Kim Clingan of Chattanooga didn’t just break a national record last Friday in New Hampshire. She blasted it.
Competing in only her fourth Cowboy Lever Action silhouette event, the Chattanooga State Community College internal audit director hit 54 steel chickens in a row from 50 yards with a Henry Big Boy Steel rifle chambered in .357 magnum, without a scope.
The previous National Rifle Association women’s record for that distance was 34 in a row, set 16 years ago.
Clingan was at the Pemigewasset Fish and Game Club in Holderness, N.H., in the Granite State Silhouette Cowboy Classic meet held in conjunction with Pioneer Sportsmen, Inc., of Dunbarton, N.H. She was there with her husband of 24 years, Dale Clingan.
Kim Clingan
In winning the A class of the competition in which each person shot at 10 full-size chicken targets from 50 yards, 10 pigs from 100, 10 turkeys from 150 and 10 rams from 200, Kim was perfect at the short distance. So when the discipline was over, she was given the chance to go for the women’s national record for knocking down chickens.