ARKANSAS STATE BB GUN CHAMPIONSHIP

Submitted by Gary Jobe, Match Director

The climate could have been chilly outdoors, however contained in the Benton County Fairground Exhibit Constructing in Bentonville, Ark., the competitors was HOT! Held Saturday, Feb. 8, the competitors was the 2025 Arkansas State BB Gun Championship. Over 90 younger girls and boys, 15 years of age and youthful, competed for prime honors and awards.

Many individuals would possibly contemplate a BB Gun extra of a toy, however don’t inform that to those younger athletes that shoot at a “bullseye 10-ring” the scale of this dot at distances of 5 meters (16 ft 4.85 inches). Every youth fires 10 photographs in 4 Olympic-style positions: susceptible, standing, sitting and kneeling.  In addition they take a 50-question firearms security examination. An ideal rating in all occasions would equal 500 factors, however it often takes a rating within the higher 460’s to put within the match. 

Athletes compete as five-person groups and as people. First, second and third place awards are introduced in 4 classes: Group Award, Group/Particular person Division, Alternate Particular person Division and Champion Particular person Division. The highest three groups advance and characterize Arkansas on the Daisy Nationwide BB Gun Championship held in Rogers, Ark., in June. The highest three total winners in every of the three Particular person Divisions acquired a “Particular Version” Engraved Daisy Avanti Mannequin 499 BB Rifle.

THE WINNERS:

TEAM COMPETITION
1^ST Place: Central Arkansas Hawkeyes “Blue Group” – Total Rating 2247, 51 Bullseyes.
Colt Jones, John Gibson, Hagen Carter, Kristian Robinson, Bria Butler; Coached by Andy Faulkner
2^nd Place: Central Arkansas Hawkeyes “Purple Group” – Total Rating 2145, 35 Bullseyes
Jeremiah Blount, Harper Zeilter, Hayes Scroggin, Carter West, Piper Wells; Coached by Dustin Henson
3^rd Place: Greene County Group #1 –Total rating 2138, 27 Bullseyes.
Maverick Moss, Jace King, Zoey Eubanks, Kale Head, Max Grey; Coached by Daniel King

INDIVIDUAL DIVISION
1^ST Place: Colt Jones, Central Arkansas Hawkeyes “Blue Group” – Rating 460, with 15 Bullseyes
2^nd Place: Corley Locke, Madison County “Bullseye Group” – Rating 460 with 11 Bullseyes
3^rd Place: Emma Ogden, Madison County “Bullseye Group” – Rating 456 with 7 Bullseyes

ALTERNATE INDIVIDUAL DIVISION
1^ST Place: Joseph Haywood, Greene County – Rating 449 with 6 Bullseyes
2^nd Place: Lynlee King, Ozark Youth Taking pictures Group (Bentonville) – Rating 424 with 8 Bullseyes
3^rd Place: Lyla Smith, Madison County – Rating 365 with 4 Bullseyes

CHAMPIONS INDIVIDUAL DIVISION
1^ST Place: Evan Martin, Central Arkansas Hawkeyes – Rating 463 with 9 Bullseyes
2^nd Place: Tayhlor Henson, Central Arkansas Hawkeyes – Rating 460 with 13 Bullseyes
3^rd Place: Kaitlyn Edwards, Central Arkansas Hawkeyes – Rating 446 with 4 Bullseyes

The Arkansas BB Gun Championship a program of the Arkansas BB/Air Gun Program and is open to any boy or woman underneath the age of 15 that has an curiosity in studying how one can safely deal with a gun and change into concerned in aggressive youth taking pictures sports activities. AR BB/AGP is supported by the Arkansas Rifle and Pistol Affiliation, Arkansas Pals of NRA and Arkansas Gun and Cartridge Collectors Membership.

For info on this and plenty of different youth taking pictures applications, please contact akansascompetitions@gmail.com. For a whole checklist of rivals, groups and scores, go to https://www.orionscoring.com/.

The Civilian Marksmanship Program is a federally chartered 501 (c) (3) non-profit company. It’s devoted to firearm security and marksmanship coaching and to the promotion of marksmanship competitors for residents of the US. For extra details about the CMP and its applications, log onto www.TheCMP.org.