Reigning Zone 2 and Pennsylvania State champion Joe Zeitler topped 167 other shooters to claim his fifth Hardy Classic title August 13-16 at The Shooting Academy, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington, Pennsylvania. Zeitler’s two-day score of 187x200 was three clear of runner-up Steve Edmondson. David Radulovich marked 182 birds to finish third. As he did in both the zone and state shoots, Zeitler came from behind to cop the Hardy Classic crown and $1,000 cash prize. Ohio’s Todd Kemmerer bested Saturday’s field with a stout 94, one bird better than Zeitler. But The Shooting Academy’s director Robert Crow and Team Nemacolin turned up the heat on Sunday, using support from D & G Sporting Clays’ semi-load of Lincoln traps to make a warm, sunny day a bit hotter for competitors. Average scores in Master class averaged nearly two birds less on Sunday. In E class, where one might expect less-experienced shooters to struggle with slightly tougher targets, the average difference in score was five birds fewer.
Zeitler acknowledged Sunday’s saltier presentations. “Today’s (targets) were definitely tighter, tougher, longer, faster than yesterday’s. Yesterday was normal Nemacolin targets—lot of quartering, lot of teal this weekend, lot of things way up in the air.” Zeitler shrugged and smiled. “Again, nothing extraordinary. They give you the opportunity to break every target here. You see it with all kinds of time. All you have to do is execute.”
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