Contest: Name that old timer Part 3

[Early IPSC'er]

Some of these will be hard to guess.

We'll start with the easiest of the bunch:

This isn't a good picture, but his name's been mentioned on Brian Enos.com:

Now it's getting difficult. Mike Benedict will get this one:

Here's the hardest one of all---even Brian might not know this one:

Finally, how many of the "shoot off" participants from the 82 (or 83?) IPSC Nationals can you name (there are two that I don't know)--sorry, I kind of cut off the guys on the end, but you can still tell who they are:

Thanks for playing.

Edited May 3, 2010 by Early IPSC'er

[Chris Keen]

Finally, how many of the "shoot off" participants from the 82 (or 83?) IPSC Nationals can you name (there are two that I don't know)--sorry, I kind of cut off the guys on the end, but you can still tell who they are: Brian Enos (bottom row, far right), Ron Avery (top row, 2nd from the right), and who could miss Robbies cheesy smile (top row, 3rd from the left?)

[Chris Keen]

Side note: Do the 2 guys in the top row, far left have their holsters located damn near right on their mid-line, where most people would have their 1st mag pouch?

[Early IPSC'er]

Side note: Do the 2 guys in the top row, far left have their holsters located damn near right on their mid-line, where most people would have their 1st mag pouch?

Yes, but who are they???

[outerlimits]

next to robbie is ross seifried and michael plaxco. below them is jim zubiena.

[Early IPSC'er]

next to robbie is ross seifried and michael plaxco. below them is jim zubiena.

Yes, yes and yes. The 2 that I can't identify are the two between Jim and Bill Wilson (who got cut off on the end).

I'm surprised that no one has come up with the name of the guy on TGO's right (left as you look at the pic)--he's in picture #1. Other than TGO himself, he's the most famous guy in the picture in the current firearms world.

Edited May 3, 2010 by Early IPSC'er

[pvhendrix]

To Robbie's right is the BURNER

[Early IPSC'er]

To Robbie's right is the BURNER

Sorry, it's not Barnhart (I'm assuming that's whom you mean).

[Bill Nesbitt]

Shoot Off Picture:

Back row L to R, Don't know, Ed Brown, Rob Leatham, Ross Seifried, Mike Plaxco, Bill Rogers?, Rick Byfield?, John Shaw.

Front row L to R, Bill Wilson, Don't know next 3, Tom Campbell, John Sayle, Brian Enos.

[Early IPSC'er]

Shoot Off Picture:

Back row L to R, Don't know, Ed Brown, Rob Leatham, Ross Seifried, Mike Plaxco, Bill Rogers?, Rick Byfield?, John Shaw.

Front row L to R, Bill Wilson, Don't know next 3, Tom Campbell, John Sayle, Brian Enos.

Back row:

The guy on the left is the same guy in photo #2. Correct on Eddie Brown--conservatively now the most famous person in the photo in the gun industry with the possible exception of TGO. Correct on Rob, Ross, Mike and Bill---wrong on Byfield (although I'm impressed that people remember Rick) correct on Shaw.

Bottom row: correct on Wilson, I don't know the next two, then Jim Zubiena,correct on Campbell, Sayle and Brian. I'm impressed that you got John Sayle, good call.

[Bill Nesbitt]

I shot local matches with John Sayle here in Ohio. That was an easy one.

[Guy Neill]

Far left in back looks like Rick Castelow to me.

Guy

[Early IPSC'er]

Far left in back looks like Rick Castelow to me.

Guy

Correct-o-mundo!!!

Now, who are the guys in pictures #3 & #4?????? Guy, even you may not remember the fellow in #4. (hint: he's from the dark continent).

[Bill Nesbitt]

Picture 3 is John Farnam in the white shirt.

[Early IPSC'er]

Picture 3 is John Farnam in the white shirt.

Good call---back in the day, huh?

The guy with him is Andy Langley, perhaps the most unique shooter that I've ever known. If you look on the thread about the Rhodesia shoot you'll see his pic---Mike Benedict and Andy are good buddies. Andy was in the Marine Corps and served as Elsworth Bunker's body guard while in VietNam--he expatriated to Rhodesia upon discharge and became a Selous Scout---became friends with Raul Walters, Dick Thomas and Ray Chapman at the world shoot and came to the US to work at the Chapman Academy. He, Dick, Raul and Ken Hachathorn formed a company called "Personal Safety" and ran some classes at the Academy for awhile. He was/is a wonderful guy and one of the most talented of the early IPSC competitors.

[benos]

What a fun thread Early IPSC'er!

Pic #4 - What is the first letter of his first name? J?

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[Early IPSC'er]

What a fun thread Early IPSC'er!

Pic #4 - What is the first letter of his first name? J?

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His initials were G.C. (hint: he's not American)

[Guy Neill]

That would be Gavin Carson.

Guy

[benos]

Nice work Guy!

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[Early IPSC'er]

That would be Gavin Carson.

Guy

Yes--good call.

He and Seyfried were super-good buddies. Gavin passed away not too long after this pick IIRC---don't remember what he died of, but he was way too young!

[Guy Neill]

Gavin died of cancer. We put him up when he had a lengthy layover in Houston on his way back home a couple weeks before he died.

I knew I knew the person in the photo, but I needed the hint to put it together.

Guy

[Ross Carter]

I'm pretty sure that the 16th guy who is sitting to the right of Bill Wilson out of the picture is me. A307

[Les Snyder]

the draw and double (triple?) tap by Jim Zubiena for the Miami Vice episode is still my favorite TV shooting sequence

[Flatland Shooter]

the draw and double (triple?) tap by Jim Zubiena for the Miami Vice episode is still my favorite TV shooting sequence

Now that was classic TV. I get goose bumps just remembering it.

Bill

[StraightUp_OG]

I had that episode on tape as a kid and watched it over and over. Best TV Mozambique ever!

I started shooting a few years after that group pic. Serious trip down memory lane.

Still fricken awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA-xIssgT-o