This year edition was another excellent one with beautiful weather and all the needed wind to make it challenging.
The weather conditions were quite special with temperatures reaching 32,7°C and 20% HR inside the loading barns on
the first three days, and back to Souppes normal of 13°C and 92% RH on the last competition day.

Before we move on to the shooting results, I want to sincerely thank the exceptional dedication of our ACS president Claude De Demo and all the volunteer crew that made possible to organize, once more, our benchrest competition and ensure that out competition would run flawless in the best conditions.  

 The FFTir range master Serge Sprocq and the measuring crew FFTir Regis Lemaur, assisted by Yvonne Trautig and Carmen Lemaur, did an outstanding job, and our ladies in the “buvette”, Marie Claude DeDemo and Benedicte Pâtissier, kept as usual everybody happy with food, drinks and coffee. A special thank you to JC Bonnet and Beatrice Bonnet for the organisation of our traditional champagne party, that was a great success.    

Now let’s move on to the shooting, the LV100 with quite strong NE wind saw Carlos Pacheco finishing in first place with a .1743 MOA Agg. followed by Romain Guene in second with .2007 MOA and Josef Woelfle in third with .2096 MOA. The small group was shot by Josef Woelfle with a very nice 2,34 mm group.

On day two, on the HV 100, with softer but switchy conditions Johan Teughels got the first place with a nice .1900 MOA followed by Carlos Pacheco .1936 MOA and Frederic Guegan in third with .1943 MOA. The small group was shot by Herbert Graf with a good 2,51 mm group.

On day 3 in the HV 200 with good weather, but again progressively switchy winds, Carlos Pacheco managed to get the first place in spite of a large group on match five with .2558 MOA, followed by a consistent Maxime Masotta with .2636 MOA and Carmelo Rizzato with .2846 MOA. The small group of the day was shot by Carlos Pacheco with a nice 4,90 mm group.

The Grand Aggregate Light Varmint went to Carlos Pacheco with a .2105 AGG. followed by Maxime Masotta with .2494 and Frederic Guegan .2499 MOA. 

The Grand Aggregate Heavy Varmint went to Carlos Pacheco with a .2247 MOA followed by Frederic Guegan .2465 MOA and Johan Teughels .2508 MOA.

For the last day of the competition the LV200, in a more traditional “Souppes weather conditions” windy and cool, saw Maxime Masotta in great shape, winning with an excellent .2162 AGG. followed by Frederic Guegan with .2294 MOA and Carlos Pacheco with .2467 MOA.

The TWO GUN result was therefore as follows: 1^st place Carlos Pacheco .2176 MOA (France) 2^nd place Frederic Guegan .2482 MOA (France) 3^rd place Maxime Masotta .2615 MOA (France) 4^th place Gerard Lang .2626 (France) 5^th place Johan Teughels .2846 MOA (Belgium)