established a record of 3971X4000.
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across the entire trial period, was
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occasion to introduce its challenge
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Woodring and Vere Hamer were in a t
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The smallbore championships prepare
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With the individual matches complet
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CHAPTER FOUR The Great Diaspora…
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Commonwealth but, being as far from
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Symmes, who totaled a 3171-136X, sh
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at 50 meters with a scope, tied the
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to arms. NRA Executive Vice Preside
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Comers’ Match. His 397 bested fou
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assortment of allergies and develop
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The cousins Moore, Bob and Wayne, t
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No one, including, the match winner
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ough conditions that would make the
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Moore experienced serious difficult
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edged out Rosenberg by two points f
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closely connected venues on the wes
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out of a sand pit, next to the Jack
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Ingleright, Rossman, and Van Gaston
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and Moschkau closed the top three w
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With the tournament coming to an en
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The inaugural 6400 championship wou
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Cook with a one point lead over Tri
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After the popularly successful trai
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collectively, his 3193-236X earned
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aggregate. Henry Benson and John Cr
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of the past while it adapted to the
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CHAPTER SIX A Decade Of Transitions
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In a fine twist of fate Marianne Dr
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championship had no clear-cut leade
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Eighty four instructors directed th
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If there is one uncertainty in the
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Yet, despite everyone’s best effo
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the prone title in 1962. He was an
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Larry Wilkens was on a roll, pullin
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accomplishment she shot a perfect s
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than Adams who ended the first day
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Meredith was named Open, Service, a
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the Army. They were able to coordin
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Former Air Force Team member Henry
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It was a decade of transition from
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graybeards, or so it seems. The exp
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anxious to get to the volunteers’
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Page 177 and 178: As it had so often happened in the
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Page 181 and 182: By end of the second day the top tr
Page 183 and 184: Beard continued to harry Wigger wit
Page 185 and 186: Camp Perry veterans were pleasantly
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Page 193 and 194: Chapter Eight Wigger Wins-Still Aga
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100 yard match went to Wigger, but
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Connecticut junior shooter represen
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At the end of the first day the you
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Benning’s Major Jim Meredith took
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In the last match of the day West c
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Ken Benyo, a student at Widner Univ
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team, with essentially the same fou
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in championship history. In haste,
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5994X6000, good for the silver meda
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When the any sight aggregate began
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Marsha Beasley were the hard holder
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400 on the line in the 100-yard mat
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The collegiate champion was Darren
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worn the crown for three consecutiv
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At the awards ceremony, after the P
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1995 Momentum is an important aspec
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halves of the tournament easily coa
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starting blocks quickly, with a 400
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lame and none of the credit for a w
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match. Specialist Troy Bassham, who
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Lones Wigger was trying to run his
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Trophy from the hands of the hosts.
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out consistently good scores that s
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Matches. It was hoped that better s
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Irene Fisher and Coach Gloria Parme
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third place, just one X back. Babb
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Johnson, an AMU shooter, won the pr
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The next 40 years saw it stored awa
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able to boast that they had a total
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Caldwell in 1919. This 80 th annive
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turned in a winning score in the 10
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after all of those second day victo
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Winning both the metallic and any s
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good to be in front, a one-point le
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Carolyn Millard-Sparks, 6387-507X,
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might not have been able to survive
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across the Critchfield Course of fi
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Army’s SP4 Trevor Gathman was in
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eating at long range, dropping 14 p
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chance to see his name at the top o
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followed her to pick up the Stark P
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Jamie Beyerle, of the University of
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next five days the prone community
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passed several were blown from the
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its horn would be more shrill. As t
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hoped the matches would be cancelle
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6377-468X to 6376-480X while Ault p
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greater fame later in the week, top
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third when the Gold team came in wi
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match bulletin with a second place
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While the postal shooters were blas
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away. Kevin Nevius and Boyd Goldsby
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Devcon and pillar bedded by Kevin N
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The 2004 National Three Position Ch
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it best, Beyerle was among them. Ho
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and powers of concentration he deve
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Doerschler, Beyerle, and Wes Robins
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Overcast skies marked the first day
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was out of concern for the shooters
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matches usually resemble the out of
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Lussier, both with 38X cleans. Beye
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high senior while Gideon grabbed Th
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Beyerle overcame her slow start, an
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Leydig, Dan Ault, and Elizabeth Lec
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shot a 400-35X, Barnhart a 34X clea
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Juniors Jillian Szymonica, Casey Ga
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the US score of 1993-143X. In the e
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and just two Xs off of the National
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senior champion Gideon. Junior Thom
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Anti hold’s the Perry record in t
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silver medals and the junior any si
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highest score, a 399-25X, to keep h
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Gentlemen were in third with a 1549
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One can never get too complacent in
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Edie Reynolds, who so often is on t
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Anti used the same gear he had in t
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of the matches, was second with a s
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efficiently. A bronzed sculpture, m
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Much to the relief of the belly sho
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finishing with perfect scores and d
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The Made In America Match was next,
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posted a near record score of 800-5
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Homer Pearson, as the top salesman
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Committee, was match winner with 37
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the Stark Prone Trophy plaque as we
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third, but this time it was Tarl Ke
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championship while Goff and Reya Ke
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fended off a 2226-54X challenge by
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to either the awards window or thei
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needed a continuation of fire would
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perspective it was noteworthy as it
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low loose, and it seemed that the c
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Goldsby won his second match of the
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Martha Kelley became the first reci
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A close battle developed in the sta
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an English Match, 60 shots prone wi
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With a head of steam from position,
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Edie Fleeman and Remington Lyman un
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The final day of the 2009 champions
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they worked out how to deal with th
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Ronald Durcholz, of Orchard Park, N
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day. The match, run by the NRA Smal
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a longhorn team, Sam Muegge and Kat
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for Nevius for, while the dropped p
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Justin Tracy, and Michael O’Conno
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After the horrid weather conditions
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Randle Team Captain Lenore Lemanski
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Conditions picked up during the 100
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descending order was Reya Kempley
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of mental calculation as to who mig
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Drew alumna Caitlyn Morrissey, of t
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Kempley was second and Angeli pulle
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The second half of the tournament b
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ewarded with his second consecutive
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THE REMINGTON TROPHY A silver cup,
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THE MARIANNE JENSEN DRIVER MEMORIAL
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THE WALTER S. TOMSEN TROPHY A gift
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THE PERSHING TROPHY General of the
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THE RHEINISCHE-WESTFALISCHEN-SPREGS
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THE WILLIAM KRILLING TROPHY William
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Appendix B National Outdoor Smallbo
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Aggregate Jeffrey Doerschler 1161-5
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1948 Arthur E. Cook No Competition
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LTC Lones W. Wigger, Jr USA David B
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Outdoor Smallbore National Champion
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1974 John Moschkau No Competition N
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Ronald F. Durcholz William F. Beard
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1946-1954 15 : A 320 shot aggregate
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1969-1977: A 320 shot aggregate of
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Appendix E Locations Of The Nationa
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