Canuck military top shot
Infantry Sgt. Tatyana Danylyshyn of the Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary’s) picked up top honors in international shooting competitions in both the U.S. and the UK in recent months.
Danylyshyn, a reservist from Victoria, British Columbia who joined the Canadian Forces in 2002, won the Hager Hollon Trophy for Top Rifle Shooting earlier this year at the 24th Armed Forces Skill at Arms Match hosted by the U.S. Army National Guard Marksmanship Training Center in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
THEN, last month she traveled to the land of warm beer to compete in the annual Bisley shooting competition held in Bisley, England, in a field with 700 competitors. There, she competed in two of the three weapons categories: operational service rifle and service pistol, winning top shot in the former.
Her “competition” gun is her field standard Colt Canada C7A2 rifle with 3.4x28mm C79A2 optic. Lovers of marksmanship, the C7 is a Canadian-built M16A2 but with a hammer-forged heavy barrel. She augments this with the standard Browning Hi-Power, which hasn’t let Canada down in over 70 years.
