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Thanks to sportingspecialist for posting the pics.
The top picture is of me shooting at the 2011 World Rimfire Championships held near Charleston SC. This picture appeared in the Charleston Post and Carrier paper, taken by one of their photographers doing an article on the event. The fellow to my left is an Italian shooter and was a real nice guy. To qualify for the US team, I finished 2nd in 2010 (lost by 2Xs) in the 2010 US IR50/50 Nationals (3 gun; Sporter, 10.5 lb and 13.5 lb classes). You'll be all happy to know that Team US cleaned up big time at that World Championship. My sporter rifle in the picture is a Turbo action, Broughton Barrel, Bill Pippin Stock with a Jewell 2 oz. trigger. The rifle was smithed by Gordon Eck of Claryville NY. I still have that rifle, Bill Pippin is no longer with us and it's irreplaceable.
The middle picture is an early one (2002 or 2003), showing me shooting my Cooper 57M at a local benchrest match. Note my equipment got a little more sophisticated as time went on. I love and still have that Cooper. It shot well enough to get me to go to my first benchrest match. I won the sporter class on my first outing. That Cooper won many local matches for me, beating CZs, Win 52 and Anschutz rifles fairly routinely and several custom rifles on occasion. 1st year production Cooper 57M with 2 digit serial #.
The bottom picture is a picture of my custom Turbo Sporter and trophies won at the 2013 IR50/50 NYS & Regional NE Championship. It was a 2 day 12 target event (NY 3 targets @ 50 yd, NY 3 targets@ 50 Meters, Regional 3 targets 50 yd. Regional 3 targets at 50 Meters). The blue target in the middle is 1st place for the 12 target, 2 day event.
