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| Teams: Reading Rifle: Bob Ward, Jerry DeCosta, Charlie Trickett, Paul Jenkins (Placed 1st in their division) Mass Rifle: Bob Collins, George Marshall, M. Jenkins, Bill O'Neil (Placed 13th in their division) |
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Some
comments from Mass Rifle Team Member Bob Collins: Quantico
is "the crossroads of the USMC" as well as the home of its
rifle team and scout/sniper school.
We drove down on Thursday, June 26th and shot two 1,000-yard
matches on Friday, shot the Virginia High Power Championship Match on
Saturday and drove back on Sunday - a good weekend.
As
you can see from the photos a 1,000 yards is quite a bit of distance (a
mile being 1760 yards) and on June 27, 2003 it was 99 degrees as well.
I found out later that the range was nick-named "Death
Valley". We
shot two matches that day - an individual followed by a team match.
Although the "official" results are not in yet, I heard
that a combined Mass. Rifle / Reading Team won first place in the team
event. One
may ask why drive all that way just to shoot 1,000 yards and then get up
the next day and shoot again? Three
reasons: 1)
Like the mountain climber said, “because it's there” - civilians no
longer have "the privilege" to shoot anything over 600 yards
in all of New England; 2)
We got to compete side by side with a lot of great shooters from the
USMC Rifle Team, Army Marksmanship Unit and other services and reserve
units as well as other civilian teams;
3)
It was FUN!!
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