{"id":10307,"date":"2011-06-28T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=10307"},"modified":"2011-06-28T06:49:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T11:49:25","slug":"smith-wessons-bagakis-wins-rocky-mountain-regional-revolver-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/smith-wessons-bagakis-wins-rocky-mountain-regional-revolver-championship\/10307\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith &#038; Wesson&#8217;s Bagakis Wins Rocky Mountain Regional Revolver Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10311\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/John-Bagakis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10311\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10311\" title=\"John Bagakis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/John-Bagakis-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Team Smith &amp; Wesson's John Bagakis shooting revolver\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/John-Bagakis-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/John-Bagakis.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Yamil Sued<\/p><\/div>\n<p>LOS OSOS, Calif. &#8211; John Bagakis of Livermore, Calif. continued his win  streak by capturing the Limited division title at the International  Confederation of Revolver Enthusiasts&#8217; (ICORE) Smith &amp; Wesson Rocky  Mountain Regional Revolver Championship this past weekend at the Weld  County Fish &amp; Wildlife High Plains Shooting Range in Galeton, Colo.<\/p>\n<p>Bagakis, who shoots for Team Smith &amp; Wesson, won all eight stages in  the match to finish 26.71 seconds ahead of his Smith &amp; Wesson  teammate, Tony Phan of Webster, Texas, with a final time of 200.60  seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this season Bagakis won the Limited title at the Smith &amp;  Wesson Southwest Revolver Regional as well as the Smith &amp; Wesson  International Revolver Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John continues to stake his claim as the top Limited division revolver  shooter in the nation. His dominating performance at the Rocky Mountain  Regional is a testament to the hard work and dedication John has put in  to mastering the wheelgun,&#8221; said Ron Joslin of ICORE.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top five in Limited division competition were Phan in  second with a time of 227.31, John Burkholder of Arvada, Colo. in third  with 242.32, Nathan Carmichael of Lovelock, Nev. in fourth with 262.56  and Hoser Freeman in fifth with 275.41.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ICORElogo200CMYK3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10310\" title=\"ICORElogo200CMYK\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ICORElogo200CMYK3.jpg\" alt=\"ICORE logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ICORElogo200CMYK3.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ICORElogo200CMYK3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ICORElogo200CMYK3-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The Smith &amp; Wesson Rocky Mountain Regional Revolver Championship was  the second of seven events in the 2011 ICORE Regional Series presented  by Smith &amp; Wesson. The next event is the Smith &amp; Wesson Central  States Regional Revolver Championship on Sunday, July 17 in Buchanan,  Mich. at the Bend of the River Conservation Club range.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on ICORE and the ICORE Regional Series presented by Smith &amp; Wesson, visit <a title=\"ICORE.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icore.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.ICORE.org<\/a>, or <a title=\"follow @ICORE_Shooting\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/icore_shooting\" target=\"_blank\">follow @ICORE_Shooting<\/a> on Twitter or find ICORE on Facebook at <a title=\"ICORE on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ICOREshooting\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/ICOREshooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Smith &#038; Wesson&#8217;s John Bagakis of Livermore, Calif. continued his win streak by capturing the Limited division title at the ICORE Smith &#038; Wesson Rocky Mountain Regional Revolver Championship at the Weld County Fish &#038; Wildlife High Plains Shooting Range in Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,559,9],"tags":[1840,1835,487,1839,1652,59,54,453],"class_list":["post-10307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers","category-icore-news","category-paul-erhardt","tag-hoser-freeman","tag-icore-rocky-mountain-regional","tag-john-bagakis","tag-john-burkholder","tag-nathan-carmichael","tag-smith-wesson","tag-team-smith-wesson","tag-tony-phan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}