Ray Steffenson
Dassel, MN
Elected: 2000
Shooting Member
Ray
meets and exceeds the requirements for being inducted into the
hall as a shooting member. He's been on the All-State Team
14 times with most of those with First Team selections.
The years are as
follows: 1971, '72, '79, '83, '85, '86, '87, '91, '92, '93,
'94, '95, '96, and 1997. From 1973-1978 he was a resident of
Montana.
Ray started registered
shooting in 1968 and reached the 27 yard line in 1972. He
was the 1976 Las Vegas Fall Tournament long yardage champion,
beating Steve Carmichael in a shoot-off. Ray also won the Las
Vegas Handicap at the same shoot, beating Ray Stafford in a
shoot-off, and he was High-Overall Class A champion that year. In
1998 Ray won the 25-26 yard Beretta Handicap Championship at the
Midwestern Grand American.
Ray won the 1976 Rocky
Mountain Handicap Championship after shooting a 98 X 100 from the
27 yard line and defeating Phil Kiner in a shoot-off.
Through target year
1999 he had shot 94,100 singles, 67,000 handicap and 34,500 double
targets.
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