Front page picture of Jack and Jean, caption; Jack Foster and daughter Jean flash a smile inside Accuracy International, o commercial Row, during Smallbore ’99. Jean shot a 2286-90X to win the Mary C. Camp Trophy as the Woman 3-Position Champion. A veteran Olympian and All-American, like her Dad, she has her sights set on the Sydney Games in 2000. Article written by Hap Rocketto. One of the many pleasures of the Camp Perry experience is wandering through commercial row. Over the quarter century at the Nat’l Matches the vendors inhabiting, have changes. Jack Foster was engaged in a close-out sale at Accuracy Int’l. Jack first began supplying shooters with quality equipment and advice around 1973 when he completed a distinguished career with the AMTU. His concession is also the unofficial Camp Perry headquarters of the Stinknik Rifle Club, causing me to idly wonder where they would now hang their annual banquet sigh-up form. The Int’l Shooter’s Hall of Fame inducted Jack in 1996 for his achievements as part of the US shooting juggernaut of the ‘60s and ‘70s. He teamed up with fellow Ft. Benning denizens Lones Wigger, Margaret Thompson Murdock and Jack writer, under the guidance of Bill Pullum, to move the US into the forefront of international shooting. Jack, like his long-time friend and Army teammate Wigger, is also the patriarch of a shooting family. His wife, Tricia, is a former world champion and many times member of the Randle team while daughter Jean is a member of the national rifle team and represented the US like her dad, at the Olympic Games. The 2-time Olympian has decided to retire from his 2nd career and move on to the next phase of his life which will focus on Benchrest (Centerfire), experimentation, and hunting and fishing, etc. This year marked the 80th anniversary of the National Smallbore Rifle Championships. During June of 1919, the NRA charged noted rifleman Capt. Edward Crossman to set up “miniature” rifle matches to run concurrently with the Nat’l Matches slated for the Navy range at Caldwell, NJ in Aug. With little time, and much to do, he enlisted the aid of noted smallbore rifleman and fellow Army officer Capt. G. Watkins, Winchester’s W.H. Richard and Remington Arms Company’s Frank Kahrs. They, in turn, called upon the services of a British marksman living in the States who had been instrumental in mounting the vast annual Bisley Meeting in England, E.J.D. Nesbitt. The 2-day NRA 3-Position Championship consists of 2 – 1200- point aggregate matches, 40 shots each in prone, standing and kneeling fired of the Int’l A-50, 50M target, etc., continues with event highlights. The 5-day prone phase begins with 2 – 1600 metallic sight aggregates, the middle day reserved for various team events and last 2, same as first 2 but with any sights. Each day competitors fire a Dewar Course, 20 shots for record at 50 yards and 20 more at 100 yds., the 100 yd. match of 40 shots, 40 shots for record at 50M in the Meter match, and finally, the 40-shot 50 yd. Match. Lones Wigger made his 1st appearance at the top of the results with a 400-38X in the Yard Match and was the winner of the 1st day’s aggregate with a 1600-134X. Nis nearest competitor, his son, Nat’l Guard Maj. Ron, 1599-122X. For a time, it looked as if Wigger had a disaster that would cost him 10 points and any chance at the title. The scoring crew believed that he had not fired a shot on one of his Meter targets and awarded him a 389! A quick trip to the challenge window, followed by a seemingly endless wait while his targets and backers were carefully reexamined, resulted in not only the unearthing of the missing shot but the discovery that his close 9 was really a 10. He was still down 2 points for the 2- days but he was also the winner of the Hoppe Memorial Trophy as the Nat’l Metallic Sight Champion with a score of 3198-267X. Pg.42. Photo with Randle Team coach, Jean foster, the Captain and smallbore Match Director. As soon as the Dewar Team finished, the women took to the line to compete for the Randle Cup (Jean’s team). The women completed the 100 yd. stage and moved the target frames back to 50 yds. Although no rain fell, the wind did kick up and affected the team’s short-range score to the point that the aggregate of 3987-280X is just marginal for victory. As the other teams have yet to report scores, the team will have to live in suspense, etc. Pg.46. The final day would feature quality scores. Leone, 2-day score of 3200-277X earned him the U.S. Cartridge Co. Trophy as the Nat’l Any sight champion. However, Wigger also shot a 3200 over the last 2-days and only lost 2 points in the metallic sight aggregate. A 3198-533X earned him the National Championship, the Civilian Championship, and the Intermediate Senior Championship. No mention of who won the Randle Cup.