{"id":61783,"date":"2016-08-05T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T20:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=61783"},"modified":"2016-08-05T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T02:27:41","slug":"marine-shoots-perfect-score-national-trophy-rifle-team-match-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/marine-shoots-perfect-score-national-trophy-rifle-team-match-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Shoots Perfect Score at National Trophy Rifle Team Match Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_61785\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DiConza.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"marine-shoots-perfect-score-national-trophy-rifle-team-match-competition\" title=\"Marine Shoots Perfect Score at National Trophy Rifle Team Match Competition\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61785\" title=\"Marine Shoots Perfect Score at National Trophy Rifle Team Match Competition\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DiConza.jpg\" alt=\"Sgt. Antonio DiConza of the U.S. Marine Corps broke a 31-year record during the National Trophy Team Match to become the High Individual of the event. (Photo: CMP)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DiConza.jpg 600w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DiConza-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DiConza-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Antonio DiConza of the U.S. Marine Corps broke a 31-year record during the National Trophy Team Match to become the High Individual of the event. (<em>Photo: CMP<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Marine Sgt. Antonio DiConza, 25, of the U.S. Marine Corps and Fredericksburg, VA, shot a perfect score at the most recent National Trophy Rifle Team Match competition, breaking a 31-year-old individual record.<\/p>\n<p>DiConza hit the ten-point center ring on each of his 50 shots, scoring a perfect 500-15x and breaking the previous record of 499-28x, which was shot by SSG Donald Manning in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like winning the lotto, even though the lotto is luck and this takes a bit of skill,\u201d he told the <a href=\"https:\/\/thecmp.org\/diconza-shatters-thirty-year-standing-record-during-national-trophy-team-matches\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"marine-shoots-perfect-score-national-trophy-rifle-team-match-competition\" title=\"Marine Shoots Perfect Score at National Trophy Rifle Team Match Competition\">Civilian Marksmanship Program<\/a>, which hosted the competition. \u201cBut it\u2019s the same feeling. I can\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For those unfamiliar with the scoring rules, the National Trophy Rifle Team Match course consists of 50 shots broken down into four stages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stage One: <\/strong>Competitors have 10 minutes to shoot 10 shots from 200 yards away in the standing position.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stage Two:<\/strong> Competitors have 60 seconds to shoot 10 shots from 200 yards away in the sitting or kneeling from standing position.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stage Three:<\/strong> Competitors have 70 seconds to shoot 10 shots from 300 yards away in the prone from standing position.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stage Four:<\/strong> Competitors have 20 minutes to shoot 20 shots from 600 yards away in the prone position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_61787\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-4.20.17-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"marine-shoots-perfect-score-national-trophy-rifle-team-match-competition\" title=\"Marine Shoots Perfect Score at National Trophy Rifle Team Match Competition\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61787\" title=\"Marine Shoots Perfect Score at National Trophy Rifle Team Match Competition\" class=\"wp-image-61787 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-4.20.17-PM.png\" alt=\"CMP-Target\" width=\"466\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-4.20.17-PM.png 466w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-4.20.17-PM-121x150.png 121w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-05-at-4.20.17-PM-243x300.png 243w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here\u2019s one of the paper targets. Source: 2016 CMP Competition Rules for Service Rifle and Pistol. (<em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/thecmp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rulebook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"marine-shoots-perfect-score-national-trophy-rifle-team-match-competition\" title=\"Marine Shoots Perfect Score at National Trophy Rifle Team Match Competition\">CMP Competition Rule Book<\/a><\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After shooting a perfect score in the first three stages, DiConza nearly lost his focus during the final slow-fire, long-range stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy nerves started getting to me. But I just stayed calm \u2013 and in those last two shots, I was like, \u2018Is this going to make me or break me?\u2019 So I shot one more shot, and the last shot, I was shaking,\u201d he explained. \u201cI told myself, \u2018You know, I just shot 19 10\u2019s and a few x\u2019s \u2013 just shoot another 10. It\u2019s not that hard. Relax.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DiConza was able to relax, and his last shot was a record breaking 10-point strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really ecstatic. It was the proudest moment of my life,\u201d he said. \u201cWell, other than my little girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the match, DiConza was presented with the Pershing Trophy, the award given to the highest scoring competitor at the NTT Match.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his stellar performance, DiConza\u2019s team\u2014 USMC Altendorf\u2014did not manage to win the competition. That award went to Army Reserve Anderson, which won the overall match by shooting a 2957-111x. This score was only one point under the decade-old Overall National Record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like winning the lotto, even though the lotto is luck and this takes a bit of skill,\u201d he told the Civilian Marksmanship Program, which hosted the competition. \u201cBut it\u2019s the same feeling. I can\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":61785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,25,10],"tags":[132,758,119,472,335,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-competition","9":"category-current-events","10":"category-shootbetter","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-cmp","13":"tag-competition","14":"tag-competitive-shooting","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marine Shoots Perfect Score at National Trophy Rifle Team Match Competition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cIt\u2019s like winning the lotto, even though the lotto is luck and this takes a bit of skill,\u201d he told the Civilian Marksmanship Program.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/marine-shoots-perfect-score-national-trophy-rifle-team-match-competition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Marine Shoots Perfect Score at National Trophy Rifle Team Match Competition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cIt\u2019s like winning the lotto, even though the lotto is luck and this takes a bit of skill,\u201d he told the Civilian Marksmanship Program, which hosted the competition. \u201cBut it\u2019s the same feeling. 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