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The Grand Aggregate winner at Camp
Perry, both for 1980 and 1981, was Joe
Pascarella, from New Mexico. He did it in
1980 using Oxford Illuminated Optical
Sights on his .45, and again in 1981 with
Swedish Aimpoint glass sights on both his
Smith and Wesson M42 (.22 caliber) and
Colt .45. If a man had shown up at Camp
Perry with anything like that on his guns
before World War II, he'd have been cowhided
out of camp!
However, I somehow feel that this is the
right way to go. Anything that can be devised
which will make for more accurate
shooting than we were doing way back
then should certainly be countenancedand
that goes for two-handed shooting.
Any of the old timers who don't feel we
should bow to progress should consider
how the handgun shooters were operating
40 years prior to our time. They couldn't
have hit a chorus line of Gibson Girls,
using No.8 shot!
I'm a great advocate of a shooter going
up against the best marksmen available
every time he can. Damon Runyon once
wrote, "If you rub up against money long
enough, some of it is bound to rub off on
you:'
And we did it back in the pre-war days,
just like they do now. Prior to 1939, it was
Emmett Jones in the West and Al Hemming
in the East. After that, it was Harry
Reeves all over the country. I drank to his
health so many times after he had soundly
trounced me that I almost ruined my own.
And I can say, with some modesty, that I
am probably the only man who beat Harry
in a three-gun aggregate from the Flamingo
Open in Coral Gables, Florida, in
1939, until World War II ended and a new
ball game started. I did it in the 2700 aggregate
at the pre-Perry Matches in Detroit
in 1941; and I beat him by 12 points
after he, with the same courteous thoughtfulness
I had shown the year before with
"Pop" Ward in the National Individual,
obligingly fired his last five shots on the
wrong target.
Trying to beat Harry Reeves in those
days was like trying to skin a live turtlebut
the incentive was there. Better guns
and ammunition, and many more hours of
pr!lctice, have made the difference between
modern-day bullseye shooters and
we oldsters.
But now, let's get into these modern-day
whangety-bangers, the Police Revolver
Silhouette Shooters, and their tough Combat
Championship matches.
All over the country, police are getting
away from bullseye shooting, and are putting
in all their training time into police
combat shooting.
AMERICAN HANDGUNNER . JANUARYIFEBRUARY 1983