NRA F-Class Championship: Walt's Day 4 Write-up

It’s Friday already and we are just one day from completion of the F-class national championships. Today was the first day of 1000-yard competition. The weather cooperated today with clear skies, temperatures beginning in the low thirties rising to the high fifties. Wind was light to medium in strength but very tricky to read as it was shifting direction very quickly from 200 yards to the targets. Three matches were fired with each 15 shots for record. It was possible to score 450-45x. Going into today’s F-T/R competition Danny Biggs was leading with his score of 444-19x. After the day’s firing was completed, Danny was still leading with an aggregate score of 868-24x, having fired individual match scores of 140-0x, 141-1x and 143-4x, for a day’s total of 424-5x. That was 2 points better than Darrell Buell’s aggregate score of 866-18x. It appears the championship will be determined amongst 4 competitors in that there are only three others within 5 points of Danny.

In the F-open championship the day began with Bob Bock leading with his score of 444-22x. Bob was knocked out of first place by Nick Taylor who fired three scores of 150-7x, 150-6x and 145-3x for a daily aggregate score of 445-16x. Larry Bartholome, Jim Murphy, and Bret Solomon bested Bob Bock’s score and also moved up in the overall aggregate for the championship. Charles Ballard started being noticed as a contender for the championship when he moved up in the standings firing three excellent scores of 150-8x, 149-8x, and 149-8x to post the best aggregate of the day, 448-24x. Going into Saturday, Charles is just 1 point behind Nick with Mike Downey in third just 4 points out of first. There are just 5 shooters within 6 points of the top score and the championship will probably be decided amongst those 6 competitors.