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SGT Augustus Dunfey (left) and SSG Tyrel Cooper (right) claimed the William Randolph Hearst Trophy and set a new record for the match.
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CAMP PERRY, OH – United Stated Army Marksmanship Unit members SSG Tyrel Cooper, 28, of Fort Benning, GA, and SGT Augustus Dunfey, 29, of Phenix City, AL, set a new record and claimed the top prize in the Hearst Doubles Team Match, held July 31.
SSG Cooper had recorded the previous record at last year’s matches with CPL Matthew Rawlings, with their score of 593-21x. The team of Cooper and Dunfey fired a 594-22x to win the William Randolph Hearst Trophy.
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SSG Tyrel Cooper (standing) was also the overall high shooter of the competition.
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“It was just another day at the office,” said SSG Cooper. “It’s cool to win it back to back and to set a record with someone else.”
Breaking a record once, let alone two years in a row, wasn’t something that Cooper anticipated. According to him, it’s something a shooter shouldn’t even think about, let alone expect.
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After donating his kidney, Mark Schoess (foreground) decided shooting in the Hearst Doubles would be a good way for he and recipient Tim Boyle (background) to celebrate Tim’s recovery from kidney disease.
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“When it comes to shooting, you can’t think of breaking a record because as soon as you think about that, it gets in the back of your mind and you start shooting bad. The only time I started thinking about it was when we got done shooting,” he said. “Dunfey was excited. He was really excited to have his name on a record.”
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Members of the M1 for Vets team took part in the match.
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Though now forever immortalized in the record books, the team of Dunfey and Cooper are actually a fairly recent pair. As Cooper says, they have the sort of working relationship that has become beneficial to the both of them in unexpected ways.
“This is my first year shooting with Dunfey. We push each other,” he said. “In this match, it’s only two shooters, and you can make it or break it very quickly. It really surprised me how well we did.”
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Shooters take a break in between pit changes on the
firing line.
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Cooper also snagged the overall individual ranking, with his score of 297-13x, while Dunfey claimed second with a close score of 297-9x. SSgt. Timothy Snyder, USMC, 31, of Nuevo, CA, came up just short for third overall, firing a 296-11x.
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The team of Snyder-Lyons, SSgt. Timothy Snyder and SSgt. James Lyons, came in second in the match with their combined score of 588-20x.
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Taking the second place position in the overall team competition was the team of Snyder and Lyons, consisting of SSgt. Timothy Snyder and SSg. James Lyons, USMC, 28, of Quantico, VA, with their score of 588-20x. The team of Watson and Swearingen took third in the competition, firing a 587-19x. Members of the team are SSgt. Eric Swearingen, 30, of El Cajon, CA, and MSgt. Julia Watson, 37, of Provo, UT.
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Christopher Brown of Barberton, OH, smiles after he reviews the score he and his partner Christopher McDaniels of Grand Prairie, TX, shot in the match.
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The Hearst Doubles Rifle Team Match has been fired at the National Matches since 2006. During the match, two-person teams go head-to-head in a 30-shot course of fire using service rifles. Both members of the team must fire 10 slow standing shots at 200 yards, 10 rapid prone from standing 300 yards and 10 slow prone at 600 yards, on the same target. As other National Trophy Rifle Matches, shooters are not permitted sighters before firing their record shots.
For a complete list of results for the Hearst Doubles Team
Match, go to
http://ct.thecmp.org/app/v1/index.php?do=match&task=getMatchResultsDetail&MatchId=9827&EventId=12&AwardId=1&mode=Print. Photos can be viewed at
http://cmp1.zenfolio.com/p858070142.
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