Northeastern Regional
Pistol Tournament

Pistol Match Starts Friday

NORTH ATTLEBORO — The annual Northeastern Service Pistol Match begins tomorrow morning at the Angle Tree Stone Rod & Gun Club, off Kelley Blvd.

Competitive firing is to get underway at 7:30 a.m. An open house program will be held at the club Saturday night.

Sun Chronicle, Thursday, July 11, 1963

ON THE LINE — Pistol teams from the northeast gathered in North Attleboro this weekend for a championship meet. Here a team fires from the line at the Angle Tree Rod and Gun Club.

Marine Deadeye Wins Northeastern Pistol Match

NORTH ATTLEBORO — Marine Capt. William W. McMillan, Jr. of Quantico, Va., was the grand aggregate winner in the three day Northeastern pistol shooting competition held Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Angle Tree Stone Rod and Gun Club, North Attleboro.

Capt. McMillan scored 2,643 of a possible 2,700 points to lead the field.

Some 300 shooting experts took part in the competition. The majority of the competitors represented military units and the only civilian to score over 2,600 was Alton Dinan, Jr. of Canaan, Conn.

Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard units were on hand for the event. A West Point team, coached by Huelet L. Benner, scored on an individual effort by Capt. James A. Dickens.

Coast Guardsman Robert Parillo fo the USCGR unit at Cape May, N.J., set a new record in the unclassified shooting category.

Among units represented were Pease AFB, N.H.;Hanscomb Field; U.S.4th Army, Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Fort Monmouth, N.J.; Quonset Pt., R.I. Navy station; Newport, R.I. Navy station; Dow AFB, Me.; U.S. 2ns Army, Fort Meade, Md.; U.S. 1st Army, Fort Dix and others. The Attleboro Police Dept. also fielded a team.

Sun Chronicle, Monday, July 15, 1963

Marine Captain Winner In Pistol Shooting

Marine Capt. William W. McMillan Jr., of Quantico, Va., was grand aggregate winner in the three day Northeastern pistol shooting competition which ended yesterday at the Angle Tree Stone Rod and Gun Club.

Capt. McMillan scored 2,643 of a possible 2,700 points to lead the field.

Some 300 shooting experts took part in the competition. The majority of the competitors represented military units, and the only civilian to score over 2,600 was Alton Dian Jr., of Canaan, Conn.

Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard units were on hand for the event. A West Point team, coached by Huelet L. Benner, scored on an individual effort by Cadet James A. Dickens.

Coast Guardsman Robert Parillo fo the USCGR unit at Cape May, N.J., set a new record in the classified shooting category.

Amont units represented were Pease AFB, N.H.; Hanscomb Field U.S. 4th Army, Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Forth Monmouth, N.J.; Quonset Pt. RI Navy Station; Dow AFB, Me.; U.S. 2nd Army, Fort Meade, Md.; U.S. 1st Army, Fort Dix and others. The Attleboro Police Dept. also fielded a team.

Evening Chronicle, Monday, July 15, 1963

Pistols Flame: Reserve Shooters Zero In On Target

The Attleboro, Mass., match, sponsored by the Angle Tree Stone Rod and Gun Club had 326 entries, 162 of which were service masters.

The competition was extremely high with 36 shooters rated at 2600 entered. Of the top 36 marksmen, 26 fired 2600 or more during the match.

The top team competitors were the Marine Corps, the 1st Army and the 2nd Army team.

The Coast Guard Reserve Team was composed of the following men: PARILLO, Robert, BM3; LYNCH, Jerry J., PS3; CDR Richard B. MEMAHILL; LCDR Wallance G. Angel; LCDR Edward J. WALSH; LT Richard ADDIS; and MC FADDEN, Francis X, PSC. They represented the Ninth, Seventh, Fifth, Third and Twelfth Districts. Although the team did not win team awards, it was consistently high in the scoring.

The most noteworthy individual performance was made by PARILLO who set a new National Reserve .45 cal. Timed Fire record with a score of 200-15X. He also fired 2601, his second score of 2600. This excellent firing was done after two years away from competition. This ability is an indication of the exceptional talent of the Reserve Team.

As abruptly as the shooting began, it also ended. The "heat" was off; the marks were made. The time had come for coffee and scuttlebutt while the judges tallied the final scorings.

Victories were celebrated; defeats consoled. For a while it was over — the Attleboro competition was history. All thought was centered on another time, another place. There would be more practice, more discipline, harder training for the National Championships at Camp Perry, Ohio.

The Coast Guard Reservist, Vo. X, No. 8, August 1963