Desert Midwinter Pistol Championships

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

Match Winners

2700 Aggregate winners are Springfield GI .45 1911 pistol WINNERS!

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