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Individually, McPhail (left) shot 598-40x, Emmons (right) was at 597-38x, and Uptagrafft (center) came in at 596-39x.

Team USA take Mens Prone Gold at World Championships

(GunReports.com) -- The USA Shooting Team of Matthew Emmons, Mike McPhail and Eric Uptagrafft win the prone team gold medal at the 50th ISSF World Championship Munich 2010 from the South Koreans on an X-ring countback.

In an extremely tight compeition on Aug. 1, both the USA and the South Korean teams had a combined score of 1791, however the USA team won the gold on the X-ring countback scoring 117x vs 112x. The Russian team was close behind at 1790.

The U.S. team shot scores (3x100) of 300, 297, 299, 299, 300, and 296 for an 1791- 117x total.

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