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Weekly Review 05/09/2020
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Sep 07, 2020
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 5th September 2020, J Wilde Memorial Trophy 700 yards.
Saturday gave us another great spring day to be outside enjoying the sunshine for the start of the J Wilde Memorial Trophy. The fluctuating strength of the predominately south westerly breeze along with the frequent changes in direction made for a difficult day with the challenging 700 yards target.
Steve Williams led the Target Rifle shooters holding slightly tighter groups and scoring the best individual stage to start the day finishing two points ahead of Graeme Bright who was just off his usual best. Ron Gibson had a slow start with his first stage but made up some ground with a better result in the second stage to finish four points further down and three points ahead of Gordon Shepherd who was shooting way below his average.
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Weekly Review 29/08/2020
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Aug 31, 2020
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 29th August 2020, Gilmour Cup 600 yards.
Saturday saw the final round of the Gilmour Cup at 600 yards in warm winter sunshine with just a light westerly breeze that picked up and eased during the afternoon just enough to keep shooters watching the mirage movement carefully at times trying to beat the changes.
In the Target Rifle class Graeme Bright and Steve Williams had a close contest with Graeme just gaining top spot for the day on a second stage countback with Gordon Shepherd staying with them both until dropping an extra point with his last shot.
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Weekly Review 15/08/2020
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Aug 16, 2020
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 15th August 2020, Gilmour Cup 500 yard.
Although Saturday afternoon was not a good time to be outdoors with the westerly wind getting colder during the day and bringing some light rain through with it most available club members came along to compete for the second round of the Gilmour Cup from 500 yards. New shooter Auskir Berryman again kindly brought along his awnings which made shooting much more comfortable with some cover from the weather. The conditions were not easy in the moderate to strong breeze but a couple of the clubs top shooters managed some excellent scores.
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Weekly Review 08/08/2020
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Aug 10, 2020
Bathurst Rifle Club Inc., 8th August 2020, 800 yards N Rutherford Memorial Trophy, 900 yards T W Willman Cup.
Last Saturday Bathurst Rifle Club had an early start to the day enabling competition from 800 yards for the N Rutherford Memorial Trophy then after lunch from 900 yards for the T W Willman Cup. This was also the final round of the K Harvey Trophy which was contested over all ranges during the last six weeks. Due to the light rain that appeared to be coming through the 900 yards competition was started straight after the completion of 800 and all had finished in time for a late lunch well before mid-afternoon. The sometimes steady but often unpredictable breeze became reasonably strong at times as it swung from either side of a north westerly direction and after some dampening of the flags became more difficult to handle.
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Weekly Review 01/08/2020
Posted in Weekly Roundup on Aug 02, 2020
Saturday saw the club return to 300 yards again for the first round of the Gilmour Cup with the wind flags again not showing too much movement in the sunshine with only an occasional light breeze that varied from southwest to southeast during the afternoon accompanied by some light mirage.
Graeme Bright was the last Target Rifle shooter down but he soon showed what was possible in the class starting off without losing a point and only conceding one point later in the afternoon to hold onto top score for the afternoon with a four point lead over Gordon Shepherd who lost a few points in the changing conditions. Ron Gibson started off reasonably with his first stage but lost momentum later on to finish another four points down with John Coghill finishing next down the list after also trailing in his second stage. Dennis Lavelle may have stayed middle of the pack but for a couple of sighting errors that cost the loss of ten points in total during his first stage of the day.
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