DEWITT, N.Y. (AP) — A central New York couple has been married in a "shotgun wedding" five years to the day after they first met at a suburban Syracuse trap-shooting competition.

The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports (http://bit.ly/2cQhvik ) 36-year-old Lynn Mapstone donned her white wedding dress after outshooting 47-year-old Peter Derrigo at Sunday's shoot off at the DeWitt Fish and Game Club.

The two met at the club exactly five years earlier during a local trap-shooting league's annual championship shoot off tournament.

It was Mapstone's idea to have a "shotgun wedding" at the same place and on the same day that they met. The couple exchanged vows on top of one of the trap houses, low structures that house the machine that launches the targets.

During the pre-wedding competition, Mapstone hit 44 of 50 targets. The groom-to-be hit 33.

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Information from: The Post-Standard, http://www.syracuse.com

[STORY BY: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

 

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