{"id":26411,"date":"2024-07-27T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/first-time-competitor-is-named-4-h-grand-champion-in-22-rifle-shoot\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:39:00","slug":"first-time-competitor-is-named-4-h-grand-champion-in-22-rifle-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/first-time-competitor-is-named-4-h-grand-champion-in-22-rifle-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"First-time competitor is named 4-H grand champion in .22 rifle shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0e6cdeff-7dd3-559e-8234-d23457d1ef27&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"976\" height=\"924\" alt=\"Dallas Geisinger, far left, was grand champion in the .22 Rifle Shoot on Saturday. (Sophia McCrackin\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dallas Geisinger, far left, was grand champion in the .22 Rifle Shoot on Saturday. (Sophia McCrackin\/The Journal)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The 2024 Montezuma County Fair began with a bang Saturday morning when six competitors lined up for the 4-H .22 Rifle Shoot at the Four Corners Pistol and Rifle Club.<\/p>\n<p>All the athletes in the rifle competition were junior competitors, ages 8 to 13.<\/p>\n<p>The overall grand champion was 9-year-old Dallas Geisinger, who also took first place in the hunt class and fourth place in the scope competition.<\/p>\n<p>Although this is his first year competing, Dallas has been shooting since he was 4 years old, said his mother, Maniesha Buck<em id=\"emphasis-50b5da41cc8e40058d6eec3aa937b724\">.<\/em> According to Buck, Dallas saved money to pay for his own rifle for the competition by selling homemade bread at the farmers market.<\/p>\n<p>Buck said her son shoots about 100 rounds every two to three days, and it\u2019s something he really enjoys doing. Dallas said the best part of shooting was having fun.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he would return to compete next year, Dallas shrugged and said, \u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9-year-old Dallas Geisinger wins event at Montezuma County Fair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,60,2105,29,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-26411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-county-fair","tag-newsletter","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79350,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions\/79350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26411"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=26411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}