He-Man 3-Gun National Championship May 10-11, 2014

[Dan Sierpina]

Regardless of the weekend, someone will have conflicts. It's not Memorial Day weekend, is it?

[Benelli Chick]

Regardless of the weekend, someone will have conflicts. It's not Memorial Day weekend, is it?

It is not! That's the weekend before!

[HRider]

I sure hope to be there next year. Maybe it will work out for me. I really enjoyed the 2013 He Man.

Hurley

[Benelli Chick]

I tried to write an article on the amazing shooters at the 2014 He-Man National Championships for "Shooting Wire" but I must have done something wrong.

So: Congratulations to the He-Man National 3-Gun Champions!

May 10-11, 2014, the He-Man National 3-Gun Championship was held at the NRA Whittington Center in Raton, New Mexico. Shooters competed in 7 natural terrain stages all over the 33,000 acres of the Whittington Center. Stages all had time outs of 300 seconds or longer.

The He-Man Iron Champion is once again, Kuan Watson who has won the title for all 3 years of the championship. Kuan has spent the year, since last year’s JP RM3G, shooting…well, NOT He-Man. In his first match back behind the big guns, he wins again, against 2^nd place Michael Payne and 3^rd place JJ Johnson.

The He-Man Scope Champion is the first two year’s wee-man champion, Jared Millinazzo in his first match appearance shooting He-Man gear! He squeaked out a win against 2^nd place, Michael Atha and 3^rd place Don Bednorz.

In wee-man, with Jared gone, it was up for grabs. RO Craig Calkins beat the field to win the mini trophy and wee-man tiara. He beat top wee-man junior, Orin Atha, by less than 5% and 3^rd place John Reid. (wee-man is a division for staff and friends of He-Men that don’t shoot the big guns.)

For the first time, the championship had a lady He-Man, Diana Driscoll who did an amazing job.

The division of He-Man was born back in 2003 at the first Rocky Mountain 3-Gun. Eddie Rhodes, a Pueblo police officer, is considered the first He-Man. All the shirts sport two of his favorite phrases, “9mm makes you weak” and what he used to say to shooters when he was RO’ing instead of stand-by…”Prepare for Glory.” Eddie passed in 2010.

He-Man Nationals is one of the lucky matches that gets to include the Eddie Rhodes memorial trophy which is like the Stanley Cup, but better. Top He-Men Law shooters are engraved on the base of the trophy. This year’s winners, are the same as the past two years: top shooters Kuan Watson and Tate Moots.

All He-Men must use a .308 (scoped or iron), a .45 pistol and a 12 gauge pump shotgun.

Congratulations to all our top finishers. Go to: http://home.earthlink.net/~johnson3gun/id12.html for more information and results.

Thanks to all our sponsors that made this match possible: 3-Gun Stuff, A Girl and a Gun, Blacksheep Manufacturing, Brownells, Burris, C&M Targets, CPWSA, Deadwood Stoves, Dillon, DPMS, Dreadnaught, DSG Arms, Dynamic Resistance, Eggleston Munitions, Ergo Grips, Firebird Precision, Hornady, JP Enterprises, Magpul, The Metal Man, MGT, Nordic Components, ProEars, Redding Reloading, Rocky Mountain Targets, Safariland, Seekins Precision, The Shooter's Source, Sierra Bullets, SpecOps, Sportsman's Warehouse, Springfield Armory, StagArms, Troy Industries, Truckvault, Vortex Optics, Warne Scope Mounts and XS Sights

There were pictures, too, but...not competent enough to get them in here, so go to: http://rm3gun.smugmug.com/ and look at the ones for He-Man 2104!!!!

Congratulations to everyone and thanks to all our sponsors! See you again next year, May 30-31, 2015!

Denise

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http://home.earthlink.net/~johnson3gun/id1

Edited June 7, 2014 by Benelli Chick