The smoke (and blowing targets) from Camp Perry had barely cleared and Saturday August 8th was the third match of the 2026 FWRR Championship series. It was a cool, very humid day with not much wind – sweaty but not too uncomfortable.
We had shooters firing 100, 80 and 50-round matches and of the twelve shooters we had four Juniors.
Mark Walters was the only 100-round shooter and he posted a 939-22X aggregate, with 742-17X across the first 80-round strings.
In the 80-round matches, Mike King took the top standing with 789-30X, followed by Ashley Stevens, our visitor from Maumee, Ohio, with 781-21X. Jack Bushong, one of our Juniors who is on his way to college in Alaska, took third with 775-26X.
In the 50-round matches, Miss Aria Hobbs – one of our Junior girls, took both the top score and high Junior with a 469-12X. She outshot her GrandPa, Jess Jessup, who posted a 465-10X.
This was the third and next to final match in the FWRR High Power Championship series and as of now, here are the standings:
Senior Division Junior Division
Mike King 2145 Aria Hobbs 1801
Jim Jackson 2127 Tayt Shaffer 1400
Mark Walters 2106 Madyson Klebba 1089
Gary Mabis 1349
Camp Perry and National Matches are over and I want to highlight a few of the accomplishments of our FWRR shooters:
FWRR and Indiana Junior High Power fielded 5 teams in the Junior Freedom Fire Trophy team match. This number of teams was only exceeded by the Texas State teams (9 teams – everything is bigger in Texas).
Indiana/FWRR Freedom Fire Trophy Teams
FWRR Junior Jack Bushong captured 14 EIC points; 4 points in the SAFS M16 Match and 10 points in the NTI.
Junior Jack Bushong; 14 EIC points at Camp Perry
Emma Branson set a new Womens’ National Record in the Garand Match, with a 288-8X – eclipsing the previous record set in 2025 of 286-5X.
Our visitor from Maumee, Ohio (Ashley Stevens) who comes to just about every match at FWRR – finished her Distinguished Rifleman quest with the last 10 “hard leg” points she needed to leg out.
There is still a lot of shooting to be done this summer.
Our next matches are the Leonard Johnson Memorial Match on August 22nd, a 100-yard NRA match on August 27th and in September we have the final match of the Club Championship series on September 19th. That day we will also shoot a Garand Match in the afternoon and maybe even a Sniper Match as well.