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Visit to Gary's House
On Sunday night of the National Youth Shooting Sports Leadership Conference,
participants were treated to a visit to Gary and Ruth Ann Anderson's house.
The First Shot was there to take a few pictures:
Just an ordinary
house in an ordinary neighborhood. But you never know what you might
find inside. |
After the 1964 Olympics, the hometown folks in Hastings, Nebraska
held a parade. |
Gold medals from the 1964
and 1968 Olympics. Gary won the medals in the 300m free rifle event.
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Gary served as a State Senator in the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature
in the 1970s. |
When the Berlin Wall "fell"
in 1989, shooting friends in Germany used pieces of the broken wall
to construct a memorial gift to recognize Gary's activies in bringing
people on both sides of the iron curtain together through international
shooting.
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On August 19,
1971, in the Navy Cup Match at the National Matches, Gary Anderson
shot the first 200 yard standing 200x200 "possible" score in highpower
rifle. His record of 200-15X still stands today. |
Gary has one of the world's premier collections of books on marksmanship,
some dating as far back as the early 1800s. |
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