Duke's Claybusters - Finals
(Photo courtesy of Ron Campbell)Front row: Kamen Nelson, Zadok Steffen, Melanie Campbell, Isaac Bliss, Ryan Carelli Second Row: Colin Fairchild, Dillon McLeish, Cassidy Underhill Back Row: Malia Steffen, Wyatt McDonald, Seth Rice, Wade Rice, Torsten Conover
Bonners Ferry High School Trap team “Duke’s Claybusters” are champions for the second year. 2020 and 2021 in the Big Sky INET eight-week competition, and for the first time, took the Youth Division of the Spokesman-Review eight-week competition against 22 club teams throughout the Inland Northwest.
The final results are in for the Big Sky INET winter shoot, Jan 3 – Feb 21.
Top Junior Shooters
Ace Thomas 347 Yakima WA
Colin Fairchild 343 Bonners Ferry
Seth Rice 322 Bonners Ferry
Top Sub-Junior Shooters
Dillon McLeish 318 Bonners Ferry
Wyatt McDonald 285 Bonners Ferry
Malia Steffen 258 Bonners Ferry
Top Junior Team Scores:
Bonners Ferry “Duke’s Claybusters” – 1330 targets
Sandpoint – 456 targets
Yakima Valley Sports Association – 347 targets
Other individual scores: Wade Rice – 318, Torsten Conover – 146, Isaac Bliss – 288, Zadaok Steffen – 251, Cassidy Underhill – 282, Kamen Nelson – 295, Ryan Carelli – 264, Melanie Campbell – 300, and new shooter Trenton Myers breaking 13 – 18 and 20 improving every day.
The Spokesman-Review Shoot Youth Division
Top Junior Team Scores:
Bonners Ferry High School – 742 targets
Spangle, Wash. – 740 targets
Wallace-Kellogg ID – 724 targets
Dukes Claybusters Juniors - Total Targets out of 200
Colin Fairchild 177
Cassidy Underhill 177
Seth Rice 177
Wade Rice 173
Kamen Nelson 166
Melanie Campbell 159
Isaac Bliss 158
Ryan Carelli 150
Torsten Conover 90
Sub-Juniors
Dillon McLeish 179
Wyatt McDonald 161
Zadok Steffen 139
Malia Steffen 134
The Claybusters individual scores did not place first or second in the Spokesman-Review shoot, but they won first in the team competition out of 22 teams. What a great effort, something the team members will always have to remember.
The Camas Prairie competition is a 10 week shoot ending this next weekend March 14, 2021. The Claybusters are only 12 targets behind the 1st place team holding on to second place. I know the Claybusters will give it their best effort as they always do.
Bonners Ferry Gun Club
The regular members individual scores are as follow:
Spokesman-Review 16 yard scores 200 target
AA Class: Bill Bustillos – 169
A Class: Jason Keate – 165
B Class: Paul Carelli – 162
C Class: Wally Dinning – 161
D Class: Dennis Smith – 160
Ladies Class: Melanie Campbell – 159
Sr. Vet Class: Lonny Jelinek – 179
The Bonners Ferry women took twelfth placeh in the women’s division out of 23 teams. Pretty good for the first time our ladies have entered.
Bonners Ferry’s team took 8th place in division III, out of 15 teams.
Big Sky INET
Bonners Ferry Gun Club came in fourth place out of nine teams entered, not too bad for the over-the-hill gang.
Bonners Ferry Gun Club in club competition
This week the individual in club competition winners:
A Class: Bill Bustillos
B Class: Kristie Campbell
Congratulations to you both!
These following scores are for the best 8 weeks scores out of 10 weeks.
A Class, Score out of 400 targets
Wally Dinning - 342
Lonny Jelinek - 332
Paul Carelli - 331
Bill Bustillos - 323
Jason Keate - 311
B Class, Score out of 400 targets
Ron Campbell - 306
Dean Nelson - 305
Jake Jacobson - 303
Michael Compton - 302
Kristie Campbell - 300
C Class, Score out of 400 targets
Dennis Smith - 292
Ken Brink - 284
Mike Pruitt - 283
Brian McDonald - 296
As you can see, Wally took advantage of us older shooters as well as the younger ones, LOL. Great shooting, Wally!
The Annie Oakleys went well again as the Ladies Campbell gang finally cooled off a little and let a few others shooters win. What great Fun!
I thank all the Claybusters and the club members who shot in the cold, tough and windy weather to support our gun club and let the Northwest know where Bonners Ferry is.
Shoot safe and keep your powder dry.
Coaches Lonny and Ron