Henri Häkkinen and a cake for CISM bronze medal in SR

The other team members were thinking that next time himself/herself.
From left: Timo Taskinen, Jussi Puustinen, Ari Lähdesmäki, Jarmo Hokkanen, Harri huttunen, Veli-Matti Torikka, Keimo Korpioksa. Kyösti Kurvinen, Jyrki Latvala,
Helena Juppala, Juha Rinta-Keturi, Juho Rutonen and Keijo Minkkinen.

In the supper the president of the Finnish Military Shooters, Juhani Sillanpää, reviewed the 2005 season and all the good performances.
From left: Tapio Säynevirta, Eino Kohvakka, Eija Ylönen, Matti Viljakainen, Jarmo Hokkanen, Juhani Sillanpää, Helena Juppala and Sakari Kumara (Nammo Lapua).

The best military pistol shooter 2005: Kai Jahnsson.
From left Mikko Taussi, Marko Leppä, Kai Jahnsson and Jarmo Hokkanen.

Jussi Puustinen and Henri Häkkinen were awarded for their performances in Europaen Championships in Belgrad, Croatia.

The grand old man of finnish military shooting, Eino Kohvakka, participated world Championships in Thun year 1974, thirtyone years ago.
During the CISM-05 the chiefs of missions visited the Bern Shooting Museum where a free pistol target was found full of signatures of top marksmen at that time,
Eino Kohvakka's as well! Mikko Taussi is passing a copy of the target for Eino, which stormed a huge pile of good memories to him.
(other finnish names found in the target: Rene Nordquist, Paavo Palokangas, Risto Erjola).

Tapio Säynevirta having his farewell speech after being in team for 16 years.
The era of .308 has ended in the finnish military shooting due to Tapio's "retirement".
He was really a big bore shooter and the last one to use the .308 (Thomas Tamas had .30-06 in Lahti WC in 2002).
Tapio did history in big bore shooting being the first one to shoot full 600 points in prone.


Updated 12.11.2005