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Single Jack Drilling contest chairman Fred Andreasen, former world record holder, with daughter Pam during a Nevada Day contest in the late 1980s. Photo courtesy Fred Andreasen.

Nevada Day Annual World Championship
Single Jack Drilling Contest
Held on Nevada Day
at Carson Nugget West Parking Lot
Saturday, October 27, 2012, 11:05am

Click here for results of the 2011 contest.

The 39th Annual World Championship Single Jack Drilling Contest takes place at 11:05am on Saturday, October 27, 2012 at the Carson Nugget west parking lot. Spectators watch for free! Come view the old-world contest of strength, skill, and Sierra White Granite grit.

Contestants use 4 1/2 pound hammers and as many as 11 bits of graduated steel to drill a 3/4 inch hole in a 4,320 pound piece of Sierra White Granite.

The contestants have 10 minutes to pound the drills into the solid stone, their only help from an assistant who runs water into the hole so the loose stone chips are splashed out with every stroke of the hammer on steel. The deepest hole wins.

The world record was set in 1993 at 16.34 inches deep by Scott Havens of Elko, Nevada.

The contest goes back to the Comstock mining skills of earlier times, when blast holes for dynamite were punched into ore bodies by hand.

The attraction of a chance at a world champion title plus a total purse of up to $6,000 makes an entry fee of $50 seem small! The champion receives $2,000.

Get an application and official rules here.

Nevada Day, Inc. • P.O. Box 999 • Carson City, NV 89702-0999
(775) 882-2600 • Fax: (775) 882-6815 • (866) NVDAY4U [866-683-2948] • admin@nevadaday.com

THANK YOU TO OUR 2011
ROCK DRILLING SPONSORS!
Allen Excavating, Inc.
Download the official 2010 Nevada Day Single Jack Drilling Contest Entry Form and Rules here


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