Shooting News: Comer takes 8th at WA Junior Indoor Rifle Championships
(front left) Kyalynn Comer and Salix Harris and (back left) Greg Mead and Don Jordan competed for Kootenai Valley Rifle Team in 3 position Open Rifle Sectional defeating Sandpoint, 4113 to 3985.
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SPOKANE — Kootenai Valley Jr. Rifle team member Kyalynn Comer took eighth at the Washington State Junior Indoor Rifle Championships on March 9.
This match was 120 shots, taking 40 shots in each of the prone, kneeling and standing positions. A single-shot .22 rifle was used at a distance of 50 feet. To score a ten, a shooter must hit a dot, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence using iron sights.
Comer would score a 1044 out of the 1200 possible and place 8th out of the 43 participants from the two ranges. In her first year in the intermediate class, 15–17-year-olds, she placed fifth out of 28. Using her average score from previous matches, placed her in the A Class where and fourth of 14 and second in the kneeling position.
The following weekend on March 16, the three-position open rifle sectional was held at the Kootenai Valley Range. Twenty-one shooters from Coeur d’Alene, Sandpoint, the Bonners Ferry area, and Troy, Mont., took up the challenge.
The team was shooting on the same course as Comer competed on the previous weekend, the only difference being that either scoped rifles or iron sights were allowed.
Coming out on top was Greg Mead of the Bonners Ferry Kootenai Valley Rifle Team with a score of 1077. Ron Shadel of Sandpoint took second place with a score of 1053 and Emily Rabello of Coeur d’Alene was third with 1031, narrowly defeating junior Salix Harris of Troy who scored 1030 and was first in the sharpshooter class.
The marksman class had the most shooters with 12 of the 13 being under the age of 18. Daphne Garberoglio of Coeur d’Alene was first, scoring 1021. Paige Sartell of Bonners Ferry finished in second place with a 978 followed by teammate Ilena Wenzel with a 969. Alora Rasor of Sandpoint was close behind with a 964.
Match winners in the three positions were Mead for prone, scoring 388 of the 400 possible, Rabello for standing with a 325 and Don Jordan of Bonners Ferry for kneeling with a 374.
The Bonners Ferry Kootenai Valley Club team of Mead, Harris, Jordan and Comer beat the Sandpoint team of Ron Shadel, Gabriel Lester, Rasor and Carson Shadel, by a score of 4113 to 3985.
A match on April 6, in Sandpoint, will end the indoor rifle season for local shooters. They will then head outside for matches in Spokane and Missoula.
If you are interested in learning more about, or returning to, the sport of small-bore rifle shooting, contact Don Jordan at 208-610-0226.