John Zurek, Match Winner (2635-124x)

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International Pistol

With 13 Free Pistol shooters on the line at 8 am Wednesday morning, clearly the 2008 Desert Midwinter showed signs of a great turn out.  I saw a lot of Toz's on the line, and five shooters broke 500.

Last year's Marathon Thursday shooting schedule gave way to a more reasonable two day International schedule, even longer for shooters taking time on Friday to shoot Air Pistol.

With John Zurek actively training for the Olympic Selection Matches, he could be expected to win Free Pistol and Air Pistol.   He added Standard Pistol, Center Fire Pistol and Rapid Fire Pistol to the list to sweep all five events.

International Pistol Results  

Conventional Pistol

Forty competitors shot the Conventional Pistol 2700 Match in two relays, one gun per day starting Friday.  On Thursday, after the International Center Fire Match, 22 shooters decided to turn the event into a 3600 and shoot the Service Pistol 900 match, won by Michael Gasser with an impressive 867-36x.

Service Pistol Results

Jason Hedrick led after Friday's chilly 22 match with an 883-41x, nudging Lyman Grover's 882-51x.  Eight other shooters bested the 870 mark.

By Saturday evening, Jason Hedrick's lead was down to one point over John Zurek, who shot an 878-32x to Jason's 872-41x in the Center Fire match.

John Zurek closed the door on Jason with Sunday's 45 match, shooting an 881-44x.  Steve Reiter snuck in to take the match second place by winning the 45 match with an 884-38x.  Overall honors went to John Zurek (2635-124x) followed by Steve Reiter (2628-115x) and Jason Hedrick (2627-124x).

Conventional Pistol Results

US Army Blue (Daniels, Grover, Barber, Gasser and Wilson) won with a 3488-142x.

EIC Match

Lyman Grover won the Gold Medal in the EIC Match (Leg Match) with a 286-10x.  Subject to approval by the CMP, Chuck Holt won the Leg with a 272-5x.

Service Pistol Team honors fell so the US Army Blue team (Daniels, Grover, Barber, Gasser and Wilson) with an 1108-34x.

Service Pistol Results 

The 2008 Indoor Sectional results from February 2 & 3 at the Phoenix Rod & Gun Club are as posted:

Teams:

I menitioned earlier we were cooking up some great class prizes for the 2008 NRA Conventional 2700 at the Desert Midwinter. 

Wait no longer, cause the deal is set.

Class winners will each win a Springfield Armory GI Mil-Spec 1911-A1 Parkerized

So if you want to join the other 40+ or so competitors who have signed up for this match, get your tail in gear and REGISTER NOW !

We start the Conventional Pistol Matches on Thursday,  February 14, with a 900 Service Pistol Match, and the 2700 starts on Friday, February 15 with the .22 Caliber 900.  Saturday is Center Fire day and Sunday is .45 Caliber day.

Team Matches shoot on Friday and Saturday after the 900 relays are through.

And the CMP is allowing EIC Leg Matches at matches other than Regional, State and National Championships, so of course we're holding an EIC Leg Match on Sunday after the 45 Matches.

(Remember, we need 5 shooters in each class, else the classes are pulled together for prizes.)

Enough fine print, let's shoot some X's !

SHOOTERS TO THE LINE!!!!

2008 Desert Midwinter Pistol Championships Information

The Match Bulletins and an Event Registration Request form are posted for the 2008 Desert Midwinter Pistol Championships. 

2008 Desert Midwinter Conventional Pistol Match Bulletin

2008 Desert Midwinter International Pistol Match Bulletin

2008 Desert Midwinter Registration Request

2008 Desert Midwinter Match Report

    NOTE: this is not a formal event entry.  Send your payment to Don Plante per the match bulletins to lock in your registration request.

As with last year, we're cooking up additional prizes, based on the 2700 results this time.  When information becomes available, we'll send a news flash.  Register to the site and subscribe to receive this by email! 

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