SSAA WA State Muzzleloading Championships – Part 1

The weekend of March 22 and 23 saw 36 assorted muzzleloaders converge on the Perth Muzzle Loading Club for Part 1 of this year’s Western Australian Muzzleloading State Titles. It was the last week end of a long hot summer, with the temperature on both days edging towards the mid 30s and hardly any wind to upset the shooters.

Part 1 of the WA Championships covers pistols, revolvers, muskets, shotguns and cannon, with three types of ignition: matchlock, flintlock and percussion. Breechloading black powder rifles were also shot for the first time using specialised American targets.

For a change, the hot favourites did not sweep all before them and there was a good sprinkling of the medals with new hotshots and many shooters winning their first state medals.

The star of the weekend was Kerwin Bee with five gold medals, followed by Geoff Price and Barry Duckett with four gold each. Three shooters, David Cocking, Kevin Brice and first-time winner Jonathan Harris, each won three gold medals.

Saturday was full on with 11 events that went according to plan from 8am until just before 5pm. Sunday was a little bit different as the four breechloading black powder rifle events took far longer than expected. After an excellent barbecue and with the two shotgun events still to be shot, most of the shooters were verging on shattered (or at least suitably tired) and the conditions were getting rather hot. It was therefore unanimously decided to postpone the shotgun events until the following Saturday morning, which were completed in far less trying conditions.

Some very good scores were posted overall, but the most amazing result was in the breechloading rifle event, 200m Bench Rest, where there was just one point between first and second, and another one point between second and third. Hotshot Justen McGowan only managed a solitary gold, but took away four silvers and six bronze medals. Shotgun favourite Leo Laden crashed to be third in both the percussion and flintlock events.

Thank you to Peter Norgard and Rick Denniston who were chief range officers, and to Jonathan Harris for all his scoring and other computer magic. Other helpers included Frank Della and Derek Clamesia. Thank you everyone for yet another very successful State Titles.

 

25m CL1 Revolver						25m CL2 Pistol					Pistol/Revolver trophy
Name	Precision Revolver	Timed Revolver	Agg	Rank		Precision Pistol	Timed Pistol	Agg	Rank		Total	Rank
David Cocking	87	83	170	1		87	78	165	3		335	1
Kerwin Bee	77	72	149	2		90.1	81.1	171	1		320	2
Kevin Brice	77	59	136	4		88	82	170	2		306	3
Geoff Price	72	57	129	7		91	70	161	4		290	4
Calvin Sheppard	76	56	132	6		81	76	157	6		289	5
Barry Duckett	88	40	128	8		93	68	161	4		289	5
Justen McGowan	86	50	136	4		81	72	153	7		289	5
Leo Laden	72	48	120	9		80	59	139	8		259	8
Bill Longworth	0	28	28	11		72	65	137	9		165	9
Frank Turner	81	58	139	3		0	0	0			139	10
Michael Gibbs	54	45	99	10		0	0	0			99	11

 

CL3 Precision Pistol/Revolver						25m Firelock Pistol
Name	25m	50m	Agg	Rank		Name	Smoothbore	Rank		Name	Rifled	Rank
Kerwin Bee	86.1	81	167	1		Geoff Price	83.1	1		Barry Duckett	83	1
Geoff Price	91	65	156	2		Kerwin Bee	78	2		Kerwin Bee	81	2
Justen McGowan	88	68	156	3		David Cocking	75	3		Justen McGowan	79	3
David Cocking	81.1	69	150	4		Barry Duckett	70	4		Geoff Price	76	4
Leo Laden	85.1	63	148	5		Peter Norgard	65	5		Bill Longworth	75	5
Barry Duckett	86	62	148	6		Kevin Brice	62	6		David Cocking	72	6
Calvin Sheppard	88	39	127	7		Bill Longworth	50	7		Terry Weston	69	7
Bill Longworth	71	48	119	8		Terry Weston	49	8		Kevin Brice	54	8
Kevin Brice	71	47	118	9		Leo Laden	48	9		Leo Laden	46	9
Michael Gibbs	49	0	49	10						Peter Norgard	46	9
										Calvin Sheppard	42	11

 

 

25m Cartridge Pistol						50m Offhand Musket
Name	15 minute	5 minute	Agg	Rank		Name	Firelock	Rank		Name	Open	Rank
Kerwin Bee	82	83	165	1		Kevin Brice	70	1		Geoff Price	85	1
Justen McGowan	82.1	81	163	2		Peter Norgard	67	2		Kevin Brice	80	2
Barry Duckett	87.1	75	162	3		Leo Laden	67	3		Justen McGowan	78	3
Kevin Brice	80	78	158	4		Justen McGowan	62	4		Peter Norgard	76	4
Terry Weston	71	73	144	5		Kerwin Bee	50	5		Keith McKay	76	4
Peter Norgard	47	47	94	6		Keith McKay	35	6		Jonathan Harris	75	6
Leo Laden	37	53	90	7						Leo Laden	68	7
Geoff Price	76	0	76	8						Kerwin Bee	64	8

 

 

Percussion Shotgun				Flintlock Shotgun				25m Canon
Name	Agg	Rank		Name	Agg	Rank		Name	Agg	Rank
Kevin Brice	20	1		Justen McGowan	16	1		Geoff Price	95.2	1
Justen McGowan	17	2		Geoff Price	11	2		Leo Laden	88	2
Leo Laden	15	3		Leo Laden	10	3		Kerwin Bee	80	3
Geoff Price	14	4		Keith McKay	3	4		Peter Norgard	67	4
Keith McKay	10	5
Kerwin Bee	9	6
Jonathan Harris	2	7

 

 

Cartridge Rifle
Name	50m Offhand	Rank		Name	100m Offhand	100m Bench Rest	200m Bench Rest	Agg	Rank
Michael Gibbs	89	1		Jonathan Harris	79	208	198	485	1
Frank Turner	86	2		Greg Kilsby	64	219	196	479	2
Jonathan Harris	77	3		Keith McKay	17	194	197	408	3
Greg Kilsby	74	4		Michael Gibbs	0	154	194	348	4
Keith McKay	71	5		Frank Turner	61	181	0	242	5
Phoebe Harris	56	6
Geoff Price	52.1	7
Kevin Brice	47	8