The ISRPA State Aggregate Championship series kicked off Saturday, September 7th with the 300-Yard State Championship match at Wildcat Rifle and Pistol Club. Twenty seven shooters came to the match on a very good day for shooting. The weather was brisk in the morning with intermittent overcast periods through the day, and one very short period when it spit a few raindrops. By the close of the match the sun was out and it was a pleasant day overall.
The match winner was Liam McKenna, an imported shooter from Wisconsin – so he could not be the Indiana 300-Yard Champion, but he did put on an impressive show of shooting. After Liam dropped 3 points at the Offhand stage, he proceeded to clean the next three stages – posting a 797-51X overall score and taking the CMP Gold Medal.
Mike King of FWRR was the Indiana 300-Yard State Champion taking the CMP Silver Medal with a 789-30X score. Andrew Beaver rounded out the medal category with a 783-33X for the Bronze medal.
Emma Branson, a FWRR Junior took overall fourth place in the match with a 782-20X, High Junior and High Woman in the match. That score put her one place above her Dad, FWRR member Geoff Branson with a 778-32X for fifth overall.
FWRR shooters took the next two places; Gary Mabis was sixth with a 774-22X and Marshall Rohrbach (Junior) took seventh with 773-24X (High Expert). Mark Richard took First High Master, Match rifle with a 768-12X. Addiysn Shull shot a 712-4X in the Sharpshooter class and Taytin Shaffer posted a 665-7X in Marksman.
Congratulations to all of the FWRR shooters who made the trip to Wildcat and helped make a successful 300-Yard State Championship match.