2025 Year End Winners
Club Points
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Year-end club points are determined by entry at WRPM shoots only.
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Your points start to accumulate when you become a club member. If you are not a club member at the time of the event, you do not accumulate club points towards year-end awards. Your points are not “backdated”.
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The CMSA season starts in October after the World Championship and continues to the next World Championship in the following October.
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Your total points are calculated throughout the competition year starting at the first club event during the shooting season and ending at the last club event before the World Championship.
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Your total points, class points and division points are calculated at the level you competed at during the last club event. For example, you are a level 2. You win your class at the last club event of the season. It is a "move up" win, and you move up to a CMSA level 3. When you fired your last shot at a club event you were a level 2. You will be considered a level 2 for the end of year awards based on your points earned at club events. You never competed at a club event as a level 3 so you are still considered a level 2 and awards will be based on your points as a level 2.
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Year-end awards will be presented at the WRPM annual banquet typically held in February. It is a wonderful time to get back together with the "shooting family" and see the awards won throughout a fun season of shooting.
Share like Shelly Award
In loving remembrance of Shelly Fink, who left his Earth far too early, the WRPM have started the "Share like Shelly" Award.
Shelly gave her time, her talents, and her love endlessly to those around her. She’ll forever be remembered as someone who made people laugh and feel loved. To remember Shelly and celebrate her life, please share who you are with everyone around you. Make the coffee date, plan the trip, take someone ice skating (or whatever brings you joy), capture a picture, tell a funny story, make someone smile… you have SO much of yourself to share, share it all.
Share like Shelly did… big and boldly and without hesitation!
2026 Winner
Robin Jirak
Duke Award
Starting in 2025, the WRPM have voted on one of the clubs horses to win the Duke Award.
The "Duke Award" is given to those horses who always take care of their rider(s), have a heart of gold and give it their all, every time.
This award is given in memory of "Duke", a big, goofy Appaloosa gelding that got our Vice President, Kelli Bertils, into mounted shooting.
2026 Winner
Dusty Dasher, a 26-year-old, solid brown paint mare, has the heart, dedication, and consistency that cannot be matched. Her career was already expected to be over as a yearling after getting a nail through her back left hoof. Over the years, she proven everyone wrong. She became a successful money earner as a breakaway roping horse for the experienced and teaching the new.
On Tuesday, June 19th, 2018, Dusty was picked up and was competing in her first mounted shooting event that weekend, earning her first Cowboy Mounted Shooting title of 2018 Minnesota State Shoot Reserve Overall Cowgirl. This was only the beginning of what is now at least 35 High Point and Overall Club, State, Regional, and Major Championship pistol and shotgun titles she has earned with Dan and Sara Herrmann.
No matter the day or the amount of time between rides, Dusty can always be trusted to do whatever is asked of her. She has safely competed with Sara through 3 pregnancies, been trusted with children, family, and friends, and will forever be a once-in-a-lifetime horse.
