Congratulations to Finland’s Marko Nikkos on winning the first match of the 2024 Lapua Monarch Cup. Nikkos, who scored a 107/120X, edged out Team SK’s Jake Stine in a shootout to collect the $1,000 top prize. Stine took home $750 for his second place finish.
The Lapua Monarch Cup is a two-leg, multi-national smallbore silhouette series with the winner being touted as the North American Champion. Competitors scores from each match within their respective classification (Master, AAA, AA, & A), giving all shooters an opportunity for over $100,000 in cash and prizes. Lapua’s Monarch Cup is recognized as the must-attend event of the smallbore silhouette shooting world.
The 1st leg of the Lapua Monarch Cup was conducted at the Ridgway Rifle Club in Ridgway, PA at the 2024 NRA Smallbore Rifle Silhouette Championship, July 28th – 30th. The 2nd leg of the Lapua Monarch Cup will be conducted at Club Saltillo in Mexico in October.
Nikkos, shooting Lapua’s Midas +, scores are as follows:
Match 1 – 33/40
Match 2 – 36/40
Match 3 – 38/40
Smallbore Silhouette shooting is a fun and challenging shooting discipline that has competitors taking aim at a variety of steel chickens, pigs, turkeys, and rams. Shooters, standing and unsupported, take aim at four banks of silhouettes at increasing distances, shooting 40 targets in all. For every silhouette knocked down, the competitor earns one point. Smallbore Silhouette competitors are shooting at distances of 40, 60, 77, and 100 meters.
For information on the Lapua Monarch Cup, visit nassasilhouette.org/lapua-monarch-cup/
