I remember Ken from Second Chance and the Masters before it went south. Saw him clean the 9 pin in 3.6 seconds once. Anyone hear of him?
Ken Tapp, anyone know what he's doing now?
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, Apr 13 2012 04:53 PM
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 04:53 PM
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 05:06 PM
Shot with him at second chance and a few years at the steel challenge. Fast guy for his age...I mean fast. Dunno where he's at now. Really nice guy.
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"We have two companies of Marines running rampant all over the northern half of this island, and three Army regiments pinned down in the southwestern corner, doing nothing. What the hell is going on? " - Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., USA, Chairman of the the Joint Chiefs of Staff; during the assault on Grenada, 1983
"A golf course is the willful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range." - Jeff Cooper
"Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking." - J.C. Watts
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 06:12 PM
In the weeks before Second Chance he would shoot at Napanee and Michigan CityI never understood how I could beat him at these local matches and lose to him at Second Chance,I guess he was being nice,or just enough to win the chicken as Larry would say.
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 06:59 PM
That was my claim to fame. Beat him at MC and Napannee, well sorta. The guy had tremendous grip control. We were sitting around a campfire one evening and another group of shooters had raised a flagpole of a lodgepole pine about 4' in diameter at the base 75 to 100 yds away. Ken had an early laser training device on one of his guns and ran that laser up then down that flagpole stronghand and never lost the beam off that pole.
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 02:01 AM
Tapp was a hell of a good pin-shooter. We all know about his success at Second Chance, but he also came out to Iowa a couple times to shoot the NAPSA Nationals. He would always arrive a week early and shoot tons of rounds on the range to practice and get ready. Ken would shoot and shoot and shoot--and the whole time his wife would be in the camper loading ammo for him! One thing I do remember about Ken--he never really looked like he was having any fun. It was all business with him.
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 09:22 PM
He was just a helluva shot.....period! Finished 2nd at 1998 Bianchi with a 1920-173X! He walked away from there with about $6,500.00 that week! Ken & Doug Koenig were the only US shooters with a 1920 that year and there were only 4 total who shot that score. Man, was it fun to watch Ken shoot. He was in the Speed Shoot-off on Saturday (didn't do well) but he'd walk to the line all stoop-shouldered and slow. Then when the start signal came it was as if someone stuck him with a hot poker. The way he'd come to life and "hose 'em" was amazing to see!!
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Posted 22 April 2012 - 12:18 PM
Ken & Irene live in Oklahoma & have for some time. Last time I talked to him he said he had shot eveything on the property including all the grasshoppers.
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