{"id":15532,"date":"2012-07-26T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=15532"},"modified":"2012-07-30T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T01:08:07","slug":"team-jp-lands-second-place-at-industry-masters-with-team-member-on-crutches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/team-jp-lands-second-place-at-industry-masters-with-team-member-on-crutches\/15532\/","title":{"rendered":"Team JP lands second place at Industry Masters with team member on crutches"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Park City, KY \u2013 After an upset first place finish at last year\u2019s Shooting Industry Masters, the JP Enterprises Team claimed a respectable second place in the Open division at the competition last weekend.\u00a0 While technically a step down from last year, Team JP took no less pride in their accomplishment given that team member Trapr Swonson managed to shoot very well and power through the match on crutches with his leg in a cast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to see if there was anything to that saying about a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest,\u201d said Swonson, a Texas firefighter and former weapons specialist for the U.S.A.F., who suffered a broken ankle just the week before the match.\u00a0 A long-time JP sponsored shooter, Swonson was undeterred in following through with his commitment to fellow team members, John Paul, Tony Holmes and Kurt Miller.<\/p>\n

Organized by FMG Publications at the Rockcastle Shooting Center, the Shooting Industry Masters serves primarily as a networking event for manufacturers, distributors and retailers from every corner of the industry.\u00a0 The competition itself is divided into two divisions\u2014industry and open\u2014the former allowing new and amateur shooters a no-stress opportunity to try out various sponsor-provided guns and equipment.\u00a0 The Open division, with its more challenging course for professional shooters, is also intended as a light-hearted affair with all scoring details withheld.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut let\u2019s face it, if you get a bunch of Type A shooters out to the range and think you\u2019re going to have a fun match and not pay attention to the scores, you have a surprise coming,\u201d said John Paul, founder of JP Enterprises, which also sponsored a centerfire rifle stage at the match, supplying a JP SCR-11 rifle for use at the stage.\u00a0 \u201cEvery company out there wants their team and their gear to look good at the Masters,\u201d he continued,\u00a0 \u201cand our coming in second really just goes to show how good shooters with good gear can overcome almost any obstacle.\u00a0 I\u2019m very proud of Trapr and the whole team for what we accomplished this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Park City, KY \u2013 After an upset first place finish at last year\u2019s Shooting Industry Masters, the JP Enterprises Team claimed a respectable second place in the Open division at the competition last weekend.\u00a0 While technically a step down from last year, Team JP took no less pride in their accomplishment given that team member […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[2434,1947],"class_list":["post-15532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers","tag-jp-enterprises","tag-shooting-industry-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15532","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}