The 55th edition of the Western Wildcats 6400 Smallbore Championship is now in the books and I would like to take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about the match and some of the individual performances. Day one was a true test of the riflemans patience as we were beset upon by a vicious fish-tailing wind that persisted all day. Steve Goff, the day one winner put together a 1595, which considering the wind, was a damn good score. Ron Wigger and Eric Uptagrafft were right behind him with a 1594 and 1593 respectively. More than half the High Masters scored below 1590 but little Allison Villa, a product of the world class Los Angeles Rifle and Revolver Club's junior program, was not to be deterred as she fired a very good 1590 to top a talented field of Experts! As it turned out it was nothing but up from there for her.
Day two was the polar opposite wind wise as we saw only the mildest of breeze's throughout the day. This really nice condition stayed with us for the rest of the Championship as well. Of course with good conditions come great scores and accordingly a number of 1600's were fired. Surprisingly both Goff and Uptagrafft dropped a point but racked up some really great X counts between them; Goff 149 and Uptagrafft 141. Allison rose to the occasion and fired a fine 1597-133 but the California kid story on the second day was none other than Matt Liao, another LAR&R junior, as he cranked out an outstanding 1600-127X score to take the Expert class win.
As I said earlier the tame conditions persisted but day three offered just enough angle changes to the wind that everyone on the line ended up dropping a point or more. Uptagrafft took the overall day with a 1599-139 and Allison just kept getting better as her 1598-119 soundly thumped all comers in the Expert class. Matt came in with a well executed 1593-104 but with a 1575-83 on day one he only had an outside chance at the overall class win. Day four was a carbon copy of day two as six 1600's attested and guess what, Matt backed up day two with another anysight 1600 to be one of only two 3200's fired in the match! Talk about an "ear to ear grin". Pending the NRA's blessing, Matt's 3200-258X score is a new Sub-Junior National Record. Allison missed her first ever 1600 by a point but the 1599-137 gave her a great 6384-491X beating out second Expert and fellow Californian Randy Teissedre by an 11 point margin and nearly 60 X's to boot. There is no question in my mind that these "California Kids" owe there successes to the incredible junior program at LAR&R, which by the way has been designated a Regional Training Facility.
The Overall winner and our 2013 Western Wildcat Champion was Eric Uptagrafft by seven X's over Steve Goff, both having fired 6391's. Ron Zerr was third with an 6387 creedmooring Ohio's own Kevin Nevius. Full results can be found here http://desertsharpshooters.com/content/files/2013WILDCAT%20SLING%20GRAND%20AGG%20AND%20ALL%20OTHER%20AGGS.pdf
A pictorial I put together can be seen by clicking here http://s254.photobucket.com/user/rcurtis48/media/Western%20Wildcat%206400%202013%20for%20computer/2013WesternWildcatforcomputer_zpsd0baf738.mp4.html?#/user/rcurtis48/media/Western%20Wildcat%206400%202013%20for%20computer/2013WesternWildcatforcomputer_zpsd0baf738.mp4.html?&_suid=136396854912302117014619318009
Day two was the polar opposite wind wise as we saw only the mildest of breeze's throughout the day. This really nice condition stayed with us for the rest of the Championship as well. Of course with good conditions come great scores and accordingly a number of 1600's were fired. Surprisingly both Goff and Uptagrafft dropped a point but racked up some really great X counts between them; Goff 149 and Uptagrafft 141. Allison rose to the occasion and fired a fine 1597-133 but the California kid story on the second day was none other than Matt Liao, another LAR&R junior, as he cranked out an outstanding 1600-127X score to take the Expert class win.
As I said earlier the tame conditions persisted but day three offered just enough angle changes to the wind that everyone on the line ended up dropping a point or more. Uptagrafft took the overall day with a 1599-139 and Allison just kept getting better as her 1598-119 soundly thumped all comers in the Expert class. Matt came in with a well executed 1593-104 but with a 1575-83 on day one he only had an outside chance at the overall class win. Day four was a carbon copy of day two as six 1600's attested and guess what, Matt backed up day two with another anysight 1600 to be one of only two 3200's fired in the match! Talk about an "ear to ear grin". Pending the NRA's blessing, Matt's 3200-258X score is a new Sub-Junior National Record. Allison missed her first ever 1600 by a point but the 1599-137 gave her a great 6384-491X beating out second Expert and fellow Californian Randy Teissedre by an 11 point margin and nearly 60 X's to boot. There is no question in my mind that these "California Kids" owe there successes to the incredible junior program at LAR&R, which by the way has been designated a Regional Training Facility.
The Overall winner and our 2013 Western Wildcat Champion was Eric Uptagrafft by seven X's over Steve Goff, both having fired 6391's. Ron Zerr was third with an 6387 creedmooring Ohio's own Kevin Nevius. Full results can be found here http://desertsharpshooters.com/content/files/2013WILDCAT%20SLING%20GRAND%20AGG%20AND%20ALL%20OTHER%20AGGS.pdf
A pictorial I put together can be seen by clicking here http://s254.photobucket.com/user/rcurtis48/media/Western%20Wildcat%206400%202013%20for%20computer/2013WesternWildcatforcomputer_zpsd0baf738.mp4.html?#/user/rcurtis48/media/Western%20Wildcat%206400%202013%20for%20computer/2013WesternWildcatforcomputer_zpsd0baf738.mp4.html?&_suid=136396854912302117014619318009
