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Article: IPSC WORLD SHOOT.
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- American Handgunner
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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A 19-year-old French lad wins the world's most prestigious IPSC match, the first non-American to win in 20 years.
Rising from the western Pacific, sidesaddle on the equator, the "Pearl of the Orient," as Filipino national hero Dr. Jose Rizal described the 7,000 ethereally beautiful islands that form the Philippine Archipelago, played host to the World Shoot XII for the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC). The Philippines spread farther on the sea than the New York to Los Angeles expanse of the United States,
The weather phase during the match is known locally as the ending of the "wet" and the beginning of the "dry." It is a land of ...