Team Leapers Competes at the Orange Blossom Regional

Team Leapers swept the team matches at the 2026 Orange Blossom Regional held by the NRA, taking first place in the Across the Course (ATC) 4-Man One and Done Team Match, the ATC 4-Man Team Match, and both first and second places in the ATC 2-Man Team Match in Service Rifle class. 

The High Power matches at the Orange Blossom Regional (OBR) marked the debut of Team Leapers this Spring, consisting of Nick Till, Conrad Young, Randy Olds, and Roy Mitchell. All team members were shooting the Integrix iXF 4.5X28 Service Rifle Scope which launched in July 2025 at Camp Perry, Ohio. Till and Fox were the first competitors to join Team Leapers in 2024 and 2025 as key partners during the development of the Integrix Service Rifle scope to refine the design, field test prototypes, and design the reticles. Last year they took the scope out for some stellar wins at the 2025 OBR and new records at the CMP Western Games. 

As the week went on at the Orange Blossom Regional in Florida, 6 out of the top 10 shooters who competed in the Across the Course Regional 800 Aggregate were using the Integrix iXF 4.5X28 Service Rifle Scope, with Randy Olds from Team Leapers taking 2nd place overall. 

The regional kicked off on Sunday, March 8, with a visit from Sheriff Wayne Ivey at the OBR Sheriff's Twenty. Many laughs were had along with an informative comedy regarding the traffic violations on I-96. Five of the top 20 competitors were using the Integrix 4.5X28 Service Rifle Scope. Eli Edwards, a young but fierce competitor from the U.S. Air Force, took the win with a total score of 248-13X. 

That Sunday continued straight into the 4-Man One and Done match, with Nick Till, Conrad Young, Roy Mitchell, and Randy Olds representing Team Leapers. For Nick, Randy, and Roy, this was their first real time on the range this season, coming from wintry snow in Michigan and Ohio to enjoy a sudden and balmy 80 degrees down in Florida, and for Randy and Roy, their first time using the Integrix Service Rifle scope at a match.

The team used the Sheriff's Twenty as warm up to decide who was shooting which position, finishing first in Service Rifle class with a respectable 790-31X team score. In a One and Done, each team members shoots one out of the four shooting positions instead of shooting all four.

Nick shot 600 yards Slow Prone with a final score of 199-8X. There was a fair bit of wind across the course. "Today was a day of teamwork," Randy said, with Roy adding, "I will say I was a little nervous. But Nick was doing a good job holding hard, and we kept him in there as best we could. I think it went fairly well!"

Conrad shot a strong Slow Offhand at 200 yards with 195-6X, using the wind as an opportunity to try out a new technique offhand using the Integrix A4-6.5 MOA reticle - "when the wind is pushing me around and it's kind of random, I just kind of look for, the more black is in the ring, the harder I squeeze."

Randy shot Rapid Sitting at 300 yards with 198-8X. "Today was the first match I shot with the Integrix scope and sitting, it was great. I actually was able to pick up on pace, pick up the target faster. I shot a little too fast because of that, so it was an interesting thing that I found and learned." 

"I cannot stress enough how bright that scope is compared to what I used to use," Roy said after Rapid Prone at 300 yards with 198-9X. "[The scope I used to use] had a pretty good reputation for brightness and clarity and doesn't even hold a candle to what I use today."

Team Leapers entered two 2-Man teams into the OBR 2-Man Team Match: Nick Till / Conrad Young, and Roy Mitchell / Randy Olds. Nick and Conrad took first in Service Rifle class with a 491-14X and 495-19X for a team total of 986-33X - just 7 X's away from taking the overall win across Service Rifle and Match Rifle classes! 

Top competitors in Service Rifle class shoot AR15's equipped with optics no more than 4.5X magnification, while Match Rifle class has less regulation, allowing precision bolt guns and unlimited magnified optics. Roy and Randy came in close second in Service Rifle class, with 492-22X and 492-14X and a total of 984-36X.

Randy shot an impressive clean offhand score at 200 yards with 100-2X, dropping zero points over the course of 10 shots at the regulation NRA SR-200 target's 7 inch 10 ring. Prone at 600 yards he began to see some deviation in his loads, over 20 ft/s, "enough to chew up a lot of the 9 ring top and bottom," which he would continue to experience and troubleshoot throughout the week. 

Roy and Randy's chemistry and communication as a team was quickly apparent with some stellar coaching by Randy through windy conditions during Roy's 600 yard prone stage. The duo has been shooting together for 3 years and has upgraded their shooting-relationship-status to "exclusive" during team matches on the Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association Service Rifle team.

The 4-Man Team Match was held on Tuesday with Team Leapers placing first in Service Rifle with an aggregate team score of 1956-84X, second overall close behind a Match Rifle team called Show Up and Shoot II. Conrad Young took first in 200 yard Offhand across both classes with a 98-3X, as well as 300 yard rapid prone with 100-9X. Roy also cleaned 200 yard rapid sitting as well as 300 yard rapid prone with 100-7X and 100-3X. If not for an unforced error - a crossfire by Nick Till during offhand over on the very end of the firing line at Target 2! - the team would likely have taken first overall across Service Rifle and Match Rifle classes. 

