02-01-08 World Class Steel affiliates with USPSA/Steel Challenge.
PRESS RELEASE
Date: January 30, 2008
Contact:
John Soltesz, Executive Director
John Perciballi, Match
Development Director
Phone: 732-494-0274
Fax:
732-767-9516
Email: Match_director@WorldClassSteel.com
Website:
www.WorldClassSteel.com
World Class Steel Affiliates with USPSA/Steel
Challenge
The World Class Steel organization is proud
to announce that as of 01/24/08 all documents have been signed and
forwarded to USPSA/Steel Challenge to complete the affiliation of
World Class Steel with USPSA’s recent acquisition of the Steel
Challenge. World Class Steel looks forward to its cooperative effort
in working with the administration of USPSA to further develop and
expand the steel shooting sport.
With this affiliation, World
Class Steel’s "SPEED on STEEL" match will see
the return of the commonly recognized Steel Challenge stages to its
2008 match. The seven specific Steel Challenge stages that will be
shot at “Speed on Steel 2008” will be announced by
World Class Steel in mid-February. The dates for this year’s
match are June 13th, 14th and 15th, 2008.
Known
as the biggest and premier steel match on the East Coast, the “Speed
on Steel” match draws 200 shooters from across the country
as well as from Canada. World Class Steel has one of the richest
shooters’ raffle and order-of-finish cash awards in the
shooting sports in the USA. In quoting John Perciballi, Match
Development Director for World Class Steel, “...SPEED on
STEEL is the match that gives away guns." The
2007 SPEED on STEEL shooters’ raffle totaled $25,000 in
prizes including the 17 guns that were part of the raffle, and
competitors’ match awards totaled $5,000 in cash. World Class
Steel is working diligently to have the 2008 match exceed the
organization's past expectations. This is possible only through the
generosity of our great sponsors who have seen fit to support the
match in the many years of World Class Steel. These sponsors are some
of the top firearms and firearms-related organizations in the
industry today. Our match sponsorship roster includes Beretta,
Brownell’s, Bushmaster, Cavalry Arms, Caspian, Dick’s,
DPMS, FNH-USA, Glock, Harris, Kimber, Lee, Leapers, MGM Targets,
Montana Gold, Mossberg, ParaOrdnance, RCBS, Ruger, Safariland,
Sierra, Smith & Wesson, Springfield Armory, Starline, Surefire,
STI and Zero, among others.
In
conjunction with “Speed on Steel” World Class
Steel also includes “Side Match Sunday”
sponsored by MGM Targets. That day provides a chance for all
competitors to compete for additional cash awards as they wait for
the match results to be posted that Sunday morning.
Origin and History
World Class Steel began in 2000 when a small group of Old Bridge Rifle and Pistol Club members who shot at our club’s informal steel matches discerned the growing interest in steel shooting and foresaw the need for a more organized, standardized, regularly scheduled static steel match of the highest caliber. This led to the reinstitution of the World Class Steel Shooting discipline as a regularly scheduled monthly “League Match” on our club’s calendar.
During the following years, the popularity of these monthly club matches among both members and non-members of our club generated a growing interest among those shooters for us to give thought to the organization and implementation of a larger, more comprehensive static steel match of major magnitude. Subsequently, World Class Steel, with John Soltesz as Match Director, held its first annual major match in 2003 when we attracted 112 participants despite a very short planning interval. Just a year later, participation in our 2004 event increased and expanded to 150 competitors. In 2005 further competitor interest encouraged us to again expand our match to accommodate the increase to 200 competitors. That is the number to which our matches have been limited and we are trying to keep that limitation for this year. Generous prize contributions by quality firearms-related organizations, participation by world-class shooters and competent match organization and direction all combine not only to make these matches the resounding successes that they are but also have helped our “Speed on Steel” match evolve into the premier static steel match on the East Coast.
11-29-07 See you all next year.
THE STEEL MILL
October 25th 2007
Dear Competitors:
The World Class Steel Fields of Steel 2007 match held on October 6th and 7th was a resounding success thanks to all of our shooters and to our generous sponsors. The staff and I would like to thank Absolute Construction and Plumbing, MGM Targets, Hi Point Firearms, Charter Arms, and our newest sponsor Russian American Armory for their support in the match. Of course we would also like to thank the Old Bridge Rifle and Pistol Club board of trustees for allowing us to use the outdoor facility for the weekend. And last but not least you the competitors for whom without, any of this would be possible.
The weather was picture perfect for the fall weekend making the match all the better. And speaking of the match itself, let’s thank Danny Lisk for doing a great job of coordinating the field staff’s target placement and for doing so much of the actual physical work himself.
