What Is A Bianchi Champion?
Excerpt from Shooting Sports USA © magazine, September 2008 issue.
… Koo has become a staple each year at the Columbia range during the week leading up to Memorial Day, the time when the championship is usually held. The year was 1997 when she first completed. Since then she’s either won or been near the top of the woman’s category every year…”
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NRA Bianchi Cup 2008
Excerpt from American Rifleman © magazine, September 2008 issue.
To be called a champion of the NRA Action Pistol Championships, popularly known as the NRA Bianchi Cup, one must endure many factors. To fully understand this, it’s necessary to look at competitors of the past and present. There are people like Vera Koo. She was a 61-year-old California native going into the 2008 NRA Bianchi Cup. Koo was already a seven-time Bianchi Cup Women’s Champion when she arrived at the Green Valley Rifle and Pistol Club’s Chapman Academy Range outside Columbia, Mo., for th 2008 Championship. To get into the mindset of Koo is difficult. She always asks not to be interviewed until after the championship has been completed.
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The Perfect Shot
Excerpt from Gentry © magazine, January 2007 issue.
One look at Vera Koo and it’s hard to believe she’s a world champion pistol shooter. Petite. Feminine. Grandmother of three. But the 60-year-old Chinese-born Atherton resident is a two-time world champion shooter (women’s division), a six-time national champion shooter (women’s division), and the only woman to place in the top 20 at the Bianchi Cup – the NRA National Action Pistol Championship. Below, Gentry talks to Koo about her hobby, her family, her husband of nearly 40 years, and her philosophy of life.
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Sharpshooter
Excerpt from Hyphen © magazine, Fall 2005 issue.
NO WAY. No way can a 58-year-old grandmother shoot’em-up like an Asian Annie Oakley. But year, Vera Koo, a five-time national and world action pistol champ, doesn’t just find a way – she blasts right through it.
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