After the variation in velocity Randy saw in his loads on Monday, he did some quick thinking and conducted surgery on his loads in preparation for the 4-Man Match. He took his mid range ammo and pushed the bullet in deeper, successfully helping his elevation flatten out in his grouping. It was then left to some overly aggressive wind calls that pushed his 600 yard prone score down a couple points. 

The headline Orange Blossom Accross the Course Regional was held over the course of 4 days, with Aggregate 1 and 2 being 800 and Aggregate 3 shortened to 500 - a 50 shot match for fear of impeding rain that Friday. Eli Edwards from the U.S. Air Force took first in Service Rifle High Master overall with an impressive 2079-102X shooting a March 1-4.5X riflescope. Randy Olds from Team Leapers took second with a 2067-71X, with Roy winning first place High Master and Nick Till coming in a couple places behind. Conrad came in first for NRA Masters and six of the top ten competitors in Service Rifle High Master class were shooting with the Integrix Service Rifle Scope. 

Shooting 210 shots on record over the course of 4 days with varying weather conditions is not a bad way to get acquainted with a scope. This was Roy and Randy's first time shooting full matches using the Integrix Service Rifle Scope since joining the team and valuable to hear their first impressions. Randy was shooting the A4-6.5 MOA aperture reticle in production now, with a 7/8 MOA center dot and aperture with a 6.5 MOA inner diameter.

Eli Edwards, an impressive young competitor from the U.S. Air Force, won the ATC Regional as well as a certificate for a brand new Integrix iXF 4.5X28 Service Rifle Scope. Hats off to some amazing shooting and good luck to Eli as he continues shooting this season! 

Throughout the week Roy was field testing a new reticle design - a large 3 MOA-sized dot, on a Mil prototype of the scope no less - to see how well it applies to High Power competition. Over the past few years he has struggled to see with the typical .5 to 1 MOA dots out there and believes the larger dot is the answer. "It definitely is a benefit to me, somebody a little bit older, [whose] eyes aren't so good. It just helps me to stay competitive in the game."

He discovered some quick wins when it came to adjusting his hold: "I also noticed today in the rapids, that the clarity on the scope with that 3 minute dot at, say, 300 yds, [...] I was able to see clear enough [...] that when I looked out the corner of my eye and saw it was building in one corner, I was able to drive that dot down to the opposite corner, see a little bit of white glint on the other side of the dot, and I knew I wasn't going to be moving too far. [I] was able to break the shot and get it back in the center."

At 600 yards, he's doubling down on the 3 MOA dot, quoting a similar experience to those transitioning up to the production Integrix A4 reticle's larger 7/8 MOA dot from the more typical smaller 1/2 MOA dot available on the market. "With a 3 minute dot, it makes it easier for your eye to relax. You don't strain as to hard to look at your aiming point and a smaller reticle [...] I have far less eye strain and it's easier with that 3 minute dot to be able to just set it in there in the black, say yep, that's center, and just break the shot. You don't get tempted to stare through the reticle to the target."

Roy finished the ATC Regional with a score of 2056-78X and first place High Master - a respectable result! For Eastern Games in May he plans to swap out to a fresher barrel, suspecting that he was pushing the round count on his current barrel, bleeding a few points here and there at 300 and 600 and keeping him out of the podium in the end. 

This was Randy's third consecutive year taking second place at OBR. From the beginning of the week he saw the deviation in his long line load at 600, which did not shoot as well as he anticipated. He did a lot of load development in Ohio at 30 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit, which doesn't always translate when you come into 80 degree Floridian climate. "I kept it together for a few days," he said, describing the performance, "Today, the last day, I shot three shots. My first two shots were sliders and they were all over the place."

It was troubleshooting and quick problem solving that saved his score at 600 yards. "I couldn't click to adjust them. The first shot went the opposite way that it should have. So I made a command decision to swap out to 77 grain load and took my first sighter. It was an eight off the top, clicked for it, and cleaned the rest of it. So I salvaged the week by making that command decision."

Outside of fine tuning his ammunition Randy used the match to recalibrate his shooting process to the Integrix Service Rifle Scope, new to his setup. The light transmission and optical design on Integrix lended itself to a brighter image with greater clarity, allowing him to acquire his target faster than before. "I actually found that I can shoot faster in sitting and rapid fire, in general, because of that quick target acquisition and quick dot acquisition." 

Before using Integrix, he would have "a sense of urgency because with previous scopes, [he] was not able to acquire that dot or the crosshair." 

With the added benefit of improved image quality, he can acquire faster and focus more on precision and placement, even in rapid rounds. "[That] actually allowed me to slow down later in the week and focus on the really important things that I might have otherwise forgotten. That's cool to learn."

Daylight Savings Time converted Sunday, March 8 at the beginning of the Orange Blossom Regional and marks our entry into Spring. For the shooters on Team Leapers traveling down to Florida from freezing cold Michigan and Ohio, it was a welcome - and literal - warm up to the High Power season. With glowing results! 

Stay tuned as we prepare Team Leapers to continue taking High Power by storm using the Integrix iXF 4.5X28 Service Rifle Scope. Next on the schedule: CMP Eastern Games in North Carolina!