Gary Evans and Alex Hartter at Extreme Shot Italia V, Global Edition

Meet the ESI 2025 light gun kings!

We’re going to show you what it takes to win the world largest International ELR global gathering and these two shooters from Casper Wyoming showed us how it’s done with the legendary and dependable 300 Norma Magnum, by now a super well known ELR light class cartridge. We have covered this 300Norma Mag numerous times here at Rifletalks.com over the last years.

You can View all ESI 2025 MEDIA here 

Gary also ran this 300Norma Mag in heavy class match at ESI out to 2600meters and even got a hit on the 2600m target with it! Legends.

WATCH them below and enjoy this shooting and then we’ll go on to the interview with them which we held a few weeks after the match while the dust had settled and everyone was back home.

Gary’s first day run at ESI worked out like this from 500- 1340m

They started with a strong run, they missed cold bore and first shot on 680 but quickly worked their way into the target zone with plenty of ones.

Just in case you’re wondering the target at:

680m had an average of 40% hit rate with 33% first round hit. Gary scored 66% hit rate.

The 810m target had an average hit rate of 48% , Gary scored 100% here.

The 1200m POISEWEALTH Target, that also had a cash payout of €250 per shooter associated with it for 4 shooters that made an impact on first round was probably the most challenging target at 40x40cm and that had an average hit rate of 25% with 16% on first round. Gary scored 66% here

The last target for light class day 1 at just past 1300m had a 37% hit rate with 35% hit rate on first round.  Gary had 66% hit rate here.

Day 2 1400- 1640m

Strong performance here from Gary and Alex Hartter.

On this day, the 1400m target had an average hit rate across all 5 shots of 28% across all participants.

The 1500m had 33% hit rate across 5 shots. 22% was the first round average hit rate.

The 1 mile target had 27% hit rate. 24% of shooters had a 1 mile hit including Gary Evans and Alex Hartter team.

DAY 3 FINALS in light class

On Day 3, Gary had a great run, a home run. We warmed up on the 1860m target with a 1 round hit, 33% hit rate. The average hit rate on this target was 24% and 42% on the 3rd shot. That’s also when Gary impacted the plate.

On the finals Target, Gary did what Tony Zammit did in 2024 with a 4/5 hit run that simply blew our socks off! The average hit rate was 27% at 2000meters. Gary had a staggering 80% hit rate. That shows that across this course of fire at ESI light class this team of Gary and Alex were always above the average hit rate and cementing themselves at the top! Congrats guys you’re a great shooting team and fantastic people to be around with as  we experienced over these days at ESI.

In the next part of this article, I shall be bringing you the interview to learn more about how these guys prepare for ELR matches and how they manage to get this amazing performance. Stay tuned to rifletalks.com