Periodical; NRA Tournament News. Tennessee and Georgia smallbore rifle competition., Jan. 27-28, 1973
Scope and Contents
In the Tennessee State Gallery Championships at Nashville on Jan. 27, Wigger walked off with the four-position aggregate title. Maj.John Foster, took honors the next day in an encounter at the Mid-Winter Int'l Rifle Championships at Norcross, GA. In GA,the Army squad and a two-man Army Reserve team hung up nine new national records in a hotly contested battle. The Army's two-man wrecking crew of Foster and Wigger set new high marks in the aggregate when they won it with their combined score of 2334. This established new open and service records. They also established open and service records in the half-course, when they won that coompetition. In the quarter-course iron sight int'l competition, Foster and Wigger, at 580, gained a new service record. Individually, Foster grabbed the tournament plum when he fired a top aggregate of 1168 in the three-position smallbore iron-sight tourney. He also won the kneeling event and tied the standing match on his way to the championship. In the four-man team match, the Foster-led squad also ruled supreme as they took the prone and kneeling competition along with the aggregate, while the reserves claimed the standing event.
Dates
- Jan. 27-28, 1973
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Language of Materials
English
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