By Our Sports Correspondent
SALEM, Oregon: Kern Singh Sekhon, popularly known as “Chip” is a 16yearold Modesto High School Junior, who won the junior (18 and under)! 12 gauge event at the 1987 Zone 7 Skeet Shooting Championship held June 22 at the Salem Gun Club in Salem, Oregan. Kern notched a perfect score by smashing 100 targe Save ts under bad weather conditions; it was cold, windy and drizzling. This is the second year that Kern has won the Zone 7 Championship.
The competition was sponsored by National Skeet Shooting Association and included over 200 competitors from 13 Western States and two Canadian provinces. Kern is a life member of the National Skeet Shooting Association.
Skeet shooting is a game of extremely fast reflexes with precise hand and care coordination. The targets are 4 inches in diameter, clay disc and travel.at 60 miles per hour. The shooter is also required to shoot at two targets in the air at the same time.
Kern is preparing very hard to compete at the “World Skeet” to be held in October, 1987, in San Antonio, Texas.
He practices three times a week under the watchful eye of his father. Kern shoots around 15,000 shells a year while training.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 3, 1987
