{"id":7225,"date":"2010-11-18T11:08:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2010-11-18T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T16:32:18","slug":"butler-edges-out-national-champ-jonasson-for-area-2-limited-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/butler-edges-out-national-champ-jonasson-for-area-2-limited-title\/7225\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler Edges Out National Champ Jonasson for Area 2 Limited Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7226\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Taran-Butler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7226\" title=\"Taran Butler\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Taran-Butler-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Taran-Butler-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Taran-Butler.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Yamil Sued<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SEDRO-WOOLLEY &#8211; In their first match up since the national championships, Taran Butler  of Simi Valley, Calif. edged out the current National Champion Nils  Jonasson of Mesa, Ariz. by just 2.3469 points to win the Limited  division title at the U.S. Practical Shooting Association\u2019s (USPSA) Area  2 Regional Handgun Championship this past weekend at the Rio Salado  Sportsman\u2019s Club in Mesa, Ariz.<\/p>\n<p>Butler finished the match with a final score of 1057.6391 to take the title, while Jonasson shot a final score of 1055.2922.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Miguez, the Top Shot season one contestant from New Iberia,  La., finished in third with 1047.2134. Rounding out the top five were  John Mouret of Surprise, Ariz. in fourth with 1007.5770 points and Manny  Bragg of Kirksville, Mo. in fifth with 986.4482.<\/p>\n<p>The USPSA Area 2 Championship drew more than 370 top competition  shooters. Area 2 is the Southwest region within USPSA, one of the eight  shooting regions in the country, and is made up of Arizona, California,  Colorado, Hawaii and New Mexico but shooters from around the country  attended.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about USPSA, or to become a member, visit <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uspsa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">USPSA.org<\/a>, follow <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/uspsa_shooting\" target=\"_blank\">@USPSA_Shooting<\/a> on Twitter or visit the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/practicalshooting.posterous.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Practical Shooting blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their first match up since the national championships, Taran Butler edged out the current National Champion Nils Jonasson by just 2.3469 points to win the Limited div. title at the USPSA Area 2 Regional Handgun Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1215,663,1239,529,1238,583,3597],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul-erhardt","category-uspsa","tag-2010-area-2-championships","tag-blake-miguez","tag-john-mouret","tag-manny-bragg","tag-nils-jonasson","tag-taran-butler","tag-uspsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","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=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}