South Mississippi Practical Shooting

For an off-schedule match, this one turned out great. Because the Mississippi Classic falls on the same weekend as the Pearlington match, we reschedule the May match for the first weekend of the month. This, along with the stellar weather contributed to a great turnout. A bunch of shooters from the Jackson area came down to get one more practice match in before the big match in two weeks, and the locals turned out in droves as well. In all, 52 shooters participated in the competition.

The top spot was hard fought all day long, but in the end it was John Nguyen taking the honors as overall match winner and Open division winner. He battled Gerwin Henn, the Limited winner, on every stage. Gerwin beat John on 4 out of 5 stages, but the one that John did win was enough to cinch the match by a mere 0.1117 match points or 0.02%. That is the margin between a single hit being a C or D. If you didn’t think one hit mattered, think again. It really doesn’t get closer than that. In the rest of the divisions, Cliff Cargill won Revolver, Bill Ogletree was tops on Single Stack and Jason Welch took Production.

Thanks to all the shooters for coming out today. Remember that there are two more local matches before the Classic in two weeks. Next weekend, pistol matches will be held in Biloxi and Poplarville.

The match scores can be viewed by clicking the score sheet at the right.