cliffwalsh Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Luke won the silver metal at the International Police and Fireman's Olympics this week in Orlando. I don't know what the actual name of the event was but it was a man on man falling steel match with a revolver. He lost 1st place by only a few fractions of a second to a Russian. (I guess he thought he was in Georgia ) Luke won the gold in the Florida event the last 2 years. Luke will have to come on and give better details. I guess he is world famous too. ps. I take most of the credit for his win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JThompson Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Luke won the silver metal at the International Police and Fireman's Olympics this week in Orlando. I don't know what the actual name of the event was but it was a man on man falling steel match with a revolver. He lost 1st place by only a few fractions of a second to a Russian. (I guess he thought he was in Georgia ) Luke won the gold in the Florida event the last 2 years. Luke will have to come on and give better details.I guess he is world famous too. ps. I take most of the credit for his win. Kewl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopalong Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Hop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
41mag Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Congrats Luke. Very well done my friend. Heres another (in case Cliff gets the other!) 41mag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airedale Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Cliff, Once again your expert guidance and leadership guides another of Americas youth to success. What a guy! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheetahs Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Good Job!!!!!!! Let's get the gold next year. We are all behind you. Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Fay Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Thanks Cliff for the kind worlds, The event is speed steel man against man match, you start with your back to the plate rack, that has 4 plates that are color coded, (red, blue,yellow, green) and a stop plate that are crossed poppers, It is a best 2 out of 3 match that is single elimination, winner advances. Range officers give the load and make ready command, the both competitor turn their backs, the range officer then selects of color, from a dispay that sits between the two shooter. So the go signal is given you turn, knock a stage prop down with you stong hand from at table your standing in front of, draw find what color is up, you have to shoot that color plate first, then run the rest of the steel. Failure to knock down the stage prop, is a fault, shooting wrong color is a fault, and shooting the stop plate before all plate steel is a fault. It is alot of fun and you can run ALOT of shooters though in a little time, the only thing that is different for the venue is you have to shoot Frangible Round only. We had shooters from all over the US, Canada, Russia, and Austraila, The gold event for revolver was Russia vs. USA, and in classic Olympic style it was settled by less than a tenth of a second, we were both hitting to stop plate at the same time, and both trying to drive down the stop popper with our extra shot. But Russia got the stop popper down, and took Gold, with USA Silver, as a side note Russia also took Bronze. All in all had a great day of shooting and competing with good people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carmoney Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Sounds fun. Luke, nice job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pskys2 Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Well Done!!! Sounds like fun among the "Steely Eyed Ones". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chemepharmd Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Congratulations, Luke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolguy Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Great shooting Luke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajarrel Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Congratulations, Luke dj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoonie Posted August 23, 2008 Share Posted August 23, 2008 Congratulations Luke! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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