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There should be either a "Z" ring inside
the "X" ring, or shooters should back off
from the 7- and 15-yard positions and fire
at longer ranges, to help break the many
ties that are piling up.
The course offire for Match Two was six
shots kneeling, six shots left-hand and six
shots right-hand from behind a barricade,
all at 25 yards, and all in a time of 90 seconds.
John Pride again went clean on this
match, except for 2 Xs. It was good
enough, however, to win the match.
Modesto Cartagena took time off from
his duties as official greeter and general
]1andyman to win Match Three, which
consisted of 50-yard sitting, prone and
standing. The course of fire was six shots
kneeling, six shots left-hand from behind a
barricade and six shots right-hand from a
barricade, using either double- or singleaction.
The time was 90 seconds. Cartagena
fired a possible with 13 Xs.
A beautiful little Irish colleen from
Apple Valley, California-Leslie Mullinswon
Match Four, which was fired at 25
yards standing without support, doubleaction.
The course of fire was two stages of
12 shots each, with a time of35 seconds for
each stage. Not much bigger than a bar of
soap, she served with the Border Patrol for
several years and is now a special agent
with the Bureau of Land Management.
Leslie won the Women's Aggregate with a
1477-93 Xs.
Speaking ofwomen law enforcement officers,
I learned that the National Women's
Grand Aggregate Champion is Cathy
Compton, an airport security officer in
Dallas. Her score was 1487-99 Xs, and she
is now learning International pistol shooting
for a try at the Olympic Team in 1984.
The final individual course-Match
Five-was the NRA National Police, which
gets a bit complicated. Competitors fire 12
shots double-action at 7 yards from a
crouch position, and at 25 yards, doubleaction,
six shots kneeling; then six shots
standing, both left- and right-hand from
behind a barricade, all in two minutes and
40 seconds. Then they fire at 25 yards
double-action, six shots standing, without
support in 12 seconds. No barricade or
other support could be used, only a twohand
grip.
John Pride won this match with a
596-45 Xs and Cartagena was right on his
tail with a 596-44 Xs. Only one X
difference!
The National Grand Aggregate Champion
for these five matches is Jim Collins,
an Alabama State Trooper, with a possible
1500-126 Xs. The highest score ever shot on
the Yuma range was a 1494-110 Xs, fired by
John Pride in 1981.
.,. Pride looked like a cinch for the Grand
Aggregate. He won the first match, the second
and the fifth; catching him looked
harder than trying to put a blister on a porcupine.
But a moustachioed Border Patrolman
from Fresno, California-John
Poole-who had tooled into Yuma on his
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