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At the end of the first day the youngsters had to simply stand in awe of Wigger’s
record setting iron sight
1131-38X that garnered him the metallic sight position
championship. Suggs and Benyo were knotted up with 1119s but Suggs had 35 Xs to
Benyo’s 31Xs. AMU shooter Kristin Peterson was the high woman. Fred Cole was
working toward his fourth senior title with a win in the first half. In an unusual turn of
event All Guard Sergeant First Class Kay Anderson was made a successful run on the
intermediate senior title. A service shooter in this race was most unusual because, at
55, most soldiers have retired. The National Guard is less wasteful of experience and
husbands the older troopers, it not being unusual to see some hang on to the ripe old
age of 60, the mandatory retirement age.
Beards any sight scores put him on the stage as the champion of the second
day. His 1142-48X was just four points ahead of Brad Carnes, an enlisted man from
Fort Benning, and civilian Troy Baker. Karen Monez put up a great fight and pushed
Peterson to the background, at least temporarily. Cole and Anderson repeated in the
gray beard category. There were hardly any new faces in the winner’s circle in the
position sub aggregates.
When all was said and done though, Wigger had quietly won. He combined a
very large margin of victory with irons and a solid civilian master class winning any sight
score for an 11 point margin of victory over Carnes, the service champion, and 13 in
front of Suggs. The1991 title was the 35 th position championship and Wigger had now
won 20 of them. He now had won the greatest number of position championships by
anyone, by a military shooter, and by virtue of his latest win, the greatest number won
by a civilian, quite a trifecta.
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