September 14th, 2024 Match Results
One word to describe our match this last Saturday: Awesome! The mid 80 degree sunny fall weather was awesome, the light floaty breeze was awesome, the COF was awesome, the shooters were awesome and the competition was, you guessed it, just awesome! 60 shooters came out to try their skills on a challenging course of fire. 27 Open Division, 8 Base, 7 Old Guns, 7 Young Guns, 4 Ladies and 7 Air Rifle. Every division placed in the top 20! On top of all that, we had 9 brand new first time shooters!!! Like I said, just awesome!
We had several people clamoring for that top spot but when it came time to let the barrels cool, it was Luke Nebelsick who stood tall with an amazing score of 852.5 points for that coveted 1st place gold tag and 1st place overall! Two impacts behind with 832.0 was Chris Baxter for 2nd place silver and just one behind Chris was Alberto Perez who had a few seconds more on his time to step ahead of David Civello for 3rd and 4th overall. Alberto scored 818.7 points to David’s 816.1.
One impact behind was Carey Palmer in Old Guns, dropping only 1 shot on the NRL22 stages with a score of 803.9 for 1st place gold. Owen Fjeldsted gets a silver dog tag with 702.3 points and Alan Robertson takes home bronze with 555.7 points.
With only 3 impacts between 1st and 3rd, our Ladies battled till the very last stage! Dana Roman came up from southern Utah to visit Big Salty and she gave it all she had, edging out Stephanie Baxter and Yuki Civello for 1st place gold in Ladies Division. Dana earned 781.0 points which also put her 8th place overall! Stephanie didn’t go easy on her though and stepped into 2nd place silver with less than 5 points with 775.7 points and 9th place overall! Yuki Civello also kept the pressure on all match but comes in 3rd place just 2 impacts behind Stephanie with 752.3 points. All 3 of these amazing ladies made it into the top 11 overall!
Adam Payton took advantage of all this awesomeness and brought some of his own! Adam placed 12th overall and 1st place in Base Division with 741.0 points. Bill Pendleton takes home 2nd place silver with 670.4 points and Michael Howard, one of our newer shooters picks up his first bronze dog tag and 3rd place with 563.0.
Young Guns are great to watch, unless they are showing you how its done and Kaylyn Kingston put on a show, taking 16th overall and 1st place gold with 724.5 points! Anthony Pendleton shot amazingly this month and earns 2nd place silver with 552.6 points and just one impact behind is Kelden Kingston for 3rd place bronze, earning 547.0 points.
That brings us to our last Division and Matt Stajduhar shows us once again who’s the king of the Air Rifles, scoring 714.5 points for 1st place gold and 17th place overall. Troy Fuit and Mike Kofoed battled out for that 2nd place silver tag, but after the last air shot was taken, Troy comes out 1 shot ahead with 582.5 points for second, giving 3rd place bronze to Mike with his 572.0.
Special thanks goes out to our very own Young Gun Easton Baugh who designed this months COF for the entire NRL22 league to use. As always, I want to thank all of our shooters who come in the day before to help set up targets and props and for so many of you who run down range to gather all the targets up and put the props back away after the match. I can never express how much your help means to me. Thank you all and we look forward to seeing you all again next month.
Link to all scores: All Totals
