The final day at Extreme Benchrest 2016 was Finals Day! There was lots of big news happening, but let’s cut to the chase. Ted Bier won the Extreme Benchrest Competion with outstanding shooting at 100 yards. Above, we see Ted at the Awards Presentation looking justifiably please with winning the competition and the $5,000 prize!
Full results will be available on the Extreme Benchrest website.
Below we see Ted looking somewhat pensive having just completed his card. But – as we know – he needn’t have worried!
Below, Johan Axelsson looks satisfied with the results of his 100 yard shoot. Like Ted, he was shooting an FX Impact – many of the finalists were using FX airguns and the Impact was very prominent on the firing line.
Among the other winners, AoA stalwart Kip Perow won the American Field Target competition for the .25 caliber and above class. Yes, he was exited, as you can see from the photo below!
Below, Bobby Corcorran looks quietly pleased with his win in the American Field Target for the .25 caliber and below class.
After the award presentations came the raffle. And this is not just any raffle. There were prizes valued in total at over $31,000 – yes $31K!!! All you had to do was buy a ticket, put it into the box and be lucky enough to have that ticket pulled-out as winner for a prize. As you can imagine, LOTS of raffle tickets were purchased…
Raffle prizes were provided by many well-known manufacturers in the airgun world. But the main sponsors were Daystate, FX, Diana and Raptor Pneumatics, the company behind the outstanding Omega compressors.
Here’s some more views of the mouth-watering raffle prizes available.
Above, a Western Big Bore air rifle and plenty of Dianas. My guess is that there was almost one example of every Diana air rifle in the current line-up in the raffle. And then there were compressors from Raptor Pneumatics and Daystate, below.
And Brocock and Daystate air rifles. By the time of the drawing, there were LOTS of tickets in those boxes for the compressors and PCP air rifles. The raffle box for the FX Impact, in particular, was almost overflowing. I’m reliably (?) informed that one competitor bought hundreds of Dollars-worth of tickets and put them all into the box for the Impact!
We’ll finish HAM’s coverage of Extreme Benchrest 2016 with one final look down the firing line during the Speed Silhouette finals…
… and a reminder that the whole Extreme Benchrest event was the result of a huge amount of work and effort by the entire AoA team. Not all of it is glamorous and some of it is just plain hard work that goes un-noticed by most competitors. Thanks Airguns of Arizona!
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