NEW! - Jeffersonian

Despite loss ofboth feet ...
CLAUDE KINARD SETS NEW
METALLIC SILHOUETTE RECORD
By Bert Stringfellow
The 1982 International Handgun Metallic
Silhouette Association's (IHMSA)
tournament held recently in Fortville Indiana
will go down in the handgun shooting
book as a truly memorable event-for
several significant reasons.
First, one of the major events-the AAA
revolver category-was won by a man who
lost both feet in an auto accident shortly
after the 1981 shooting season: Claude
Kinard ofPuyallup, Washington, who shot
a possible 80 using a lO-inch barrel .44
Magnum Ruger Super Blackhawk. He became
the first person to fire a perfect score
in this category.
Ifthat wasn't enough, he went on to win
the standing international category with a
67X80, using a .30 Merrill pistol. Last year
at the IHMSA matches, Kinard shot a
69X80 in this category-a record that still
stands.
This year's six-day event set a new, alltime
attendance record: 1,525 entries. It
was the largest pistol match heldanywhere.
.
Still another reason made the 1982
IHMSA tournament a truly memorable
event: there were 22 possibles (80x80) shot
in the unlimited category.
Despite rainy weather, several outstanding
scores were fired by winners of all
classes, or categories.
In the four-gun aggregate match, Bruce
Adamchik shot a match-winning score of
285x320.
In a 22-man shootoff at an array of tiny
targets, including snuff cans painted white
and laid flat, Joe May came out on top to
become the 1982 International Champion
with a possible 80 in the unlimited category.
He fired a Sinclair .308.
There were two production international
category scores of 80X80 shot by Dick
Folz, Alaska state director (IHMSA) and
Mike Averre, the 1981 unlimited category
winner. In the shootoff, in growing darkness,
Folz was the winner. He fired a TIC
.30-30.
High woman's aggregate champion was
Anne Clark with a score of 260X320.
High junior aggregate champion was
J. J. Barlett with a score of 224X320.
High aggregate family team was Josie
and Bob Engle, with a score of 537X640.
Here are the winriers ofother categories,
with their scores (all out of a possible 80)
and the guns they used:
Shoots possible 80 in
~ revolver category
at IHMSAs 1982 tournament;
also wins
standing international
class, in a record field
of 1,525 competitors.
Spotting scopes help the shooters here
on the firing line at Fortville, Ind.
Robert Brissette (production AAA
category), 77, .30 Merrill.
Mike LaPoint (unlimited AAA), 80,
Wichita ~308.
Roger Wilkerson (unlimited AA), 80,
XP-l00 (7BR).
Larry Hofmann (unlimited A), 68,
XP-l00 (7IHMSA).
Larry David (unlimited B), 51,
XP-l00 (7BR). .
Gail Johnson (unlimited C), 48,
XP-l00 (7BR).
Paul Schmid (production AA), 70,
TIC .30-30.
Lloyd Hudgens (production A), 59,
TIC (7TCU).
Thomas Zahn (production B), 46,
T/C7.
Cecilia Zimmerman (production C)
34, TIC .357
Gary Wrigley, (AAA standing), 52,
T/C7.
Greg George (AA standing), 51,
T/C7.
Robert Crocker (A standing), 41,
T/C7.
Kenneth Bricker (B standing), 27,
T/C7.
Arthur Lavalle (revolver international),
77, Dan Wesson.44 Mag.
John Ander~on (revolver AA), 77,
Dan Wesson .44 Mag.
Richard Powell (revolver A), 57,
Ruger .44 Mag.
Paul Lee (revolver B), 57, Ruger .44
Mag.
Tom Bellersheim (revolver C), 34,
Ruger .44 Mag.
The more than 400 members who attended
the annual banquet contributed
$3,700 to help fight the California initiative
(Proposition 15), Elgin T. Gates,
IHMSA president, and the Federal Cartridge
Corp. each contributed matching
amounts, to be given to the NRAs Institute
for Legislative Action (lLA), in the name
of IHMSA.
Bob O'Conner, president of Dan Wesson
Arms, donated an engraved, gold inlay,
stainless steel DW revolver (in a caliber
ofthe winner's choice) to be auctioned off,
with all proceeds to be transferred to the
ILA account for use in its California gun
bill fight. The high bid was $5,000.
Gates told the American Handgunner
that IHMSA members and its friends in
the firearms industry collected more than
$16,000 to help defeat ....
Proposition 15 in California. ~
52 AMERICAN HANDGUNNER . JANUARYIFEBRUARY 1983