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Izhanna Erickson poses Monday with a rifle in the shooting range below Havre Fire Department. Erickson, who shoots with the VFW Junior Bear Paw Rifle Club, earned the top National Rifle Association award, the Distinguished Expert Rifleman Award.
Seventeen-year-old Izhanna Erickson of Havre earned the Distinguished Expert Rifleman Award Jan. 10, the highest award given out by the National Rifle Association.
"It is really hard to get. You have to shoot hundreds and hundreds of targets to achieve it," Erickson said Monday in the VFW Bear Paw Junior Rifle Club shooting range under Havre Fire Department. "It takes a high level of determination and concentration, and I'm very happy to have won it."
Erickson started shooting firearms when she was 9, but she didn't join Havre's Bear Paw Junior Rifle Club until she was 15, she said.
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