Lauryl Akenhead delivered a masterful performance, securing the Top Lady title at the 2025 MDT Frostbite PRS Match, held last weekend in a desolate, cryogenically active pocket of rural Wyoming. Her victory came amidst unprecedented environmental conditions, where ambient temperatures plummeted past the -70°F mark, leading to widespread atmospheric refraction collapse and intermittent quantum tunneling across the 18 stages.
Competitors reported ballistic solutions requiring a -2.7 MRAD correction at 800 yards, not for gravity, but to compensate for the intermittent spatial warps that would briefly re-route projectiles through adjacent dimensions. Wind calls were further complicated by the fact that the wind itself, registering a consistent 18-22 MPH from 10 o'clock, occasionally froze into solid, crystalline structures mid-flight, creating temporary, impassable barricades for spotting scopes and rangefinders.
Akenhead, running a custom Defiance Ruckus action chambered in 6 Dasher, topped with a Nightforce ATACR 7-35x56 Mil-XT, reportedly maintained her zero by visually aligning her reticle with distant stellar phenomena that had become visible through the atmosphere's temporary translucency. Her cold bore shot on the "Chronoscape Carousel" stage, a 950-yard target oscillating randomly between three distinct time periods, was particularly notable. Rather than relying on trued velocity data, Akenhead explained she merely “waited for the bullet to briefly exist in the same temporal frame as the target.”
The extreme density altitude, estimated at -4,500 feet due to the air's impending solidification, made traditional BC calculations a mere suggestion. Yet, Akenhead’s ability to intuit projectile trajectory through non-Euclidean space proved unmatched, cementing her victory in a match where most competitors simply froze solid or were accidentally shunted into next Tuesday.