As in the past thanks to the efforts of John Perciballi, we were again able to conduct the shooters raffle and once again award numerous firearms to the competitors. Thanks John for all the hours of work you donate to our endeavors.
The winners of the raffle were: Steve Sherman, Charlie Coppola, Richard Streisfeld, Fred Trapassi, Bob Bertrand, Matt deVries, Roger Mancini, David Chang, Joe Konopka, Charles Chin and Herb Wreden. Congratulation to you all. The winners will need to contact John Soltesz at 732-494-0274 or by e-mail Jas197@aol.com to arrange for the transfers. Fees and taxes are the responsibility of the winners.
And now to the results of the match. The scores were compiled by Chris Buchholz on the World Class Steel Scoring Program©, they were posted and held for 48 hours and then made final. Our thanks go out to Chris for his tireless efforts in doing the registration, match announcements, literature, scores and award certificates.
The winners of the Pistol Match were:
Pistol Iron
1st Gold Dave Olhasso 2nd Gold Dave Marques 3rd Gold James McGinty
1st Silver John Ayvazian 2nd Silver Gregory Smith 3rd Silver Jim Richardson
1st Bronze Richard Streisfeld 2nd Bronze Julius Magyari, Sr. 3rd Bronze Chris Buchholz
Pistol Open
1st Gold Dave Olhasso 2nd Gold Dave Marques
1st Silver Michael Mason 2nd Silver Jim Richardson
1st Bronze Fred Bhend (Captain Team Table) 2nd Bronze Normand Martin
Revolver Iron
Gold Dave Olhasso Silver Gregory Smith Bronze Manuel Linhares
Revolver Open
Gold Dave Olhasso Silver Gregory Smith
The winners of the Carbine/Shotgun Match were:
Carbine Plus 10
Gold Dave Olhasso Silver Myron Pollard Bronze Charles Chin
Carbine Limited 10
Gold Myron Pollard Silver Dave Olhasso Bronze Shaun Quale
Shotgun Limited
Gold William Smith Silver Dave Marques Bronze Kevin Jones
Shotgun Open
Gold Charlie Coppola
Shotgun Pump
Gold Slav Shuravesky Silver Chris Buchholz Bronze Richard Horwitz
The High Lady for the pistol match was Rachel Linhares with Open Pistol. High Overall for the pistol match was Dave Olhasso with Open Pistol. The High Lady award for the Shotgun/Carbine match was taken by Janet Finnesey with Open Shotgun. High Overall for the Shotgun/Carbine match was Dave Olhasso with Carbine Plus 10. Congratulations especially go out to Dave Olhasso for his outstanding performance at this year Fields of Steel matches and to all the winners for their prowess at the matches
The shooting season is starting to wind down for the year and the last matches for the 2007 year for World Class Steel will be Sunday November 4th for knockdown steel and Saturday November 10th for static steel. Come out for the last matches of the season.
The dates for the 2008 season are set and applications will be up on the website as soon as we all recover form the match. There will be a few changes for the 2008 season with respect to the start times. The Speed on Steel 2008 match slated for the 13th and 14th of June will see set-up done on Thursday the 12th and the RO’s shooting in the afternoon. There will be one start time, at 9:00 am, on Friday and Saturday. Sunday the 15th will be the Side Match Sunday event with a start time of 9:00 am. The Fields of Steel 2008 Pistol Knockdown Match will be held on Saturday, October 4th. Set-up for the match will be done on Thursday, October 2nd in the afternoon. The RO’s will shoot on Friday, October 3rd with a 9:00 am start time. The Pistol Match will be a single session with a start at 9:00 am on Saturday, October 4th. The Fields of Steel 2008 Shotgun/Carbine match will be held the next day, as usual, on Sunday October 5th with a start time of 9:00 am. In each of these major match events you can shoot multiple guns on the same squad or, if you wish, you can sign up to shoot with the RO’s.
Also we need RO’s during each of these matches and we will need help setting up and taking down the stages upon completion of the match. If you would like to help, send us an e-mail at our website with your contact information. If need be, we will hold a Range officer class in late winter or early spring for all who are interested. Also, there are thoughts of holding a class for new shooters of static steel; if you or someone would be interested in taking a class to learn about shooting steel, let us know by using our contact information at our website, www.WorldClassSteel.com.
The staff of World Class Steel would like to take a moment to wish you and yours a great holiday season and thank you for all your support. Remember shoot fast but always safe and as always, its all about speed and attitude.
Best regards:
John Soltesz
John Perciballi
Chris Buchholz
Danny Lisk
Matt de Vries