Ex-world shoot titlist dominates Alaminos meet

ALAMINOS CITY, Pangasinan ,Philippines  – Former World Shoot champion Jeufro “Jag” Lejano led more than 100 practical shooters from different North and Central Luzon gun clubs who saw action in the Alaminos Gali-La Festival Shootfest held recently at the Hundred Islands Practical Shooters Association firing range in Barangay Sabangan here.

Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza fired the ceremonial shot to formally open the competition and welcome the participants, which included Lejano, the 2005 International Practical Shooting Confederation champion in the modified division.

The two-day shootfest was a Level II event sanctioned by the Philippine Practical Shooting Association, the first to be staged in this city.

The shootfest featured four major divisions, namely, standard, production, open and modified. There were other minor categories – standard single stack, lawman production and standard, lady open, junior standard, senior standard and production and LGU standard and production.

Lejano went on to stamp his class in the production division; Bogs Resuello emerged standard division champion; Enrique Cheesman topped the open division while Roy Rondilla was best in the modified class.

According to Braganza, an avid practical shooter whose son Lean was a former teammate of Lejano in the Philippine team, the shootfest was part of the celebrations for the seventh year of the Gali-La Viva San Jose Festival of the Hundred Islands held in honor of the city’s patron saint, St. Joseph.

Alex Ang, HIPSA president, said shootfest will be among the regular events that would be included in the annual celebration of the Festival of the Hundred Islands. He added that HIPSA will also conduct monthly shoots and regular training for young practical shooters.

Braganza thanked and congratulated the HIPSA, match director Jerry Mateo and Engr. Roland Ranches, owner of the land where the firing range is located, for organizing the event and reminding the gun owners of their responsibilities to the society.