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him was Springfield Factory
Team member Doug Koenig and
Mike Voigt in third. Barnhart,
who dropped a shot, managed to
salvage tenth place.
The race at this point was
close, with only 11 match points
separating the top four shooters
who were Jarrett, Koenig,
McLearn and Barnhart. The
name that was strangely absent
was Rob Leatham's. For years
Leatham dominated the game
with no other shooters able to
play it at his level. In the last
two years Barnhart was the first
shooter to demonstrate that he
had the same skills as Leatham.
Their sparring made 1989 and
1990 memorable contests.
While Barnhart had some
problems this year, he was never
out of the race and he could
match runs with any of the top
shooters. However, Leatham
seemed always to be just a little
off the pace with times a second
or so slower that the stage
leaders. Then on the Virginia
Count speed shoot ''At The
Diner" he made a beginning
shooter's mistake; he shot extra
shots. Coming into the
standards Leatham was 50
match points behind the leaders.
He shot a brilliant standards,
winning the stage with 171 out
of a possible 180 match points.
Second and third places on the
standards went to Mike Voigt
and Ross Carter. Koenig kept
up the pace in fifth place and
Barnhart finished 7th.
Stage 2, "Day Dreamin'" was
a Comstock field course that
best resembled a speed shoot.
Barnhart lived up to his
nickname and "burned" the
course to win it. Jarrett kept up
the pressure, finishing second
right behind him and Mike
Yorke took third. Koenig
knocked himself out of the race
with a dropped shot and a hit on
a no-shoot.
At the end of three days and
with seven stages completed,
Barnhart edged out Jarrett by
less than two tenths of a point.
The top three competitors on
Thursday morning were
Barnhart, Jarrett and McLearn.
All of the remaining stages were
Comstock Field courses. At 8
AM they shot a 120-point field
course, "Shopping Scandal,"
which was one of the few
courses that favored high
capacity pistols because of the
closeness of the shooting boxes.
It was a non-issue for the top
shooters because they were all
using wide-bodies.
Jarrett used his Gann
customized Para-Ordnance in
.38 Super to win this stage.
Right behind him, shooting a
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of a match point
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behind him was Barnhart with
his Wilson/Colt prototype in
9x21 CP.
Stage 4, "Banker's Hours''
was a 105-point field course with
no tricks to it. The challenge on
this stage, as well as all of the
other stages at the 1991
Nationals, was to see how fast
you could execute the course
without making a mistake.
Jarrett had suffered only a
single procedural for a foot fault
on his first stage, "Junkyard
Horrors." Otherwise he had
barrelled along the slalom
course with a glass of
champagne balanced on his head
and had not spilled a drop. He
continued his smooth moves on
"Banker's Hours," winning the
stage.
Barnhart, who had managed
to keep the race close, ran what
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