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Milestone target highlights trap shoot

Kelowna shooter hits 450,000th target of career in Spallumcheen
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Vernon香蕉视频直播檚 Don Reynolds takes aim at a target during the North Okanagan Trap and Skeet Club香蕉视频直播檚 Honours Day shoot in Spallumcheen. (Roger Knox/morning star)

Kelowna香蕉视频直播檚 Les Madsen raised his trusty weapon, took aim, and gave the voice command for the trap to be released from the hut.

Madsen obliterated the orange White Flyer trap target, the 450,000 registered Pacific International Trapshooting Association target hit of his career, done during the first day of the two-day Honours Shoot, hosted by the North Okanagan Trap and Skeet Club in Spallumcheen.

香蕉视频直播淲e celebrate these milestones as they are important for the shooters to achieve such, and it香蕉视频直播檚 also an honour for our gun club to host the event where he shot the target,香蕉视频直播 said Lisa Salt of the host club. 香蕉视频直播淟es is the first person ever to have shot his milestone target for 450,000 at our club. In fact, Les is one of the few PITA shooters to even reach 450,000 targets.香蕉视频直播

Over the past few years, Madsen has achieved his goal of being the shooter who has shot the most targets for the year in the entire PITA, which covers all of Western Canada and the United States.

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Madsen, however was kept out of the prizes at the Honours Shoot. Salt, however, picked up four division wins.

She beat clubmate Hugh McWhirter and High Prairie, Alta.香蕉视频直播檚 Jesse Smith in a shootoff to win the Joe and Helen Richter Singles A Class event after all three hit 96/100 targets. Bruce Davies of the host club won the B Class with 97.

Jerry Broten was the Perpetual event winner, hitting 99/100 targets in the C Class. Tom Ginn of North Okanagan won the High Vet event with 94, while Mike Noer of the host club won the High Senior Vet with 98.

Salt beat Ginn in the Rod Macindoe Doubles event in a shootoff after both hit 93/100 targets. Salt was also the event香蕉视频直播檚 perpetual winner. She won the Art Salt High Over All honour (named after her dad, Art, who competed and won the High Elder class in the Henry Rottacker Singles with 81/100) by shooting 452/500 targets, and won the High Over All for the A class.

Other North Okanagan winners: Bob Coleman - 96 (High Senior Vet, Henry Rottacker Singles); Noer - 89 (Short Yard John Genier Handicap); Davies - 88 (C Class Rod Macindoe Doubles); Coleman - 91 (D Class, Rod Macindoe Doubles); McWhirter - 91 (Long Yard Hank Dedish Handicap).

The North Okanagan Trap and Skeet Clubs hosts two-to-three registered trap shoots each year plus a number of fun shoots.

香蕉视频直播淲e have one skeet shoot and one sporting clay shoot,香蕉视频直播 said Salt. 香蕉视频直播淲e welcome new members, and we are available to help people learn the game, choose equipment, and basic introduction on how to shoot in each of these disciplines.香蕉视频直播

The club is open Wednesday afternoons and Sunday mornings for practice, and its website for updates is www.shootNOTSC.com.

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Kelowna香蕉视频直播檚 Les Madsen (right) shot the 450,000 target of his career in Spallumcheen during the North Okanagan Trap and Skeet Club香蕉视频直播檚 Honours Day shoot. Witnessing the milestone target were Madsen香蕉视频直播檚 squad mates Jerry Broten (from left), Bob Coleman, Boyd Madsen and Brian Bowman.


Roger Knox

About the Author: Roger Knox

I am a journalist with more than 30 years of experience in the industry. I started my career in radio and have spent the last 21 years working with Black Press Media.
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