June Competitions

Team Hornady® (TH) sent its best 3-Gun competitors to the second invitational 3-Gun Nation Pro Series event, June 16, 2012, at the South River Gun Club in Covington, Georgia. Hornady® ammo gave five team members the accuracy they needed to finish in the top 15, out of 64 competitors. The main match course featured five short stages with average time limits of 45 seconds. Loose gravel on the bay surfaces made quick stage-to-stage moves tricky.

Match results were determined by a sixth stage shoot-off for the top scorers, with Team Hornady's® Keith Garcia placing second, Clint Upchurch eighth, Michael Voigt ninth, Adam Popplewell eleventh, and veteran shooter Patrick Kelly twelfth.

Team Hornady® member Bobby McGee took High Overall ESP Division Champion at the 2012 Golden Gate IDPA Championships in Richmond, California on June 9, 2012, where more than 150 competitors shot 11 stages throughout the 10-hour match. "Most of the stages featured tight shots with non-threats, swingers, moving targets, and prone stages," said McGee. "Hornady .355 147 grain FMJ RN provided the accuracy and reliability I needed to win."

Rob Ormond also finished sixth at the 2012 Snipers Hide Cup, held at a private 7,000-acre ranch in Douglas, Wyoming, June 21-23, 2012. This long-range precision field rifle match left no room for error, as practical shooting skills, target recognition, ranging and wind estimation were key.

Ormond shot Hornady® 208 grain A-MAX® bullets in his 300 Win Mag rifle, and Hornady® Steel Match® 125 grain HAP® in his 9mm pistol. Ormond explained, "The 208 grain A-MAX bullets gave me the high ballistic coefficient and velocity I needed in my 300 Win Mag. It shot flat and did better in the high switching winds of Wyoming, as well as having a lot of energy when they hit the steel targets."