The #1 contender for a position on the Olympic team from Arizona is John Zurek. He's been training for this event for six or seven years and is ranked #5 in the country. I'll be training with him almost daily at the range for the next month, along with Jay Shi, a younger shooter who's shown a lot of promise. Jay won the Canadian Grand Prix in Air Pistol in 2006. Free Pistol is a relatively new event for me -- I've only done it on and off for about a year -- there's much to learn before the trials.

Free Pistol is 60 shots in two hours at a 2" 10 ring from 50 meters away with a .22 pistol, one handed. World class shooters will hit that 2" at least half of those shots, and not leave the 9 ring -- about 3 1/2 inches -- for the remaining shots.

On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:55 PM, Gale wrote:

az_pistolero <az_pistolero@mac.com> wrote:
On a note related to PRGCGC, there are at least four Arizona shooters
heading to Fort Benning, Georgia in May for the Olympic Free Pistol
Selection Match. With two slots available, we're hoping at least one
of us will be making the trip to the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics --
wish us luck!
You have to be one of them. I would love to cheer on someone I know (sorta know lol) who is in the Olympics. Please keep us updated.

Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking

Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes
On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated -- so:
"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges --
"Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"

Rudyard Kipling , The Explorer 1898

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