19-Year-Old Phenom Wins NRA World Shooting Championship
Tim Yackley, a 19-year-old college student, beat shooting sports superstars to win the 2018 NRA World Shooting Championship conducted this past weekend in West Virginia. Capturing 74% of all available points on the event’s 12 stages, Yackley beat multiple past champions to become the youngest-ever title holder. With his victory, Yackley earned a $25,000 pay-out, most of which will help defray his college expenses. Last year’s 2017 World Shooting champion Greg Jordan finished second overall, while 2015 World Shooting Champion Bruce Piatt finished third. Living legend Jerry Miculek was fourth while his daughter Lena Miculek was the top lady shooter.
Photo courtesy Shooting Sports USA.
Young Yackley is Expert with Rifle, Pistol, and Shotgun
Yackley was strong with all the firearms types, showing no weaknesses. The WSC combines rifle, pistol, and shotgun stages, with all firearms provided by the gun-makers. There is everything from cowboy action lever guns and revolvers to modern ARs and tactical bolt-guns. After his big win, Yackley commented: “I was just focused on shooting my stages and doing my best. I want to thank the sponsors who have been part of my progress as a shooter, and thank all the people who have given advice, encouragement and have believed in me.”
Shooting Sports USA reports: “Yackley’s best showing was for Stage 12… the new cross-country biathlon stage. Incurring no penalties, he had no misses for a final score of 57.02 — the highest score of all shooters for the stage.” Yackley’s impressive scattergun skills helped him score high in many other stages. In 2015, Yackley earned a shotgun bronze medal at the 2015 IPSC Int’l Championship, and in June of this year (2018), he finished seventh at the 2018 IPSC World Shotgun Championship in France.
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Wow another year of the NRA running the “World Plinking Championship” in WV all the while their own National Championship attendance records continue to decline. Over the last 10 years the NRA has mismanaged their Pistol, Smallbore, High Power, Long Range and silhouette championships.
The NRA smallbore championships at Camp Perry up to 2013 had between 600 – 700 participants after their “brilliant” move to the sub-par range in Bristol, IN last year they had less than 200. When I shot XTC at Camp Perry Highpower Champiomships there were more than 1K participants and last year there were less than 150 at Camp Atterbury, IN.
Must be nice to put money into an event where being an expert requires hitting an area instead of actually training and learning to hit a target. The definition of marksmanship per the NRA 2018.
I wonder how much the Director of Competitions who owns that range made off of that match?
Bill’s comments are spot on.
Sounds like the “kid” was heavily sponsored.
Bill’s comments are exactly correct. I shot many years at Camp Perry.
The REAL World Shooting Championships just concluded in Changwon, Korea. The U.S. did well, check out the results at USA Shooting. What the NRA is promoting here is nothing but a glorified 3 gun match.
Sounds like sour grapes from a bunch of negative old farts.
The young bloke won and he should be praised for that NOT dragged down.
You want the sport to grow be part of the solution not the problem.