Introducing: The Forster Prostaff

John Whidden
Nashville, Georgia

Shooting related activities: NRA Long Range High Power competition; Member of U.S. Palma team; hunting; reloads six different calibers for his own use.

In a relatively short time period, John has worked his way into the upper echelons of long range rifle competition. Since 2002, John has won the Georgia State 600-Yard championship four times; he has been the Georgia State Long Range Champion once; he won individual State titles in both Florida and South Carolina; he finished fourth in the 2003 Individual Palma match at Camp Perry and fifth and second the next two years at the Camp Perry Long Range Highpower Championships. He reloads and shoots in excess of 5000 rounds of ammunition per year, much of it loaded with Forster equipment. Most recently, John’s honors have included winning the Georgia State Long Range Championships again, and multiple second and third place finishes at the Long Range National Championships at Camp Perry in August 2006. John also made the final cut for the U.S. Palma Team that will be representing the U.S. at the World Long Range Championships in Canada.