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COLORADO STATE CHAMPS<br />
By: Roscoe Livingston CL-46<br />
The San Juan Shooting<br />
Range was the host for the 1991<br />
Colorado State Championship.<br />
Their facility overlooks not only<br />
Montrose and the Black Canyon<br />
National Park area to the northeast,<br />
but also a full panoramic<br />
view of the San Juan Mountain<br />
Range stretching to the southwest.<br />
What can you say about<br />
Colorado? It doesn't seem to<br />
matter where you travel, you<br />
pass through historic mining<br />
sites (Placerville, Telluride,<br />
Mesa Verde), you go over ten<br />
thousand foot passes, and you<br />
see some of the most beautiful<br />
and breath-taking scenery available<br />
any place in the world. The<br />
gold camps no longer mine gold,<br />
,<br />
but as ski resorts they are richer<br />
than ever.<br />
The stages were excellent,<br />
with good design and construction.<br />
Some stages from World<br />
Shoot IX were adapted,as well<br />
as stages from various matches<br />
around the U.S., a couple of<br />
original ones, and a classifier<br />
were used.<br />
The temperature soared to<br />
100 and there were one or two<br />
heat casualties each day. I guess<br />
people go to Colorado to be cool<br />
in the summer, and when it is<br />
hot they don't know how to<br />
handle it. Seeking shade and<br />
drinking plenty of liquid was the<br />
correct approach--not standing<br />
out watching all the action.<br />
Stage I, Hell Nuts + 6,<br />
found Mike Yorke in the lead;<br />
Stage II, Theirs, had Ross Dean<br />
as stage winner. Stage III was<br />
entitled Mine, both Stage II and<br />
III were six-round stages with<br />
times in the 3 to 4 second range.<br />
A miss on steel could drop you<br />
20 places. The key on these low<br />
point stages was--don't push, be<br />
smooth, a_nd get through it with<br />
the least amount of a disaster<br />
factor. Doug Boykin zipped<br />
Stage III with a 3.01 time to<br />
take the stage.<br />
On Stage IV, San Juan<br />
Standards, Ron Avery took top<br />
honors. Keep in mind that with<br />
the furthest shot being 50 feet,<br />
the Standards were not exactly<br />
an accuracy test for scopes. In<br />
fact, the top 2 places were open<br />
sight guns.<br />
Stage V, East Wall, was won<br />
by Doug Boykin; Stage VI,<br />
Speed Now, was dominated by<br />
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