The North American FITASC Champioships.......GREAT TARGETS

Folks,
I'm in a Holiday Inn, part if the way home from Bucksnort, TN and the North American FITASC Championships. Its been a long weekend, with plenty of crappy weather, muddy roads, and great targets! The North American Championships is the new name for the old Pan American FITASC Championships, and is still a FITASC World Cup event, and this year is also a TEAM USA Qualifier. After 8 great parcours, I came from 3 targets behind ( after Saturday's scores ) and tied my old friend Jon Kruger on a score of 190x200. We were both pleased as target setter, former World FITASC Champion for the UK, Ben Husthwaite had predicted that the winning score would be no higher than 188, and probably as low as 182! After a full parcour shootoff, I edged out Jon for the HOA Gold Medal. It was a fun shootoff, and certainly one I won't soon forget!

I'm cold and tired, and soon to be asleep, but here are a few pics.....

The targets were a hard bit of work, but shooting FITASC still beats working!

Best,

Will

Done with instruction for the week.....on to the North American FITASC Championship!

I finished up teaching today in Georgia @ Big Red Oak Plantation, and got in a bit of practice today with my buddies Randy Travalia and  Larry Farrow. Larry is still recovering from shoulder surgery, but he shot well today. Randy shot well, as always, and he looks like he has his game face on for this weekend's big shoot in TN....

The North American FITASC Championships in Bucksnort, TN.

I felt pretty good in practice today, and am looking forward to hitting the parcours. My buddy Ben Husthwaite is over from the UK to set the targets, so that should be well inhand. The targets should be great! If you love FITASC, I'll see you at the shoot!

Best,

Will

The National FITASC is Over, Congrats to Byron Justice!

Well, another National FITASC Championships are in the record books, and a hearty round of congratulations go out to Byron Justice, our new National Champion. Well done Byron. It was a hard fought event, with very challenging targets. Challenging, but fair. I would go back and pay to shoot them tomorrow, if they were still up! Well done Rio Brazos, and especially great job by the target setter, Randy Voss of Caribou Gun Club from Minnesota.

I shoot well enough on the first day, pretty well on the second, and let myself down on the last. Ending up Master 3rd. I shot fair in the 2 sporting events. The main thing is that I really feel the competitive edge coming back to my game, and I'm fired up for my next registered event in 2 weeks time at the North American FITASC Grand Prix.

See you there......

Best,

Will

World FITASC Registration is OPEN

Folks,
The 2010 World FITASC Sporting Championship registration is now open. FITASC's website says that registration will not open till Jan. 18th, but if you go to the site and register a new membership card[ required for the new site anyway] it will let you register. At the time I got my entry in ( 8:40 pm EST on 1/15/2010) there were already 485 entries. They are only taking 1200, so this will go quickly. If you have ANY interest in going to this great shoot, I suggest you enter RIGHT NOW. If you are not sure, read the website, because there is a date that if you withdraw by, you get most of your $$$$ back.

New FITASC Website

See you in ITALY!

Will

More thoughts on the new NSCA Team USA selection Process

I'm very pleased that the International Committee has listened to input from shooters, and modified the selection process. We  now have a limited number of shoots where competitors can be compared, and a numerical, black and white, transparent method of comparison. This answers most of the complaints that have been leveled at the system in the past. Going forward, for this system to work well, the IC will have to give much thought to the allocation of these selection shoots.

Deciding which clubs get these shoots has been problematic in the past, and this process will just add to the scrutiny. There have been many times in the past when there weren't enough clubs even interested when it came to the FITASC selection shoots. 

Now that the IC has done a great job of modifying the selection process, I would like to see them make the process of selecting the clubs to host the shoots just as well thought out and transparent.

NSCA continues to tweak the TEAM USA selection process,...maybe they have it right .....finally?

Well gang, we have complained, and it looks like they have listened! The international committee of NSCA[ that is the group that manages the TEAM USA process and all international sporting[ English Sporting and FITASC] interests in the USA, has revised, again, the process for making the team. Follow the link below.....

2011Team Selection Process

....now understand, this is the process for selection of the 2011 team. This means that this governs the 2010 shoots that will select the 2011 team. They got it done just in time!

I will post further on this update, but on first blush, it certainly seems to make the situation MUCH better than last year, and all years in the past. Thank you goes out to the International Committee!

Best,

Will