{"id":5800,"date":"2010-08-27T23:12:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T04:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2010-08-27T23:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T04:12:01","slug":"ishikawa-holds-off-trio-of-smith-wesson-shooters-for-steel-challenge-wheelgun-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/ishikawa-holds-off-trio-of-smith-wesson-shooters-for-steel-challenge-wheelgun-win\/5800\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishikawa Holds Off Trio of Smith & Wesson Shooters For Steel Challenge Wheelgun Win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ishikawa, seen here shooting the rimfire event, won the Iron Sight Revolver title.<\/p><\/div>\n

PIRU, Calif. \u2013 In the closest match of the Steel Challenge, where just 1.26 seconds separated the first place shooter from the fourth, Seiichi Ishikawa held off three of Smith & Wesson\u2019s best revolver shooters, Elliot Aysen, John Bagakis and David Olhasso, to take the Iron Sight Revolver title at the 2010 Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships in Piru, California.<\/p>\n

Ishikawa, who did not win a single stage during the competition, shot a solid match from start to finish and posted a final, winning time of 119.59 seconds to edge out the second place Olhasso. Olhasso, who won three stages in the match, posted a final time of 120.05 seconds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a tough match so I was really pleased with the way I shot. With just 1.26 seconds between the top four shooters, it could have been anybody\u2019s match,\u201d said Ishikawa.<\/p>\n

\u201cI shot pretty steady throughout though I didn\u2019t have any stage wins. I had just one rough stage and going into the final stage, Pendulum, I knew that I needed to get through it without any problems and though I shot it a little slower than I did in practice, overall my time was where I\u2019d hoped it would be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Third place went to Bagakis, the three-time IRC champion, who won just one stage but finished with a time of 120.20 seconds.<\/p>\n

Finishing fourth was Michel Tanita who also won three stages on his way to a final time of 120.85 seconds. Rounding out the top five was Aysen who won a single stage and ended with 131.01 seconds.<\/p>\n

Among the lady shooters, Team Smith & Wesson\u2019s Molly Smith, a junior shooter, edged out fellow S&W teammate Annette Aysen, wife of Elliot Aysen, to take the Women\u2019s Iron Sight Revolver title. Smith posted a final time of 137.05 seconds to Aysen\u2019s 140.70.<\/p>\n

Claiming the Senior Iron Sight Revolver title was John Maxwell who shot the match in a time of 158.34 seconds.<\/p>\n

The Steel Challenge World Speed Shooting Championships were held August 19-21 in Piru, Calif. For more information on the Steel Challenge and the Steel Challenge Shooting Association, visit SteelChallenge.com<\/a>, find us on Facebook<\/a> or follow @SteelChallenge<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the closest match of the Steel Challenge, where just 1.26 seconds separated the first place shooter from the fourth, Seiichi Ishikawa held off three of Smith & Wesson\u2019s best revolver shooters, Elliot Aysen, John Bagakis and David Olhasso, to take the Iron Sight Revolver title at the Steel Challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[152,9,193],"tags":[943,653,487,1008,1007,999,54],"class_list":["post-5800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-paul-erhardt","category-scsa","tag-david-olhasso","tag-elliot-aysen","tag-john-bagakis","tag-michael-tanita","tag-seiichi-ishikawa","tag-steel-challenge-2010","tag-team-smith-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800","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=5800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}